The word ‘rival’ comes from the Latin ‘rivalis’ meaning ’some one sharing a river’. A water war between two Sumerian city states Lagashand Umma 4500 years ago is recorded on a stone carving showing vultures flying off with the heads of the impoverished and defeated Umma people.
Only history itself can convince one of such a [...]
Who said politics is a noble profession. I don’t think it was mentioned for us as a nation or as a society as it clearly dictates in our attitudes and behavior that we are not politically matured and secondly no notion of integrity and honesty in what we do and how we do it. Every [...]
Now that the so called Constitutional Package is being revealed in media (in a piecemeal fashion). It was sad to see that this package would be another dreaded legislation just like the NRO we have had. Dreaded because one of its points seeks indemnity for the dreadful dictator’s acts of Pre Nov 3, 2007. Indemnity [...]
The government of Pakistan shelved the controversial Kalabagh dam project on May 27, 2008. Three provinces of Pakistan, other than Punjab, had strong reservations over the project. Musharraf, during his times announced to build the dam despite those reservations but could not. This was probably the first good move by the newly formed [...]
For the new government of Pakistan People’s Party, it’s easy to talk and implement the national reconciliation on the issues, which directly deals with the vested interests of its co-chairman and his buddies or on the issues which deals with the government formation.
Infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance and the waiving of BA Degree clause was done [...]
Pakistan has been facing an unprecedented energy crisis since the last few years. The problem becomes more severe during summers.However, this winter was no different.During the peak crisis there was a power outage of 3-4 hours everyday. Those without generators and UPS faced tremendous problems. The prices of both continued to increase due to a [...]
