Government servants or public servants
The phrase 'government servant' is taken literally by government. This literal understanding and compliance of this world is in conflict with their real role and responsibility of a government servant,…
Governance, civil service and institutions
The digital warriors have nailed it! It is all about governance. You give us good governance and we will be swinging with the mightiest. Good governance, in turn, is a…
What constitutes a responsible government?
A government is the most effective instrument contrived by the mankind to secure general welfare, blessings of liberties and happiness. To achieve all these ideals an efficient government needs to…
One-party rule or civilian martial law?
The slugfest between the PTI government and the opposition, particularly the two largest opposition parties, the PML-N and PPP, is intensifying. The Sharif brothers are cooling their heels in jail…
The civil society’s concerns
Responding to the enormity of crises faced by state and society, leading civil society activists and mainstream and left-oriented activists and intellectuals have come up with an alternative progressive democratic…
Children pay the price of Syrian government offensive in rebel Idlib
Khaled Bakour's screams could be heard at the hospital where the 5-year-old boy was receiving medical treatment in the rebel-controlled province of Idlib in north-western Syria. Weeks ago, the boy…
Civil-military power matrix
SECURITY briefings for a newly elected prime minister may not be unprecedented, but the excitement over Imran Khan’s intensive parleys at GHQ and the ISI headquarters certainly are. Our hyper-animated…
Government on the retreat
The PTI government, led by Prime Minister Imran Khan, seems on the retreat on multiple fronts, whether economic or political. The PTI government repeatedly said that it would not give…
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…
Civil service reforms that work
The newly-installed PTI government has constituted a task force on civil-service reforms. Over the years our governments have tried a number of times to reform the civil service but for…
