Pulverising the roots of terrorism on April 6, 2017The Lahore terror attack on Wednesday last in which four soldiers of the Pakistan Army lost their lives once again reinforces the general belief that the social and physical terror infrastructure in the country has by and large remained unscathed notwithstanding the notable successes of the Zarb-i-Azb or of the recently launched Raddul Fassad. As […]
Electoral system mother of all corruption on March 30, 2017The Judicial Commission formed to probe the PTI’s rigging allegations while exonerating the PMLN of the ‘crime’ had, however, spotlighted a number of deficiencies, flaws, shortcomings, imperfections and inadequacies in the very system of elections. This had led to a clamour for electoral reforms which in turn had led to the formation of the 33-member […]
AJK Chief Justices directive t4t6 on March 28, 2017Sir: The honourable Chief Justice of the Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) High Court has decreed that increments in salary will be given to only those employees who offer prayers regularly, and he sometimes would himself be the prayer leader. A couple of questions immediately come to mind. How will he determine if his subordinates offer […]
Domineering attitude wq on March 28, 2017Sir: In the Pakistani office environment, most employers expect from their employees to respond in agreement using, “yes, sir” and “okay, Sir” when a suggestion is made. Whenever creative people want to deliver efficiency in their work and present original ideas, bosses usually stop the person on the spot and say they have seniority and […]
A diplomatic (dis) missive on March 26, 2017It is becoming increasingly difficult for the PPP leadership to live down the admission made by the former ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, in a Washington Post (WP) article which states that US National Security Council (NSC) officials had asked him for help in stationing Special Operations and intelligence personnel on the ground in […]