An Assistant Commissioner’s Diary In East Pakistan: Field Lessons
The stability and therefore the success of any national government depends on the district and subdivisional level of administration. When ...
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Conflict Among QAU Students Cannot Justify Draconian Measures
As Pakistan prepares for a worsening wave of inflation, and the whole mainstream media sets its eyes upon Imran Khan ...
Beyond Gentrification: Pakistan Needs Inclusive Urban Renewal
Urban gentrification is the process of revitalisation and modernisation in semi-urban neighbourhoods into vast luxurious and posh residential societies to ...
Continental Bureaucratic Empire: The Culture Of Power And Governance Under The Abbasids
It can be perplexing to take a view of the rapid rise of the Arabs, beginning with the theological foundations ...
Authorities Must Save Gordon College From Attempts To Return To The Colonial Era
Recent developments in the history of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, are, indeed, extremely ominous: not only for the students of the ...
When Giants Walked In Balochistan
In my first conversation with Nawab Akbar Bugti, he cited Ibn Khaldun. I was curious as to where the Nawab ...
Reflections On A Journey Through Pakistan’s Northern Areas
This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions ...
Lessons In Law And Order – A Case Study From My Time In Balochistan
A Baloch woman wearing her bridal jewelry could walk alone from one end of the Balochistan province to the other ...
Rohri Of Yore: The Fate Of Old Trees And A Nautch Ghar
(I) An old oak tree in my neighborhood made me cry. I live in the Oakhill area in Austin, Texas ...
Memoir| When I Spent A Glorious Summer At Cambridge University
Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits. This is the ...
Unity, Rectification Of The Economy And Good Governance Hold The Key To PDM’s Success
I have been in politics for more than 50 years now. Thus, I am going to offer my advice, without ...
Karachi’s Politics Of Rain
Pakistan’s largest city and Sindh’s provincial capital Karachi is like any other large metropolis — especially those in developing countries. ...
Cantonments Of The Murree Galis
The establishment of Murree and the development of the small cantonments along the 60 km mountain range towards Abbottabad was ...
1971: A Personal Account Of The Year Pakistan Broke Apart – I
Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...
Last Of The Indian Civil Service (ICS)
The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the ...
Judicial Powers For Deputy Commissioners: A Return To The FCR?
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to appoint Deputy Commissioners of the amalgamated tribal districts of Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, ...
Return To Ziam Qala
This place had not changed in forty years. Out of the misty haze of a hot summer afternoon, the silhouette ...
What Would A Responsible And Well-Intentioned Transition To A Presidential System Look Like?
Pakistani airwaves are ripe with discussions about possibly changing the nature of governance structure to a presidential system in place ...
A Tale Of Institutional Mismanagement: The Other Side Of ECP’s Daska Report
The inquiry report on NA-75 Daska is now available to most of us. Selected parts have been amplified as per ...
Sindh P&D Department’s Manipulative Admin Officer Needs To Be Removed
The section officer’s removal from the provincial Planning & Development, will allow the department to evolve without the obfuscating red-tapism
How Quaid-i-Azam University Improved Its Position In World Rankings: A Case Study In Leadership And Higher Education
Higher education around the world is evolving very fast. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has become the key factor in accelerating ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Profile: Musarrat Hilali, First Woman PHC Chief Justice
Justice Musarrat Hilali took oath as the first...
Background Negotiations With Judges Underway, Claims Umar Cheema
The decision of the Supreme Court in the...