Naeem Tahir

The messages were differently shocking. We read of blasts and terror attacks on a daily basis. The morbid routine has created a sort of numbness and insensitivity to the senseless killings every day. But the two incidents in one day in Balochistan, earlier this week, cannot be ignored and they call for action. Most shocking […]

Corruption has a long history in the subcontinent. Now it has been stated by the new government that the eradication of corruption from the system is a top priority. Let us look at the history of corruption and the options available to this government. It is said that institutional corruption was started by the British […]

I have already talked about the expected ‘change’ in the power crisis. A major change is not possible immediately. However, some relief by equitable distribution of the available resources can be achieved. I would also want to add here that if the line losses and thefts can be controlled, the situation may further improve. Now […]

On May 11, 2013, the Election Day, an important change was noticed all over Pakistan. This ‘change’ was the fact that a large number of voters from all segments of society came out to vote. The voting percentage went to an all-time high of 55 percent. The new voters were young, old, literate, illiterate, urban, […]

A couple of weeks before elections I had written that this election seemed to be between the pro-Taliban political parties and the anti-Taliban political parties. Those in the good books of the Taliban were able to run their election campaign freely and the ones who opposed them were harassed, bombed and even killed. Neither the […]

Elections 2013 are over but there are many open questions to be answered. The voters had a ‘hope’ this time, hope in the eyes and hope in the body language. Hope that had not been seen since 1970. It was Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s campaign in 1970 for the then Pakistan People’s Party that brought hope […]

As this article appears you may be preparing to cast your vote. As I sat down to collect my thoughts for this article I noticed a headline on the front page of a newspaper: “ANP candidate and son shot dead in Karachi.” A lot of blood continued to be shed afterwards. Terrorist actions continued. The […]

A leading English Daily has published the list of known terrorists contesting elections 2013. In its issue of April 24, the researcher Amir Mir reports: “The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has failed to prevent 55 candidates from the Punjab, belonging to 10 different sectarian groups, from contesting the general elections despite the fact that […]

The Pakistani Diaspora refers to overseas Pakistanis, who, as Pakistani citizens, migrated to another country. According to Pakistan government, there are around seven million Pakistanis living abroad, with a vast majority of them residing in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Pakistani Diaspora sent remittances to Pakistan of over 13 billion dollars in 2012. […]

In an interview conducted by a British television network, our longest serving prime minister (PM) responded with remarkable control. He was asked a very irrelevant and almost silly question “Why do 30 percent of Pakistanis want to leave the country?” Is it not a silly question? How does he not know? However, he kept his […]