SDGs, reforms & citizens’ rights
Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The global community appears optimistic and determined to transform the world by implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. These goals are aimed at ending poverty in all its forms, eliminate hunger,…
Malice Towards None & All
Bowing Before Bazaar’s Power Dr. Ikramul Haq Much has been written in Pakistan and outside about Mullah-Military alliance but no attention has been given to document the enormous financial support to clergy from the Bazaar. The term Bazaar in Pakistan…
Who should be elected?
Huzaima Bukhari “All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great…
Salvation lies in structural reforms
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Pakistan’s persistent economic failures, amongst other factors, are the result of constant disregard of the Constitution by the powerful elites, who are not ready to give up unprecedented benefits, enjoyed at…
Adieu, ZIM: unique sufi of our time
Dr. Ikramul Haq Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and…
Adieu, ZIM: unique sufi of our time
Dr. Ikramul Haq Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and…
On Women’s Day
Huzaima Bukhari “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult”—Charlotte Whitton 8 March is globally celebrated as International Women’s Day (IWD). The very fact that a…
Who should contest elections?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with”—Matthew (Mathew) Henry…
Who should not contest elections?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “Out of sight, out of mind” Apropos to our article “Who should contest election?”, published in these columns on 17 December 2010, which seems to have hurt the sentiments of some of our expatriate…