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A million educated voters are being deprived of casing votes

By Anwar Jalal • May 2nd, 2013 • Category: Politics

Round  about a millions   govt  personals  have  been  assigned   duties   on  about 80,000 polling    stations  across  the  country .
The applying  date  for postal ballot  was 25 April   whereupon   very  few   knew   about  their    duties   assignment  so  most  of them could not  apply  for  ballot  votes.  In this  situation  a   large number  of them  will    be  [...]



Few Burning Questions?

By Anwar Jalal • Oct 17th, 2011 • Category: Politics

1- How Pakistan  foreign  policy can be  termed  subservient to  USA?
2- What are the reasons and compulsions of Pakistan which lead it to depend on USA since 1948?
3— Is India hostility towards Pakistan and thus security concerns one of the main factor of Pakistan dependency on USA?
4— If Pakistan  wants to come out of USA [...]



Peshawar University Students Problems

By Anwar Jalal • May 9th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Sociology and psychology are two most important academic disciplines Though both these subjects are taught on master level in almost  all the  universities  including  university of  Peshawar where they have separate departments yet, ironically , these subjects ,despite of their great importance, are not in the syllabus at college level in NWFP and through out [...]



A suggestion in context of general Kayani’s recent statement

By Anwar Jalal • Apr 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Army Chief general Ashfaq kayani has aptly observed that with out people support no army can be truly strong. The view of the respectable COAS has been appreciated  by all  the patriotic sections. of the  country.
One can not deny the fact that since long Pak army as insinuation  was  getting  rapidly  unpopular among the  civilians. [...]



IDPs Hardship in Peshawar

By Anwar Jalal • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics

War on terror is going on but the human crisis and tragedy is not getting the media spotlight which it deserves and million of people are at the mercy of terrorists and the hardships of life.
The IDPs ( fron  Kuram and Awrakzai agencies )whom have been placed in Peshawar are facing many hardships while collecting [...]



Aims, objectives of Pakistan - Two main views

By Anwar Jalal • Aug 14th, 2010 • Category: Worth A Second Look

Two-nation theory is the pedestal on which Pakistan came into existence. Though many did not agree with the rationale of the two-nation theory but few could dispute that Pakistan came into existence on its basis. However, what was the real aim of Pakistan. This is disputed and is being debated since its inception by political [...]



TAC –an excellent school in Lahore for children of underprivileged

By Anwar Jalal • May 7th, 2010 • Category: Misc

In this  age of commercialism  even  imparting of education has become  industry.. Lot of schools  and colleges in the  public  sectors  are being opened  every year across the  country  chiefly  with  the aim of business .  Of course  there  are   few  standard  institutions in the  public  sector  which  aim is   mainly giving   quality  education  yet  [...]



Hearts are won Through Modesty not Arrogance

By Anwar Jalal • Apr 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Modesty can do wonder is a  wise  saying . Same is the instruction of religion which ask for modesty instead of arrogance. Few days back on April 10  more  then 60 innocent people of Koki khel; tribe ( Khyber agency )were  killed  and many injured by  blind air strikes of Pakistan army . Initially  the [...]



Cheer for General Ashfaq Kayani

By Anwar Jalal • Apr 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani has extended apology  to  Kokikhel tribes  and has expressed deep grief over the tragedy   caused by Pak Army action in Tirah valley ( Khyber agency ) in which more  then 60 innocent   people of the  tribe ( Kokikhel )  were killed  and many  have been inured.
Though initially the spokesman [...]



Agreement of Pashtunkhwa- a positive move

By Anwar Jalal • Apr 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The agreement over the name of Pashtunkhwa is happy news. All those circles which worked for it deserve admiration This step is good in many respects for Pakistan in general and for the province of Pashtunkhwa in particular It will greatly  help minimize the aggravations of the people of [...]