Sep

16

Pakistan in the grip of crises

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Pakistan is in the grip of various types of crisis. It is faced with the threat of fully fledged US attack in the tribal areas, there is political instability in the country as the ruling coalition has fallen apart and the economy of the country is in bad shape. There is acute energy crisis in the country and people have to do without electricity for long hours.

It has been only five years after the new government was formed and it has already lost credibility with the people. Ordinary people of the country who had voted to bring about a change in their fate now feel that the government has forgotten all the promises which it made during electioneering. If it continues like this, then I am sure that the government will not complete its term. It will have to go under mounting pressure from public.

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Sep

16

Plight of Dr Aafia’s children

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The twelve year son of Dr Aafia Siddiqui has returned to Pakistan. Dr Aafia was accused of maintaining close links with Al Qaeda elements. She was abducted from Karachi with her three children 2003 and her whereabouts were not known since then. The US authorities disclosed her presence only after international press reported about a mysterious woman prisoner at Bagram airbase a few months back.

The custody of the boy has been handed over to her aunt Dr Fauzia who lives in Islamabad. The whereabouts of the remaining two children of Dr Aafia are still not known. Even if Dr Aafia has anything to do with Al Qaeda, what was the fault of her minor children?

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