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 ...

We are at the mercy of ‘sifarish’. Something so deleterious yet so widespread. It forces one to question his sanity and ask, “Why are we injecting this poison in our society as if our lives depend on ...

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 ...

Kunal Kohli's Fanaa led by Aamir Khan and Kajol completes 20 years today. He added that the lead pair had not liked the song ...

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 ...

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 ...