KARACHI: A report prepared by the Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has said that violations of the principles of law, proprietary and probity by several public functionaries caused waste and embezzlement of public resources. The PAC report for the years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 (auditor general reports 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09) was tabled in the […]
By: Adnan Rehmat If journalists in Pakistan and the media they work for are under attack, as the screaming statistics show, what would constitute a desired response mechanism that can combat this impunity meaningfully and effectively? What can help is a combination of individual responsibility on the part of media practitioners and media houses on […]
By: Adnan Rehmat Most of the journalism we do in this country is statistics-driven. Unfortunately, in our context, the statistics often indicate bad news. On most days, the number of people killed is what determines the headline and its placement. The number of drop-outs and out of school children is the statistic when we […]
By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed After a prolonged spell of suppressed activity, social media websites in Pakistan suddenly became alive on Dec 3, with endless posts and tweets about the reopening of YouTube in the country. To many, this was nothing unexpected as the development had coincided with the tentative deadline given by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority […]
By: Masud Alam A survey conducted last year found Pakistan to be one of the two dullest nations in the world where only one third of shop assistants, bank clerks, public officials and transporters crack smiles when dealing with clients. Last year was a time when people — at least those with access to computer […]
Pakistan’s human rights situation is deteriorating significantly, with violence showing an increasing trend, said Zia Ahmed Awan of Madadgaar National Helpline. In a statement on Saturday, he said the helpline recorded 16,198 cases of violence, including 2,946 cases of murder and professional killing, 1,368 cases of suicide and 2,053 cases of torture, during the last […]
By: Anil Datta Similarity of literature and culture can be exploited to create a peaceful and tension-free atmosphere in South Asia, especially India and Pakistan. This was the consensus of panelists at an interactive discussion on ways and means to mitigate acrimony to the benefit of the people of both India and Pakistan on the […]
By: Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has issued the belated authorisation to the parliamentary commission headed by Senator Farhatullah Babar to carve a new province out of Punjab, allowing it to complete the task assigned to it. “A major snag has now been removed by the speaker’s notification,” Senator Babar […]
The ban on YouTube has become more of a prestige issue for the government now after the website refused to entertain a request to remove blasphemous content. The matter needs to be resolved soon to allow people to benefit from this mass resource of information and education. It isn’t justified to seal off the biggest […]
ISLAMABAD: Salman Farooqui, secretary general to President Asif Ali Zardari, was appointed acting federal ombudsman on Saturday. According to an announcement, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf assigned additional responsibilities of ombudsman to Mr Faruqui on a temporary basis. “The responsibility has been given to Salman Farooqui to clear the backlog of 75,000 complaints of people […]
By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa and his two ‘advisers’ got an account opened in a private bank in their ‘private capacity’ to collect donations for the flood-affected people of Sindh. The account, titled ‘Governor Punjab Flood Relief Fund 2011’, was opened with three signatories — Latif Khosa, Zahid Bashir and Farooq […]
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