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IN PRAISE OF A ‘TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

 

    Sometimes silence becomes a serious crime whether it is on the part of the crushed ones or on the part of those who claim to be the caretakers of the crushed ones. Sometimes a long silence pops up into the form of a disastrous protest and a catastrophic reaction ultimately giving birth to a large scale bloodshed and massacre. Same is the etymology of the Naxalite movement inIndia. “The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country is the Naxalite Movement,” said Dr.Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister somewhere in 2006. The Naxalites claim they represent the poorest rural populations ofIndia, especially the Adivasis. The Naxalites frequently target tribal lords, police officials and government machinery and call their struggle a fight for improved land rights and more jobs for neglected agricultural labourers and the poor. AsRead More »IN PRAISE OF A ‘TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’

FROM KASHMIR SINGH TO SARABJEET SINGH

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PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

Playing with the lives of so many innocent Pakistanis, causing a lot of destruction and spreading an air of harassment and terror could never be the aim and objective of anyone belonging to the Sikh community because the Sikhs call Pakistanthe Land of their Guru Jee. What were the factors which compelled Surjeet Singh and Sarabjeet Singh to violate all their religious norms and traditions; certainly they might not have done it willingly; they might have been pushed rather forced to do so. In fact it is a common practice along the Indo-Pak Wahga border on the Indian side that the agents of the Indian army and the RAW keep on searching for the poverty-ridden Indians; no matter they are the Hindus or the Sikhs; they promise them a future full of prosperity and opulence and convince them to go across the border to Pakistani area and work there for the cruelly heinous plans of the Indian army and the RAW. Most of the time it happens that the children or any of other members of a poor Indian are Read More »FROM KASHMIR SINGH TO SARABJEET SINGH

ISLAMABAD: New residential sectors, interchanges, flyovers figure in Rs 28bn CDA budget

Associated Press of Pakistan

* Rs 6.5bn project will replace Islamabad’s 65,000 streetlights with LED lights

The Capital Development Authority on Wednesday approved its annual budget 2012-13 with total outlay of Rs 28 billion, with main focus on launching of two residential sectors and construction of interchanges, flyovers, and signal-free avenues.

“We have approved Rs 28 billion budget. It will be announced within a couple of days,” Chairman Farkhand Iqbal told APP. The all-powerful CDA Board has approved the annual budget and it has almost approved all budgetary proposals put forward by the CDA’s Finance Wing.Read More »ISLAMABAD: New residential sectors, interchanges, flyovers figure in Rs 28bn CDA budget

LEARNING FROM THE WESTERN MEDIA

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PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

Usually in a democratic set-up, the responsibility of maintenance of law and order must go indirectly onto the shoulders of the political forces but inPakistanthe politicians are most of the time least interested in the solution of problems that a common man has to face in his every day life. A general indifference and lack of concern regarding the common man’s problems has become a traditional trait of political and democratic rulers. So eventually all eyes turn to the law enforcing agencies for a positive and fruitful solution of the problem. It is a day-light actuality that maintaining of law and order is a wearisome, mind-numbing and somewhat unrewarding job, demanding higher level of discipline, professional brilliance and selfless dedication. Following their professional obligation the law enforcing agencies have to perform their best to come up to the public expectations regardless of unfavorable circumstances blemished with moral corrosion, social malice and political impiety. Read More »LEARNING FROM THE WESTERN MEDIA

AFRIDI BEHIND THE BARS?

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

 My younger son was depressingly disappointed when one day he was reading a headline in a western newspaper, ‘Afridi Behind the Bars’. In a very dismal tone he said to me, “Baba! These western newspapers are simply damaging the repute of our national hero Shahid Afridi by such misguiding headlines.” I said, “Don’t take it so serious; it might be a printing mistake.” The history ofPakistanwould always remember two Afridis, Shahid Afridi and Dr. Shakeel Afridi, no doubt, two extreme contradictions to each other. Shahid Afridi would always be remembered as a beacon of Read More »AFRIDI BEHIND THE BARS?