The performances of both, government and donor agencies, in terms of disaster management, leave much to be desired.

The Baldia Town inferno has brought into focus a lingering obliviousness to occupational safety, labour right issues.

Growing official mistrust of NGOs will certainly not make relief and other forms of development work easier.

We need a zero tolerance approach towards children under the age of 14 being subjected to work.

The governance and institutional components of the PTI’s Vision immediately bring some questions to mind.

With elections just months away, clearly a lot still needs to be done.

Approximately a fourth of the Pakistani population still defacates in the open.

While natural disasters cannot be averted, they can certainly be better managed.

Need to export wheat to avail higher prices, rising oil costs could again lead to shortages, price hikes in Pakistan.

The existing Indo-Pak water sharing paradigm may no longer be able to address the emergent tensions.