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Posts Tagged ‘mianwali’

Mianwali Long March Protest, Police Kills One

By Maria Sultan • Jul 4th, 2011 • Category: Politics

We are just watching a trailor of the movie in Mianwali which will be played across Pakistan within coming days. The common people are fed up of their lives in Pakistan. They dont have food, jobs, money, business, power, gas, water, peace and their rulers are busy in their luxuries.
What’s the use of such an [...]



Facts about Chasma- Jhelum Hydropower Plant

By Qudrat Ullah • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Now a day, the provinces of Sindh and Punjab are at odds over the issue of Chasma-Jhelum Canal Project which the government of Punjab is contemplating to set up at the Chasma Jhelum Canal with a total capacity of 40MW. While the province of Sindh is opposing the project fervidly, it is needed to kaleidoscopically [...]



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 [...]



Mianwali Should Be Watched Out for Hiding Terrorists

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Taliban are running away in all the directions from the Swat and even from the FATA. The operation in the Malakand Agency is now almost concluded and final touches are being given. Operation in the Waziristan Agency is the next, while in Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber and Kurram Agency are almost in the control of the [...]



Next Target of Taliban : Punjab

By Rohail Butt • May 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The security environment in Punjab has taken a significant turn for the worse. At the same time, a range of other violent actors - from Punjabi anti-Indian extremists to Central Asian warlords - operate in the non-Pashtun areas of Pakistan, and they are ready to welcome the armed gangs of Taliban from the mountains of [...]



Namal Technical College Mianwali Inaugurated

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has inaugurated the Namal Technical College near Mianwali.
To read more about it click here.



Namal University Mianwali by Imran Khan

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

One may disagree with Imran Khan on his political views, and one may sling mud on him over his playboy status of yesteryears, or one may rebuke him over his family issues, but one cannot in his right mind could negate the service Imran Khan has done to this nation in the form of Shaukat [...]



Dost Mohammad Khosa Should Look Beyond Lahore

By Rohail Butt • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The new interim chief minister of Punjab, Dost Mohammad Khosa, looks more like the chief minister of just Lahore.
More than a week has passed since he has assumed the role of chief minister and he has given many executive orders and promising a lot, but whatever he is doing is mainly restricted to the city [...]



Sher Afgan’s Popularity in Karachi

By Amna Gilani • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I didn’t know, for the life of me, that Dr. Sher Afgan Khan Niazi was that much popular and beloved in the megapolis of Karachi, and the Karachiites were so touchy about this man from Mianwali, who was defeated from Mianwali in this election ignominiously. It was a revelation which has stunned many.
The way Karachi [...]



We wanted to kill Sumaira Malik : Arrested Terrorists Reveal

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Police claimed on Wednesday to have foiled a terrorism bid when it arrested three ‘potential car bombers’ when their car had an accident on Bannu-Mianwali Road on Dec 21.
The ‘potential bombers’ later revealed to the police that former federal minister Sumaira Malik belonging to neighbouring Khushab district was their target; and had they not been [...]