SochBichar

SochBichar

By Nadeem HaqueScienceSocial SciencesGovernment
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SochBichar episodes

  • Research and Education Entreprenuership (URDU)
    Waqar Mahmood is an educational/research entrepreneur. “He has successfully started a Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS)” 
    Their website says “It was envisioned as an institute for advanced and high quality applied research working in collaboration with industries and other academic institutions on national and international levels to bring about the IT revolution in Pakistan and help build a knowledge driven economy. We strive to gather capable and competent researchers at one platform and provide them with favorable and motivational environment for creating innovative technologies and products.”
    It is very successful in every way because
    It has visionary leadership
    It is autonomous
    It has modern HR and management
    You must listen to this visionary leader about what he has achieved and about what he says should be done to achieve the potential of universities.  
    Hope HEC listens.
    54 min
  • Research and Eduction Entreprenuership (URDU)

    Waqar Mahmood is an educational/research entrepreneur. “He has successfully started a Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS)” 


    Their website says “It was envisioned as an institute for advanced and high quality applied research working in collaboration with industries and other academic institutions on national and international levels to bring about the IT revolution in Pakistan and help build a knowledge driven economy. We strive to gather capable and competent researchers at one platform and provide them with favorable and motivational environment for creating innovative technologies and products.”


    It is very successful in every way because


    • It has visionary leadership

  • It is autonomous

  • It has modern HR and management

    • You must listen to this visionary leader about what he has achieved and about what he says should be done to achieve the potential of universities.  


    Hope HEC listens.

    54 min
  • Urban Planning from a Planner's Viewpoint (URDU)
    Nadeem Khurshid and Mohamed Shoaib are 2 town planners actively involved in town planning. Their perspective is very important to get.
    The community of town planners is totally excluded from city management and has no career in our cities.  Is that good or bad.  Learn more by listening to this episode.  
    Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change. 
    Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here. 
    You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque
    Listen and learn and write some papers on this subject.  Don’t forget to cite Soch Bichar
    Please subscribe to Soch Bichar if you like it. Tell you friends about it. That is the only way to grow a public discussion. And we need a wider conversation on these important subjects.
    1 hr
  • Urban Planning from a Planner’s Viewpoint (URDU)

    Nadeem Khurshid and Mohamed Shoaib are 2 town planners actively involved in town planning. Their perspective is very important to get.


    The community of town planners is totally excluded from city management and has no career in our cities.  Is that good or bad.  Learn more by listening to this episode.  


    Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change. 


    Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here. 


    You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque


    Listen and learn and write some papers on this subject.  Don’t forget to cite Soch Bichar


    Please subscribe to Soch Bichar if you like it. Tell you friends about it. That is the only way to grow a public discussion. And we need a wider conversation on these important subjects.

    1 hr
  • law and Justice Reform Again (ENGLISH)
    Today my guest is Irfan Qadir, who was the Attorney General of Pakistan till 2013. An accomplished and well-known lawyer, who has been a leading proponent of judicial restraint and reform. 
    We have been running with the colonial system for 70 years and it is overstretched and at the limits of its capacity. Irfan tells us of the many inconsistencies in our judiciary that seems to be concerned more with its own pomp and glory and less with justice and learning. 
    The outmoded legal and judicial system may be one of the most important reasons why we are low on the Ease of Doing Business and Competitiveness Indices. We must debate and discuss this issue far more than we do.
    If any of you have thoughts on legal and judicial reform please come to Soch Bichar where all thinking people meet.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Configuring the Energy system (ENGLISH)
    Energy system is plagued with leakages while the government continues to build more and bigger power plants. Even though the price of oil has gone down by about $100 from its peak in 2007-8, the circular debt continues to plague us while load-shedding remains intact.
    Last episode I talked about how the power system needs to be reconfigured. 
    Here I go into detail because I thought some things need explaining.
    We have a haemorrhaging patient and we are relying on more and more blood transfusions and not fixing the haemorrhage.
    My contention here is we need to operate on the system and fix.
    Listen to it and see if you agree. And remember without discussion ideas die.
    REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE TO SOCH BICHAR.
    24 min
  • Another take on Civil Service Reform 2 (ENGLISH)
    As I keep saying in Pakistan we have worked very hard to maintain the colonial system for our brown elite that has inherited it. Not surprisingly the main beneficiaries of this colonial system are the ones mort invested in preserving it—the civil service, the judiciary and the army.
    Civil Service Reform remains a big issue and we will continue to explore it with as many people as possible.  I would urge all young people to think about it, research it and write about it. 
    Here we take up the issue with Hasaan Khawar a young Pakistani who has been a civil servant and is now a consultant and a development practitioner. 
    We will have 3 conversations with him to try to keep the podcast shorter.
    Here is the second.
    25 min
  • Youth in focus: The new UNDP HDR. (URDU)
    The much-awaited UNDP Human Development Report focused on youth has been successfully launched and welcomed in Pakistan.  Led by Adil Najam and Faisal Bari, it is probably one of the largest research projects in Pakistan’s history. A large team (40 members) worked on it for 4 years to produce a detailed report listening to the youth on Pakistan. 
     
    Those of you who have followed this podcast will have heard of the youth bulge and its impact on many factors in the economy. Here listen to Adil’s report on the Youth bulge in Pakistan. Adil Najam (who appears for the third time on Soch Bichar) very eloquently gives you the gist of this very important work. 
    Listen to it and develop further research on this important area 
     
    Related material if interested is
    Access report here http://nhdr.undp.org.pk
    PIDE demographic dividend http://pide.org.pk/pdf/Working%20Paper/Demographic%20Dividend%20Final.pdf
    http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Working%20Paper/WorkingPaper-68.pdf
    Framework of Economic Growth was a youth focused policy https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Planning-Commission-2011-Final-Report.pdf
    Looking back explains youth focused policy and its underpinning’s in detail http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0
    Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change. 
    Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here. 
    You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque
    Listen and learn and write some papers on this subject.  Don’t forget to cite Soch Bichar
    Please subscribe to Soch Bichar if you like it. Tell you friends about it. That is the only way to grow a public discussion. And we need a wider conversation on these important subjects.
    1 hr 25 min
  • How the Raj Matters? (english)
    lhan Niaz a young historian (Associate Professor at QAU and Author of 4 books) has just completed a well-researched manuscript on the state in the days of the Raj.  He asks several pertinent questions.
    Was the Raj only an extension of the British government?
    Did it adapt to local history and conditions?
    How did it influence subsequent history?
    I found this to be fascinating conversation.
    Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change. 
    Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here. 
    You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque
    Listen and learn and write some papers on this subject.  Don’t forget to cite Soch Bichar
    Please subscribe to Soch Bichar if you like it. Tell you friends about it. That is the only way to grow a public discussion. And we need a wider conversation on these important subjects.
    1 hr 15 min
  • Social Science research in Pakistan (ENGLISH)
    Speaking to Ilhan Niaz a young historian (Associate Professor at QAU and Author of 4 books) on the research culture in Pakistan, how broken it is and how it can be fixed.
    Listen to this and let us reinvigorate research and debate into change. 
    Listen to this fascinating discussion. There is much to learn and research here. 
    You can also look at my book “Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger in 2050” now available in hard copy in Pakistan here http://www.libertybooks.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Nadeem%20ul%20haque&category_id=0Soft copy here. https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Back-Pakistan-Became-Asian-ebook/dp/B06X94135J/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488133596&sr=1-1&keywords=nadeem+haque
    Listen and learn and write some papers on this subject.  Don’t forget to cite Soch Bichar
    Please subscribe to Soch Bichar if you like it. Tell you friends about it. That is the only way to grow a public discussion. And we need a wider conversation on these important subjects.
    31 min

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Conversations on issues of development policy in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia. Political economy subjects that are seldom featured in the media will be taken up.