Showing posts with label PTI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTI. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Not bad even after 60 years

Ever since this unfortunate country came into being, no government ever realized that people can also fell ill after 2pm and children can also be born after 2pm, the kidney stone is also not 2pm-time-bound, diarrhea, which can’t wait for seconds, can also not wait for 8am time when state-run hospitals open.
The government in the KPK has started evening and night facility of out-patient department in government-run hospitals for the first time in the history of the country.
The service has been started in four hospitals in Peshawar on experimental basis. Now people won’t have to wait for 8am to fell sick, give birth, remove kidney stone and prevent from diarrhea.

No one is Pakistan ever realized that there are hundreds of thousands of drug addicts in the country. Pakistan has a very powerful and dreaded Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). It doesn’t have to wait for any permission from any other authority before busting any drug shipment anywhere in Pakistan.
It is heavily funded by the international community, which wants Pakistan to curb the growth of poppy crop and drug trafficking. Made in Pakistan heroine and hashish ultimately lands in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
The mafia here is so strong that none of them was ever caught by the ANF. The ANF only catches drug traffickers. It never caught any drug lord. The mafia once destroyed a helicopter given by some international donor to destroy the poppy crop with poisonous spray.
Now the good news, the government in KPK has made a 150-bed hospital for drug addicts. The hospital that will operate in Peshawar is equipped with all the facilities of a drug rehabilitation center.
Someone in Pakistan realized after 60 years that the country has, among many others achievements of proud, a considerable population of drug addicts and that there must be a rehabilitation facility for them.



Saturday, November 5, 2011

What's wrong with journalists discrediting Imran Khan

A certain section of the media has started giving negative coverage to Imran Khan's political rally in Lahore. All sorts of comments - ranging from Imran Khan being a novice in "real politics" of Pakistan to his too much belief in himself - have been given in various opinion pieces. Veteran journalist Najam Sethi in his recent article in The Friday Times has questioned Imran Khan's political prospects.
Before the Lahore rally, Najam Sethi and many other journalist like him never considered Imran Khan a serious political force. Sethi, although very good in analysing Pakistan's social and political atmosphere, failed to foresee Khan's popularity. In many of his television shows, Sethi has declared the PML-N the only political force in central Punjab and ruled out any future prospects for Imran Khan. Other journalists also shared this view.
However, the PTI's Lahore rally on October 30, 2011, negated all prevailing opinions about Khan's popularity and embarrassed the opinion makers. This negative media coverage is nothing except you-are-right-but-I-am-also-correct approach.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

PTI rally versus PML-N rally


I can I will! courtesy AFP.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) mass congregation at Minar-e-Pakistan is the largest by all social and politcal standards of Pakistan. The PTI is a 15-year-old budding party, who has never been in the power not even in the opposition in the elected houses. The PTI has arranged 50,000 seats for the people. These seats were filled several hours before the congregation started. Various media assessments state the number of audience around 70,000 people in the PTI rally.
This number is huge when all these people come on their own. On the other hand, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz used all unfair means to gather people in their rally two days ago. All the government departments, revenue officials and bureaucracy were ordered to bring buses laden with people carrying party flags and banners. The bureaucracy in Gujranwala alone arranged 400 buses to fill the PML-N’s Lahore rally. However, all the people in the PTI congregation came on their own, paid their own fare, ordered the party flags themselves. When Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) fills its rallies by threat, the PML-N owes its large political gatherings to Patwaris (revenue officials), the PTI’s Lahore congregation is mammoth because it was filled in by the people of Pakistan.