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Pakistan’s largest financial institution with over Rs3.4 trillion portfolio, the state-run National Savings, has been without a regular head for more than two-and-a-half years. Photo courtesy National Savings website ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s largest financial institution with over Rs3.4 trillion portfolio, the state-run National Savings, has been without a regular head for more than two-and-a-half years and continues to operate on an ad hoc basis. Finance ministry officials told Dawn that the post had fallen vacant on September 1, 2018 when its director general Zafar Masood, who had been hired by the previous government from the private sector, was shown the door. Since then, it has been looked after by junior officers or outsiders on an acting charge basis. ....
A judiciary held hostage Lawyers shout slogans during their demonstration at D-Chowk in the federal capital. ONLINE PHOTO ISLAMABAD: Despite playing an important role in the restoration of judges in March 2009, the image of the legal community has been badly affected due to a high number strikes and incidents where large groups have displayed an alarming level of rowdy and violent behaviour. Even the justice system seems to have been taken hostage by them. In cases where one lawyer has displayed violent behaviour, several others have often banded with him. In cases where a lawyer has been arrested for said violent behaviour, hundreds of others have tried to foil arrest attempts, protested outside courts and taken to streets in strike attempts. The scenes often resemble more closely to those of thug-like street gangs rather than upstanding citizens in charge of upholding and protecting the law. ....