Tag: bureaucracy
‘Private Bureaucracy’ Jitters as Chief Justice Orders Recovery of Hefty Salaries
News Analysis | Mian Saqib Nisar, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, ordered the bureaucrats heading the private companies in Punjab to pay back the extra...
Common Man Initiative: A platform for the unheard
News Analysis | A non-governmental organization by the name of Common Man Initiative (CMI) was officially launched on the 7th of April, 2018 at the...
World remembers Martin Luther King. Jr on 50th death anniversary
News Desk | The world is remembering the services of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for American civil rights movement today. Dr. Martin Luther King...
Electoral Reforms: The only way forward for sustainable ‘Peace & Governance’
Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad | Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan has endured tremendous suffering at the hands of inefficient and ineffective governance, which has, in...
Analyzing the dynamics of institutional imbalance in Pakistan
Farah Adeed | These are hard days for Pakistan. Pakistan is going to be placed in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-list in June this...
Provinces demanded release of funds in Council of Common Interests at...
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi assured the provinces that pending funds will be released before May, in an attempt to address...
Zardari’s call for PPP’s return to power
Asif Haroon Raja | For over six months, Asif Ali Zardari has been confidently claiming that the PPP will form governments in the centre and...
What is Nawaz Sharif’s “Narrative”?
Jan Achakzai | The Panama judgment was the red line for the ex-Prime Minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS), to cross by an institution, when it...
An overview of Pakistani politics from 1947 to Gen. Zia
Asif Haroon Raja | Muhammad Ali Jinnah achieved the miracle of the 20th century by creating Pakistan on August 14, 1947, against gravest odds but breathed...
CEO Club Pakistan launches “100 CEOs-Leaders & Companies of Pakistan”
CEO Club Pakistan launched latest edition of "100 CEOs - Leaders & Companies of Pakistan" this week, in Islamabad. Event at the prestigious Serena...
No cherry picking of law breakers – Part II
Ikran Sehgal | In his address to the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947, the Quaid said that “Jobbery, graft nepotism and bribe has to...
Pakistan at 70
Adil Najam | Pakistan turned 70 on August 14, 2017. It has been a tumultuous journey. Exciting. Adventurous. Unpredictable. Sometimes uplifting. Often heartbreaking. And, often,...
Elitocracy: The Pakistani democratic system
Nauman Sadiq | The biggest fault in democracy, as it is practiced all over the world, is the election campaign funding part, because the individuals...
2018 Elections will be pointless: without “major electoral reforms”
Farid Malik| If the next elections are held without major electoral reforms, it will be as futile an exercise as the ten elections held after...
Is PML-N a threat to democracy?
PML-N remains unbeatable in Punjab not because of its deeds but rather due to its misdeeds. Its manipulative mechanisms are well entrenched. It is...
Are Pakistani politicians dancing with Perkin’s hitmen?
Imtiaz Gul | John Perkins, the best selling author of the book 'Confessions of An Economic Hitman,' talks of how corrupt rulers of smaller developing nations...