April 27, 2010: ‘Choked Pipes’ featured in Kamran Khan Show, a popular primetime programme aired on Geo TV. The programme is reputed for the cutting-edge investigative journalism and unearthing stoires of corruption in the country. The five-minute documentary, which can be accessed here, uses Choked Pipes as a peg...
April 24, 2010: A viewpoint titled ‘Parliamentary empirics’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at Viewpoints
Context: There is an expectation that the Parliament will perform better after introduction of the 18th Amendment. This comment reflects on the important role...
Published in The News International on April 24, 2010:
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution is being hailed on a two-fold premise: one, that it will proclaim and empower the Parliament as supreme; and two, that it will fundamentally redress the basic anomaly of Pakistan’s parliamentary system of government, which has...
April 20, 2010: The author of ‘Choked Pipes — Reforming Pakistan’s Mixed Health System’ was invited to write an editorial on the book in the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association in its April issue. The editorial is accessible at Choked...
April 11, 2010: Review of ‘Choked Pipes’ by Dr. M Javaid Khan, published in The News International. The author drew an analogy with an anecdote relating to a British field commander’s strategy in the 1800s to drive home a point emphasized in the book ‘stagnation leads to ruin’—therefore the rationale...
April 10, 2010: Sania Nishtar attends the WHO Consultation on the Review of International Experience in NCD Prevention and Control as an expert and speaker in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 8-10, 2010
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April 10, 2010: The National Database Registration Authority has agreed to provide data verification services to Heartfile for ascertaing poverty status of patients applying for financing through Heartfile Health Financing. NADRA has developed a poverty verification system, which uses unique features of the national identity card to ascertain the status...
April 09, 2010: A viewpoint titled ‘Sanitizing the Constitution’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at Viewpoints
The comment has been written in the context of the recent 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which can create the right...
Published in The News International on April 09, 2010:
The 18th Amendment Bill is being widely hailed for repealing some of the distortions introduced in the Constitution in previous years under military rule and for returning the parliamentary form of democracy closer to its truer shade in Pakistan. A multi-partisan consultative...
April 03, 2010: A viewpoint titled ‘On national security policy’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at Viewpoints
Context: National security is a holistic concept that also includes health security—something which the public health system has limited capacity to cope...
Published in The News International on April 03, 2010:
Pakistan’s prevailing situation should lend impetus to strategic thinking about a holistic vision for a National Security Policy. The imperative to do so is two-fold: one, the contemporary understanding of security within the context of a nation state has broadened from one...
