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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Kalbe Ali |Zohaib Majeed
There is a question mark regarding the ownership of Ufone. Pakistan Telecommunication Ltd (PTCL) has openly and regularly claimed that the telecom company is part of the Etisalat group, whereas the records show that the government of Pakistan was the majority shareholder of Ufone. Ufone was established in 2001 as a subsidiary of PTCL, and after the bidding process, Etisalat got management control of PTCL in 2006 as well as its subsidiary Ufone with 26 per cent shares at $2.6 billion.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Waqar Ahmad |Khalid Wattoo |Zohaib Majeed
In recent years, Pakistan has been grappling with twin challenges: ensuring an adequate food supply to meet the dietary needs of a rapidly growing population (food security) and safeguarding public health by mitigating hazards during food production, processing, and storage (food safety). Pakistan is severely impacted by its ineffective food control system. One in five people has a foodborne illness — twice the global average.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani |Zohaib Majeed
• Fund’s team to engage with key ministries, FBR, disaster agencies, provincial govts• Policy review to follow next week to assess govt’s performance under Extended Fund Facility• All but one structural benchmark ‘complete as of now’, sources sayISLAMABAD: A technical mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) begins discussions in Islamabad today (Monday) on Pakistan’s request for over $1 billion in additional financing for climate resilience.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani |Zohaib Majeed
ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (APPDA) on Sunday threatened a nationwide strike in protest against the government’s plan to deregulate oil prices without consulting relevant stakeholders. The proposed deregulation, spearheaded by the petroleum division and the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), has sparked fears of foreign dominance over Pakistan’s oil market.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Jamil Nagri |Zohaib Majeed
GILGIT: The first round of negotiations between the representatives of Diamer-Basha Dam affected people and Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Amir Muqam held in Chilas on Sunday ended in a deadlock. On his request, the protesters refused to call off their sit-in and instead urged people of other areas to join their sit-in.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Devasis Chattopadhyay |Zohaib Majeed
OVER 30 million Indians died due to recurring famines during the 19th century under British rule. During these famines, average rural Indians found it nearly impossible to procure food grains. In their struggle for survival, like any human being at any time in any civilisation, they were willing to migrate to new locations where they could secure two square meals a day and provide for their families.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Zohaib Majeed |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Muna Khan
Kashmir: The Unfinished Agenda of PartitionLt Col (r) Syed Iftikhar AhmedRoyal Book CompanyThe book provides the complete history of Jammu & Kashmir, from the rule of the Mughals followed by the Sikhs and Britishers and how the latter left the Subcontinent after dividing it into two dominions, Pakistan and India, while leaving Kashmir in limbo. Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority, has since then remained the main source of friction between Pakistan and India.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Zahid Hussain |Muhammad Siddiqi |Zohaib Majeed |Muhammad Amir Rana
A Dialogue with HistoryBy Zahid HussainLightstone PublishersISBN: 978-969-716-288-8625pp. Dialogue with History consists of interviews of 39 people in “position of authority” conducted by Zahid Hussain, an award-winning journalist and prolific writer, over the course of his work over two decades. Those interviewed are both Pakistani and foreign and all of the interviews were conducted between 1983 and 2003 and thus some are more than 40 years old.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Rehana Alam |Zohaib Majeed |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir
The Sheila from Pakistan: A Collection of Short StoriesBy Rabia AhmedFerozsonsISBN: 978-969-0-02927-0160pp. The Sheila from Pakistan is a collection of short stories by Rabia Ahmed who has previously written a novel, The Parking Lot. Ahmed is a freelance writer and has been published in newspapers such as Express Tribune, Friday Times, Dawn and Pakistan Today. Some of Ahmed’s stories have been part of the literary magazine Papercuts, and also the WWF anthology: Book of the Flood.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Syed Nomanul Haq |Zohaib Majeed |Muhammad Amir Rana |Abbas Nasir
At a first glance, one feels jitters going through the spine to note the title Ghalib gave to his 1857-1858 diary of that fateful Indian insurrection, forever carved in South Asian Muslim consciousness as ghadr [rebellion/treachery]. He called it Dastanbu — a word of archaic Persian meaning “a fragrant bouquet.”Why would Ghalib present a bouquet to his readers while his homeland was in the throes of unspeakable bloodbath, witnessing exiles and dispossessions and public executions?
