PIA turning around on June 23, 2016Rumour has it that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is recruiting some foreign nationals in its management to improve its performance, and take the airline out of operational and financial crises. Already the airline has a former Lufthansa employee as its CEO under whose leadership the airline has started to show signs of improvement. Although […]
Dar fails to implement poultry tariff policy on June 23, 2016 LAHORE: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar has failed to implement a promised poultry tariff policy, instead allowing poultry tycoons to monopolise the market, according to a university economist. “The government restrains the small seller from selling chicken at a high price, but permits those owning processing plants to sell poultry at whatever […]
Patients irked by bad administration at public hospitals in Lahore on June 20, 2016LAHORE: A typical stench that speaks of unhygienic conditions, crowded halls without proper air-conditioning, shortage of beds for patients and bad mood of nurses and doctors are the features, one can see in emergency wards of all public hospitals in Lahore. News Lens Pakistan conducted a survey of the outdoor and emergency wards of several […]
Does the US ever want peace in Afghanistan? on June 16, 2016The death of Taliban’s leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a drone strike is being seen as part of a larger design by the US to maintain its presence in Afghanistan to encircle China. For quite some time now the US has been trying to bring the Taliban to the negotiation table so that the former […]
Beating ‘defying’ wives not allowed by Islam on June 4, 2016LAHORE: Fakhra Sarfraz (not her original name) remembers how her late husband would turn violent whenever they had argument. What makes Fakhra more miserable is that her daughter is facing same issues because she is married to her father’s cousin. Recently, Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) proposed that husbands should be allowed to lightly beat defying […]
Without foreign minister Pakistan fails on diplomatic fronts on June 3, 2016LAHORE: Pakistan does not have a dedicated foreign minister (FM). The Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif has kept the portfolio with him which, according to political analysts, is the government’s failure. The argument goes that Nawaz Sharif is afraid of giving away this valuable portfolio to anybody and wants foreign policy makers […]
Torture rampant in Pakistan jails, police cells: rights experts on June 2, 2016Lahore: Custodial torture is used as an instrument of governance in Pakistan, human rights experts say, pointing to the killing of an opposition politician in jail last month as the latest example of the practice. Aftab Ahmad, the coordinator of senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar, died on May 3 while he was being held […]
Wrong mission at the right time on April 24, 2016While the revolution is bid farewell and the revolutionaries return home, the uncertainty in politics in Pakistan is well in place, in fact, embossed deeper. The street power that was to change the style of governance of the country succumbed to style itself by acceding to the political culture of ‘reconciliation’ translated for the ordinary […]
Wrong mission at the right time on April 24, 2016While the revolution is bid farewell and the revolutionaries return home, the uncertainty in politics in Pakistan is well in place, in fact, embossed deeper. The street power that was to change the style of governance of the country succumbed to style itself by acceding to the political culture of ‘reconciliation’ translated for the ordinary […]
Dera Ismail Khan and the Fustians on April 22, 2016A woman is not supported by men essentially when it comes to giving her the right to make choices. She is allowed to fetch water, till fields and stand in the inexhaustible queue to take money doled out by the Benazir Income Support Programme, but the man she is sheltered by would not give her […]