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Righteous Leadership

Righteous Leadership
monday 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

A city that was…a city that can be—II

A city that was…a city that can be—II

In the aftermath of the 1971 war and from the results of 1970 elections, a fresh wave of displaced persons from East Pakistan, settled in Karachi,...

monday 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

A city that was…a city that can be—I

A city that was…a city that can be—I

The current and continuing collapse of economic and social fabric/ structure of the largest city of the country is a matter of grave severity. Any...

11.09.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Learning from NICs

Learning from NICs

NICs is the abbreviated form to describe the Newly-Industrialised Countries. These countries are predominantly located on the Asia Pacific rim....

04.09.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Harnessing Youthful Talent

Harnessing Youthful Talent
02.09.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Modi in distress

Modi in distress

Narendra Modi came to power when BJP swept the elections in 2014. Modi earlier had become famous for having orchestrated the genocidal killings of...

28.08.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Power of Positivity

25.08.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Pakistan: retrospect and prospect—II

Gen Ziaul Haq promised elections within 90 days; they actually exceeded 1000 days. He put Bhutto to the gallows on trumped charges of conspiracy to...

21.08.2025 40

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Shared Wisdom

18.08.2025 10

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Pakistan: retrospect and prospect—I

Against all odds of what appeared as insurmountable obstacles, Mohammed Ali Jinnah carved a Nation for the Muslims of the subcontinent. He is possibly...

14.08.2025 60

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Succession and Rotation Policy

11.08.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Gaza — a living cemetery

Perhaps, Hamas, Israel, and the rest of the world did not in their wildest imagination perceive that the blitzkrieg launched by Hamas on October 7th,...

07.08.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Managing People

05.08.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Conflict of interest

To preside over an opinion or judgement on an issue that is likely to have either beneficial positive or negative impact upon one’s interest is a...

01.08.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Conflict of interest

To preside over an opinion or judgement on an issue that is likely to have either beneficial positive or negative impact upon one’s interest is a...

31.07.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership Indiscretions

28.07.2025 5

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

India in disarray

India was never in its history a unified entity. Even its name India was coined after the Sindhu aka Indus River, who the Greeks referred to as...

24.07.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Faux Pas in Comms

21.07.2025 10

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

BBZ — coming of age

18.07.2025 20

Pakistan Observer

Sirajuddin Aziz

Where are we heading?

We are still almost four weeks away when on 14th August, we would, God willing, celebrate our 78th Independence Day. Yet, my mind is beset with...

17.07.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Upscaling Human Capital

14.07.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Decline and decay of moral values

“Cum finis est licitus, etiam media sunt lictia” is the Latin for “the end justifies the means”. No. It doesn’t and must not be sanctioned...

10.07.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership & Positional Power

08.07.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Arrogance of power

Dante in “Inferno” wrote, “Pride, avarice and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a babel of despair”. Arrogance is a serious disease of...

03.07.2025 30

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Never Sent, Never Signed

30.06.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Fortifying goodwill, protecting gains

Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams (a founding father and the sixth president of the USA) wrote to him at the height of the revolution, “It...

26.06.2025 30

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Human Resource Governance

23.06.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

The killing fields of Gaza

Human conscience was brutally bruised when Caine killed his brother, Abel. The conscience is maimed since then. To resurrect humaneness, Abel went...

19.06.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Freedom and Fear

16.06.2025 40

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Armed forces — an acclamation—II

Narendra Modi is seriously suffering from the effects of misadventure and is on fire. He claimed Pakistan begged for ceasefire; he is in fact refuting...

13.06.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Armed forces — an acclamation — I

Whilst at primary school, reading “The Charge of The Light Brigade” written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, I would invariably imagine with pride our...

05.06.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Company & Imitation

01.06.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

A saffron-clad sly old devil

The animal kingdom will most likely protest and take a serious offence if they were to be compared with the deceitful and conceited human species....

29.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Habits and Identity

26.05.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Grace in victory

The world has acknowledged by expression and silence that it is India who was the aggressor in the current standoff between itself and Pakistan. First...

22.05.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Digital Economy

19.05.2025 50

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Country without a soul

India, under Narendra Modi, has descended to its lowliest lows. The civilization of hundreds, nay, thousands of years, has been torn to shreds. The...

15.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Ivory Towers

12.05.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Ravan in saffron

In every piece that I wrote about our Eastern neighbour, the persons under the knife of dissection is Narendra Modi and his cohorts, its establishment...

08.05.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Humility’s Power

05.05.2025 30

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Belligerent Hindustan

Indians, generally, are peace-loving people. Most Indians from Occupied Kashmir to Kannyakumari passionately subscribe to the Gandhian philosophy of...

01.05.2025 20

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Dealing with Power

28.04.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Will to self-destruct

Perhaps, people of the subcontinent and in particular of our beloved country have the highest propensity to self-destruct. We take a certain pleasure...

24.04.2025 10

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Self-Improvement

21.04.2025 40

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Death of secular India

On the otherwise a soulful soil of the sub-continent, where peace and tranquillity prevailed, Evil was born on September 17th, 1950. This date is...

17.04.2025 60

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Tete-a-Tete at Office

14.04.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leadership — intellect or wisdom?

Intelligence matters for leadership. Its presence is seen as a guarantee for good leadership to prevail. The premise of this thought relies on the...

10.04.2025 30

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Leading by Influence

07.04.2025 10

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

A Lost Nobility

31.03.2025 20

The Nation

Sirajuddin Aziz

SEZs and economic development

During the decade of the 1980s a paradigm shift took place in the minds of economic policy makers; the movement in thought process was rooted in the...

27.03.2025 50

Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz