Great people never die, their legacy remains. On 27th December 2007 when the iron lady of South Asia, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was killed, Pakistan suffered an irreparable loss. Apart from the political front, her followers decided to take revenge from the country which voted her twice to become the first ever female head of the …
Pakistan Railway A Failed Case of Digitization and Operation Read More »
Crime, Gaps and Challenges in Pakistan Israr Ahmad is a 14-year-old daily wage worker at the Band-Road e-waste warehouse of a leading computer importer of Lahore. I saw him at the Lakshami Chowk selling toys to the happy customers that reach this famous dinner spot of Lahore in the evening. The confident boy asked me …
Faking Milk or Milk Adulteration means debasing the quality of milk by admixture, inferior substances or by removal of the valuable ingredient from the milk. It is mostly intentional addition, substitution or subtraction of substances which adversely affect nature, substances and quality of milk but also its incidental contamination during the period of source growth, …
THE DEAD “UMMAH” In European Refuge Crisis It has been widely reported that since early last year, about one million refugees have entered the European Union via the sea from Turkey to Greece. With human-rights activists on the Greek island Lesbos chanting “Stop Deportations,” “EU, Shame on You” and “Freedom for the Refugees,” as many …
People of Pakistan are well familiar with the practice and culture of record keeping and crime handling in a better way. There has been no election in Pakistan in which each political party has not included the police reforms in their manifesto including the latest in 2013. Before 2002, the whole debate on the issue …
Digitization of Police in Punjab A right way forward Part-1 Read More »
In the previous part, I explained 10 out of the 22 software that are digitizing the police in Punjab. In this episode, explanation of the other 12 is given. 11. IGP Complaint Centre (8787) Previously the complaints were received through post or a person had to travel to Lahore to submit his complaint in person …
Digitization of Police in Punjab – A right way forward Part-2 Read More »
Billions of rupees are being spent n the name of safety — but are we any safer? Stable countries become safer because of their citizens. Installations are not vulnerable when citizens value and protect them as a public property. The Lahore Safe City Project looks more like a bureaucratic quagmire in which decisions will take …
