No institution in the country has so lowered the quality of our national life as to what is called Naukarshahi– Z A Bhutto The phrase civil service reform is generally used in two quite distinct ways. For ...
Nayab Gohar Jan in this video highlights the plight of sanitation workers in Pakistan, who work under poor conditions and are ill-equipped to deal with the hazards they face. “If cleanliness is half the faith, ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan ‘assured Erdogan of Pakistan’s support, solidarity over Turkey’s Syria operation’ last week as the Turkish forces launched an offensive against the Kurdish ‘militants’ in northern Syria. Sidra Kamran in this article ...
It is often said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had disowned and disinherited his daughter Dina Wadia after she decided to marry a Parsi businessman Neville Wadia in 1931. He is said to have done ...
Some six years ago, a middle-aged Sindhi man, Dadu Baksh — who was employed by me as a driver — returned from his village in central Sindh, looking disturbed. I asked him what was bothering ...
Ziyad Faisal analyses PM Imran Khan’s statement where he said that the British rulers destroyed the Muslim education system under a ‘well-thought out plan’. Was pre-colonial education system really something to aspire to? Unfortunately for ...
Asma Jahangir’s journey of human rights activism since the 1980s signifies the interplay, shifts, and conflicts involving [Pakistan’s] dualistic legal and normative rights regimes as they have clashed, converged, and sometimes settled at temporary stalemate. Her advocacy ...
Majoritarian rule can be put mildly as majoritarian democracy or emphatically as majoritarian tyranny/ brute majoritarianism. Yesterday, I heard Indian Home Minister Amit Shah say openly that Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Jains and Buddhists seeking refuge ...
Recently during his visit to the US, Prime Minister Imran Khan implied that Pakistani leaders began to wear suits and ties to prove that they were not radical Islamists. It was as if PM Khan ...
People who have a passion for the Indian Cinema are most fortunate. Most of us either lived or were born during the period– spanning almost over a 8 decades– that can easily be called the ...
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