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Escalating Food Crisis

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Intensifying food shortage across the globe, and especially in the third world countries like Pakistan has got many nightmares in store, which are steadily becoming reality one by one, and the heightening inflation, rampant hoarding, lack of water, dearth of harvesting land, and mismanagement of crops have made the matters worst.
It’s a rancid vituperative fact […]



High Prices : Another Suicide

By Ghazala Khan • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

According to the media reports, a 37-year-old man doused himself in kerosene oil and set himself on fire in Topi bazaar on Monday in protest against skyrocketing prices and unemployment. Mohammad Shafiq, a farmer from Charoona, 56 kilometers south-east of Swabi, in the Gadoon Amazai area, had gone to the bazaar to buy foodstuff for […]



Food Crisis in Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The calls for “Atta” from all quarters of the society are rising to a chorus. Due to the food shortage in Pakistan, the new government of Pakistan Democratic Alliance is all set to become a glutton for punishment and humiliation in very near future. Though it would be unfair to blame them for the looming […]



When Mother Sells Children

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The country’s economic landscape is in shambles and the so-called trickle-down effect of Shaukat Aziz’s economic reforms are nowhere to be seen. But that doesn’t answer the call of stomach and that is not suffice to appease the hellish appetite of uncontrollably weeping children.
In the first place there is shortage of everything. From wheat to […]



Populace Anger : Food Shortage, Load Shedding, Judges

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

If you see the socio-economic indicators on the ground level in Pakistan, you are sure fire to plunge in the sea of despair, gloom and apprehension.
They way people have shoe-treated some of their previous tormentors in Karachi and Lahore and the way people have rioted against Multan Electric Power Corporation, and the way people in […]



Transparent Governance Needed

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Democracy is all about liberty, equality and justice. In a democratic society, everyone enjoys equal opportunities without any restriction and preference, and the door of accountability remains always open.
The statues of liberty, equality and justice are not mere static ideals aimed at adorning the glittering writings in blogs and columns or to shimmer the speeches […]



Grinding Change, Snappy Hopes

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

If you ask me then after casting my vote on 18th February, I thought that now the things will become rosy and hopeful in a jiffy and the change would be swift and drastic, and the mandate would blossom in split time.
More than one month has passed. President Musharraf is still there on the throne […]