Reengineering the civil service
The room is packed with an eager audience of journalists. Advocate Khurshid Hassan Meer, newly-appointed minister for establishment of the PPP, is presenting his government’s plan for reengineering the country’s…
Engineering politics
During the PTI’s 2014 sit-in the government engaged the then army chief. When APS was hit with its attendant tragedy and was followed by the formulation of the National Action…
The engineering fiasco in Karachi
Last week’s drama between Farooq Sattar’s MQM-Pakistan and the PSP’s Mustafa Kamal has demonstrated that both the conflicts of Karachi and the orchestrated performances to fix them continue unabated. Many…
Engineering extremism
Within our own country as well as beyond, there has been much focus on madressahs or seminaries promoting extremism, in some cases violence too, through their teachings and philosophy. However,…
Women and engineering
With increasing involvement of technology in the running of a nation, the role of an engineer has become more important and pronounced. Science and technology have become bywords for the…
Engineering a new MQM
So what is the story behind the ‘sudden’ arrival in Karachi of two former MQM leaders who were very close to Altaf Hussain and were powerful in the party hierarchy;…
Geopolitical realities
Last Monday, in one of the last meetings of its soon-to-conclude session, the UN General Assembly decided that intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on the issue of Security Council reform, which have…
Strengthening democracy and political parties – II
The military often takes over power swiftly and comfortably without any meaningful resistance either during or after the process of the take-over. Prime ministers are put behind bars and sent…
Political and social matters
At the moment our country is witnessing a bloodbath, and when the rulers are questioned as to why this is happening and why they don’t do anything to stop it,…
Darkness closes in
“That things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but what in each case is given. Thus hell is not something that awaits us, but…
