Khud-Sudhaari Ka Mughaalta
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January 2, 2013
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My two cents (tweets) It kills the somewhat nationalist pride in me that the office of prime minister has a pride that needs to be supplemented by another office! Every other laxity, corruption, etc I feel I may tolerate, not this one! It’s absolutely unbecoming no matter it’s constitutional or not. Tweets by khalilkf
With JUI (F), MQM, and PML (Q) once again out to test their gamesmanship, and ANP, PML (N), the Army, and the political-religious parties outside waiting in the wings, it seems Pakistan is all set to brace for another bout of political crisis – leaving us the people bewildered what the hell is the direction […]
This April a bill was submitted in the National Assembly which is yet another attempt to make the citizens of Pakistan “loyal” to it. The bill seeks to amend the Article 63 of the Constitution – an article that sets the criteria for the members of parliament and provincial assemblies. The bill requires that any person who […]
While the Pakistani NGOs seek the Right to Information Law, the likes of “Wikileaks” are wikileaking clandestine governments! The latest ‘leaks’ of Wikileaks provide a historical opportunity to re-consider many a taken for granted truths! This writing too intends to discuss afresh some such propositions which relates to the affairs of the governments. For instance, […]
The country that taught us lesson regarding Rule of Law, Rule of Politics is winning there! On September 16, 2016, Dawn published the following Situationer, which explains how law may not win over politics in UK: Politics, not law, likely to decide murder probeBy Owen Bennett-Jones Here is the text of the piece: LONDON: Shortly […]
With time, disconnect with the Pakistan Peoples Party is widening. The more one listens to news and reads newspapers, the more one is convinced of the distending communication gap between the PPP and non-PPP camps. It seems both of them are talking to themselves only. Watching talk shows on TV channels, where representatives from both […]
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none -Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826. American people create abundant wealth. So, they are prosperous and happy. It is only because they are economically freer than many nations on earth. In consequence, that makes them politically freer. What makes all that possible is their declaration of […]
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to the pressures of the times.– Warren E. Burger (1907-1995), Chief Justice, US Supreme Court. The best thing that explains the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) July 20 judgment is: it is never too late to mend. As is being claimed, […]
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to the pressures of the times. – Warren E. Burger (1907-1995), Chief Justice, US Supreme Court. The best thing that explains the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) July 20 judgment is: it is never too late to mend. As is being […]
The theory of media consumption stands vindicated in Pakistan! The story goes thus: On June 29 the Federal Defense Minister, Ahmed Mukhtar, who had been sleeping all through the May 2 Abbottabad-Osama-Bin-Laden and May 23 PNS-Mehran-Karachi happenings, awoke to talk to a group of journalists apprising them that Pakistan had asked Washington to vacate the […]
When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never make any progress. “Pakistan is under siege.” We had enemies from the very first day. With time, the list of our enemies grew longer. So much so that today we […]
When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never make any progress. “Pakistan is under siege.” We had enemies from the very first day. With time, the list of our enemies grew longer. So much so that today we […]
When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never make any progress. “Pakistan is under siege.” We had enemies from the very first day. With time, the list of our enemies grew longer. So much so that today we […]
The middleman tends to be eliminated . . . He can only be safely eliminated by natural processes. Sometimes he is of real use and helps production; sometimes he is not; but this cannot be decided by a blind strike, but only by allowing the forces of competition to act upon him. [Hon. Auberon Herbert] […]
How to Privatize Successfully – Part I If privatisation needs to be done, it has to be done because it is the decisive step in transforming the economic system. Regarding foreign help Dr Klaus is very blunt: I think that the typical foreign help was sending would-be advisors and consultants. It became one of the […]
Changing the economic system is not an easy task. And, of course, it is more complex when carried out half-heartedly. As privatisation is only a part of this process, it may not succeed if done in an isolated manner. It needs certain other changes and a competitive environment to bear fruit. A case in point […]
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Alternate Solutions Institute released my latest paper, Pakistan’s Democratic Impasse – Analysis and the Way Forward, today (December 29). Copied below is the text of
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Most of the English and Urdu newspapers of today (December 27), published the following full page advertisement on behalf of “Chief Minister Sindh and All
In The News of December 24, on page 5 there published an Advertisement. Here it is: What does that Ad mean? How come that suddenly
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The News in its print edition on December 23 reported the following: Bakery boy absolves CM’s relative, cops of torture LAHORE: A judicial magistrate of
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Anyone can see that there is not one Pakistan. After more than 60 years the two Pakistans can clearly be demarcated. One is for the
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Ordinary Pakistanis are in the jaws of another government-created crisis: they are facing shortage of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in their homes as well as
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Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf by, using his discretionary powers, has appointed his son-in-law, Raja Azeemul Haq to the prestigious post of Executive Director of
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It is strange, rather outrageous that the same media, which is truly active and activist, as regards many a genuine issue, and in certain cases
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This book was published by Alternate Solutions Institute in February this year. Originally it is in Urdu, Pakistan Mein Riyasti Ashrafiya Ka Urooj. After the
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How vacuous the speeches and statements of state dignitaries look! But it is for them to inaugurate this or that thing, to make speeches! It
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Lal Masjid is once again making headlines. This time it has been resurrected by the Supreme Court. As a result of a hearing of a
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Secularism is an old song that keeps reverberating in the liberal, enlightened, progressive, leftist, and socialist circles of Pakistan. Earlier this January news from Bangladeshthat
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For us living together requires neither love nor mercy, but rules of conduct; everything be it ideology, faith, or any system of thought, comes after
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How a police officer’s highhandedness in torturing someone special earns him the wrath of the State Aristocracy is evident from the following news: Defence-A SHO
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* The world needs to be changed into a world for individual persons, not for this or that genus of this or that community or
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In a previous post, Riyasti Ashrafiya ka Pakistan – 1, a news item was highlighted. It was published in an Urdu daily Mashriq Peshawar on
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What has gone wrong with the US – erstwhile champion of individual freedom, world-renowned political cartoonist, Patrick Chappatte explains very well in this cartoon! This
Few days back (on November 3), I finished reading a rare and old book. If one wants to see a glimpse of the old world, read
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See the following report and be in the know what things are occupying the Prime Minister of Pakistan, no matter they are illegal or not,
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When creative spirit of a nation is arrested from within, it is as vulnerable to external insinuations as is to internal machinations, and can never
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Last night (November 2), I finished reading another book on Stoicism. It was first published in 1908 by Archibald Constable & Co., London. It belongs
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Day before yesterday (Oct 28) I finished reading, Stoicism, by Rev. W. W. Capes. It was published in 1880, as part of a series –
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Is it for the Supreme Court to see what’s happening to the citizens in Balochistan and Karachi? Or there is none to heed? It seems
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