One of the great tragedies to befall this country was the assassination of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer by Mumtaz Qadri in Islamabad on Jan 4, 2011, bringing into sharp focus one of the important aspects of security that does not get the attention it should: fidelity. A policeman in the security detail provided to Taseer…
Macro-security being the business of the state, micro-security is the domain of individuals or organisations. With a citizen requiring the safety and security of his life and that of his family, property and business, and the state increasingly engaged in macro-security because of terrorism, private security business has become an industry in its own right….
A decade or so ago a joint venture foreign (JV) security company was using non-armoured vehicles (known as “soft” vehicles) to transport cash alongwith their armoured vans. Cash cannot be transported in quantity except in armoured vehicles, it is against the law but it costs 4-5 times more to operate an armoured vehicle over a…
Good governance in any society requires the safety and well-being of its citizens, peace and harmony cannot be maintained in isolation by the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) alone. Personal security remains the responsibility of the individual, corporate body, establishment, etc in any country of the world. While private security has given significant support to the…
Dear Readers, It is our great misfortune that over the last many years numerous challenges have continued to pound the ramparts of the State while those in power have never done enough to stop the rot – domestic terrorism, economic meltdown compounded by rising oil prices and downward spike of the Rupee, alarming food shortage…
One of the marvels of the modern world, the first printed pages appeared more than 500 years ago. Thereafter it has evolved dramatically, delivering information and entertainment on a scale that is simply amazing. Considering that in 1900, there was no radio, television or internet and the media market was dominated only by newspapers, with…
The feudal mindset is conditioned to accept defeat militarily, never in sports and/or politics. The sportsmen’s spirit rhetoric that the British endlessly spout is just that, rhetoric. Casting aspersions of the nasty kind after being “Aj-mauled” and “Rah-mmed” was certainly not cricket. Two of Pakistan’s world-best young fast bowlers were successfully framed for “spot-fixing”, subsequent…
Despite dire predictions about continuity as PM due to the unbecoming shooting off his mouth that has left even his coalition allies aghast, Yusuf Raza Gilani is gracing the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Summit 2012 at Davos, coincidentally the man who could well replace him in the future as the PM of Pakistan is…
With Gilani hell bent on becoming a sacrificial lamb for Zardari’s US $60 million, the hour of judgment has tolled for the man from Multan. A seven-member larger Supreme Court (SC) Bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk hearing the NRO implementation case. ruled that “the show cause notice being under sub-section 2 of Section 17…
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised a storm signalling that US and NATO troops in Afghanistan will transition from a combat role to a “training, assist and advice” role by late 2013, a year earlier than the mandated 2014 schedule. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney had earlier railed against US troops fighting a war of independence…
