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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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Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
In collaboration with "Hafte Ki Seedhi Baat," "Soch Bichar" addresses the constitutional issue again today.
Elections are upon us, just 3 days away.
It is time to reflect again on
- Why we are not been able to achieve democracy?
- Why our democratic government overstep their bounds all the time?
- Why we have dynastic parliament?
- Why our democrats erode our institutions?
Adnan Rasool a PHD candidate in Georgia has launched a podcast “Hafte Ki seedhi Baat” but more importantly is researching on constitutional issues.
We had a fascinating discussion on why it is the poor constitutional design that is leading to a poor-quality democracy. Several themes for reform were discussed.
We hope that there will be a wide-ranging discussion on these issues and a policy community on constitutional reform developed. That is the only way forward. People must push for reform by discussing such ideas and pushing for change. Don’t leave it to politicians who are benefitting from the system to change the system.
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Lovely discussion but why's Souch Bichar always silent on perks of senior officers of armed forces and the institution's commercial interests? Your civil service reform ideas sound promising and the huge monetary potential could be the biggest push ever to the economy but the same should apply to armed forces institutions too. We need to move on, to create a national narrative on addressing more important problems but can we leave this mess and disparity as it is?
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
beautiful episode
Tuesday Jul 24, 2018
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