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Sirajuddin Aziz

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Gaza — a living cemetery

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,...

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Business Recorder

Sirajuddin Aziz

Managing People

Managing People
05.08.2025 20

The Nation

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Conflict of interest

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

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Conflict of interest

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

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Leadership Indiscretions

Leadership Indiscretions
28.07.2025 4

The Nation

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India in disarray

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

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Faux Pas in Comms

Faux Pas in Comms
21.07.2025 10

The Nation

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BBZ — coming of age

18.07.2025 20

Pakistan Observer

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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

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Upscaling Human Capital

14.07.2025 30

The Nation

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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

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Leadership & Positional Power

08.07.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Never Sent, Never Signed

30.06.2025 50

The Nation

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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

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Human Resource Governance

23.06.2025 30

The Nation

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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

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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

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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

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Company & Imitation

01.06.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Habits and Identity

26.05.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Digital Economy

19.05.2025 50

The Nation

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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

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Ivory Towers

12.05.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Humility’s Power

05.05.2025 30

The Nation

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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

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Dealing with Power

28.04.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Self-Improvement

21.04.2025 40

The Nation

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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

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Tete-a-Tete at Office

14.04.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Leading by Influence

07.04.2025 10

The Nation

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A Lost Nobility

31.03.2025 20

The Nation

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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

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Family Business Governance

24.03.2025 20

The Nation

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Light of hope

Regardless of how violently the wick of hope flickers due to changing dynamics and the burden of past misdeeds, it will be a heresy of sorts to lose...

20.03.2025 10

Business Recorder

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An Organization’s Soul

17.03.2025 20

The Nation

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Politics and economy

Perhaps a better caption could have been politicians and economics but a fair sense of judgement prevailed. The subject is one of an incredible...

13.03.2025 50

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Listening is Stimulating

10.03.2025 20

The Nation

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The economics of war

Is war an instrument for restoration of peace or is it a necessity to keep the wheels of the economy moving and rolling? Human history is replete with...

06.03.2025 60

Business Recorder

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Leadership Under Siege

03.03.2025 30

The Nation

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Career Management

24.02.2025 20

The Nation

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Niceties & Society

17.02.2025 30

The Nation

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Change & Transformation

10.02.2025 50

The Nation

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Corporate Manners

03.02.2025 10

The Nation

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