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On April 26, 2012, on one hand the Supreme League Court had given a verdict against an elected Premier, while on the other people supported the candidate of PPP in South Punjab in by-elections in Multan PP-194. On May 12, 2012, in Kamoo Shaheed, Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) held the largest public procession in the country by any political party [...]

    I appreciate Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant (SIUT) and the Transplant Society of Pakistan (TSP). 7th April was observed as 'Organ Donation Day' by SIUT and TSP. Transplant surgeons are of view that our country is facing acute shortage of cadaver organ donations and because of that around 50,000 lives are lost [...]

  Over 200 polio cases were officially reported during 2011, and this year in 2012, it is going to be even worse despite some precautionary measures are being taken. There are so many factors contributing towards the rise in polio cases in Pakistan, for example widespread corruption on the organisational level, poor planning, lack of public [...]

Former military dictator Musharraf issued second PCO (Provisional Constitutional Order) of history of Pakistan. On January 26, 2000, "Oath of Office (Judges) Order, 2000" was issued that required that judiciary to take oath of office under the PCO. Other Supreme Court judges did not take Oath but Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took oath By [...]

On April 30, 1999, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed disclosed to media that there was a definite role of Osama bin Laden, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan army's 111 Brigade in toppling her first government in early 1990s. “Bin Laden financed an operation to topple me in cooperation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistani intelligence [...]

The Liver Transplant Centre (LTC) that has been set up at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) at the cost of Rs14 billion is a big let down. The huge amount from national exchequer spent on the centre does not reflect in facilities and quality of treatment being provided to patients. The centre was established in June last year [...]

Yet, another summon to an elected Prime Minister by the ISI-backed Supreme Court to explain his position on on 13 February for not witting the much wanted letter to Swiss courts to re-open politically motivated graft cases against President Zardari of Pakistan. Earlier, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appeared in the court on 19 January 2012 [...]

I was visiting my home district of Badin for Eid al Adha and used this opportunity to visit flood affected areas of my district. Just to tell readers, Badin is a big district of Sindh blessed with natural resources like Oil and Gas reserves while also housing a number of sugar mills. It has high quality rice, spices and sunflower being produced. [...]

Article 295 of the constitution of Pakistan describes that "Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction damage or [...]

This is with reference to the incident at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS ) where two innocent lives were lost. I have no words to condemn this sad incident and what is worse is that this is not first incident of its kind — eight months back, a trained group of 52 deadly terrorists of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP ) had planned [...]

US researchers claim that Gay marriage 'improves health'. A research published in "American journal of Public health" Research shows "There was a reduction in blood pressure problems, depression and "adjustment disorders", which the authors claimed could be the result of reduced stress." There is a known link between health and happiness. [...]

Jinnah gave expression to his vision of Pakistan in an address to the Constituent Assembly, delivered on August 11, 1947. He spoke of an inclusive and impartial government, religious freedom, rule of law and equality for all. He also seemed to advocate the separation of religion and state. August 11, 1947 address of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali [...]

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari left for Dubai for his routine medical checkup, vicious anchors and doomsayer section of media started their vitriolic campaign against the great leader of the east.The president’s personal physician had also emphasised earlier that it was a ‘routine’ checkup and the medical tests were linked to a [...]

Yet again, a Chief Justice of Pakistan (Iftikhar Chaudhry) along with a Punjabi politician (Nawaz Sharif) is playing a dangerous game against democracy and Pakistan. Yet again, our holy guardians in GHQ (Generals Kayani et al) are pulling the real strings Nawaz Sharif's move to take memo issue to  the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic [...]

Pakistan Peoples Party is the pioneer of democracy in Pakistan. It not only gave democracy to the country but a consensus constitution too. Not just the credit for giving the constitution, it has also made redundant the dictatorial clauses in the constitution through the 18th Amendment. It is the successive governments of this party that gave all [...]

Dengue brothers' plan to step up 'go Zardari drive' is apotheosis of anti-democratic move. This clearly shows they have not learnt a lesson from their past mistakes. Nawaz Sharif's call for agitation recalls his 1990s politics (ISI+IJI sponsored), but gone are the days when the military and its puppets used to conspire for removing PPP from [...]

In 1977, PPP’s elected government was deposed by a military coup by General Zia-ul-Haq who deposed our first elected Prime Minister, put him behind the bars and then executed him. Former first lady, woman of principles, Mother of democracy Shaheed Begum Nusrat Bhutto, though, made no compromise on democracy and fundamental rights of people. She [...]

Until latest reports Dengue epidemic in Punjab has claimed 178 lives, of which 168 deaths occurred in Lahore alone. Total number of dengue patients in Punjab reached 12,946 out of which 11,343 belonged to provincial capital Lahore. Number of casualties are feared to raise due to lack of governance in Punjab. I would like to assert that Punjab 's [...]

Federal Ministry of Health formally issued a Career Structure of Health Personnel (CSHP) notification for those serving in the government institutions and related organizations functioning under the federal government. The basic pay scales scheme ( BPS 1 to 22) currently applicable to the health personnel will be replaced by the Health Personnel [...]

  A brave man, an outspoken party worker and ardent senior minister of Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza's viewpoint about MQM (Mafia group) is proving to be straightaway accurate. Few months back when he was Home Minister Of Sindh, he openly criticized the MQM, while addressing to business community of Karachi at the Chamber of Commer. In his address, [...]

For the first time the only leader of subcontinent Muhammad Ali Jinnah took decision to make a independent homeland for Muslims of subcontinent and waged a battle for their rights, He faced taunts of "British agent" from forefathers of same school of thought of today's mullahs; those mullahs called him British agent and character assassination of [...]

Recently terrorists' apologists media highlighted the survey of U.S based institution PEW(FEW). FEW's research survey showed that Al-qaeda chief of Pakistan maulana Nawaz Sharif stood second in popularity, while another Al-qaeda leader Maulana Imran Khan topped the list.  According to that survey , the President of Pakistan,  Asif Ali zardari is [...]

 21st June 2011, marks the 58th birthday of Great leader of the world, Daughter of the East. Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto was a visionary leader. She was committed to her homeland and her beloved country. She struggled for democracy in Pakistan within the country and abroad. When she returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007, her [...]

  Sindh government announced its tax free budget for fiscal year 2011-12, in which it raised 100 percent salaries of young doctors. According to Finance Minister Of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah; monthly salaries of house -job doctors to be increased to Rs 24,000 from the current Rs 12,000 while the salaries of post -graduate doctors [...]

Some words of strong condemnation against drone attacks by General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani: “Drone attacks are complete violation of human rights, such acts of violence take us away from our objective of elimination of terrorism” “It is imperative to understand that this critical objective cannot be sacrificed for temporary tactical [...]