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Back To lanterns

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The entire country was submerged in darkness, but according to the Minister for Energy, Khurram Dastagir, this was ‘business as usual’, a minor glitch and nothing to worry about but a ‘voltage fluctuation’.…

Opportunity or Poisoned Chalice 

Ishtiaq Ahmed  At a meeting co-hosted by Islamabad and United Nations and attended by 40 private donors and financial institutions, a massive package of 10 plus billion dollars was announced to help the victims of recent floods. This…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

                                                                                  Editorial Pictorial Asem Mustafa Awan: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer…

ECP must come up to the mark 

Asem Mustafa Awan President Arif Alvi has sent back the Islamabad Local Government Amendment Bill without his signature. In the Bill, the government has made amendments including increasing the number of union councils, which will…