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Posts Tagged ‘Khushab’

Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal: Sindh, Punjab at Impasse

By Sher Ali • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Punjab government has conceded to the Sindh demand over the Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal, and voluntarily halved its share of water from the Indus zone through this vital link from Sunday.
The decision to reduce irrigation supplies to the southern part of the province to 3,000 cusecs of water was taken after a meeting between high [...]



Flood Management in Punjab : But What Next?

By Qudrat Ullah • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Punjab, the land of mighty rivers and flowing canals witnessed many big deluges which caused losses to the tune of billion of rupees, besides damaging lives and property of the public. Although the flood management is the responsibility of the provinces, yet a number of federal departments are entrusted with the Federal Flood Commission, which [...]



Dr A Q Khan’s Rhetoric is on Purpose

By A Khokar • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Once, the thriving business in FATA used to be the production of warriors called Mujahideen for Afghan war in eighties. After Afghan war these warriors were abandoned but the doctrinaires kept their faith in training and heat of this dogma remained on. The controversial breeding of ‘products for war on terror’ that we allowed to [...]



Deteriorating Civic Services

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Cylinder Blast at Grout Atomic Plant

By Talal Hussain Malik • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Misc

The news is that after the blast of a cylinder, poisonous gas has erupted across the Grout atomic plant, district Khushab. If you didn’t know already, our man on top had inaugurated the KCP4 in the plant in the recent weeks. Who knows, it might have occurred in the same plant. As the situation is, [...]



Results from District Khushab

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

According to un-official results of general elections in District Khushab, Sumera Malik of PML (Q) won with a margin of 663 votes against her rival Malik Umar Aslam Awan, independent. The closest contest of the history of district Khushab witnessed whole night suspense as Returning Office remained busy in counting and re-counting of ballots. Sumera [...]