updated Sat. August 10, 2024
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The Express Tribune
April 21, 2018
The consequence of this criminal neglect of the educational standards by the ruling elite has been horrendous in terms of national progress and prosperity. But affordability is not the only problem eating into the vitals of our education system. According to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), thereÃâà...
The News International (blog)
April 20, 2018
He said while the bank balances, properties and businesses of the rulers had increased tremendously the patriotic voters got nothing except to pay huge prices for the luxurious lifestyles of the ruling elite and bureaucracy. He said the voters got nothing but price hike, unemployment, lawlessness,Ãâà...
Daily Times
April 10, 2018
Demanding the state's attention, Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, the young leader of PTM, wants' the ruling elite to pay heed to the suffering of the Federally ... life, and dignity of the residents of FATA like other Pakistanis in living in Punjab or other regions of the country, is the responsibility of the Pakistani state.
DAWN.com
April 6, 2018
"It is unfortunate that in this government's tenure, all of the schemes were for the benefit of capitalists, big businesses and the ruling elite of Pakistan," Rabbani said, adding that none benefited the middle classes and the poor "who have been crushed under the burden of direct and indirect taxes, andÃâà...
Daily Times
April 5, 2018
The locals had no role in it and alarming thing is the Chinese were buying Pakistani lands on very low rate. There is no transparency at all and the crucial part is still in the hands of Chinese leadership. It seems as if Pakistanis are only the spectators of this project, and not equal stakeholders. Is it notÃâà...
TRT World
April 3, 2018
Ali Jahangir Siddiqui, a Pakistani investment banker, wouldn't have liked the reason for which he made the news in April 2013 – a fistfight over a bonus. The Cornell University graduate, who had carefully cultivated his image as a philanthropist by working for Pakistan's perennial flood victims a few yearsÃâà...
Daily Times
April 3, 2018
... exposing their failures, instead of accepting that people of Pakistan live in misery. Even Imran Khan has not offered any concrete proposal to alleviate their suffering. All you hear is abuses and exploiting religious sentiments. The establishment is busy in their own welfare schemes and allotment of plots.
Daily Times
March 8, 2018
So it is only millionaires who can contest elections in Pakistan. The feudal aristocracy was the first to snatch a cozy compartment on the gravy train of our ruling elite. They bought the elections with their income-tax free millions. They were joined immediately by the top cats of civil and military bureaucracy,Ãâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan (blog)
March 8, 2018
The era of insurgency and war got back. Misconceptions among Pakistani people for the ruling elite, including military establishment, rose. Instead of getting support on the international level, everything belonging to Pakistan faced severe criticism. Pakistanis were, and are still, considered threats more thanÃâà...
Daily Times
March 6, 2018
My last article that appeared in this newspaper traced the history of bureaucracy in Pakistan and how it has demeaned itself through decades. ... It is the suffering multitudes who need to be attended, and not the ruling elite who have been fed to an exorbitant degree of opulence, eating of the bountiful stateÃâà...
Global Village space (blog)
February 28, 2018
The era of insurgency and war got back. Misconceptions among Pakistani people for the ruling elite, including military establishment, rose. Instead of getting support on an international level, everything belonging to Pakistan faced severe criticism. Pakistanis was and still is considered more of a threat thanÃâà...
Pakistan Today
February 9, 2018
He said the masses had been overjoyed with the beginning of the accountability of the big plunderers, for they rightly considered the ruling elite ... Haq said that Allah had blessed Pakistan with unlimited resources of men and material, but the corrupt and selfish rulers had not properly utilised theseÃâà...
Pakistan Today
December 31, 1999
The ruling elite is allegedly advising its blue-eyed officials in NAB to try to avoid serious action against them. It is worth mentioning that the anti-graft watchdog has started the investigation against 435 Pakistani nationals who have registered and owned offshore companies at Panama and British VirginÃâà...
CADTM.org
December 31, 1999
Although CPEC has the potential to transform the Pakistani economy, but experts fear this transformation would come at heavy price of making Pakistan a colony of China. Prominent local economists have also expressed serious concerns over Pakistan's ability to service the growing debt. Hafiz Pasha, aÃâà...
Our own team of reporters, news agencies
December 31, 1999
An available copy of the chairman's letter disclosed to Pakistan Today that senior NAB officers from NAB HQ (headquarters) and regions are allegedly ... The ruling elite has allegedly advised its blue-eyed officers in NAB to play a role in the ongoing cases and try hard to avoid serious action against them,Ãâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
In the last week of January, a progressive activist from Karachi was approached by men claiming to be from military intelligence and warned him to give up on his political activism. On 22nd January, just after a reference programme on deceased Professor Hasan Zafar Arif, a young journalist, FawadÃâà...
The Nation
December 31, 1999
For a country like Pakistan to pursue strategic global interest beyond our border was an exercise in delusion, because these are games for major super powers having strong national economy and fiscal space to manoeuvre. Our ruling elite and powerful institutions want to lead opulent life styles on theÃâà...
Global Village space (blog)
December 31, 1999
The simplest answer I can offer at the moment is that the ruling elite is solely responsible for the mess they created. By ruling elite I mean top leadership of all the institutions working in Pakistan. These elites have always been in search of total power. This lust for total power leads them to go beyond theirÃâà...
Pakistan Today
December 31, 1999
The ruling elite of Pakistan don't see any incentive in the country's true democratic transformation, for that will directly challenge their political influence ... Generally, Pakistani society remains divided along caste, ethnic, tribal and family lines and any rhetoric of true democratic change in Pakistan is not likelyÃâà...
