On Thursday, I visited the Police Lines headquarters in Islamabad. I was accompanying the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, who wanted to pay his respects to the fallen martyrs of the Pakistani police service and to publicly recognise their sacrifices in serving Pakistan and its citizens.
Mr Hague laid a wreath at the police monument and [...]
Pakistan is not one of the fortunate countries of the world, and and in this hapless country there are many parts which are very tragically under-developed and to add insult to the injuries, these areas have produced big names in politics who have ruled country in one form or another for decades.
For the last two [...]
PTCL has become the first company in Pakistan to provide Broadband services in over 100 cities across the country, whereas before PTCL’s entry into the Broadband [...]
Besides of establishing a Ramadan package, the Punjab government of Shahbaz Sharif has come hard on the hoarders of sugar. The government has issued orders to take punitive actions against those sugar millers and traders, who have not been releasing the stock despite their commitment, causing a massive hike in the commodity price nationwide.
Not only [...]
All he had at his broken shack was some old and worn-down utensils, two battered so-called beds and second hand course books of matric. He worked hard without any electricity, guide books, key papers, key books, tution and guesses and got 934 marks in the examination of matriculation.
Zahid, a very poor and polio-ridden boy has [...]
The funny thing is that we don’t even find our premier in the Islamabad, where all the power vulture reside. You may find Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the marriage function of any daughter and son of some powerful broker, whether from treasury, opposition, bureaucracy and journalism.
Sometimes we even find our PM in the [...]
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is a homeopathic premier for sure, and he is aptly termed as PM of between Lahore and Multan. He even doesn’t have any say in the Islamabad, where his majestic PM House is standing so proudly but keels in front of the President House, from where everything sprouts.
Who decides and [...]
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. [...]
According to a media news, Begum Fauzia Yousuf Raza Gilani, the wife of the prime minister along with her son MPA Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani has reached Malaysia to attend an international conference. The topic of the conference is “Early Childhood Care and Education”, and our First Lady (Because our President is Bachelor these days) [...]
If demanding the restoration of judges, impeachment of Pervez Musharraf and formulation of policy regarding war on terror according to Pakistani interests makes somebody a trouble maker in the books of Asif Ali Zardari, then majority of 170 millions of Pakistanis are trouble maker.
Asif Ali Zardari has written a letter to the chief of PML-N, [...]
