Every one of us must be in shock to read the recent UNICEF report about fear of dying of 70,000 children owing to numerous diseases as a result of polluting the drinking water by the current devastating floods in the country. I request our elected government to declare ‘health emergency’ in the country and utilise [...]
Many national and international humanitarian organisations are busy in providing earnest relief and assistance to the massively displaced calamity hit people among those the devoted men of the Pakistan army top the list with their presence in every town, city and district to aid the affected as seen by everyone on national TV. The arrival [...]
Despite its terrible troubles, this part of the western subcontinent is lively, beautiful and misunderstood. I’ve worked in Mumbai and been in India many times, but have always had an ill-concealed soft spot for Pakistan, which sits in the west of the subcontinent. Pakistan has a much longer history than its three-generational link to 1947 [...]
Flood in Pakistan caused huge destruction, millions rendered homeless, many died, injured and displaced because of the nasty floods. This flood is the most devastating disaster in Pakistan’s history. But amidst all this, the stonehearted government has miserably failed in providing the people timely help. The estimated 4 million rendered homeless and 8 million are [...]
The history is replete with instances of natural cataclysms and consequent human responses. These disasters result in financial, economical, environmental and human losses. The losses may vary with the magnitude and fore-warning of catastrophe vis-à-vis the state of preparedness. The suddenness and swiftness are two attributes of disaster which create a dilemma for human/society and [...]
Why just Geo and ARY? Why Mr. Zardari’s supporters did not attack the offices of British newspapers, even when one of them called his son a ‘playboy’? For Pakistan watchers, there are major ironies in the raging war between the Pakistani government and two powerful media houses. This episode is important because it shows once [...]
During his visit to India, while speaking at a joint press conference with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on July 29 this year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “No-one is in any doubt, least of all the Pakistani government themselves that there have been and still are terrorist organisations like the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and [...]
“In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful” Asalamo Alykum, I would like to pay my tributes to the Pakistani Army who is always at the front-line to evacuate the citizens from trouble. Be it the flood hit strand offs or target killed Karachi.
Under “Zardari’s Katrina” (Foreign Policy, Aug 4, 2010), Fatima Bhutto, the niece of late Benazir Bhutto enlightens the readers with sensational insights on Asif Ali Zardari, the self-made president of Pakistan.
President Zardari’s trip West, as Karachi continues to burn up with rage and floods sweep away thousands of homes across the country, has generated a great deal of controversy. The amazement of commentators in France and Britain that he chose to continue with his trip at such a moment in his country’s history has not [...]
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