To quote my article ‘Balancing the Civil Service’ of Aug 5, 2010, “After the demise of Liaquat Ali Khan Shaheed in 1951, the federal bureaucracy took control over the country lock, stock and barrel. Khawaja Nazimuddin was coined by bureaucrats led by Iskander Mirza into vacating the Governor General (GG) chair and became the Prime…
Pledging to cut govt spending, end corruption and repatriate public funds, he promised Pakistani conducive investment environment, exhorting them to deposit their hard-earned money into Pakistani banks through official channels to provide some relief to our current financial crunch.Outlining deficiencies in Pakistan’s human development and the health-care sector, he promised adopting austerity measures to relieve…
Becoming one of the oldest men to become a naval aviator, John McCain Sr pioneered aircraft carrier operations in WW2. In 1942 he commanded all land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign, the Philippines and Okinawa, causing tremendous destruction of Japanese naval and air force in the closing period of the war. He…
Pakistan had not hosted a single game at home in more than four years because of the 2009 terrorist attack on the Srilankan cricketers’ bus in Lahore. The Pakistan Super League (PSL) launched in 2016 became an instant hit in and outside Pakistan, the real success came with PSL 2017 when the final was played…
Military officer and politician,US Senator from Arizona from 1987 John Sidney McCain III died on Aug. 25. 2018, 81 years of age.Steeped in naval tradition (his father and grandfather both of the same name were Admirals), he graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1958. Becoming a naval aviator, he flew ground attack aircraft from…
Several positives in the budget notwithstanding some of the measures contained in the ‘mini-budget’are not only painful but give a perception of the govt’s policy vision becoming blurred and incoherent. Some proposals were perplexing and counterproductive. The lifting of curbs on non-filers of tax returns allowing them to purchase vehicles and property exceeding Rs 4…
