Right to Information – Need of the Hour

Right to infor­ma­tion is indeed a very cru­cial instru­ment in empow­er­ing cit­i­zen­ry. Only if peo­ple are aware of the ways gov­ern­ment is spend­ing tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey and admin­is­ter­ing pub­lic resources, they would be able to check cor­rup­tion and mis­use of pow­er.

Two Faces of Nationalism

What has actu­al­ly hap­pened in Pak­istan is quite the oppo­site as the Pak­istani state has con­sis­tent­ly main­tained a pol­i­cy of exclu­sion. It exclud­ed var­i­ous groups on the basis of reli­gion, eth­nic­i­ty and dif­fer­ence of polit­i­cal visions. It mis­tak­en­ly tried to define its nation­al­ism sole­ly in terms of reli­gion and a per­ma­nent neigh­bor­ing ene­my.