Pursuing accountability
An ever-expanding archive of unanswered injustices is attributed to the police. Public discourse, generally, describes the police as a case of a rotten basket or a poisoned tree producing bad…
Is a commission enough?
The Panama leaks have led to the welcome development of corruption at high places being widely discussed, debated and condemned in the media, public and parliament. What is not so…
Accountability – a bad joke?
Successive regimes that ruled Pakistan over the past four decades turned accountability into a joke; none realised how this will hurt Pakistan's image and make it ever-more unattractive even for…
Year of judicial accountability
Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has declared the year 2015-2016 as the year of judicial accountability. Judicial independence has long been a flashpoint in Pakistan, as illustrated by the movement…
Time for accountability
It has been more than a month, and the intercontinental leaks are going nowhere. With two earth-shaking episodes so far, there are still many more untold stories of wealth sheltered…
No more commissions please
The tug of war on forming a commission under the Pakistan Commissions of Inquiry Act 1956 (the government has already written a letter to this effect) or under a special…
Accountability moves
Behold Pakistan’s latest sporting craze: the game of accountability one-upmanship. One Sharif called for ‘across-the-board accountability’ and was reported to have removed a number of military officers on corruption charges;…
Taj Mahal and the Planning Commission
The Taj Mahal was the nub of the argument in a recent opinion piece by Dr Nadeem ul Haque on the Planning Commission: ‘Should we have a planning commission?’ —…
Accountability woes
Last month, the director general of KP’s Ehtesab Commission resigned in protest at certain amendments brought about through an ordinance by the provincial government. On Feb 28, Imran Khan announced…
Accountability lessons from China
One of the things this PML-N government has done well is line up both public and private actors behind a national commitment to deepening and widening an already strong relationship…
