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Money laundering and the West. Express Tribune, June 03, 2015. The European Union (EU) and Switzerland signed a tax transparency agreement late last month that will put an end to Swiss banking secrecy for EU residents. The two sides will start sharing data on residents’ financial accounts from 2018. The data will include names, addresses, tax identification numbers and dates of birth, as well as a broad set of other financial and account balance information, according to the agreement. But extremely poor...

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Terrorism, governance and the police. Express Tribune, June 24, 2015. Would the Pakistani military and the paramilitary forces be performing the policing and anti-corruption function had the police and affiliated institutions been autonomous? Would the police be more professional and effective had the political elite supported the Police Order 2002. Can the police today really cope with the multiple crises that the Pakistani society is caught up in? These studies make it abundantly clear that without: a)...

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Express Tribune, May 20, 2015. The last few weeks have seen an unusual surge in Taliban operations in at least 10 Afghan provinces. The embattled provinces are all over the country north, south, west and east raising questions as to whether the Afghan government and army can repel the threat. Iraq offers a similar story, where the Islamic State (IS) appears to be on a rampage. Emma Sky, a British citizen, who volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, has similar tale...

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The law, the poor and the rich. Express Tribune, May 06, 2015. Ayaan’s case is a classic example of how collusion of legal experts on both sides of the fence can blatantly obfuscate crime and delay trials. Taking advantage of the dated criminal procedure code (CrPC), lawyers camouflage their delaying tactics with walls of objections, reservations and at times frivolous arguments. It took the Customs Intelligence and Investigation several weeks to prepare a charge sheet. This is quite bizarre in what clea...

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Friday Times, July 24, 2015. Ashraf Ghani finds himself pitched against deeply-entrenched beliefs about Pakistan in Afghanistan’s security establishment. None of the Taliban factions claimed responsibility for the latest attack but it did cause embarrassment to all those stakeholders who had left the Murree conference room on a rather positive note. They even discussed a ceasefire before and during the Eid as a possible confidence building measure. The deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Dawlat...

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Express Tribune, May 13, 2015. At the recently held third Think Tank Roundtable Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia. There was an across-the-board unanimity on the need for dealing with threats to societies, including challenges emanating from bad governance, absence of rule of law, trans-border religious radicalism, the nexus between organised crime and ideological rebel groups (al Qaeda, the IS, Taliban), water and food insecurity and mass migration due to social or economic adver...

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Friday Times, May 08, 2015. Let us dissect some of the factors that require a closer and sympathetic scrutiny by foreign commentators, most of whom would project anything relating to Pakistan as linear and black and white, disregarding the fact that geo-politics is mostly gray and is non-linear because of the competing political and commercial interests of nations. Geo-politics is mostly gray and non-linear. Ghani’s statement is inherently flawed and contradictory. Afghanistan remains entitled to tra...

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Cybercrime, security and rights. Express Tribune, April 25, 2015. Pakistani politicians, their advisers and bureaucrats are masters of creating deception. Their propensity to inflict crises and shoot themselves in the foot in self-defence also knows no limits. Their latest feat is the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, 2015. The draft bill lacks safeguards protecting the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Which is a violation of Pakistan’s obligations under international human rights laws&#46...

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The Myth of Shining India. Express Tribune, August 05, 2015. To illustrate how differently India and Pakistan carve and peddle their narratives, former ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram recently quoted an excerpt from a review by Pankaj Mishra, a noted Indian author and writer of literary and political essays. He encountered congested roads, vehicular mayhem, and filth and trash all over. Discussions are very much centred on a nationalistic ethos and self-confidence, he said. It is good t...

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Of judicial commissions and democratic evolutions. Express Tribune, July 29, 2015. A basic prerequisite for instilling fear in the minds of violators and giving confidence to those who knock at the doors of courts for justice. This check and balance works as continued introspection to provide for course correction. These systems, evolved over decades, allow criticism and are open to correction as well. These documents show that the enquiry met with serious resistance by CIA officials who were worried tha...