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Conversations on issues of development policy in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia. Political economy subjects that are seldom featured in the media will be taken up.
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Friday May 18, 2018
Friday May 18, 2018
As I keep saying in Pakistan we have worked very hard to maintain the colonial system for our brown elite that has inherited it. Not surprisingly the main beneficiaries of this colonial system are the ones mort invested in preserving it—the civil service, the judiciary and the army.
Civil Service Reform remains a big issue and we will continue to explore it with as many people as possible. I would urge all young people to think about it, research it and write about it.
Here we take up the issue with Hasaan Khawar a young Pakistani who has been a civil servant and is now a consultant and a development practitioner.
We will have 3 conversations with him to try to keep the podcast shorter.
Here is the second.
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I wish the government listens to your podcast and have a didicated listener.You are providing excellent thinking leads.
Friday Sep 14, 2018
I have a book titled ,Diplomatic and Consular Reports'published 1915.The book is a compilation of periodical diplomatic reports from the then Persian which includes among other things matters as trevisl as how many matches imported into the are in a given period.This indicates Even diplomat were used as research tool of the state.we inherited the same British system but....
Friday Sep 14, 2018
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