Mergers and acquisitions: Managing risks and creating values
Buyers, who are interested to have access to a particular asset or a market position, usually adopt strategy of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). However, it may be kept in mind…
Quaid’s courts
WHEN Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto signed the Charter of Democracy, they could not have imagined that a crucial provision had been proposed by the Quaid 70 years earlier. The…
The DHA scam – a different dimension
No one should shed a tear or feel sad if the powerful are put in the dock for financial corruption and embezzlement. In this country justice has been particularly blind…
The rise of the zombie generation
Traditionally, institutes of higher learning are perceived as places where thinking can develop, opinions formed and students permitted to evolve ideas as they learn more about their specific fields of…
Rangers No Long-Term Solution
The Karachi operation that has gone on under the current government has so far reaped fruits however experts fear that the peace will only persevere while the rangers remain deployed…
Devolving labour
By virtue of the 18th Amendment introduced in April 2010, labour laws were omitted from the Concurrent Legislative List in the Constitution and devolved to the provinces. It was stated…
Best president ever! How Trump’s love of hyperbole could backfire
Manhattan real estate lawyer Jon Mechanic remembers the summer day a decade ago when Donald Trump gave him a tour of a vacant retail space inside the Trump Tower on…
Economic crimes: a truly global threat
As we work to recover from a financial meltdown and near economic collapse the threat posed by economic crime is fresh in the air. These crimes emerge as a result…
Forensics for justice
A Visit to Cell mark Forensic Services near Oxford last week showed me the extent of the United Kingdom’s progress in the application of forensics to criminal justice. The facility,…
Targeting white collar crooks
The sick loan portfolio in the banks started to swell as early as the mid-eighties, the same was not publicly acknowledged in the banks' books. Throughout the nineties, huge lending…
