G-B’s status
Gilgit-Baltistan and adjoining areas called Northern Areas have been given, albeit provisionally, the status of a province by Pakistan. This administrative decision is meant to confer legal and constitutional rights…
Civil servants
Prime Minister Imran Khan early this week approved the Civil Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 2020 with a view to ensuring transparent and effective internal accountability of civil servants and…
Bankers call for more bang to Britain’s big finance fightback
Shortly after Britain left the European Union, finance minister Rishi Sunak pledged a series of measures he dubbed “Big Bang 2.0” to ensure the City of London remained one of…
Peace deals elsewhere
THE state is talking to the TTP for a deal and its critics are being told such deals have happened the world over and the Northern Ireland peace accord called the Good…
Abusing state power
PROSECUTIONS have become the flavour of the season, ever since the BJP regime headed by Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. The law of torts deals with the civil…
Identity crisis
Pakistan is a country with rich historical and cultural heritage. Numerous beautiful sites across the country not only remind us of our glorious past but also promote the golden principles…
Avoid Modi’s nationalist turf
GANDHIJI was a pacifist. Hindu nationalists killed him for that, for not letting go of his fabled humanism even amid the fratricidal madness that came in the wake of 1947.…
Mohatta Palace
It is a fact that during the British rule and even after Independence, no beautiful and magnificent building like the Mohatta Palace has been built in the country so far.…
Pakistan or ‘Plotistan’?
THE recent furore over plot allotments to bureaucrats and judges has again brought to the fore a dark aspect of governance in Pakistan — the practice of gifting away valuable land at…
Press and power
NOT one biographer of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has cared to explore one important and very instructive facet of his public life. It was his role and conduct vis-à-vis the…
