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Pakistan may release Former PM Sharif against one billion dollars
Web Desk: (The news was originally published by The Daily Caller, USA) WASHINGTON: Broadsheet LLC, a firm hired by Pakistan in the past to investigate money laundering and corruption has assessed that the Imran Khan government is striking a deal to release Nawaz Sharif from prison in return for a turn-over of some one billion …
Food insecurity if no agricultural reforms soon
Lahore: The unseasonable rainfalls and hailstorms in Pakistan from April 15 to 17 devastated the standing crops of the Rabi season, especially in southern and central Punjab. Besides wheat, the primary contributor to the agriculture economy, various other standing crops such as maize, mustard, tomato, cotton, mango and citrus orchards were also affected. Talking to the Truth …
Bite the Bullet
Pakistan has been facing economic difficulties since 1947 to date. Although there was a good time in the 1960s yet after the East Pakistan crisis, we started lagging behind in the economic domain owing to short term decision making for the betterment of the economy. Today, when the PTI government was thinking to revamp the …
IN MEMORIUM: Manto exposed veil of hypocrisy
In a small city in the municipal limits of Ludhiana district in India May 11 was a big occasion. People including intellectuals gathered to remember perhaps the most outstanding son of the soil—Sa’adat Hasan Manto and indeed the greatest Urdu/Hindustani short story writer of all times. The event was organized by Lekhak Manch Samrala which was attended by …
Satire: Saqib Nisar starts guarding dam after retirement
Just 7,975,6 kilometres from the proposed site of the Mohmand Dam, retired chief justice Saqib Nisar has pitched his tent on the roof of his London apartment as per his never-forgotten pledge that after retirement, he would guard dams by living in a tent by the site. “Dam is my life, and I cannot leave …
Educated transgender await inclusion in police in Sindh
SUKKUR: As soon as they hear the word or see a transgender, a majority of the people readily start laughing and passing indecent remarks on them. They are treated as aliens as if they are from some other planet. They are taken an object to have fun with. Recently, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kaleem Imam visited …
Satire: Dawn breaking journalist declared World Press Freedom Hero
Pakistan’s dusky Dawn newspaper’s most-read writer Cyril Almeida has been named 71st World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 100 countries, after one member of the IPI succeeding in comprehending one of the columns of Mr Almeida. Though claim to fame …
Reviving folk media (Saqafti Media)
Perhaps we are the last generation who has seen the riots of folk media unleashing on our neighbourhood streets or in local grounds so often. Millennial sees a few elements of folk culture as luxury, whereas most of the folk media is now in a preservation mode. The impression gets roots when one sees the …
Mother’s Day in Ramadan
Pretty much every believer is familiar with the saying of the Holy Prophet Hadith: ‘Paradise lies under the feet of mothers.’ Mother’s Day celebrated around the world is to honor all the mothers, whose role is unique and whose love is unending. Around 1870, Julia Ward Howe initiated the call to celebrate Mothers Day in …
A walk into Khairpur state
Khairpur: Believe it or not, the residents of Khairpur were once lucky enough to get basic needs free of cost and at their doorsteps and were earning four times more than the others across Pakistan. It was the rule of royal Talpurs, who endeavoured hard to keep their people happy and prosperous. Everything came to …