Serious Allegations Against Bahria’s Malik Riaz & the DHA Management

According to Lt. Col. (retired) M Tariq Kamal, former director engineering DHA Islamabad, ( 0300-8542971 –  Res: 051-5152157), resident of 10-C, Tariq Lane, Tulsa Raod, Lalazar, Rawalpindi, Defence Housing Authority Islamabad (DHAI) and Bahria Town have deprived 150,000  people of their hard-earned Rs 62 billion. All the concerned authorities have decided to ignore this blatant [...]

Who is Responsible for the April 20 Bhoja Air Crash in Islamabad?

The April 20, 2012 tragic crash of a Bhoja Air’s Boeing-737 aircraft inRawalpindiraises nauseating revelations about the relaunching of the airline’s operations as a “political favour”. The inauguration of Bhoja Air on March 3, 2012 was only possible following the exertion of immense political pressure on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The Boeing-737-200 crashed on [...]

How Money Can be Recovered from the Swiss Banks?

As much as half the assets stowed in Swiss banks, estimated by experts at $2 trillion, may be undeclared money”, according to Charles de Boissezon, presently Chief Executive of Geneva-based Indian Hinduja private bank and former head of Switzerland’s Banque Piguet. Switzerland and Germany have signed a Supplementary Protocol that complements the tax agreement of [...]

Rental Power Projects’ Contracts Declared illegal

The government of PPP and its allies — facing serious and multiple allegations of corruption, inefficiency and bad governance — is continuously defending its financial crimes, tax evasion, plundering and wasting of taxpayers’ money. In its 90-page judgement, the Supreme Court has declared the contracts of all rental power projects (RPPs) illegal and violative of the principle [...]

Pakistan Needs Another Jinnah Now

The Cabinet Meeting was to be held – the ADC inquires, “Sir what will be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?” Quaid-e-Azam looked up and replied sternly…the ADC was taken aback! “Whichever of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before leaving his home or when he returns home. The Nation’s [...]

FIA Cracks Down on One Company out of Thousands

Coming out of the blue as if the remaining country is law abiding in this respect, the FIA cracked down on on a pharmaceutical company in Rawalpindi and Islamabad for using unlicensed computer software. The parties perhaps could not agree on a muk muka price. The production, sale, copy, purchase or usage of unlicensed software is [...]

Excerpts of the Indian SC Decision on 2G Scam

Excerpts from the concluding paragraphs of the Supreme Court’s verdict cancelling 122 2G licences issued during A. Raja’s term as Minister of Communications and Information Technology. 69. …There is a fundamental flaw in the principle of first-come-first-served inasmuch as it involves an element of pure chance or accident. In matters involving award of contracts or grant [...]

Laws Regarding Disclosure of Assets & Wealth

Of asset disclosures and transparency  by Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan has many laws concerning disclosures of assets and liabilities by the government servants, holders of public offices, elected members of assemblies and persons desirous of contesting elections. A government official faces inquiry under Efficiency and Disciplinary Rules, 1973, if charges mentioned in Rule [...]

Zardari: Rags to Riches

Recently I have been in the news again. I thought it appropriate that I gave a response, but my decency requires that I should not hit below the belt as most have done in the past. I am a democratically elected leader of the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Just as a reminder to my [...]

3 BJP MPs Who Exposed the Bribe End Up in Jail

One could say it is also time to judge the impact of Anna Hazare’s campaign on the Indian system, asking some relevant questions. Has the first, “successful” phase of the movement really touched the collective conscience of ‘civil society’ and affected the attitude of the ruling establishment towards corruption? Or is its influence superficial? Stripped [...]