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A friend a few years back addressed one of his personal problem to the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation Islamabad (OPF) concerning allotment of a plot by a private builder. OPF forwarded it to concerned authority and as usual treating its duty was finished with it forgot the matter. Every six...

Addressing the Multan Bar on 25 July, My Lordship Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Choudhary desired that free courts would be established for free delivery of justice to the common man. Theoretically the idea is nice but in our present day given conditions more particularly seeing if our rulers...

The i-tech minister talking with the then US Ambassador in Pakistan said that the introduction of computerization and internet in government offices here will increase the efficiency and change the working attitude of the functionaries. Few years back I depended on postal rates appearing on...

The out gone Sindh Ombudsman Mr. Justice ® Hazir-ul-Khairi during an informal meeting with an English Daily stated that there was need to revisit the law pertaining to Ombudsman. He said that the President and the Governors are invariably advised by persons whose legal acumen is not as sound...

FIRST LOVE STEP FOR OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS BY NEW GOVERNMENT On the subject Amjad Malik has voiced for voting rights to Overseas Pakistanis (OPs). His main emphasis is that OPs having lived in good governance abroad can well help the country sitting in the Parliament and he cites example of...

A citizen recently raised an interesting but rightly a million worth genuine question. He says in the early months of judicial crisis in 2007 the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chouhary submitted in his Affidavit that he was asked to resign while the then COAS in his counter Affidavit...

Ghulam Mustafa Memon from Hyderabad (Nation 25 March) recalls that the Ombudsman system was introduced for speedy and inexpensive justice to the common man. He says the institution is now “on decline”, particularly in Sindh, which can be gauged that a serving police officer has been appointed...

Elders have stated that excess of any thing is bad. During the last 8 years good governance right from federal level to lower local area level was inducted but the reformers forget the golden principle that excess is bad. The result is excess of good governance has deteriorated the shape of...

Pakistan Railways has increased the fares by 10%. It is due to oil prices increase. But point is only two months back Shaikh Rashid Ahmed “left” the Railways running into profit with 23 “new trains”. Indian railways a week back has on the other hand slashed fares evening allowing senior...

For the last about two years hardly a week goes by when I do not see on a TV channel the talk about the marvelous leadership and good governance of young City Nazim Karachi. Normally I never believe TV channel reports. But I had to believe at least this one only because of praises about him...

The government since more than a decade is wasting unnecessarily the badly needed national money of we the citizens of a debit ridden country on introducing madly the webs, computers, networking and modern i-tech. The then i.tech minister talking to the then US Ambassador in Pakistan proudly...

The other day Hussain Nawaz son of heaviest mandated and so-called democracy lover ex Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on TV on a question re voting rights to Overseas Pakistanis stated that this is a legitimate right and the PLM(N) will struggle for this right. These rulers and would-be-rulers their...

A letter not less than a highly learned Professor Roedar Ahmad Khan of Peshawar has appeared in your esteem of 06 March 2008 on the subject. Being a conscientious citizen I felt shame reading it. The most senior intellectual Mr. S.M. Zafar mid 80s took a mission creating awareness amongst the...

March 3, 2003 surfing through the internet search for government web directory I came across Postal Division Karachi South web site. It contained usual information like introduction to services, contact us. Its mailing address was that of Postmaster General Metropolitan Circle Karachi...

It is my firm belief contrary to which no one can convince me that His Excellency General Pervaiz Musharraf is the only ruler one who really, sincerely and from inside his heart wished to do practically something for the betterment of the common man. For this he worked untiringly day and night...

As soon as the news came that Scotland Yard declared that Benazir was killed by the force of a suicide bomb and not gunfire the very first reaction promptly came from Aitzaz Ahsan that how can SY come to a true conclusion unless it had not done any post mortem on the body. Aitzaz Ahsan is...

A few months back there on a TV talk show it was revealing how much from the sources like Asian Development Bank etc came or was taken in the name of promoting justice system but on which Heads the most of that amount was being spent. The practical side of it one may agree with me or not, the...

Our national record or figures show we are today a reformed nation. We have good governance, nation has “nationally reconstructed” by a costly Bureau, people have now easy access to be listened to. And so on. On 22 June 2007 I addressed by airmail more as a Feedback than a formal...

After 10th January Lahore GPO roundabout blast several provincial and federal teams have been formed to investigate about the unfortunate blast taking so far 26 lives. This is not loss of 26 lives but atleast loss of 26 families. However the most strange for me is why this order on high cost...

A question so often raises what was the reason that despite different multiple efforts by the governments there is no improvement in our general conditions and our well of national ills instead of decreasing keeps on more stinking. There could be many answers and reasons but the major one is...