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Drawn from the Himat-Hikmat Framework — research on bias, governance, inclusive systems, and the human cost of broken institutional structures.
Combining the courage to confront systemic failure honestly with the wisdom to design evidence-based alternatives. Applied to HR, governance, disability inclusion, and public-sector reform.
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Why hiring systems fail people before they apply — and what structural reform looks like.
In Pakistan's formal labour market, the barriers to employment begin long before an interview. Documentation requirements, informal screening criteria, and referral-dependent pipelines collectively exclude entire categories of capable workers. This article maps the structural failures and argues for process reform at the institutional level.
Read Article →The teacher shortage Pakistan isn't measuring — and why GITTC data tells a different story.
AI-assisted feedback systems reveal qualitative gaps that headcount metrics miss entirely. Field data from GITTC Lahore.
Read →The 55% silence: what Pakistan's disability employment data cannot tell us.
Official statistics suggest 55% of registered disabled persons in Punjab remain outside formal employment. This article interrogates the measurement framework.
Read →Pakistan's National AI Policy 2025 — what it means for HR systems and workforce planning.
An operational reading for HR practitioners. What commitments exist, what mechanisms are absent, and where private sector must step in.
Read →Excise and Taxation as a data infrastructure problem: the case for GIS-linked property systems in Punjab.
Property tax collection in Punjab suffers not from policy failure but from data fragmentation. Using Zone 18, Lahore as the working example.
Read →Khanna-Palepu and Williamson in practice: applying institutional economics to Pakistani HR market failures.
The academic argument for why structured HR intermediaries are economically necessary — not merely commercially useful.
Read →From registration to employment: mapping the institutional gap in Punjab's disability policy pipeline.
Punjab has a registration system, a quota policy, and formal employer obligations. What it lacks is the infrastructure to connect these three.
Read →AI-assisted teacher feedback at scale: what the GITTC pilot tells us about government AI adoption.
A field report from deploying AI-driven feedback forms at GITTC Lahore. What worked, what resistance looked like, and what the data revealed.
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