Coming to the act of partition, the British Government had appointed Sir Cyril Radcliffe as head of the Boundary Commission that demarcated the borders between India and Pakistan. He had never even visited the country.
The current socio-economic-political crisis in Pakistan is characterized by a situation where the people are fighting for their survival against a consortium of mafias and political blackmailers. There are fully fledged foreign-sponsored insurgencies.
With the start of the current 22nd program, Pakistan was asked to take tough measures, like the appointment of the Governor of the State Bank, and its high degree of autonomy, removal of subsidies, and burdening the nation with heavy taxes.
Typically, governments would provide relief to the public on Eid. However, as Pakistan faces one of the worst energy crises, people will have to witness load shedding on Eid.
Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views. Some believe fervently that a human person comes into being at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life.
It is unclear why Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif does not attend parliamentary sessions. Perhaps, being the prime minister of a country, he has a busy schedule.
The former prime minister also justified his visit to Russia which coincided with the beginning of the war on February, 24 in his interview with DW’s Richard Walker.