International oil prices actually decreased during last week. Yet petrol prices increased mainly due to increase in petroleum levy which has no connection with international oil prices.
This government doesn’t stop punishing poor citizens.
Who is responsible for this mess? A judicial commission was appointed why it's report was not made public? All those journalists must seek apology who wrote in favor of the project when all these blunders were executed at time of it's constriction. It's governance failure nothing else.
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Trump on NATO:
I was very disappointed with NATO. And frankly, if it weren't held in Türkiye, where my friend — a very strong leader, very strong person — it's possible that I would not have attended.
Heart to heart talk with dear @ameerabbas84 . No more the democratic values of past. Politics and political parties today after Power, Perks, Privileges. Days of principled politics over.
اسحاق ڈار نے چار سال تک مصنوعی طریقے سے ڈالر کو 105 روپے پر رکھا تھا۔
جب میں آیا تھا تو صرف آخری 10 مہینوں میں 11 ارب ڈالر قرض لے کر مارکیٹ میں ڈالے گئے تھے تاکہ روپے کی قدر 105 روپے پر برقرار رکھی جا سکے۔ وہی قرضہ بعد میں وبالِ جان بن گیا تھا۔
صرف آخری 10 مہینوں میں 11 ارب ڈالر مارکیٹ میں ڈالے گئے تھے۔
یہ کون سا کمال کا تیر مار لیا تھا! مفتاح اسماعیل۔
World’s largest democracy India has banned the movie Satluj (formerly Punjab 95) for exposing state atrocities against Sikhs, who make up only 1.7% of India's population. The film, originally to be released in 2025, was allowed after name change and 127 cuts. However, it was banned two days later. it chronicles Jaswant Singh Khalra, who was tortured and killed for documenting extrajudicial killings of Sikhs.
The movie evokes painful memories of broken promises. Both Jinnah and Nehru offered Sikhs semi-autonomous status. Jinnah offered an autonomous Sikh homeland within Pakistan, a parallel parliament, and reservation of key positions like Deputy PM. Nehru made similar but vague commitments, stating at the 1929 Lahore Congress session that the "brave Sikhs of Punjab are entitled to special consideration" and supporting "semi-autonomous units." Sikhs chose Nehru, but he failed to deliver.
In India, after independence states were reorganized on linguistic grounds. Sikhs, a minority in Eastern Punjab, demanded a Punjabi speaking Suba without Hindu Himachal and Haryana, sparking the Punjabi Suba Movement. In 1955, the State Reorganization Commission rejected the demand, arguing that "Punjabi was not distant enough from Hindi."
After years of agitation, Punjab was finally created in 1966, but disputes over the shared capital and river control led to the Anandpur Sahib Resolution of 1973, demanding greater autonomy. The central government labeled these demands secessionist. To break the Akalis, Indira Gandhi encouraged a more radical alternative, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Punjab descended into a full-fledged separatist movement.
In 1984, the Indian army attacked the Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star, leading to Indira Gandhi's assassination and the 1984 Sikh pogroms. Jaswant Khalra documented the period from 1984 to 1995, marked by counter insurgency operations involving mass arbitrary detention, torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances of thousands of Sikhs.
The heavy handedness quelled the insurgency but not the Indian state's fears. Since the early 2000s, Punjab has been flooded with synthetic drugs. According to a 2017 NCBI NIH report, over 75% of Punjab's population is addicted, and nearly every third family has one addict. Nearly 66% of school children have tried drugs. One generation was killed by being labeled terrorists; another has been lost to drugs.
Jaswant Khalra told many stories, but not all. Human rights activist and US Congressman Edolphus Towns noted, "Under the umbrella of democracy, India has killed more than 2.3 to 3.2 million Sikhs since 1947." This is why India banned the film. The mere 25,000 documented cases were less than the tip of the iceberg.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau:
India should understand that we’re not going to make the same mistakes with India that we made with China 20 years ago,
In terms of saying, "Oh, you know, we’re going to let you be able to develop all these markets," and then the next thing we know, you’re beating us in a lot of commercial things.
We’re going to make sure that whatever we do, it’s fair to our people, because ultimately we have to be accountable to our own people, just as the government of India has to be accountable to its people.