There is a famous Punjabi saying that says, “Potter faced the anger when lord fell from the donkey”. Our politics is almost the same lord that drops all his anger on poor potter when the real culprit is donkey. There are many issues need urgent solution but authorities are busy in moulding non issues to [...]
Various political forces are suggesting to divide the Punjab province into more provinces. As division of Punjab is politically advanced by major political parties it is now a matter of time when this division takes place; this time span may be from 1 to 10 years. However no specific details and modes operandi has been described by any political group.
At least 235 people have died of the dengue virus in Punjab, out of which 218 are from Lahore. The number of patients affected from dengue in Punjab has crossed 16,000 with over 14,000 from the provincial capital. (Express Tribune)
The following is taken from the booklet – Protect yourself and your family from dengue.
Symptoms of [...]
Tall claims, false austerity, broken promises, shattered hopes and screwed up governance is what the government of PML-N in Punjab is all about. The story is written on every wall of the Punjab that this showy and ostentatious party has decieved the people once again, and there only cure is someone like Musharraf.
Shahbaz Sharif, the [...]
In 1993, MQM first time started taking part in elections in Punjab and started from the Multan. Then during the Musharraf era, they took heart again and started trying again, but failed again. Now once again in 2010, they are trying their luck.
Once again, MQM has adopted the same tactic to gain strength. They have [...]
There are growing calls for division of Punjab from different people for different reasons–surprisingly very few from Punjab itself. The loudest has been to make a separate province for Seriaki area of Southern Punjab because of economic and social reasons. As we saw during the debate over Paktunkwa, the problem is not just unique to [...]
The newly appointed DG FIA, Zafarullah Khan assumed charge of his office on Friday. He replaces the highly-respected Tariq Khosa who has ostensibly been given a promotion and made a federal secretary but according to knowledgeable sources, the ruthlessly honest officer has been removed because he was causing a lot of problems for the land’s [...]
Nawaz Sharif cannot go out anywhere in the province where his party rules, and he has reluctantly gone to the Gilgit Baltistan area for the election campaign. He hasn’t gone to Sindh, Balochistan and Kashmir for a long time now, and his rarely goes out to NWFP and Islamabad.
How he supposed to be a nationa [...]
Let’s wander down the lanes of Kashmir which rocked to the tunes of the reverberating and scared mountains, whilst beneath them the earth was angered. Angered and filled with transgressions unpardonable.
Come October 8th and the fate of Kashmiris on this side was sealed away into ignoble and oblivious history. The 3 million displaced Pakistani Kashmiris, [...]
