The recent violent protests in the twin cities were pending since long. They have erupted after the sufferings of years. There is no system of public transport whatsoever in the country in any city or town.
The transport system is in the hands of a select few and it has emerged in the form of a [...]
All the way from North Waziristan, Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief terrorist of Pakistan, managed to reach near Multan, where he expired after succumbing to the injuries he received in US drone attack, as being claimed by one faction of Pakistani media which cite Taliban as source. Taliban said that they were taking their leader to [...]
No journalist, T.V Channel, newspaper can cover the rural and remote areas of the Pakistan. Even if they can reach out there, they are restricted way too tightly to not to telecast or write about the cruelities of waderas, khans, sardars and jageerdars.
The mobile phone revolution has done wonders, but it’s potential should be utilized [...]
In Pakistan, whoever comes to power, he arrives while leaving his or her dignity behind. Whatever the power ruler does or not does for that matter, he is bashed, slammed, dressed down, ridiculed, socked, bonked, humiliated, scorned, detested and hated by all. It is fashion in highly in vogue to slam down the rulers.
So if [...]
In 1948, just before the cabinet meeting, the ADC inquired from Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, “Sir what will be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?”
Quaid-e-Azam looked up and replied sternl, startling the ADC: “Whichever of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before leaving his home or when he returns home. [...]
Gojra riots, Sheikhupura riots and then similar incidents in Pakistan in which mob kills and burns and beats the alleged person over the disfiguration and insult of the sacred Holy Quran. What is achieved after mob kills the person or burns the locality of non-Muslims? Does Quran really gets defaced if someone tears its pages [...]
Pakistan Army has devised a new plan for the settlement and return of the Malakand operation victims. This plan seems to be comprehensive so far. This plan is going to be supervised and carried out by the emergency response unit. This plan aims at speedy and safe return of the people from the camps and [...]
Best course of action would be that as the exodus starts from the South Waziristan into the NWFP, return of Malakand IDPs should start at the same time. This would not only save NWFP government and people from lots of pain and hassle. Camps are already there, and these camps have got rudimentary facilities barely [...]
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said Pakistan urgently requires $600 million to cope with the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis.
“We need $600 million to meet the needs of the IDPs. The nation is united to help the displaced people,” the foreign minister told diplomats, media and delegates of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at [...]
The number of the displaced persons has crossed the figure of 3.8 million as about 5,40,127 families have moved to safer places due to military operation against the militants in the Malakand Division.
According to a press release issued here by the NWFP information department, the number of the displaced persons is 38, 70,500, both in [...]
