George Orwell’s novel “1984″ described a world where ‘war is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ and ‘big brother is watching you’. These Orwellian words truly depict our totalitarian world of today.
When confronted with the dismal record of occupations and interventions, the common gung-ho American refrain nowadays is that history is for losers and that history never [...]
For some days I am wondering about as why the media and some of the government officials are creating hype over the looming terrorism danger in South of the Punjab. They say that the area is teeming with the madaris, the area is backward, very limited education and job / business opportunities, and that some [...]
The Punjab government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it wants to withdraw petition challenging Jammat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed’s release, and the nation stands confused and shocked. Turning a blind eye on JuD leader isn’t going to ensure that no more suicide attacks will happen in the Punjab. One of the reason being [...]
Pervaiz Musharraf weakened the foundations of Pakistan by murdering Nawab Akbar Bugti, and now his most salivating slave, Muhahmmad Ali Durrani is trying to give a second blow to the country by presenting a contrived and fantastic idea at such a time, when unity is needed most among the provinces.
Talking about making Seraiki province out [...]
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has given a terror shock to the nation by disclosing that more than 5000 terrorists have entered into the South of the Punjab province through D.I. Khan and Mianwali and these terrorists are scattered throughout the area. These terrorists are those who have fled from the Swat and South Waziristan [...]
South Punjab is increasingly a focus of attention. It has been something of a backwater for decades and some may think that little has changed there since the State of Bahawalpur merged into the “One-Unit” in 1955. There has been consistent underinvestment by successive governments; and international NGOs and development agencies have largely ignored it. [...]
On the sidelines of other issues, voices are being heard from the under-developed areas of the provinces about the division of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan into more provinces. That demand is not absurd or preposterous. Countries like Turkey, England, even in India and many others have followed the same pattern and have solved many administrative [...]
Since India has started stealing Pakistan’s water through gross and shameless violation of Sindh-Tas agreement, water shortage has put more pressure on the water demands for irrigation and power generation in Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan.
As once again our rulers resort to the adhoc measures just to quell the immediate threats and demands and [...]
If it would be unjust and extreme to say that the Pakistan is teetering on the brink then it would also be an understatement to say that things are normal and there are some problems at scattered places in the country. If you look even casually, you would find that no place has left in [...]
The scrooge of terrorism is now touching everyone’s life. The war which earlier seemed far away in the rugged mountains of FATA and Swat is now knocking strongly at the doors of people in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The successive suicide attacks in the multiple cities in this short time has thrown the country into [...]
