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The Human Rights Watch recently released a report where they claim that the Pakistani government needs to take serious action regarding the Shia killings that are taking place in the Balochistan region of the country. Several people die due to this act in Hazara. The report included 62 pages and was given the name “We […]
It is being reported that it is going to rain in at least half of Pakistan on Tuesday. Heavy showers are expected in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Kohat, Peshawar, Malakand, Hazara, Bannu, D.I Khan, Zhob, Quetta, Kalat, Sibbi, Makran, Sargodha, Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
MET Chief Muhammad Hanaif has predicted that the recent monsoon spell in upper parts of the country will continue until Tuesday. However, seasonal low lies over Northwest Balochistan and adjoining areas with its trough extending Southeast wards, he added. The met office has predicted scattered rain-thundershower associated with gusty winds in Kashmir, Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Hazara, […]
Disgraced former Balochistan chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has termed the imposition of Governor’s Rule in the province and dismissal of his government an assault in darkness. A defiant Raisani, however, said he had been expecting such an action for the past three years. He said what had happened to him was unfair. Talking […]
In what appeared to be an ironic development, the Local Bodies elections have been held regularly under military rulers, elected governments are generally averse to letting the grass root bodies share power with them. In the Charter of Democracy (CoD), the PPP and PML-N had committed themselves to strengthening the LB system through timely elections. […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday said that the long term peace in Afghanistan was only possible through an intra-Afghan political, adding all stakeholders will have to work together to make the region peaceful. PM Ashraf, who is on his first visit to Afghanistan, said this while talking to opposition leaders. Before holding meetings […]
The gruesome incident in which a bus of Shia pilgrims was attacked in Quetta coupled with numerous others in Balochistan over the past few months is part of baleful conspiracy to divide the country vertically and horizontally. More than dozen people, who were returning from Iran, were lost their lives while another 30 sustained severe […]
Following a lot of huffing and puffing in Punjab Assembly, everybody settled for what carried the appearance of a balanced resolution. In my view, it will be best interpretation of the unanimous resolution on the Seraiki and Bahawalpur provinces. It seems that the ongoing chest-thumping will be ended after passage of the resolution. Both the […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Saturday said that they would second the creation of new federating units in the country. Talking to media persons at Quetta Press Club, Hashmi said that the PTI would play its role for the establishment of new provinces which includes Bahawalpur province, Seraiki, Hazara, Potohar and FATA. […]
In what appeared to be a political point-scoring tactic, President Asif Ali Zardari camped out in southern Punjab, speaking in favor of a Seraiki province. The President suggested a new Seraiki Bank, overlooking the modalities and legality of the project. Prior to the upcoming general election, the PPP is playing up the emotionalism of the […]
Apparently crude materialistic interests and political rivalries motivate wars and conflicts initiated in the name of religion and sectarianism. This is as true about the knightly fights as it is about the Afghan jihad launched in the late 70s against Soviet Union. Some believe that the ongoing sectarian terrorism in Pakistan has been the consequence […]
Awami National Party (ANP), the main ally of the PPP-led coalition government, has turned its guns towards the PPP saying there is no provision in the Constitution about formation of new province in the country. Having varying stance over the issue with the PPP, the ANP said that first a constitutional amendment was required for […]
