Allama Muhmmad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Quaid-e-Azam Expect the best, Prepare for the worst...
Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, at least seven teachers, six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school were shot dead on Tuesday in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The incident took place in Sher Afzal Banda area in Tehsil Chota Lahore, when unidentified gunmen targeted the teachers who […]
Apparently, the reason for not making public the poverty data is that the country’s abject poverty stood at 24 per cent when the last such report came in 2007-08 and nine per cent more people were pushed below the poverty line during the period the Pakistan People’s Party has been in power. A district-wise study […]
The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ can be defined as the increase in proportion and what an Islamic state is where every day passing is pushing the populace to more disgusting situation than a day earlier. Here, less than one per cent of the people have stashed around $100 billion of their ill-gotten money in foreign banks […]
More than 1,000 families were trapped on Saturday in several neighbourhoods of the central city of Homs and under bombardment by regime forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “More than 1,000 families, including women and children,” are trapped in the Khalidiyeh, Jourat al-Shiah, Qarabees, old Homs and Qusour areas. “They have no food […]
In view of an ongoing war in the FATA (Federally Administrated Tribal Agency), the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued final warning to the local residents to leave South Waziristan at the earliest. According to the media reports, the TTP issued a pamphlet in South Waziristan, issuing final forewarning to the local tribes. Appealing to all residents […]
Fierce clashes between Syrian regime forces and armed rebels in the central city of Rastan on Monday left at least 23 soldiers dead and dozens wounded, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitoring group said initial reports indicated that three troop carriers were destroyed in the clashes that began at dawn on […]
The White Ribbon Day is being celebrated today (25th November) across the world in an effort to urge for an end to physical, psychological and economic violence against women. The International Day for the Elimination of violence against Women is a worldwide initiative for public awareness to understand the importance of a woman who has […]
NGOs functioning without monitoring system Over thousand national and international Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are functioning in the federal capital and remote areas of the country without having any monitoring system while authorities paid no heed to devise any mechanism to monitor their activities. A large number of national and international aid agencies landed in the […]
Is UN successful in ‘World should be arm free’ campaign In 2009, 100 days before the World peace day on 21 September United Nations general secretary Ban Ki Mon announced a campaign with a slogan “World must be arms free”. The concentration during this campaign was primarily put on the retrenchment and destruction of the […]
Who is gaining more in the battle of development? In the name of development funds, aid, help and ‘doing good’ churns the wheel of many businesses which we term as Nongovernmental Organistions. There are now zillions of them operating in the name of ‘helping and developing’. The curse obviously falls upon the third world countries […]
