2018 elections — labour and manifestos on July 25, 2018While many would argue that political party manifestos are merely aspirational documents with a litany of vague promises and loft rhetoric, it is also a fact that political parties seek the mandate to run the country (or a province) based on the agenda and programs they plan to launch once voted into power. Of the […]
Meddling with the mandate on March 11, 2018The 18th Constitutional Amendment 2010, while deleting the concurrent legislative list and amending federal legislative lists, transferred all social subjects to the provinces. 17 ministries, dealing with the subjects of labour, social welfare, youth, women, education, etc, were devolved. Some of these were reinstituted, within a year of devolution, with different nomenclatures when the federal […]
UPR and the state of trade union rights in Pakistan on November 14, 2017Pakistan is scheduled to undergo its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for the third time on 13 November 2017. UPR is held every five years and the Pakistan’s last review was done in 2012. It is a unique state-driven process, established in 2006, working under the UN Human Rights Council allowing each state to declare the […]