Citizens should have the right to record video in every government office and building, including police stations, courts, hospitals, and other public-dealing institutions, as required. This would be a critically important step toward improving governance. This right is also essential because the entire state apparatus is funded by taxpayers’ money and is accountable to them. […]
According to a report in Jang (August 25), a new feat of the bureaucracy has come to light: 33 retired officials are receiving their pensions in foreign currency after relocating abroad. How is this a feat of the bureaucracy? This is, in fact, the doing of the political aristocracy (ریاستی اشرافیہ) that runs the affairs […]
If an individual decides to struggle against an unjust law, system, or State Aristocracy (ریاستی اشرافیہ), then more than half of that struggle must be waged against those who act as the divine custodians of that system. This does not yet include those closest to him who, out of envy, become his enemies. Nor does […]
Political parties do not represent the citizens. They are trade unions of politicians. The way to rid ourselves of them is to make elections entirely democratic. That is, the Election Commission will draw lots from among all the voters present in a constituency, and thus a representative of the citizens for that constituency will be […]
Should new provinces be created or not? And on what basis should they be created? On an administrative basis, or on some other basis? This matter should not be left in the hands of politicians, centralists, intellectuals, and opportunists. To resolve it, there should be a referendum. In other words, this issue should be placed […]
Friendships “deeper than the sea” with foreign countries and joint defence agreements with them cannot bring about any improvement in governance within Pakistan. For citizens, there is nothing to be gained from this kind of politics and diplomacy. For them, all of this will remain mere exhibition and show. Talk about governance <> focus on […]
Among other things, the most crucial factor is the uneven development of human populations on planet Earth, caused by the ruling Ashrafiya in their respective countries. This factor seeks to dissolve the political world order, which is neither possible nor advisable. Migration is not a solution. Nor is destroying the developed world. Emulating the developed […]
Note: The following exchange took place in a WhatsApp group. The name of the objector is being withheld. Objection by Someone: Never understand this elite
That’s something unprecedented. Probably never ever any head of the IMF came forward to publicly propose what the government of Pakistan needed to do. But
Time and time again, the issue of hereditary politics finds limelight in the electronic and social media, and in the newspapers. For this or that
The umpteenth time, a nationwide electricity blackout happened on 23 January. It was told, after keeping the system switched off during the night when they
Note: A version of this article was published in The Friday Times. https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2023/01/29/miftah-ismails-economics-far-cry-from-his-partys-record/ This is merely a cursory review/critique of politics and economics Miftah Ismail
Note: A version of this article was published in the Friday Times. https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2023/01/24/project-imran-has-necessitated-shock-therapy-for-pakistans-politics/ Top leadership of the PMLN failed to convince Asif Ali Zardari to
نوٹ: یہ تحریر میری ایک فیس بک پوسٹ ہے، جو 28 جنوری 2021 کو فیس بک پر پوسٹ کی گئی تھی۔ پاکستان میں بہت شروع
Note: An edited version of the following article was published in the Friday Times on 20 January, 2023. https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2023/01/20/can-a-people-centered-charter-of-economy-be-achieve/ The continuing debate on a charter
The state economy has failed miserably. It is collapsing under its own weight. And the debris is falling directly on the already-much-dented civil economy. In
The jurisdiction of the high courts and supreme court in the political and government matters (i.e. how to run the state/gov in accordance with the
The barter is the essence of economics. Ultimately it’s a good (or a service) the exchange of which takes place. The economics happens between two
Almost all the economists and the state economists especially have a painting hanging at the back of their minds that displays a dream of living
Now instead of writing, I am posting my talks on various issues regularly on my YouTube Channel: Dr Khalil Official Join the Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVSq4e_xHkgqoWAJ3swq6Eg جو
Note: Here conversation means any serious exchange of ideas between two or more persons. Nothing in any manner has any reference to any person whosoever.
One friend sent this excerpt from Oswald Spengler: “This machine-technics will end with the Faustian civilization and one day will lie in fragments, forgotten —
کیا کوئی نظام فکر نظام اقدار کے بغیر وجود میں آ سکتا ہے؟ اقدار پہلے ہیں، نظام بعد میں۔ یہ معاملہ بھی خود ایک قدر
The solutions economists put forward, such as to the (economic) problems/crises faced only by the state/government; I mean most of the economists, or almost all
In view of the massive taxes killing the economic life of ordinary citizens, Pakistani economists need to come out of their comfortable economic models and
Most Pakistanis are psychological creatures. Only a minority elevates themselves to a philosophical level and a lot of them now and then relapse again into
Danishwar Ashrafiya (دانشور اشرافیہ) is that class of intellectuals who has monopolized the publishing space, i.e. mainstream print and electronic media and publishing houses. And
It’s the same ill that afflicts politics and economics in Pakistan. Choosing winners and losers by employing unnatural methods. In politics, it’s the establishment that
میں ریاست اور حکومت کے نقطہء نظر سے لوگوں اور معاشرے کو دیکھتا ہوں تو میں ریاست پسند ہوں۔ اگر میں لوگوں اور معاشرے کے
فطرت میں جو کھیل تماشے ہو رہے ہوتے ہیں، وہ ہر کسی کی نظر میں آئے بغیر نہیں رہتے۔ ہم سب فطرت جو جو گُل
The political engineering has utterly failed and thrown the politics into a bottomless pit. In the same way, economic engineering too has miserably failed and
ریلیف کا لفظ جیسے کہ ایک تکیہٴ کلام بن گیا ہے۔ خاص طور پر دانشوروں کا تکیہٴ کلام۔ اور یہ دانشور کون ہیں۔ بھئی پاکستان
ویسے میں ہر برس بجٹ پر لکھتا بھی نہیں۔ کوئی فائدہ بھی نہیں۔ یکساں چیزیں بار بار دہرائی جاتی ہیں۔ جو سیاسی جماعتیں اقتدار میں
[نوٹ: یہ تحریر لکھنے کے بعد میں بارہا یہ سوچتا رہا ہوں کہ سیاست دانوں میں اگر عزم و ارادہ موجود ہو، اور وہ کچھ
گذشتہ کچھ برسوں سے میں صحافی طلعت حسین کے یوٹیوب ولاگ باقاعدگی سے دیکھ سُن رہا ہوں۔ انھوں نے اپنے ولاگ میں سوال و جواب
دوسرے اور بہت سوں کی طرح، میں بھی اس مسئلے پر سوچتا رہا ہوں کہ جیالے، نونیے، انصافیے، وغیرہ، کیسے اور کیونکر جنم لیتے ہیں۔
Almost all the persons who joined IK (PTI) and devoted their wealth and energy to bolster his image and politics are without any exception one-dimensional
کسی کو کچھ پتا نہیں کون کیا کرنے جا رہا ہے۔ کون کیا کرے گا۔ کون کیا کر رہا ہے اور کیوں کر رہا ہے۔ یعنی
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave birth to Populists. Zia ul Haq gave birth to Fanatics. Imran Khan gave birth to Fascists. All that would never have
The will of the people is supreme. That is, their will via their representatives is supreme. That is, all the entities brought into existence by
In Pakistan, another organ of the state has come into existence. That is Ultra-Executive. Security Establishment is the core of it and Judiciary and the
Like other realities such as physical or social, the political reality too is layered. It’s not the surface and the bottom that make it. So
قومی اسیمبلی میں عدم اعتماد کی تحریک کو مسترد کرنے سے متعلق، ڈپٹی سپیکر قاسم سوری کی 3 اپریل کی رولنگ کے ضمن میں سپریم
Politics is complex. It’s not Black & White. If there is no more Black, that doesn’t mean now it’s all White. No, it’s Grey. A
IK-PTI, that’s a shallow phenomenon. It has no basis in the economic reality of the country. The narrative of corruption, taking turns in power (PPPP-PMLN),
سعادت حسن منٹو ایک متنازعہ شخصیت ہیں۔ ایک متنازعہ مصنف ہیں۔ ایک متنازعہ افسانہ نگار ہیں۔ ان کے بارے میں متعدد سوالات تسلسل کے ساتھ
متذکرۂ بالا کتابچے سے متعلق وٹس ایپ کے ذریعے ایک سوال پوچھا گیا ہے۔ ’’اگر استدلال دولت کی تخلیق سے شروع ہو گا تو اس
جہاں تک سیاست اور سیاسی معاملات پر سنجیدگی کے ساتھ لکھنے کی بات ہے، تو خورشید ندیم ایسے ہی کالم لکھتے ہیں۔ سیاسی وقوعات جن
کوئی تین دہائیوں پہلے میں نے ایک کتاب پڑھی تھی، جس میں دنیا بھر سے چنی گئیں سو عظیم ’’شارٹ سٹوریز‘‘ شامل تھیں۔ ایک کہانی
[نوٹ: ہمارے یہاں گفتگو میں ’’بُغض ۔۔۔‘‘ اور ’’حُب ۔۔۔‘‘ کی اصطلاحات عام ہیں۔ میں اصل الفاظ کے استعمال سے بوجوہ گریز کر رہا ہوں۔]
The world is thus connected today economically it was never so in the past. That means both dependence and interdependence, and sort of a combined
ان کی سادگی کا رنگ اتنا گہرا ہے، اس کا احساس نہیں تھا مجھے۔ ہاں، اتنا ضرور معلوم تھا کہ ان کی زندگی سادگی سے
On March 1 (2022), EAG Pakistan twitter handle @eagpakistan posted 6 tweets reacting to the incumbent regime’s “relief measures for the people.” Here are the
چیزیں خودرو انداز میں کس طرح وجود میں آتی ہیں، اور کس طرح، روایت اور پھر ایک غیررسمی نظام میں ڈھل جاتی ہیں، اس تحریر
مجھے جس چیز نے اس سوال پر غور کرنے اور اس کا جواب دینے پر اکسایا، وہ ڈاکٹر ندیم الحق کی یہ رائے ہے کہ
سقراط کو سچائی کے ساتھ اور سچائی کو موت کے ساتھ جوڑ دیا گیا۔ کیسے؟ اور کیوں؟ غالباً اس پر غور نہیں ہوا۔ یا ہوا
