POL prices

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has increased the prices of High Speed Diesel by Rs1.57 per litre to Rs74.60, Light Diesel Oil by Rs1.35 to Rs62.67 and kerosene by Rs0.72 per litre to Rs65.57.

Drug black-marketing

Parliamentary Secretary of Health Punjab and Chairman Chief Minister Taskforce on Spurious Drugs, Dr Saeed Elahi has said that some elements were taking extra benefit of the flood situation in the province and selling life saving drugs in black market.

Unemployment

ETHSAM WAHEED, ISLAMABAD

Out of 160m Pakistanis, 100m are under the age 25. With all the eyes on the release of budget for FY 2010, the youth awaits its destiny.

Media the way ahead

AMMAR ZAFARULLAH, ISLAMABAD

In the recent times the nation witnessed devastating floods and then the inhumane tragedy of mob violence in Sialkot.

Match fixing

SHAMILA KHAN, LAHORE

As the issue of Pakistani cricketers’ involvement in match fixing came to surface, they are being severely criticized.

Crumbling Democracy

LUBNA UMAR, ISLAMABAD

Democracy, right from its inception has been crumbling as one after the other our political leaders, without paying any attention to the gigantic responsibility it thrusts upon their shoulders, have ruled the country as their personal territory.

Take responsible to task

MOHAMMAD KHAN SIAL; KARACHI

It was unfortunate, some federal govt departments despite having the information about super floods in advance, did not convey the correct information on time to provinces and also did not take effective measures to inform the public on large scale through print and electronic media.

Is it a frame-up?

Mohammad Jamil

Cricket over the years has become a big business throughout the world, and players not only from Pakistan India, Sri Lanka and South Africa, but also from rich and developed countries like Australia and England were charged for match-fixing.

Media’s role in struggle for Pakistan

Zafar Alam Sarwar

The topic of debate in some quarters today is that media is playing an important role in society.

Independence movements in India

Zaheerul Hassan

Many states of the world so-called largest democratic country are undergoing brutality of inhuman actions of Indian armed forces.

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TAUNTON (England): Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq leave the team hotel for a practice session on the eve of their warm-up match against English county team Somerset.