The budget debate in progress on June 23, 2019After a furor in the parliament, in the beginning of the budget session, sense prevailed by deciding ToRs to run the session smooth. It was observed for the first time in the history of Pakistan’s upper house that the treasury benches were on its toes to disrupt the session. Notwithstanding, the session is in progress […]
South Punjab revisited on June 16, 2019In March 2018 several parliamentarians from the south Punjab announced the formation of a Janoobi Punjab Sooba Mahaz to strive for a new province comprising the Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions of the Punjab. Makhdum Khusro Bakhtiar and Tahir Bashir Cheema were elected president and general secretary of the Mahaz, respectively. A secretariat […]
Socrates wounded on June 13, 2019Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, a poet and a short story writer. He was a committed Marxist and he introduced the technique of Epic theatre along with other prominent playwrights. It was a deviation from the genre of the suspension of the disbelief with the purport to confront the audience with the social realities. […]
Power has a shelf life – a stoic concept on June 1, 2019In 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Horace Smith challenged each other to write a poem with the same title, form, and theme. In 1817, the British archaeologists had discovered the remnants of a funeral statue of Ramesses II, known to the Greeks by the name of Ozymandias. The discovery inspired the two friends to pen […]
The Indian elections and the middle class on May 26, 2019The Indian polls of 2019 were most eyed on political happening all over the world that shows the geo strategic importance of the Indian politics. Now, the results of the polls are on the board and BJP won with the thumping majority. The people in Pakistan also followed the elections, like the rest of the […]