As summer approaches, the acute power shortfall in the country will move onto the centre-stage of our national problems. Indeed, even before summer hits with full might, and with the north of the country in fact enjoying a prolonged spring, the shortfall we are told already stands at around 5000MW to 6000MW. This will not be an easy gap to fill. Lack of electricity, a problem familiar to all of us, affects not only domestic…
Posts published in April 2015
by Umar Cheema in the News, April 09, 2015 ISLAMABAD:-The first generation of Pakistani youth that joined militancy after Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan has stronger desire of returning to normalcy as compared with the second generation switched after 9/11, according to a new book. However, the book offers an optimistic conclusion that many banned groups have the potential of reintegration into society and calls upon the government to initiate a comprehensive plan for their rehabilitation.…
By Zulfiqar Ali in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2015. DI KHAN: Hour after four security officials were seized at gunpoint Tuesday night, two of them managed to escape from their captors in the southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa district of DI Khan, an official told The Express Tribune on Wednesday. A Frontier Constabulary vehicle, with four men on board, was en route to the Frontier Region from the Daraban area of DI Khan when it was intercepted…
MIRPUR (AJK): Jammu & Kashmir Joint Chambers of Commerce & Industry (JKJCCI) President Zulfiqar Abbasi emphasised a need for the introduction of a liberal regime for the promotion of cross-Line of Control trade by the local entrepreneurs. “The cross-LoC trade, launched between AJK and Indian held Kashmir in October 2008, could lead to the peaceful settlement of all long standing issues through peaceful means between the two countries,” said Abbasi in an interview with The…
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government on Wednesday constituted a three-member ‘fact-finding committee’ to probe into the allegedly controversial press talk of the former additional inspector general of police (AIGP) in “contravention of the AJK Civil Servant Conduct Rules, 1981”. On Thursday last, Faheem Ahmed Abbasi, who was only recently elevated to the newly-created position of AIGP, had addressed a press conference in the Central Press Club, during which he had spoken on…
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government declared on Wednesday 22 men as terrorists for their alleged involvement in acts of terrorism and put their names under the 4th schedule of the AJK’s Anti-Terrorism Act, 2014. According to a notification issued by the Home Department, 20 of the suspects belong to AJK and two to Punjab. The suspected terrorists were identified as Aftab Shafi, Molvi Abdul Khaliq, Aftikhar alias Adrees Molvi, Waqas, Hafiz Kashif, Shafi…
Bagh- A large number of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters from Bagh district; have announced to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, after it rose to victory in the recently held by-election in Mirpur. PML-N’s disgruntled supporters from Bagh headed by Sardar Tahir Akbar, met with PTI AJK President Barrister Sultan Mehmood and PTI General Secretary Jahangir Tareen in Islamabad, to formally announce their joining of the party. Barrsiter Sultan while welcoming the PML-N supporters in the…
The sixth mistake: by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN in Dawn, April 9th, 2015
The writer is an author and art historian. IF ever Pakistan needed a spinal transplant, it is now. X-rays have revealed that, whatever rudimentary backbone it may have had at birth, over the years has atrophied. On two occasions recently, it has taken intervention at the highest level for the flabby administrative organs of our government to take action. It took a chief of army staff to order the director general Rangers to remove decade-old…