Sifarish is a big scourge in Pakistan. The most impossible of purposes can be achieved through sifarish. In the English language, there is no similar word for sifarish as this menace does not exist in ...

IT may not be obvious but the common ground that brought protest marchers to Islamabad was a sense of exclusion from the affairs of the state. The anti-incumbency sentiment is strong because the ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Rashid Langrial has thrown an open challenge to identify “even a single case” of posting or transfer made under political or external influence since ...

A post has been going viral on social media of an MBBS graduate who has revealed that he hasn't gotten any job in a hospital despite being honoured with 29 gold medals for topping in various subjects.

WHY does Pakistan suffer from a culture of sifarish ? There might be group-based sociological or cultural explanations of why and how we have ended up with a societal fabric based on personal ...

Lucknow: During the LS poll campaign, Rahul Gandhi had promised that if INDIA bloc form govt then it would transfer Rs 1 lakh annually ‘khata khat’ (immediately) into the accounts of poor women.The CM ...

ISLAMABAD: This refers to General (retd) Ziauddin Butt’s article “Sifarish and Musharraf” (June 29). The general has taken a simplistic view of the phenomenon called sifarish and has spoken rather ...