Tag: Mosharraf Zaidi Articles
Can PM Khan survive the PDM? – Mosharraf Zaidi
People don’t want complicated answers. They want simple ones. This is for two reasons. First, complicated answers take time, discipline and patience to...
Paying the price for what exactly? – Mosharraf Zaidi
The alarming thing about the political discourse in Pakistan today is that it is divorced from the two bookends within which public policy should...
PTI and PML-N vs inertia – Mosharraf Zaidi
The PML-N is, above all, a political party seeking to win power. Its leaders clearly believe that the best way to win power is...
Remember the motorway rape – Mosharraf Zaidi
It is not yet a full two weeks since the gang-rape on the motorway that purportedly shocked Pakistan. Then again, it is over...
Competitions that will shape KTP – Mosharraf Zaidi
The writer is an analyst and commentator.
The Karachi Transformation Plan (KTP) is an impressive allocation of financial resources and top-line political will in favour...
Is NCOC our Covid-19 miracle? – Mosharraf Zaidi
At the beginning of the summer, the Covid-19 pandemic was rampaging through countries like South Korea, Italy and Iran at a pace that caused...
Deconstructing the Karachi fantasy – Mosharraf Zaidi
Where did the fantasy of ‘federalizing’ Karachi come from? Probably from the same place where came fairy tales about individual saviours that can solve...
Grading Pakistan’s August 5 gestures – Mosharraf Zaidi
Some of the public-facing symbolic gestures that Pakistan is making in solidarity with Kashmiris to observe one year since the annexation of Occupied Kashmir...
Disembarking the container – Mosharraf Zaidi
There are least two areas in which this government, despite the odds, seems to have done some stellar work – the first is the...
A stillborn NES – Mosharraf Zaidi
Civil service reforms are the perpetual still-born fetus of governance in Pakistan. There are many reasons why it is so elusive, and delivers so...