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Pakistan: Stoking the Fire in Karachi
Pakistan: Stoking the Fire in Karachi Asia Report N°284 | 15 February 2017 Headquarters International Crisis Group Avenue Louise 149 • 1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 502 90 38 • Fax: +32 2 502 50 38 [email protected] Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... i Recommendations..................................................................................................................... iii I. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1 II. Drivers of Conflict in Karachi ........................................................................................... 2 A. Demographics ............................................................................................................ 2 B. Who Governs Karachi? .............................................................................................. 4 C. The Challenges of Population Density and Urban Growth ....................................... 6 III. Ethno-political Conflict, Criminality and Jihadist Expansion ........................................ 8 IV. The State’s Response: The Rangers’ Operations .............................................................. 11 A. The Premise ............................................................................................................... 11 B. Absence of Due Process ............................................................................................ -
Colin Cookman1 June 4, 2018
PREVIEWING PAKISTAN’S 2018 ELECTIONS Colin Cookman1 June 4, 2018 PREVIEWING PAKISTAN’S 2018 ELECTIONS SUMMARY • Pakistani voters are set to go the polls later this summer to take part in the eleventh nationwide general elections in the country’s history. The elections will only be the second transition from a full-term civilian-elected government to a successor in the country’s history. Uncertainty over the outcome remains high; to date, no national government has been elected to a second consecutive term. • After starting its tenure in 2013 with a ruling majority, the outgoing government led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) left office with its eponymous chief, Nawaz Sharif, embroiled in multiple legal battles and disqualified by the courts from holding elected or party office. His brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, must now lead the party into elections while countering defections, managing succession strains, and balancing intra-party disputes over how forcefully to confront the judiciary and military establishment in response to Nawaz’s disqualification. • While the PML-N’s tenure saw comparatively higher levels of macroeconomic growth, conditions in its final years in office — including decelerating remittances, rising international oil prices, weakening exports and diminishing currency reserves, among other factors — may undercut the party’s efforts to portray itself as an effective steward of Pakistan’s economic development during the upcoming campaign period. • The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by former cricket star Imran Khan, has sought to bounce back from 2013 electoral losses through persistent challenges to the PML-N government, including mass street protests, legal petitions, and allegations of corruption. -
Parliamentarians Tax Directory
PARLIAMENTARIANS TAX DIRECTORY FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2014 (Published on 10 April 2015) 1 FOREWORD In continuation of last year’s initiative to publish a Tax Directory of members of Parliament and in exercise of powers conferred under sub-section (5) of section of 216 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, I am pleased to present the Tax Directory of honorable parliamentarians for the tax year 2014, prepared by the Federal Board of Revenue. This precedent has set high standards of transparency. The Tax Directory provides tax details of all members of Senate of Pakistan and the National Assembly of Pakistan and the Provincial Assemblies. Chairman, Members, Chief Commissioners and Officers of FBR extended their maximum assistance to the honorable parliamentarians in filing of Income Tax Returns for the tax year 2014. To date out of total 1169 parliamentarians,1040 have filed their Income Tax Returns for the tax year 2014 and for the remaining parliamentarians, due process is being undertaken. (Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar) Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization 2 This Directory has been tabulated from Returns filed manually and electronically (till 10 April 2015). Manually filed Returns have been entered into the system. Note: Certain Parliamentarian, whose names are marked by *, have share income as Members of Associations of Persons. Since, Association of Persons pay tax as a separate entity, such share is not taxable in the hands of the Members. Hence, tax paid on such share is not reflected in their personal -
Kmc Local Body
NEWSCLIPPINGS JULY TO DECEMBER 2020 KMC LOCAL BODY Urban Resource Centre A-2, 2nd floor, Westland Trade Centre, Block 7&8, C-5, Shaheed-e-Millat Road, Karachi. Tel: 021-4559317, Fax: 021-4387692, Email: [email protected], Website: www.urckarachi.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/URCKHI Twitter: https://twitter.com/urckhi Urban Resource Center (URC) [KARACHI METROPOLITIAN CORPORATION] East, Korangi and West DMCs approve budgets The East, West and Korangi district municipal corporations (DMCs) presented the budgets for the fiscal year 2020-21 on Wednesday. Korangi Korangi DMC chairperson Syed Nayyar Raza and Korangi DMC vice-chairperson Syed Ahmer Ali presented the budget, with an outlay of Rs4.39 billion and targeting a surplus of Rs915,847, during a council meeting. In the budget, Rs8 million has been set aside for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic while a grant of Rs1 million has been reserved for the Karachi Press Club and treatment of journalists each. Despite presenting a budget with a potential surplus, Raza lamented that Korangi had been left "paralysed" over the past four years, explaining that during the stated period, the district did not receive its due share of the octroi and zila tax by the Sindh government. "There has been a shortfall of Rs1.89 billion that has not just had an impact on development initiatives but also other matters, including the payment of employees' salaries," he said. "Moreover, while sectors like education, health and advertisement were taken away from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and devolved to DMCs, no funds were provided for the payment of salaries of the sectors' employees." He further questioned, "How can an institution carry out development work when over 50 per cent of the funds provided to it a re spent on salaries?" Later, a resolution condemning overbilling and long hours of unannounced load-shedding by K-Electric was also passed during the meeting. -
US Politics of Betrayal: the Urdu Press on Pakistan-US Relations Since the 1971 War
US Politics of Betrayal: The Urdu Press on Pakistan-US Relations Since the 1971 War by Shakil Akhtar A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire February 2016 STUDENT DECLARATION Concurrent registration for two or more academic awards Either *I declare that while registered as a candidate for the research degree, I have not been a registered candidate or enrolled student for another award of the University or other academic or professional institution or *I declare that while registered for the research degree, I was with the University’s specific permission, a *registered candidate/*enrolled student for the following award: __________________________________________________________________ Material submitted for another award Either *I declare that no material contained in the thesis has been used in any other submission for an academic award and is solely my own work or *I declare that the following material contained in the thesis formed part of a submission for the award of _________________________________________________________________ (state award and awarding body and list the material below): * delete as appropriate Collaboration Where a candidate’s research programme is part of a collaborative project, the thesis must indicate in addition clearly the candidate’s individual contribution and the extent of the collaboration. Please state below: Signature of Candidate Type of Award PhD School Humanities and Social Sciences II ABSTRACT This research examines the history and structure of the Urdu press discourse on Pakistan-US relations since the 1971 War in order to understand its perceptions of US betrayal. Two of the most popular Urdu newspapers in Pakistan have been studied with reference to three alleged cases of US betrayal.