SIALKOT: Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Sunday said a ‘thug’ from Sialkot used to show his bravery by jumping into canals when he was in power,.
Cow dung to power buses in Karachi: Zartaj Gul
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Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul. File photo
Cow dungs available at Bhains colony to power buses in Karachi, says climate change minister Zartaj Gul
Gul says that Punjab cracked down on Iranian smuggled oil to overcome an annual loss of Rs250 billion
Climate change minister says 1,100 petrol pumps had been shut down in Balochistan
Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said Monday that the government is planning to generate energy from cow dung available at Bhains colony to power buses in Karachi.
The minister, briefing the Senate on government initiatives, said that the of diesel and petrol being imported in Pakistan was Euro Five quality and the amount of sulfur in Euro Five was 5%.
Being a journalist myself, with a career spanning almost a decade in the field, I have been rattling my brain about the books I have read about my own field in a fast-changing landscape. I’m embarrassed to disclose that my knowledge about my own field is limited, and so I’ve started picking up books on the subject from bookstores. One recently published book I got my hands on is From Terrorism to Television: Dynamics of Media, State and Society in Pakistan, co-edited by the erudite writers and academics Qaisar Abbas and Farooq Sulehria.
I have always had immense respect for their great contributions, which is why I was attracted to the book through their names. Although journalism is a sombre topic, their writings are such that a reader is unable to put the book down. From Terrorism to Television delves deeply into the issues of “media, state and democracy in Pakistan” and, with contributions from scholars and journalists from various cities of Pakistan, it provides readers
The writer is an author.
CERTAIN events in a nation’s history (however traumatic) need to be retrieved from the cupboard of memory. One such occasion occurred 50 years ago, when, following the surrender at Dhaka on Dec 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistanis were herded into trains and transported across India to over a dozen jails and 50 detention camps.
It took Indian Railways three weeks to carry 79,676 Pakistani combatants deemed Prisoners of War and 13,324 non-combatant Civilians under Protective Custody to their destinations. The International Red Cross knew the difference. Treatment of the POWs was governed by the Geneva Convention; the CUPCs were left to the mercy of Mrs Indira Gandhi.
The long-awaited civil service ‘reforms’ announced by the government last week mostly seek to address operational issues.
The long-awaited civil service ‘reforms’ announced by the government last week mostly seek to address operational issues by changing the existing rules of business or drawing up new ones where needed for removal of procedural confusions.
Implementation of these measures is likely to streamline the process involving promotions of civil servants to higher grades by categorically defining the appointing authority, and laying down clear-cut evaluation criteria. New rules have also been drawn up to cut the ‘deadwood’ in the bureaucracy through forced retirement of delinquent officers besides putting in place a mechanism for conducting disciplinary inquiries against the civil servants transparently within a given timeframe. The MP (management professions) Scale policy has also been revised, detailing the changes related to the employees of the management p