Dawn Editorials and Opinions 06 June 2021

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Editorial 06 June 2021 can enter. In Maryland, state employees
are paid $100 if they get both doses. In
THE Sindh government’s decision New York, those who get vaccinated
to make Covid-19 vaccinations will receive a seven-day Metro card and
mandatory and to block the salaries of even tickets to a baseball game. The idea
government employees who are not behind these incentives is to encourage
inoculated is indeed a drastic measure, people to get vaccinated voluntarily —
as admitted by the province’s chief an exercise that builds trust between
minister himself. The announcement has citizens and the state. .
come as the country battles the third
In Pakistan, where citizen trust in public
wave of the coronavirus with a
institutions is generally low, a coercive
vaccination rollout which this far has
policy threatens to further undermine
covered 3.7m individuals with one
public trust confidence. This could have
dose. .
consequences for adherence to important
While the Sindh government has good public health measures. For vaccine
reasons to fear a scenario in which sceptics, a mandatory vaccine order will
vaccine hesitancy leads to a continuing fuel resentment and may be viewed as a
threat from Covid-19 and lethal variants, form of state oppression..
the order to make it compulsory and to
The Analytical Angle: Vaccine
tie it to incomes needs to be re-
hesitancy in Pakistan is growing. Here's
examined..
how it can be tackled .
In many countries, though SOPs such as
Though the government could justify
mask-wearing and distancing are
such measures in the interest of public
compulsory, vaccination itself is largely
health and safety due to the
still voluntary. In the United States, for
unprecedented nature of the threat, there
instance, officials are going all out to
are several other steps it can take to
incentivise citizens to get a jab but are
encourage people to get vaccinated
staying away from making vaccines
voluntarily. This exercise will be
compulsory so as not to overstep when it
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Though the Sindh government’s early

THE government has finally paid the
signalling when it came to Covid-19
first tranche of the outstanding bills of
prevention and SOPs was exemplary,
20 independent power producers out of
the PPP’s participation in mass PDM
the 46 generation companies with whom
rallies was totally at odds with scientific
it had signed revised power purchase
advice and gave the wrong message to
agreements months ago to secure future
the population. The party needs to do
tariff concessions. The SAPM Power
better and act as a role model for
took to Twitter on Friday to announce
citizens so that trust can be gained. A
that this represented the government’s
door-to-door awareness campaign is also
firm resolve to settle the issue of the
critical, as is messaging from public
power sector’s circular debt once and for
figures and government
all. In all, the government has paid
officials. Conspiracy theories must be
Rs89.2bn to the 20 IPPs or 40pc of their
battled in all public spaces through ads,
unpaid bills of Rs225bn. The first
mainstream media and even mosque
payment to the rest of the IPPs is being
sermons. .
withheld owing to various reasons,
Fear and mistrust can be overcome to including inquiries launched by NAB
some extent through awareness, against power companies set up under
incentives and trust-building the 2002 power policy for allegedly
measures. Penalties and punishments for making excess profits of around
vaccine refusals should really be a last Rs54bn. The disputed excess profits
resort. More importantly, the constitute just above 13pc of the total
government must ensure there are unpaid bills of Rs403bn the government
enough free vaccines for those who want owes to the 46 IPPs. The government
them.. had agreed to pay these bills in two
instalments within six months of the
Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021. revision in their PPAs as part of its plan
to liquidate the power sector’s growing
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circular debt that has already topped the to avoid further damage, the government
Rs2.3tr mark.. needs to tell NAB authorities to back
off, and implement the agreements with
The government decision to withhold the IPPs unless it wants to sour ties
payment defies all logic since the further with investors. The sooner the
revised PPAs with the 2002 IPPs matter is closed the better for foreign
provided for independent arbitration investment in the country..
under the Arbitration Submission
Agreement option on alleged excess Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021.
profits for an amicable resolution of the
dispute. The decision of the Traces of Bollywood - Newspaper -
accountability watchdog to target DAWN.COM
particular IPPs is also surprising since Editorial 06 June 2021
the profit earned by the IPPs, according
to Nepra, “would be higher or lower LAST week, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
than the return on equity allowed to Directorate of Archaeology & Museums
them” because of such factors as finally took possession, after much back
operational efficiencies, cost-saving and forth, of the ancestral homes in old
measures, better project management, Peshawar of Bollywood legends Raj
etc. NAB intervention in purely Kapoor and Dilip Kumar. On Tuesday,
technical issues is uncalled for since the the city deputy commissioner issued a
regulator had already started notification of the transfer of ownership
investigating allegations of excess of the properties to the relevant
profits. Pakistan has a very poor track provincial department under the
record of honouring commitments made colonial-era compulsory property
to investors, and has suffered immensely acquisition law. It had been announced
on this count. Consider the example of months ago that the locations would be
Reko Diq where an international restored and reopened as museums. The
arbitration tribunal slapped a fine of sites have over the years suffered
nearly $6bn on Pakistan for revoking the grievous damage..
agreement with Australian mining giant
TTC, damaging the country’s credibility The news must have been met with
in the eyes of foreign investors. In order mixed reactions. Pakistan’s officialdom
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has always displayed a penchant for to cement its place amongst thoughtful,
flaunting the country’s richly woven civilised nations, documenting and
tapestry of cultural heritage. On the preserving its history is vital. The
ground, however, it is fairly uncommon importance of areas of endeavour such
to see this lofty rhetoric translated into as archaeology and heritage preservation
action. Things might be inching must never be underestimated..
forward, though. The PTI government
has laid particular emphasis on tourism Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021.
as one of the tools in the country’s
arsenal of ‘soft power’. The KP Test case of political finance -
government’s promises in terms of the Newspaper - DAWN.COM
Bollywood stars’ ancestral residences By Ahmad Mehboob
follows on other headliners such as the
excavation some months ago of a THE regulation of political finance (PF)
Buddhist site in the area, and the offers one of the greatest challenges to
opening of Peshawar’s Sethi Haveli as a democracies around the world. Political
museum. True, grave problems and parties, elected legislators and
systemic inefficiencies remain, such as governments can become hostage to
artefact theft and the failure to protect powerful and extremely rich interest
sites against defacement by an under- groups, if political finance is not
educated public. Still, one hopes that in effectively regulated and institutions
the case of the Kapoor and Kumar entrusted with the task don’t have robust
havelis, legal tangles and officialdom’s capacity to enforce the regulations. It is
inadequacies are not allowed to stymie true that political parties and election
worthy projects. Other provinces must campaigns require funds for political
step up their efforts too; sites deserving participation and representation, but
of protection and display adorn the ineffective regulation of the flow of
entire country. The Radio Pakistan money in politics can corrupt political
building in Karachi is one worthy of institutions and lead to political
mention because Sindh is in particular corruption and damage public trust in
lagging behind in showcasing its ample democratic institutions and processes..
heritage. The upper parts of the country
have fared slightly better. For Pakistan
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PF deals with funding of and spending elected representatives annually are two
by political parties, candidates for important features of Pakistan’s PF
political office, election campaigns and system dealing with
elected representatives. Each democratic individuals. Likewise, political parties
state has put together a set of laws to are required to submit details of election
manage PF. Usually, one or more state spending after each general election and
institutions are entrusted with the critical its audited consolidated statements of
task of enforcement of the PF legal accounts duly certified by the party head
framework. As the power and reach of or his designated official every year. All
domestic and foreign interest groups these documents submitted by the
have increased and we have seen the individuals and the parties are made
emergence of corporate giants public through gazette notifications..
commanding budgets far bigger than
those of many developing states, the Although there is definitely room for
vulnerability of politics to such interests improvement, Pakistan arguably has a
has increased manifold. The robust legal framework for the PF
management of the PF system has, system. The greatest weakness of the
therefore, become more complex and system, however, and like all other laws
exceedingly important with of the land, lies in its enforcement. The
time. Societies that have failed to ECP, which is an independent and
upgrade their PF systems and build the powerful institution mandated to
capacity of institutions responsible for manage all affairs dealing with
ensuring the integrity of PF, are at great elections, has been reluctant to assert its
risk of falling prey to vested interests.. authority in the past. Lately, it has
demonstrated that it is now ready to
Pakistan’s PF is mainly governed by the exercise its authority and withstand
Elections Act, 2017, and the Election pressure from other institutions..
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is
entrusted with the responsibility of Ineffective regulation of
overseeing the system. Submission of flow of money in politics
elaborate statements of assets and can corrupt political
liabilities by election candidates at the institutions..
time of filing nomination papers and by
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The capacity of the ECP’s PF wing, no prohibited funding was received by

however, urgently needs to be up- the party. Therefore, the allegations, if
scaled. It is important that the PF wing proved, may carry serious consequences
has the capability to undertake regular for the PTI and its chairman culminating
detailed scrutiny and even do a forensic even in the party’s dissolution. It is, at
audit of at least some selected financial least partly, a measure of the weak
statements submitted by politicians and capacity and will of the ECP that the
political parties periodically. What is case which should have been decided in
going to prove a test case for the PF months, if not weeks, has lingered on for
wing and the ECP in the next few weeks nearly seven years and is still going
and months is the professional around in circles. This delay is also
investigation and expeditious disposal of partly attributable to the country’s faulty
allegations of prohibited funding judicial system..
received by four major political parties
of Pakistan. It will be a test of both the A perusal of the time line of the case
will and competence of the ECP.. tells a sad and painful story of how this
most celebrated case relating to PF has
Take the relatively recent allegations been dealt with by the ECP, the courts
against the PML-N, PPP and JUI-F, the of law and the political party in
oldest of these cases is the one against question. The ECP has conducted more
the current ruling party, the PTI. The than 70 hearings of the case during the
case started with a petition filed before past six and a half years and passed
the ECP as far back as Nov 14, 2014, by around two dozen orders, some of which
a founder member and former central have not even been complied with. It
information secretary of the party who constituted the scrutiny committee in
alleged that the party has not only March 2018 to examine the PTI’s
received prohibited foreign funding but accounts and submit its report by April
has also indulged in money laundering 17, 2020. The report submitted by the
and the misuse of funds. Each annual committee was so shoddy that the ECP
consolidated statement of accounts rejected the report and asked for the
submitted by the PTI carried the final report to be submitted by Oct 11,
certification by the party chairman and 2020..
present prime minister Imran Khan that
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Although the scrutiny committee has Faint ray of hope gone too -
met about 75 times so far, it has not Newspaper - DAWN.COM
completed its assignment and its head, a By Abbas Nasir
senior ECP official, has said that the
proceedings might continue ‘forever’, as WITH the tiniest rays of hope for a
reported in the media. The PTI change in the country’s skewed power
approached the courts around a dozen equilibrium disappearing with the
times to challenge the ECP’s jurisdiction disintegration of the PDM, the politics
to probe its accounts and other legal of compromise by the compromised
issues. A review of the media reports leaders of the main opposition parties
indicate that the PTI sought adjournment has left one political player
of the case close to 30 times and unchallenged and ascendant..
changed its legal counsel at least eight
times.. You get no points for guessing who that
is. And in the current circumstances
Irrespective of the final outcome of the where, according to the prime minister
case, the key question remains whether and his information minister, the media
Pakistan and its institutions will is totally free, I don’t have to tell you as
continue to deal with the critical you would know already..
question of political finance in the same
way as they are handling the PTI foreign After all, what good is a media,
funding case.. especially if it’s freer than in the West,
as Imran Khan often tells us based on
The writer is president of the Pakistan his ‘18 years of experience of playing
Institute of Legislative Development And cricket and living in England’, if it
Transparency.. leaves Pakistanis uninformed about what
is happening at home?.
president@pildat.org.
However, in the unlikely event you
Twitter: @ABMPildat.
don’t know, don’t expect me to tell
Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021. you. I am unashamedly meek; lack the
spine some of my journalist friends have
displayed. They did so, knowing well
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the likely consequences: hardship on each such instance complete with the
themselves and their dependants by beneficiary’s name..
being forced out of their jobs..
The ‘beneficiary’ thus becomes a two-
Not only the transgressors time loser. First they face the slur of
but the ‘opposition’ being on the take of an individual, party
political parties too will be or a foreign power(s) hostile to Pakistan,
judged brutally by history.. when they speak up for the rights of
their own shirtless compatriots, the
I can’t really afford to be jobless. Or, to voiceless and then the ‘lifafa’ too gets
be more accurate in my case, column- lost en route to them..
less. This column affords me an
opportunity to struggle, to breathe in a The term ‘two-time’ loser may not
suffocating environment. Please don’t adequately describe such a wretched
hate me for being truthful, it also member of the Fourth Estate. I’d say
enables me to pay some of my three-time loser may be more
bills. This is also very important.. accurate. Yes, because in between the
slurs and the forced joblessness, the
Yes, important in times such as these more defiant ones will also get thrashed,
when many journalists — who are shot at, even killed..
resistant to foisted authoritarianism
cloaked as patriotism and still believe It is equally true that watching the idiot
the will of the people ought to be box one gets the distinct impression that
supreme — are often found wishing they there is no shortage either of ‘co-opted
knew how to update the database of the journalists’ who have fully embraced
‘lifafa’ givers/senders.. authoritarian values and thrive on
regurgitating those unembarrassed each
What else would explain the case of the morning and evening, like a life-
missing lifafa (envelopes bulging with affirming mantra..
cash), apart from the missing current
address of the recipient? Surely, hybrid- And then there are those who can be
sponsored social media activists seem to likened to Nero playing his flute while
know, are able to count and make public Rome burned. Each will have to carry
the cross of their own ‘brand’ of
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journalism on their backs whenever long march. What was clear was that it
history is written or narrated. Rest wasn’t going to happen..
assured it will be. It always is..
The party’s leadership made that clear
Also, rest assured, not only the on a number of occasions since the
transgressors but the ‘opposition’ PDM’s formation. The reborn PPP will
political parties too will be judged not rock the boat. It feels it has
brutally by history. For their sacrificed enough for the cause of
compromises, the foremost of which is democracy. It was someone else’s turn
to accept as a given the ascendancy of a to fight while it enjoyed the fruits of a
power that ought not to have a role in a deal or ‘dheel’ as some observers say..
constitutional democracy..
One would have thought the final battle
Many are disappointed at the way the whenever that happened would have
PPP has conducted its politics. The truth been decided in central Punjab with
is the PPP now appears reconciled to Nawaz Sharif’s October 2019
ruling Sindh and Sindh alone well into Gujranwala narrative delivering the
the foreseeable future and thus its required street support and any deficit
ambitions are informed by that reality. It being made up by the JUI-F’s cadres..
has Sindh..
Enter Shehbaz Sharif. Released on bail
Why should it let someone else proclaim in his own words from “a day less than
‘I have Sinned’ and imperil the freedom seven months” of imprisonment. Looks
of top leaders Asif Zardari and Feryal like he enjoys his freedom too and
Talpur? If there was any doubt the PPP resembles the PML-N leader who kept
was placing expediency above all else it 50,000 plus supporters well away from
disappeared in the manner of its the airport in Lahore..
candidate’s notification as the leader of
the opposition in the Senate.. He did not wish for a confrontation that
would pit PML-N supporters against the
It is not clear if this is why the PDM state when his brother and niece were
forced the PPP’s hand the following arrested on arrival ahead of the 2018
month by asking for resignations of its elections and sent off to prison. They’d
parliamentarians ahead of the planned been convicted on patently spurious
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Punjab after the polls.. By Arif Hassan
That was not to be. But his faith is

THE Charter of the United Nations was
undiminished. He says he eschews
drafted and approved in 1945. Its stated
confrontation because the country can’t
objectives are to prevent war, forced
afford it. Agreed. He dreams of a new
occupation, and promote global
social contract with free, fair elections
justice. This vision is beautifully
post-electoral reforms, where all
captured in a sculpture in the court of
institutions remain within their
the UN building which consists of a
constitutional ambit, the judiciary is
pistol whose muzzle has been tied in a
independent and free from all influences
knot..
and the popular will prevails..
However, the UN has not been able to
With not a word about his proposals
fulfil its mandate. Since its creation war,
from the key arbiters, or even a clue
famine, illegal occupation, and inequity
who will be the guarantor of such an
between nations and classes have
arrangement, he has either fallen for
increased. This failure of the UN is built
what the (currently) ‘good cop’ has
into its structure..
whispered in his ear or prefers to be the
modern-day male reincarnation of Alice Five members of the Security Council
in Wonderland.. can, and have consistently, vetoed
resolutions against injustice, occupation,
The writer is a former editor of Dawn..
and war. These five nations are the
abbas.nasir@hotmail.com. richest and/or most powerful nations on
earth. All five of them are also major
Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021. manufacturers of small and large arms
and all of them are exporters in the
global market. The purchasers of these
arms are by and large countries that
suppress their people, like Saudi Arabia,
or seek to impose their will on the
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region in which they exist, like Thirty-seven per cent of all arms export
India. When not directly involved, they is from the US, 20pc from Russia, and
develop proxies to destabilise the 16.7pc from the other members of the
region. The guns and ammunition Security Council. Meanwhile, Israel is
manufactured by these powers have also becoming a major manufacturer of
been used in Yemen, Syria, Libya, arms and its exports between 2016 and
various regions in Africa, and, for the 2020 increased by 59pc. This has major
last 40 years, in Afghanistan. They have implications for the Middle East. The
killed women and children big importers of arms, on the other hand,
indiscriminately and justified it as are Saudi Arabia (11pc), India (9.5pc),
collateral damage. They have been used Egypt (5.8pc), UAE (3pc), and Pakistan
to take away Palestinian land and give it (2.7pc)..
to Israel through massive military aid of
$18 billion yearly that they provide to These figures give us some idea of the
the Zionist state.. interests the members of the Security
Council have in promoting a state of
In addition, it has been well established war. Their economies are heavily
that some of these countries smuggle dependent on arms production and sale
arms to warring factions in their zones and this has expanded phenomenally
of influence through a network of from $95bn in 2017 to $3tr in 2020..
contractors (60 per cent of this trade is
from the US and 25pc from The figures also point to the fact that the
Europe). Global spending on the UN is all but dead and survives only
manufacture of arms is $3 trillion of because it has become a part of the
which 39pc is America’s share. China’s larger global system to maintain the
share is 13pc and UK, France, and present status quo of which a
Russia, collectively, add up to proliferating arms economy is an
8.8pc. This also shows the imbalance in integral part..
power within the Security Council..
The UN employs 37,000 permanent staff
The failure of the UN is and has an annual budget of $3.231bn
built into its structure.. (2021 figure). This does not include its
special programmes like peacekeeping
(last year’s budget for peacekeeping was
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$6.58bn) or projects related to famine manage to prevent the UN from dying

relief. Much of this expense is provided formally. They are happy to keep it on a
by the five powers. For instance, the US ventilator so that they can also survive..
contribution to UN expenses is 22pc of
the UN’s total budget. To add insult to There is a need for a global network of
injury, these five powers and their allies organisations and individuals to be
are collectively known as the created, nurtured, and formalised to
‘international community’.. push for UN reform or/and to non-
violently agitate collectively against
The UN has a close working relationship injustice to prevent the consolidation of
with international financial institutions an anti-poor status quo. If this does not
(IFI) whose political and economic take place, there will be many more
agendas, such as neoliberalism and Palestines, leading to global anarchy,
global trade treaties, it promotes despite and we will watch helplessly..
being discretely critical of them at
times. Enough has been written about The writer is an architect, urban
these organisations, in the case of planner, and social activist..
Pakistan as well, to show that they are
arifhasan37@gmail.com.
not interested in development but in
creating dependence and pushing their www.arifhasan.org.
loans. The World Bank, the Asian
Development Bank and DFID combined Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021.
employ 23,857 full-time staff and have a
combined budget of $5.4bn. In addition, Imperial losers - Newspaper -
both the UN and these agencies support DAWN.COM
thousands of NGOs and consultants in By Asad Rahim Khan
developing data, evaluating
programmes, and implementing small AS everyone knows, late 2001, in the
and medium projects that serve the wake of the 9/11 attacks, was a different
various programmes that they time: it’s hard to
promote. This huge bank of human forget Newsweek proudly running ‘Time
resources, the power it creates, and the to think about torture’. It’s harder still to
interests it generates, collectively forget the Bush administration’s
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counter-terror chief saying, “When this most awesome military power the world
is all over, the bad guys are going to has ever known”..
have flies walking across their
eyeballs.”. The mission to civilise
leaves behind plenty of
It was the dawn of the forever wars back lessons to be learnt..
then, and the bloodlust was
bipartisan. Per the excellent Pankaj Thus Dick Cheney’s Haliburton
Mishra, liberals rushed ahead of neocons Company started tunnelling deep into
as they “recommended war and Iraq’s oilfields, and highly paid private
condoned torture while advancing mercenaries started killing kids in
America’s mission to bring democracy Baghdad..
to the world’s benighted”..
In many ways, it was the oldest scam in
Not that democracy fared any better, the world: the Rome of the day,
used as a gold star for whatever suited motivated by equal parts greed and
the imperial consensus at the time: revenge, leading a mission to
democrats that made the cut would civilise. That mission, the exact result
include sectarian militias (Iraq), narco- Osama bin Laden sought when he sent
states (Karzai’s Afghanistan), and even two planes crashing into the Twin
the commando president, Pervez Towers, is just now winding down..
Musharraf. Magically excluded, of
It leaves behind a million dead in Iraq,
course, were Pax Americana’s elected
scores of thousands dead in Afghanistan,
enemies — from Hamas in Gaza to the
and a Pakistan changed forever — with
Brotherhood in Egypt..
plenty lessons to be learnt..
We also learned that, whatever our own
The first is that military rule, being
rugged ideas of war, the invisible hand
shorn of legitimacy at home, is more
of capital soon followed. As one
likely to press itself into the service of
conservative author wrote, it was time
foreign powers abroad. Gen Musharraf’s
for a new American empire whose
rentier regime opened up airbases,
“grace notes are free markets, human
waved in drones, and collected bounties
rights and democracy, enforced by the
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for the citizens it handed over to Bush’s We were told occupation next door, per
black sites.. a recent piece via Brookings, would
“maintain the gains made in women’s
Doubtless, there can be little sympathy rights”, even as one in three female
for Al Qaeda affiliates — only, so many soldiers were raped by their male
weren’t. Saifullah Paracha has been colleagues in the US military. On and on
imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for 17 it went — a rain dance for more and
years. He has never been charged with a more foreign intervention, until the
crime.. entire project failed and fell over..
Read: Family awaits return of oldest The fourth lesson concerns the other end
Guantanamo prisoner to Pakistan. of the spectrum: right-wing
apologias. Whatever the sins of empire,
Nor, for that matter, have our countless
existential threats to this country were
missing persons, a practice perfected by
externalised. We were treated to all
the Musharraf regime, and one that
kinds of voices claiming this wasn’t our
endures today. That’s the second lesson:
war. Our current prime minister offered
of the million and one paths this country
the militants office space; our current
took to contain terror — anti-terrorism
leader of the opposition kindly requested
courts, military courts, model courts –
the bad men to leave Punjab alone..
missing persons can never be one of
them. It can only ever be a crisis of But the TTP was gifted Swat with
conscience.. ribbons and bows. Their response to
peace was floggings and beheadings,
The third lesson is to be wary of
and then reaching for Buner..
empire’s local dupes. A tiny elite,
overrepresented in our policy and press, In the end, ‘our war versus their war’
brought out the Beltway bongos. We proved a false premise: whether it was
were told a CIA thug like Raymond ours or someone else’s, the war was here
Davis was a career diplomat. We were now, and it had no intention of
told drones were the last line of defence, leaving. It’s also why Aitzaz Hasan and
even as Petraeus’s aide admitted to Bilal Omer and Tahira Qazi and Safwat
Congress that they killed 50 Pakistani Ghayur lost their lives trying to save our
civilians per senior militant.. own..
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Breathing somewhat easier now, this

country must never find itself in that
inferno again. The Fata-KP merger was
a step forward, yet even this awaits full
implementation. The drop in terror
attacks is huge, but the factors that
enabled Fazlullah’s brutal rise — a
broken justice system, weak service
delivery, and economic impoverishment
— remain. The time to fix them is now..
Twenty years later, Pakistan must have

clarity: that when it comes to militancy,
military rule, and the imperial agenda
today, there is little to be gained, and so
much more to be lost..
The writer is a barrister..
Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021.
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comes to individual liberty. In Ohio, the

contingent on building trust, educating Payment to IPPs - Newspaper -

Though the Sindh government’s early

The capacity of the ECP’s PF wing, no prohibited funding was received by

charges. Some said he did this for a Unfulfilled mandate - Newspaper -

That was not to be. But his faith is

$6.58bn) or projects related to famine manage to prevent the UN from dying

Breathing somewhat easier now, this

Twenty years later, Pakistan must have

The writer is a barrister..

Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021.

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