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Shahid Kardar

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Bankers’ bonanza or policy blunder?

Why do we want to give banks Rs87bn in the current budget for no real effort?

27.06.2025 50

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Shahid Kardar

Reforming the civil service

BUREAUCRATIC reforms have become essential, as a critical constraint today on the effective functioning of government is the budgetary and business...

31.10.2024 9

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Shahid Kardar

Restructuring government

WE continue to operate old systems of governance, with the government performing functions beyond what should be its staple role. The trend has...

11.10.2024 3

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Shahid Kardar

A fraying federation

THE federation is now at stake. The bonds of national integration for a functioning federation are under severe stress. There is anger at the...

01.10.2024 2

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Shahid Kardar

Resolving power sector woes

THE task of the country’s population has been reduced to keeping power sector entities afloat, by bearing unaffordable tariffs. And yet the...

23.09.2024 3

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Challenges to social cohesion

CONFRONTING a polycrisis mostly of its own making, the state’s governing capacity has gravely weakened and is wobbling between distress and...

10.08.2024 2

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Shahid Kardar