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By  Zoon Ahmad Khan Punjab’s problems are not only escalating (vertically), but also very visibly expanding (horizontally). The unscheduled load shedding, Energy Crisis, and the Doctor’s strike. The perceived culprits in Punjab’s suffering vary from the federal government, the provincial, or corruption and the jealous peripheries, influenced for the most part by prior political leaning. During the past few weeks we have witnessed deep conflict between the Punjab government and the Young Doctors’ Association, little was spoken about the health structure proposed by each party. The morality of doctors, who gave up their duties and put lives at stake, has been questioned. The Punjab government has aired a campaign against the YDA strike worth Rs 40 million, and used army doctors to pressurize the young lot going astray. Only on Friday, Punjab government also replaced the Principals of Allama Iqbal Medical College (Dr. Javed Akram) and Quaid-e-Azam Medical College. Was this ...

Profiting from Gangs? By Dr Shahid Qureshi British actor Ross Kemp’s program about ‘Gangs’ in the world gives an interesting insight. I was watching one of his programs about the ‘gang war in El Salvador’. He interviewed rival gangs, their everyday lives in the streets, role of police and lives in prisons. After interviewing all the notorious gangs like MS13 he asked a local journalist Lino Gomez with great connections to comment about the gang war 12 murders a day in a population less than London. Lino Gomez said; ‘According to DEA (US Drugs Enforcement Agency)  report  there is a movement of 570 tons of pure cocaine from El Salvador to US worth around $30,000 million ($30 billion) every year. These gangs or its members can not move that amount of cocaine (570 tons worth US $30 billion) and live the way they live. He was of the opinion that to run a drugs business of $30 billion smoothly there is need for a clique of tattoos, violence, corruption because it catche...

Opening of supply lines will intensify terrorism in Pakistan By Brig (Retd) Asif Haroon Raja   Once the might of US military-NATO got bogged down in the swamp of Afghanistan, rather than making corrections at its end, Pentagon and CIA made Pakistan a scapegoat and blamed it for all their faults. Finding no explanation to offer for their dismal performance despite enjoying all the strategic and technical advantages, the US after playing up extremist threat to the integrity of Pakistan and drumming up the vulnerability of Pakistan’s nuclear program, it started portraying North Waziristan (NW) as the biggest den of terrorists wherefrom cross border attacks were launched against ISAF inside Afghanistan. Instead of learning from history and putting their own house in order and introducing some innovative training concepts matching the challenges faced as had been done by Gen Kayani, Gen McChrystal followed by Gen Petraeus and Gen John Allen kept fighting guerrilla war on con...

By Brig (Retd) Samson S Sharaf In the study and commentary of Arthashastra written by Vinshnugupta Kautilya Chanakya, I learned that the sub continent had a formative influence on the Arab World of antiquity in arts, governance and sciences. Later, through trade and warfare, this knowledge fused with the Persian and Chinese schools of thought transferred to Europe in the times of Hazrat Omar Bin Abdul Aziz, Muslim rule of Spain and the Abbasside Khilafat. The Asian Civilisation Episodes and their effect on renaissance by the Discovery Channel have refocused this obscure development. Imran Khan’s referral to Omar’s Law is an indirect reference to this transitional fact. From antiquity to middle ages, the Arabian Peninsula remained the commercial and educational hub of the world. Caravans used the traditional silk routes to debouch from as far afar as Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Sub Continent and China transferring goods and with it politics and knowledge. Arab sail...

By S M Hali Kashmir ‘Martyrs’ Day’ is observed every year on 13 July to commemorate this day in 1931, when 21 Kashmiris made the supreme sacrifice of their valuable lives for the supreme cause of freedom of Kashmir from the clutches of despotic Dogra rulers. Dogra rule (1846-1947), which is considered the darkest period in the history of Kashmir, is replete with tyrannical and oppressive treatment of Kashmiris by Dogra forces. The subjugated and downtrodden Kashmiris, under the yoke of repressive Dogra rule, were leading a life worse than that of animals. Throughout Dogra regime, slave labour, capital punishment for cow slaughter and living under terror was order of the day. The Kashmiri Muslims had no self respect and even their religious freedom had been snatched away.  It was on 19th April 1931 that the Dogra DIG Chowdry Ram Chand barred Imam Munshi Muhammad Ishaq from giving Eid sermon in the Municipal Park of Jammu. This incident sparked off widespread protest demon...

  Counterespionage debriefing reveals how Israel targeted U.S. by  Grant Smith ,  On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially  declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S.* The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was convicted of running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel’s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network’s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing “Project Pinto.” As revealed in  previously released FBI files  and the tell-all book   Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milcha...

by Lawrence Davidson   I – Come November Soon it will be presidential voting time again in the U.S.. That four year cycle comes to us with the regularity of a returning comet, accompanied by a shroud of campaign fog that makes a guessing game of discerning fact from fiction when it comes to political promises. A hefty minority have opted out of this process. Thus, if history runs consistent, when the designated day in November arrives, between 38 and 40% of America’s eligible voters will automatically (without even thinking about it) stay away from the polls. Voting appears not to be part of their local culture: they obviously do not think the results touch them in a personal way.  They feel their vote is meaningless, and they see the candidates as irredeemable liars not to be taken seriously. The behavior of this minority is not in doubt. However, there is yet another group of eligible voters whose actions in November are in doubt. These are people who are r...