Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that more than 100 heart patients had died in and out of various hospitals from reactions to a dubious drug distributed by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), outlining the scope of the catastrophe, now in its fifth day, that has caused widespread panic. In a strange move, the chief minister revealed figures that were a lot more than the ones reported to the media by the Health Department. Shahbaz told reporters after a meeting held to review the measures taken to overcome the situation that the drug samples had been sent to drug testing laboratories in Britain and France through two responsible people and action would be taken upon receiving the lab reports.
The debacle of Gaddhafi’s regime after an un-exptedly long military intervention was the point of resurgence for NATO and the many Arab nations that took part. The campaign came at a time when NATO was stretched thin, and its Arab allies had never enjoyed such a reputation. As such, as is the case before every major war, no one expected them to do much. It came as a surprise when NATO leaders and regional countries like Qatar and Kuwait doled out money and men in an unprecedented campaign of military intervention, something that atleast the Arab countries were never expected to be good at. The swift end of the Qaddhafi regime was the successful completion of the testing of new, more pro-active foreign policies of the participating Arab countries.
The term slavery has various connotations;however the most aberrant remains the literal ‘buying and selling’ of humans for the most atrocious and abominable purposes. What qualifies under the parameters of slavery is still a grey area but it is not unwise to say that killings of domestic help,for any reason whatsoever takes us back to the dark ages when such practises were witnessed every day – another glimpse into the barbaric lives of ‘the uncivilised societies’.
Norway’s internal security chief resigned late on Wednesday after revealing confidential information that the country had intelligence agents in Pakistan, government officials said.
“Ultimately,a right step in the wrong direction.”
Firstly,let’s not get emotional. There are many downsides to a World with free knowledge,for instance,infringement of intellectual property rights. Random Facebook users have been known to create pages like ‘Hotties of Pakistan’ with photographs only your friends were supposed to have access to and comments that whore girls down. Had it been for acts like SOPA and PIPA that mess could’ve been avoided (#JustSaying). So there definitely are many downsides to less monitoring which include hate-speech,racism,plain lying to misguide the public on the internet. These problems’ roots lie in ‘free’ distribution of knowledge. Fact:accountability has become a necessity.
US-Pakistan relations have historically ranged from eras of strong friendships to periods of outright animosities, sanctions and embargoes. This on-again-off-again (non)relationship has been epitomized by the US’ ruthless and brutal exploitation of Pakistan’s peculiar political, economic and strategic vulnerabilities; and her remorseless betrayals of Pakistan at critical times!
The first betrayal:
Pakistan joined the US camp in the 1950s and became a member of SEATO and CENTO – earning the abiding animosity of the erstwhile Warsaw Pact/Soviet Union. However, the US’ peculiar role in the 1965 war with India put paid to this Pakistani fantasy as it laid bare the essentials of this non-alliance and opened up her eyes (and mercifully the road to China).
Osama Bin Laden cheated the gallows and died five years before US security forces officially announced he was killed,says a former CIA agent,currently living in Turkey.
I knew Bin Laden’s Chechen guards very well,Berkan Yashar,himself an ethnic Chechen,told the Russian TV station,Channel One. Samy,Ayub and Mahmud were with him right to the end. I remember well this date as there were three sixes in it – June 26,2006. Those three men,as well as two Muslims from London and two from the US saw Bin Laden dead.He was seriously ill before his death. He faded away to skin and bone. The three Chechens washed his body before burying it.
Senior politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said on Thursday that even though he had respect for Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, he detested the way his former party had been used as the chief’s personal property.
Addressing a gathering in Multan, he welcomed former deputy mayor Multan Nadeem Qureshi into PTI ranks while unleashing scathing attacks on his former party’s leaders. The former PML-N stalwart asserted that the party was not subservient to an individual family, adding that even though Nawaz had visited London at least 40 times in the past three years, he failed to visit Multan more than a couple of times, and continued to ignore his requests.
A day that starts with beeps of communication devices even before the dawn has officially broken and ends with tears of tired and over worked eyes and a brain with overload of mostly useless information. Between the start and end is a blur,a bombardment of electronic communication based on texts,images,voice,videos,data and God knows what else.
Not to mention waking your kids in cold winter mornings to go to school,where they will eat crap and get “educated” from teachers who are least interested in their jobs and over tired from the private tuition’s they give after school till late at night (because that’s where the real money is!). In the school children will socialize and interact with all kinds of kids with some strange family structures and with financially constrained and depressed teachers who have been given total control of children belonging to much higher economic class or maybe our children will get bullied or get influenced / pressurized to take part in some less desirable activities.
Despite no promotional campaign, attraction for cigarettes remained stable as Pakistanis burned Rs200 billion on smoking in fiscal 2011.
The startling cigarette production figures, provided by the State Bank of Pakistan in its latest statistical bulletin, show the number of cigarettes produced in the fiscal 2011 increased over last year.
The official figures do not show complete production figures because a number of unregistered factories across the country produce low-grade cigarettes with cheaper selling prices.
Taking up the issue of Sindh’s ailing drainage system, President Asif Ali Zardari reiterated his call for fashioning a workable and comprehensive ‘master plan’ to systematically deal with the drainage of stagnated water following two consecutive years of flooding.
The master plan — which envisages 20 years of irrigation revamping of the province — is to include the restoring, remodelling and enhancing of the discharge capacity of the existing drainage system.
Developed for troops serving on glaciers high in the Himalayas,the non-flushing “bio-digester” toilet made by India’s top defence research body is now being offered to companies and poorer states.
It is one of 200 technologies produced by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) identified as for sale via the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
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