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Editorial
Project implementation story
Falling skeletons from the cupboard
The Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Ministry of Planning in a report on the so-called completed ADB projects for 2004-05 fiscal has highlighted the time and cost overruns of projects that opened floodgates of corruption and plunder of scarce resources.
 
Editorial
A public interest issue
Re-fixing of autorickshaw fare, deposit goes awry
The problems that commuters were facing due to CNG autorickshaw drivers' charging exorbitant fares, and often refusing to take short distance passengers, appear to have been compounded by the steps taken recently to address them.

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Strategically Speaking
Where is the counter-terror strategy?
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
The religious militants continue to strike. It would be incorrect to suggest that they have struck anew. The May 1 blasts are a part of their continuing terror acts that commenced with the Udichi bombings of 1999 through the Aug 17, 2005 country-wide blasts, killing of the judges in Jhalakhati and the PP of that case, in which 6 JMB top brass were hanged.
 
Plain Words
The people have spoken
MB Naqvi writes from Karachi
The welcome and love that Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the non-functional chief justice of Pakistan, received from the legal fraternity and the common people of Punjab extended a road journey from Rawalpindi to Lahore, that normally takes four to five hours, to 23 hours.
 

 
   
 
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