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By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD: Beacon House School organizes an event pertaining to building youth's leadership worth here on Thursday, July 21, 2011. 

By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD: Britain's High Commissioner to Pakistan, on Friday (July 22, 2011) announced government of Great Britain as well as people donated Rs. 28 billion for Pakistani flood victims in one-year. DFID's chief in Pakistan George Turkington tells about 70% of the aid is being utilized in providing shelters, food, health facilities, rebuilding schools and flood resistant homes. He stresses a lot more is yet to be done, especially in combating malnutrition.  

By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD , July 9: In drizzling capital, political scene is yet hot, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) has desired to take all opposition parties on same page including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F), though JUI-F denied any such move initiated by PML-N. Parties in the opposition, mainly PML-N and Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) seem quite enthusiastic in shaking hands despite having history of calling bad names to each other. Mutahida's second time departure from government alliance has been regarded widely among political circles as well as publicly. Yet Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at a public meeting in federal capital reiterated his party's stance as trying to agree MQM. "We are maintaining close connections with MQM and looking forward to succeed in agreeing Altaf Hussain to rejoin coalition", Gilani said on Tuesday adding that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has no apprehensions even from Grand Opposition Alliance. PML-N and MQM on F...

ISLAMABAD: After implementation of 18th amendment, there are many institutions that are devolved to provincial governments from center. Due to some differences on the issue, provincial governments are reluctant to accept these institutions. National Education Foundation (NEF) is one of them where around 15000 teachers and 2000 other employees are expected to become jobless. Similar is the case with National Commission of Human Development (NCHD).

By: Haroon Baloch ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has become the worst country for journalists' safety. Journalist community strongly condemned brutal killing of investigative journalist Saleem Shehzad and staged a sit-in in front of parliament house. It resulted in formulation of a judicial commission that is investigating the matter. 

By: Haroon Baloch

By: Haroon Baloch

By: Haroon Baloch Floods in Pindi's Nullah Lai have quite often proved to be the deadliest for people living on both banks, suffer the most. 

By: Haroon-ur-Rasheed ISLAMABAD , (July 7, 2011): The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has been waiting for ‘go ahead’ from Sindh and Punjab provinces to grab 200 million gallons per day water from Indus River , so to resolve chronic water deficiency problem of Islamabad/Rawalpindi residents. This correspondent learnt this from CDA administration where an official talking to this correspondent said, “Allocation of Indus Water for the twin cities’ residents seems bone of contention between the provinces and CDA, which has been lingering the execution of this valuable project.” During the recent meeting of Council of Common Interest (CCI) held on 31 st May, 2011 in the chair of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, it has been enforced to settle the issue of water allocation from the provinces as soon as possible, so to kick off with this project. As per CDA, feasibility has already been completed, whereas PC-I of the scheme, at a cost of Rs. 37405.58 million with FEC o...

By: Haroon Baloch   First decade of 21 st century yielded mere crises for Pakistan . In post 9/11 era, war imposed by US and its allies caused major setbacks to country's growth and prosperity. Around $70 billions have been spent from nation's taxes in 10 years to fight war against terror in Pakistan , sacrificed around 40 thousand lives including 7000 troops. Loss is impossible to calculate when it comes to analyze hesitant foreign investment. Apart from flour, sugar, earthquake, floods and others crises Pakistani nation has seen in first 10 years of the century, the most threatening one to our economy is energy crisis. According to careful estimates, over 0.45 million people have become jobless and figure is expected to go higher in upcoming years. Government of Pakistan has remained incapable of delivering the results since it pledged to fight with energy crisis, gifted by previous regime, apart from ensuring Roti, Kapra aur Makan . What we have seen, gover...