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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

Smart Vote Campaign Introduced in Pakistan by a Private NGO to educate yougsters about the importance of vote. Largest chunk of Pakistani population doesn't know about strength of vote and its impact on their lives. NGO aims to let youngsters know about its impact on their lives and also to bring their elected members in open accountability exercises. By: Haroon Baloch

Haroon Baloch: Failures in Our ‘National Security’, Who’s Respons... : "By: Haroon Baloch A vindictive security lapse around Sunday midnight ensued into huge military loss exposing strengths of Pakistani nati..."

By: Haroon Baloch A vindictive security lapse around Sunday midnight ensued into huge military loss exposing strengths of Pakistani national security, leaving thousands of questions in the minds of countrymen and answering alike-wise to enemies. Pakistan Navy sacrificed around $75 million P-3C Orions and 10 lives during assault with anti-state elements. Physical damage may be measureable but the actual loss in terms of disclosure is indeterminate. Frequency of such attacks on security forces has rapidly increased and strategy has changed during the past 18 months or so, which also included two major assaults on Pakistani security forces where enemies or so called terrorists succeeded in penetrating deep into their camps and engaged security forces in combats. First attempt was made on General Headquarter of Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi back in October 2009 when terrorists breached security check points while disguising themselves into army uniforms and using fake identities. 11 troo

By: Haroon Baloch May 16, 2011 Nationalism lacks in our society since everyone is carrying different agendas. Pakistani federation constitutes of several nations, but recognition is still missing at very large. Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir are majorly considered provincial divisions, but there are other chunks populations struggling for being recognized and to enjoy their self-determination rights. Saraiki population is one of major populations in Pakistan, around 60 million of total, dwell largely in northwestern and southern Punjab. Similarly, Hazara people share equal land of Northwestern part of the country and a couple of other populations on the similar pattern. Somewhere 1200 kilometers from Pakistani federal capital in southwestern part of the country, it has become a traditional news of bullet-riddled corpses found of missing Baloch nationalists. They were kept in hiding by state security forces since they were demanding th