Tag: Ali Hassan Bangwar

While preparing for the Civil Service exams a few years ago, I often heard a fellow aspirant praising the now-retired Justice Qazi Faez Isa as one of Pakistan’s finest constitutionalists. … Read More

Though power might be seen as an offensive protector of itself and its wielders’ interests, the brute force underlying it rarely sustain its original ability to influence without continuous resuscitation. … Read More

Professional, responsive and selfless media and civil society, built on informed public trust, form a unified front against the oppression of the state apparatus and the powerful elite. In settings … Read More

Transparent societies are the cause and manifestation of their openness to dissent and receptiveness to criticism. This openness opens up for them vast vistas of socio-political, economic, scientific, technological and … Read More

While evaluating an English essay of a Civil Service aspirant, I came across an outline that identified “lack of resources” as one of the primary causes of poverty in Pakistan. … Read More

The security, sovereignty and regulation of society, as well as the productivity and predictability of holistic social interactions, require the establishment of laws that are unanimously agreed upon, egalitarian and … Read More

A society that encourages inclusion, dissent, tolerance, and expression ends up becoming an abode of holistic development. However, the ones that strangulate truth, constrain individual freedom, and deny human rights … Read More

While everyone tends to seek gains and dislike losses, a question often goes unattended: do these experiences truly serve us in the deepest sense? In other words, do all gains … Read More

Public empowerment is both a crucial cause and a hallmark of progressive societies, as the fate and future of rulers in such societies are determined by that of the public. … Read More

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. —Frank Zappa Societies consist of people sharing common origins, histories, cultures, and interactions. The predictability, productivity, and regulation of human interactions … Read More