Sochbichar

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers: Mosharraf Zaidi (Senior Fellow-Tabadlab) Osama Siddique (Associate Fellow at IDEAS and the Executive Director of Law & Policy Research Network (LPRN)) Amber Darr (Barrister, Advocate Supreme Court, Senior Research Fellow-UCL, Lecturer Coventry Law School) Usman Raza Jolaha, Founder/President, Volunteer Force Pakistan   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have led to APCs that have mainly tried to strengthen political cartels. Reform for changing the way we do business of politics and policy is conveniently never in the agenda. We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possibly lead the possible GND with ideas. PIDE questions to our intellectuals will be: 1. Is democracy working as it should? 2. Can the system be improved through reform? What would you suggest! 3. Can the clash of institutions be avoided through reform? 4.Parliament virtually becom