Asif Mehmood

Asif Mehmood

The writer is an urban policy analyst.

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Sketches of a new LG systemColumns

Sketches of a new LG system

Local councils show a vast pattern of dissimilarities around the world The prime minister constituted a committee a few days ago to present a new framework of local governance within a week that will subsequently<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/14/sketches-of-a-new-lg-system/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 14, 2018
A Province for SaraikisColumns

A Province for Saraikis

Identity, Governance and Decentralization Demand for a separate Saraiki province is back on the political chessboard of the country, the way it came to surface and vanished a few years ago if<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/27/a-province-for-saraikis/" title="Read more" >...</a>

May 27, 2018
Our Cities in the Decade of DemocracyColumns

Our Cities in the Decade of Democracy

The biggest losersAs we move on to the end of the second democratic term in the country and prepare ourselves to decide which party to lend our support to in the upcoming elections, we should tak

Mar 11, 2018
Urban governance of Sindh under ‘judicial review’Columns

Urban governance of Sindh under ‘judicial review’

Can democratic accountability of elected governments be left to five-yearly electioneering? Sindh is the most urbanised province of the most urbanised nation in south Asia. Even as per conservative estimates based on<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/01/31/urban-governance-of-sindh-under-judicial-review/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jan 31, 2018
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It never rains but it pours

Karachi and urban flooding …quite contrary to our cultural triggers of action- shame and honour -we are not moving an inch on issues of Karachi The city attends to every op

Sep 9, 2017