Tick-tock, tick-tock, Pakistan's ticking bomb are the hundreds of thousands of retired government employees and ex-army officials. The country has a trillion-Rupee problem, and it's growing: funding old government employees and army pensioners after retirement. The sheer quantum of the amount is creating a bigger issue than even the power sector’s circular debt. We give you an exegesis of the issue and possible long-term solutions.
24/8 explains Pakistan. Twenty-four officials and eight athletes went to the Olympics. He argues that Pakistan's government is all about officialdom, privilege, and arbitrary power; there is no role for professionalism or problem-solving through research and innovation or even hard work. Is it a wonder that even tiny Qatar came back with two gold medals and we empty-handed? Vice Chancellor PIDE argues
Former Chairman WAPDA argues that today's crisis in the water sector is not related to the 'hardware' of low reservoir capacity but the 'software' of institutional operational mismanagement. It is poor regulation and a failure to modernize the system, compounded by unchequered population growth and lack of modern farming that is turning Pakistan into a water-stressed country.
Pakistan according to IMF is world's third most water stressed country. It needs hundreds of small dams, seepage proof canals, innovative methods of water use and conservation and need to abandon flood irrigation. Yet its federal and provincial government remain oblivious of these challenges, argues an ex-Advisor World Bank.
Pakistan is currently amongst the most water-stressed nations of the world. In this context, the construction of small storage dams – like the Dadhocha dam being built by FWO in Rawalpindi - can play a key role in improving water supplies to towns and agriculture. It is estimated that the country offers sites for around 750 small dams.
Author and retired naval officer discusses the intricacies of the India- Pakistan partition, which was not only hugely mismanaged by the British but also deliberately pushed as such by Indian politicians;
blatantly stacked against Pakistan, in the hope the country would collapse.
A much needed positive step from Pakistani Govt of PM Imran Khan making it possible for Afghan refugees and other unregistered communities to open bank accounts and do all sorts of businesses inside a documented economy.
In an usually strong tone, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs assert that China and Pakistan will work together to hold accountable terrorists of Dasu and bring them to justice - it is believed that RAW and NDS were behind this terror attack on Chinese engineers.
Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi has revealed that Afghanistan Intelligence Agency NDS and Indian RAW were actively involved in the Dasu attack on 14th July. The initial target was the Diamer-Bhasha dam, and failure to attack there led them to go to Plan B.
