Rabia Ahmed

Rabia Ahmed

The writer is a freelance columnist. Read more by her at http://rabia-ahmed.blogspot.com/

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Jarndyce and Jarndyce vs Decoy DetonatorColumns

Jarndyce and Jarndyce vs Decoy Detonator

Time to do the right thing With just a couple of months to go till retirement, the CJP has thrown himself into his mohim to fix the country and bring it onto<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/15/jarndyce-and-jarndyce-vs-decoy-detonator/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 15, 2018
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…Columns

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…

Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation shows how far the #metoo movement still has to go Despite protests by thousands against his appointment, Mr. Brett Kavanaugh appears set to be confirmed to the American Supreme<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/06/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 6, 2018
Of rickety little structuresColumns

Of rickety little structures

Pakistan is one of the lowest spenders on health\ DHA in Lahore is going through a massive restructuring, with underpasses and overpasses and bypasses, you name it. If these are considered crucial<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/01/of-rickety-little-structures/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 1, 2018
When history is suppressedColumns

When history is suppressed

Ignorance of the past allows the suppression of the present About fifty years ago, a site was prepared for the Aswan dam on the Nile in Egypt, by the government of Gamal<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/24/when-history-is-suppressed/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 24, 2018
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Alternative solutions

Spending on restricting population growth is worthwhile Polluted waterways are a major environmental issue, and the looming spectre of extreme water shortage only adds to it. The efficacy of dams as a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/19/alternative-solutions/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 19, 2018
Is Pakistan for allColumns

Is Pakistan for all

This is not cricket The Sindh governor’s house opened its door to the public for the first time recently. Cute. All that equality and openness. Now how about Pakistan opening its doors<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/13/is-pakistan-for-all/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 13, 2018
Not a mugwumpColumns

Not a mugwump

There’s enough confusion as it isA person who works in a large organisation in a well-organised country has to ensure he does not step on interdepartmental toes. He cannot for example change

Sep 5, 2018
While you and I were casting our voteColumns

While you and I were casting our vote

Still, one must hopeTo depend on being in the majority to obtain one’s rights is to depend on shifting sand. Everyone is in the minority at some time, in some place or another.We all tra

Aug 29, 2018
Being taken for a rideColumns

Being taken for a ride

They are being dishonest and they think their electorate is foolishPunjab has a new chief minister, Mr Usman Buzdar of the PTI.Although this is Mr Buzdar’s first Provincial Assembly seat

Aug 22, 2018
Information and free societiesColumns

Information and free societies

And people’s freedoms Society throws all sorts of information at its people. There should be no attempt to control most of this because it constitutes the variety of information available in a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/14/information-and-free-societies/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 14, 2018
In days to comeColumns

In days to come

Why is so much intra-institutional interference possible in Pakistan? It turns out to be Nawaz Sharif’s greatest achievement, that instead of achieving the greatness of his choice he has achieved the great<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/in-days-to-come/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 7, 2018
Every vote countsColumns

Every vote counts

ECP can, if it tries, succeed in improving voting practice “For the purpose of each national general election to the State Parliament (National Assembly), and to a Provincial Legislature, an Election Commission<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/30/every-vote-counts/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jul 30, 2018