October 31, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘Merging ministries’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at
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Context: The IMF has stipulated that in order to curtail the fiscal deficit, establishment costs should be reduced and therefore 13 existing ministries should...
Published in The News International on October 31, 2009:
Aid conditionality appears to be a subject of recent controversy—not all conditionalities are controversial though. Some—as pointed out by the writer in these columns on October 22—particularly those related to governance reform may be useful for a country, if the structural changes...
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October 30, 2009: Sania Nishtar participates as a panelist through video link in the 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion, held in Nairobi, Kenya, from October 26-30, 2009. Panelist at the plenary session entitled ‘Convergent strategies, divergent histories, emergent opportunities: health promotion, the social determinants of health and primary health...
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October 22, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘Aid empirics’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International on October 22, 2009. Full text is accessible at
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The comment presents a debate about the value of aid to Pakistan in the context of the discussions regarding the Kerry Lugar...
Published in The News International on October 22, 2009:
The recent discussions regarding the Kerry Lugar Bill and the debate about the value of aid in general on its sidelines, brings to the fore the understanding that both sides—donors as well as Pakistan—have very high expectations of aid in terms of...
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October 21, 2009: Sania Nishtar attends planning meeting of the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, as a member of Scientific Advisory Committee in Puyuhuapy, Chile, from October 19–21, 2009.
Meeting in Chile; October 19–21,...
October 14, 2009: Sania Nishtar attends meeting of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research as a member of the Board in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 13-14,...
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October 12, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘Freedom of information—oxygen of democracy’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at
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The comment is a review of Pakistan’s legislative framework regarding freedom of information. It underscores the importance of updating Pakistan’s existing...
Published in The News International on October 12, 2009:
A number of civil society organisations have drawn attention to the need for strengthening Pakistan’s existing Freedom of Information (FOI) legislative framework on September 28 —the Right to Know Day. FOI is not to be confused with media freedom. FOI is an...
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