Pioneer of diplomat-to-people contact, An exclusive chat with Martin Kobler
Islamabad: Have you ever witnessed a foreign emissary visiting a country like Pakistan getting shaved by a roadside barber or passing through narrow streets on a bike sandwiched between two other people or running a manual sewing machine while sitting on the ground? Let us meet the one and only, Martin Kobler, German ambassador to …
First Pakistani photo-journalist wins Dutch world press photo competition
Jamal Taraqai, a Quetta based photo-journalist, is first Pakistani who came in the award list of World Press Photo 2017, a competition arranged by the World Press Photo Foundation of Netherlands since 1955. Taraqai captured scenes of bloodshed after a bomb blast outside Civil Hospital Quetta on August 8, 2016. The lawyers had gathered outside …
Shahbaz Promises Solar Energy Park in Cholistan
The Promise Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, in his speech on July 31, 2013, announced various plans to overcome the energy crisis, including building Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Cholistan, a desert area on 10,000 acres of land in south Punjab. Background Pakistan has been facing a severe energy crisis and electricity shortages for the past …
PTI to bring White Paper against election rigging
Promise Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), in early August, announced it would bring a White Paper against alleged election rigging. While addressing reporters at a press conference on August 5, in Islamabad, party chairman Imran Khan said that his party would issue a White Paper on August 16 regarding widespread election rigging in the 2013 general elections. Later, …
Passage of Right to Information law – PML-N
The Promise The new Punjab government of PML-N will pass the Right to Information bill as its first legislation, both Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Rana Sanaullah, senior provincial minister have said. [The News] The Plan In an interview with Truth Tracker, Rana Sanaullah, soon after Election 2013, said the draft of the bill …