Ikram Sehgal

Corruption has rightly been singled out as the main obstacle to economic, social and political betterment in our society and hence to the development of a truly ‘Naya Pakistan’, not as a figment of imagination but in substance. Fighting corruption thus occupies centre stage on Imran Khan’s government efforts for improvement in the country. Along […]

The PM has been more than once given the perception of making off-the-cuff decisions in his pronouncements in his speeches and interviews. Even good advisers do not matter until there is a due process for diligence and analysis to not only sort out facts from fiction but separate emotions from reality. Recently Imran Khan stated […]

The tremendous performance of the Pakistan Army, and other law enforcement agencies involved in counter-insurgency operations and eliminating the major pockets of terrorism in Pakistan notwithstanding, the fact remains that it is almost impossible to completely wipe out this security menace, particularly when terrorists can take refuge in urban centres or even in some tribal […]

Employing several thousand people, one becomes acutely ware on a daily basis about the many problems faced by the salaried class, force-multiplied many times over for those on the lower end of the scale, what we call “blue collar workers”. After catering for direct and indirect overheads the profit margin in “guarding services” business does […]

To give an account of the money looted by the elected representatives of the people of Pakistan, the civil servants whose job it is to ensure the money is not looted along with, associates consisting of their immediate family, relatives, friends, etc, enjoying the illegal wealth, it is necessary to list the major cases before […]

Governments and organizations, world over, spend billions of dollars every year promoting their ‘products’ whether it be individuals, political parties, corporate entities, programs, etc. While history records many propaganda campaigns the most successful in recorded history is Germany’s Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels propagating of Hitler and Nazi-ism in the 1930s till 1945. Massive development […]

After some initial political hiccups, the Imran Khan government has passed the acid test last week when it handled the countrywide protests of religious parties wisely and successfully negotiated an agreement with the protest leaders. The previous government had allowed a similar situation to go on for weeks, devastating the capital and destroying public and […]

The situation in our country in the wake of global and internal changes affecting Pakistan has evoked multiple challenges. Not to get bogged down by their sheer number it seems important to analyse each and every challenge that the country is facing. These need not only a reaction from the state to tackle them but […]

Continents being defined as “main continuous expanses of land” makes one wonder why Europe and Asia, though very much a continuous land mass have been perceived through the many centuries as two separate continents. One major reason may be that the western end of the Eurasian landmass was taking a very different turn in its […]

While the odd problems about corruption did exist in NAB before Munir Hafeez as Chairman NAB institutionalised the “sharing of the loot” by making “plea bargain” into a very lucrative art, it was really Asif Zardari President of Pakistan who made NAB virtually ineffective, all within the ambit of the Constitution. Pliant NAB Chairmen were […]