Mubarak Ali Baloch

Tribal Jirga system is very old practice to settle the disputes between two or more than two disputants. In fact, it was used to be the council of elders or notables with agreeable level of neutrality to mull over the intricate social hassles and hammer a way out promoting reconciliation to the mutual satisfaction of […]

The spectre of terrorism doesn’t seem to have died down. Suicide attack at the heart of Lahore belies the optimism blissfully attached with the results NAP (National Action Plan), and active military operations are yielding. The attack in Lahore, owned by proscribed Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed thirteen precious lives including two senior police officers. Two personnel of […]

Female segment makes half or probably slightly more than half of our total population but it, unfortunately, stands suppressed or even persecuted in one way or other. Social mosaic, particularly of the countryside, is under profound influence of tribal codes and customs where a woman comes last. Being least educated and having a negligible say […]

The existence of jails is universal and in these designated premises are lodged the criminally deviants and delinquents till either they are exonerated of the charges framed against them or judicially penalized to remain incarcerated for a fixed period of time. Imprisonment is a 17th century concept to put the offender behind the bars and […]

Much toil is required to successfully achieve both the ‘nation and state building’ objectives. In ‘nation building’, achieving demographic coherence as integrating force is essential in which lingual, racial and ethnic contours are handled to symmetrically look as a conglomerate of socio-cultural values and beliefs leading to a national identity. ‘State building’ involves raising and […]