Pakistan leads in newborn deaths on March 1, 2018UNICEF’s report titled Every Child Alive: the urgent need to end newborn deaths published last week highlighting the startling situation for newborn children revealed staggering statistics of newborn deaths. According to the report, globally, 2.6 million babies die every year before they turn one-month old. Around, one million children die within 24 hours after their […]
College teachers’ chronic problems on February 17, 2018On 14 December, 2017, the Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) which is a representative organisation of college teachers in the province, staged a protest in Lahore to persuade the Punjab government to accept their demands for one-step up-gradation, times-scale promotions and on job professional trainings of the college teachers. In reality, not only by […]
Pakistan: dangerous place for children on February 6, 2018The gruesome and cold-blooded incidents like gang-rapes, rapes and killings of innocent girls of tender age have become a regular phenomenon in Pakistan. It seems that the Pakistani society is filled with barbarians, where lives and honour of the little angels are cut short with no fear of punishment as if there is no presence […]
Making DNA admissible on January 31, 2018On January 23, the suspected murderer and rapist of Zainab Amin, named Imran Ali, a neighbour of the victim, was arrested after his DNA matched with those found on Zainab’s body. The suspect was one of the 1150 people who were DNA tested by the Punjab police in the case. But unfortunately, it seems that […]
Establishment of Shaikh Ayaz University in Shikarpur on January 24, 2018A few days ago, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, MPA Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)posted a message on his Facebook page that Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister Sindh, has approved the summary of upgradation of Shah Abdul Latif University, Shaikh Ayaz Campus at Shikarpur to a full-fledged university named ‘Shaikh Ayaz University’. In connection with it, the Higher […]
Injustices committed by the panchayat system on January 9, 2018Influential members of a panchayat or jirga (village council) reportedly raped a girl who married the man of her choice against the wishes of her family in Tandlianwala, Faisalabad. In December 2017, the victim’s father in-law reported at police station Tandlianwala, and said, “she had tied the knot with my son on October 10 but […]
Remembering Sufi poet Budhal Faqeer on January 2, 2018The province of Sindh, better known as the land of Sufis and mystics, had an enormous number of saints and mystics who preached peace, co-existence, tolerance and brotherhood among all humans regardless of their religion, religious sect, race and colour. Reportedly, the great mystic Hussain ibn Mansur al Hallaj proceeding from Gujrat had visited Sindh […]
Deweaponisation of Pakistan needed on December 20, 2017To restore the law and order situation, deter violence, to rid the society of the menace of terrorism and to safeguard the achievements made in military operations such as Zarb-e-Azab and Radd-ul-Fasaad, it is imperative to deweaponise Pakistan. This September, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in his maiden address, had shown keenness to introduce laws […]
The suo moto case of the Katas Raj Temple pond on December 9, 2017On November 23, 2017, a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, proceeded to a suo moto case hearing of the Katas Raj pond situated in the district of Chakwal, Punjab. The matter at hand concerned with the drying up of the pond due to cement factories nearby drawing a large […]
Shikarpur Degree College’s iconic building is in need of renovation on December 1, 2017The classical historical building of C&S Government Degree College was designed by Mr. K.V Joshi, Engineer, and was constructed under the supervision of Mr. San. I. (London), Chief Officer Municipality Shikarpur. The building is one of the few landmarks of Shikarpur’s cultural heritage. Among various contributors, the main donors of the college were Chella Singh, […]