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 [...]
Within the span of few days, the rate of arrests of American nationals in Pakistan in different cities has increased. Few of them belong to the embassies and few of them Muslims who came all the way to Pakistan to join the terrorists.
The arrested Americans who belong to the embassies have somethings in common. They [...]
Reporting from Sargodha, Pakistan - One by one, recruits from Pakistan’s Punjab heartland would make the seven-hour drive to Waziristan, where they would pull up to an office that made no secret of its mission.
The signboard above the office door read “Tehrik-e-Taliban.” In a largely ungoverned city like Miram Shah, there was no reason [...]
Foreign media continues to express doubts about security and safety of Pakistan’s nuclear material. Fears, whether naïve or malafide, are expressed that terrorists may steal such material to fabricate a `dirty bomb’. Professor Shaun Gregory and Arnaud de Borchgrave have claimed that there have already been three attacks on Pakistan’s nuclear facilities: one on nuclear-missile-storage [...]
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 [...]
After eight years, seven months and twenty six days, Punjab’s eight crore people have once again got their favorite chief minister back. Shahbaz Sharif is the true tiger of the Punjab, he has proved it before, and he is all poised to do it again. Shahbaz Sharif has been in the Punjab Assembly since 1990 [...]
