Accountability

Repeated election delays and weakened local governance have enabled political, commercial, and bureaucratic elites to set Islamabad priorities, sidelining residents’ needs.

Tax exemptions and cartels cost 4.6% GDP yearly, benefiting only the connected.

Engineering lapses, idle aircraft, and weak oversight drain national carrier’s finances

A two-kilometre crossing chokes a twenty-four-kilometre river, wiping out crops and displacing whole communities in Layyah.

Over 2,500 acres recovered from citizens; no retrieval from 3,999 acres occupied by government and defense departments in five years.

Amid a leadership crisis and lack of clarity on timeline and spending, the $4.07 million World Bank-funded reform struggles to take off Islamabad — A dense fog of secrecy surrounds the World Bank’s $4.07 million Institutional Assessment & Reforms Consultancy (IARC), a project launched in December 2024 to revamp Pakistan’s …

Commission given August 20 deadline to probe tunnel collapse, $74 million in kickbacks, and Rs167 billion burden on power consumers amid investor pullout Islamabad, July 11, 2025 — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rolled out a high-level judicial commission, led by retired Justice Tariq Abbasi, to dig into the delays, …

Court strikes blow to unaccountable rule, calls for refund of illegally collected taxes ISLAMABAD, June 28 — In a significant ruling set to reshape municipal governance in the federal capital, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed the federal government to dissolve the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and transfer its …