By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Accoding to John Adams: “Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system [...]
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Media – A Ruling Class Tool
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Life used to be much simpler for the people of Pakistan. About a decade ago, to talk about “private media” would have seemed either tragic or laughable. Everybody knew that the news media were little more than instruments of the mixed information. There was only one state-owned television and one radio, [...]
Samsung leads an IT Awards Ceremony in Lahore
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, Telecommunications, Digital Media and Digital Convergence Technologies. Recently, the Head of HHP & IT at Samsung, Mr. Roy Yongil Chang was invited to chair an IT Awards Ceremony, organized by a prominent distributor of IT products in Pakistan – Decent Computers. The event was organized [...]
Pakistan’s economy: during military civilian regimes
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Pakistanis are not mature enough with democracy regime; while most of the politicians are morally bankrupt! The country’s current misfortune is due to civil leadership, who has demonstrated no appetite for sustainable change, economic or social. The effect of the stronger economic performance during military regimes translated into something more meaningful [...]
Drug Prices go up by upto 100 Percent
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar The prices of 350 medicines increased from 20 to 100 percent in the wholesale and retail markets across the country increasing inflationary pressures. Almost all local and multinational pharmaceutical companies notified the increase to their respective distributors, dealers and wholesalers. The increases – some as high as 100 per cent – [...]
Rising inequality in Pakistan: Elite should remember rest are 98 percent
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar There is a mess of political parties in Pakistan; all talking a lot about poor people and their problems. Nobody knows who is actually a true representative of people? If we look back, the picture for the last four years of “Democracy” has remained bleak. Political parties across the country are [...]
Food insecurity: A big threat to Pakistan
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Food is a basic human need and it’s the government who has to ensure a dependable food security system for the nation. For a country like Pakistan, this is crucial, since now a large part of the income of the population has to be spent to procure food. High grain prices [...]
At The Mercy Of Criminals
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER A few days back, Chaudhry Aslam khan, the SSP CID Karachi said in an interview with a private TV channel that unless courts give a legal authenticity to the evidence of the police officials particularly in cases of terrorism, the giant of terrorism cannot be chained. It is a common complaint that [...]
Leadership crisis and its impacts in Pakistan
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Pakistan’s rich human and material resource endowments have given it the potential to become a major player in the global economy. Pakistan is rich in minerals. It has good agriculture potential. The young population in Pakistan is large — as is the percentage of young who are unemployed but well-educated, meaning [...]
Horrible democracy adventure in Pakistan
By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Back in February 2008, at the dawn of another attempt at democratizing the nation, many Pakistanis yearned for a better society — one that truly brings the genuine dividends of democracy. Four years later it’s debatable whether democracy as practiced by the Pakistani politicians and understood by the electorate — has [...]



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