Catalysts for social transformation
The traditional approaches of service delivery adopted by NGOs are fast losing credence in a world that is shaped by a benign ideological coercion. NGO-led mega projects of social services…
Social cohesion
The inhabitants of the newly formed state of Pakistan were filled with the ambition to make their own mark in the world, and to create a state that provided the…
Heralding social, financial change, China aims blow at iron rice bowl
China has ordered state firms to smash the decades-old system of providing cradle-to-grave welfare support, known as the country's "iron rice bowl".But the order, part of a plan to reduce…
The doctrine of basic structure
Part - II In a display of judicial craftsmanship, Sikri Court also imitated Chief Justice Marshal to a degree by not taking on the sitting government. The short order was…
Bilawal’s quest for a social democratic agenda
We had an intense discussion with Bilawal Bhutto at the end of the PPP’s provincial and national bodies’ meetings, attended by over 20,000 enthusiastic activists, in Lahore. What will be…
Social unravelling
Recently i asked a colleague, who has been living in Pakistan for a couple of decades but had spent the early part of his life in the West initially studying…
Infrastructure of fear
On the heels of the recently proposed bill by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) regarding permission for a husband to lightly beat his wife and prohibition on mixing of…
Making a new social contract
In the aftermath of the harrowing attack in Lahore and the occupation of Islamabad by religious bigots, the same old catchphrases are repeated on the air waves by the influential…
The doctrine of basic structure
The issue of a country’s constitution ideally having certain un-amendable articles has evoked many discussions with its proponents relying heavily on the basic structure doctrine of the Indian constitution. This…
The doctrine of basic structure
The constitutional jurisprudence of Commonwealth countries and the Americas across the Atlantic, where written constitutions were framed in the 17th and 18th centuries, refers to principles, rules or norms. However,…
