Dr Farid A Malik

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Applying management methods to politicsIn Quality Management, a Pareto Analysis is carried out to prioritize corrective action. The purpose is to separate the vital few from the trivial many f

The clock has started tickingAfter a long time Prime Minister Imran Khan has finally reached out to Bangladesh which was once a part of Pakistan. India now stands totally isolated in the regio

The civil service must be reformedBureaucracy is defined as "the art of making the possible impossible ". Indeed bureaucrats are the biggest impediment to change. Most parties, including the c

How Ayub diverted the countryBy 1965 Ayub Khan had managed to declare himself Field Marshal and omnipotent ruler of the first Islamic Democracy of the world. Like most dictators and political

The ouster of Bhutto led to an era of immoral politics5 July 1977 invokes a lot of bad memories. It was the start of the Zia Dark Ages whose lasting product has been the Sharifs of Lahore toge

The custodians seem to have learnt their lessonPolitics in the land of the pure has suffered due to backdoor entries. The list is long and painful, from the Chaudhrys of Gujrat to the Sharifs

India should be exposed for its misdeedsIn the recent post budget debate Khawaja Muhammad Asif, son of Khawaja Muhammad Safdar of Sialkot, stated that Pakistan had not played its role in block

Engr Masood Hasan always pushed for scientific research to develop indigenous technologiesOn June 11,2020 Engr Masood Hasan, a leading technologist of the country and the father of Chemical Engine

A history of poor installed leadershipIn 2004 around 1500 hours in my capacity as Chairman Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), I met Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali the 15th Prime Minister (PM) of P

The lessons of the pandemic must not be lostIn the 20th century the following sentence was widely used by most open-minded progressive writers, "Hunger and famine outside will not allow feasti

Attitudes of public servants have changedWhere white-collar crime is involved, the much revered common law seems helpless. The onus of proof is on the accuser while the accused has several rem

Luckily the government is electedWhen the chips are down, state intervention becomes imminent. In the current Coronavirus pandemic all eyes are focussed on the Prime Minister. There are seriou