Dr Farid A Malik

The government may have to induct outsidersIn 1981, Mian Nawaz Sharif was inducted as Finance Minister in the Punjab Government. According to the then Governor, Lt Gen Ghulam Jilani Khan, he h

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Our history shows bad appointments cause trouble Zulfikar Ali Bhutto himself confessed that selection of the worst possible candidate for the coveted position of Chief of Army Staff w

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The story of the coal gasification power plant On August 14, 2018, I stood at the base of Pakistan’s first open-pit coal mine to touch the black gold hidden under the sand at Thar. It was a pro

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Safeguarding the garden Why was I grown and nourished? Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif, the three-time prime minister, should be asking this question. Pakistan Today on November 8, 2017 printed a cartoon with this query.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/11/24/mujhe-kyun-ugaya/" title="Read more" >...</a>

A weak election commission can never execute free and fair electionsThose who cast ballots change nothingThose who count them change everything The ‘Bolshevik or Soviet Revolution

…let’s find out. On our democratic journey free and fair elections remains the biggest challenge. In seventy years only one credible electoral exercise and that too under a khaki dict

“Mein aya nahin, laya gaya hun” In the sixties the words of a famous song were: ‘Main Peta Nahin Hun, Pelai Gai Hae’ (I don’t drink, I have been made to drink). The political chaos th

That’s the least of our problems with coming by-elections  With their long stints in power they exercise complete control over the administrative machinery of Punjab with Police bein

Pakistani leadership in a nutshell “I want to be the King of England but not without the women I love,” these are the parting words of Edward-VIII before he abdicated. He reminded Mon

We need hospitals, not graveyardsSomeone has convinced the 'Khadim-e-Aala' that the city of Lahore has a serious crisis of burying their dead. These days he is seen inaugurating graveyards with gr

We cannot swim against the tide  In 1952 Pakistan discovered the world’s largest gas deposit of 12 TCF (Trillion Cubic Feet) at Sui in Dera Bugti Area of Balochistan. Pak

With the military in the barracks, civilian leadership needs to pull up its socks   October 27, 1958 is etched in my memory when as a five year old I stood on<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/08/the-elections-are-coming-time-to-clean-out-the-stables/" title="Read more" >...</a>