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Opinion

Electricity Bills Continue to Claim Lives

Editorial
Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: People have come out in great numbers as what they are earning is far less than what they are supposed to pay in the form of electricity bills dispatched by power companies, especially in recent months.…
Opinion

Pakistan Facing Political Bewilderment

Editorial
Muhammad Ajeeb London: One of the country’s biggest drawbacks is that it has for a long period been ruthlessly and mercilessly ruled by the connivance of feudals, wealthy families, senior bureaucrats, and army generals, who have inflated…
Human Rights

Doomed Destinies

Editorial
Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: These are one of the few million with doomed destinies, survive on a day-to-day basis, and have no means of sustenance as all their worldly possessions are displayed with nothing in hiding, unlike the elite who…
Human Rights

Betrayal Of National Flag

Editorial
Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947, for a host of pertinent reasons. In the process, whole communities were uprooted and displaced with hundreds of thousands being killed or separated from their…
Opinion

Pakistan Versus Democracy

Editorial
Mohammed Ajeeb Bradford: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…
Opinion

Abrogation of Obligation to Provinces

Editorial
Asem Mustafa Awan The governments of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan have complained of serious financial difficulties due to non-payment of arrears and dues by the federal government.…