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Sahil Saeed Naqash, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was on holiday with his family in the Punjab region of Pakistan when he was kidnapped and held captive for 12 days. The kidnappers had told Sahil’s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, to travel first to Manchester then to Paris to hand over the ransom money of £110,000 which was paid to secure the release of five year old Sahil Saeed. Kidnapping in Pakistan and ransom payment in Paris, am I reading a suspense novel?

eRepublik is increasingly popular browser-based text-game among political enthusiasts. eRepublik tries to replicate real world’s social and political environment in a virtual world, referred as “eWorld.”

On registration every player picks a country of citizenship. Once they have selected the country they want to serve, they start as new born baby in the game. Object of every new born citizen is to find a job to work and train in the country’s military by going to Training Grounds every day.

Undoubtedly the Red Shirt, one of the strongest progressive bonding in Thailand created history yesterday by reminding their so called democratic executives their task in a unique way….. they assembled themselves outside the PM house, ,nearly 30,000 in number and flooded the gates of the building with blood… just to remind them that when people’s representative become arrogant, ignorant and un accountable… they are no different than the fictional “Lord Dracula” of Romania !!!

Back in his era he was only sucking the blood out of his adverseries vein, but when people’s representative assume this role their massacre also involve future of masses, their expectations and their well being!!!

Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab, recently created quite a stir when he asked the Punjabi Taliban to spare Punjab. The whole country was stunned, as this was equivalent to asking the terrorists to continue their nefarious activities in other parts of the country. But being the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s most populous province, naturally he has the interests of Punjab at heart.

So I won’t be surprised if, during the next war between India and Pakistan, he asks Indian Sikh soldiers and pilots to spare Punjab. After all, Sikhs once ruled over the Punjab and many of their holy places are situated there. As the old Sikhs still say, “He who has not seen Lahore has never lived!”

March 15 marks The ‘World Consumer Rights Day’. The occasion needs to be utilized to encourage awareness among the people regarding the consumers’ right. This year, the theme of the World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2010 is ‘Our money, our rights’ and highlights consumer issues in relation to financial services. Access to stable, secure and fair financial services is important for consumers everywhere, especially under the strain of the global financial crisis.

This day has a historic importance as it was on this day in 1962, when the Bill for Consumer Rights was moved in the US Congress. During his speech President John F. Kennedy had remarked:

Shahnawaz Bhutto, the youngest of four children of Z. A. Bhutto died under mysterious circumstances in 1985 (at the age of 27). At that time the PPP immediately accused General Zia of killing Shahnawaz. Now, however, Jamsheed Marker who was a very close friend of the Bhutto family has related the actual details of Shanawaz Bhutto’s death.

This Monday, I had an environmental management and Isalmiat monthly test. As I was sitting in my classroom-going over the hadis included in our test topics-I felt an explosion.

In 2008, I also sat in my classroom, reading a play by Shakespeare ‘The Tempest” when we were intrerruptred by a blast on the road besides our school. At that time, we were relatively new to this thing so the shattering of our class windows’ and the flying in of rubble added to the shockwave caused much panic to ensue. The entire student body rushed out of the school gates and awaited their fate but when we heard no second explosion, we thought that we had been saved. I believed that that would be my last experience with a blast but I was wrong because two years later, history repeated itself and I again escaped death.

So sad and above it alarming, it seems that the wave of terror after subsiding has made a comeback,and like in the past its deadly as well as tragic.

The attack on the office of World Vision near Mansehra is highly condemnable,,where according to reports a gang of terrorists (around 15) stormed into the office,making the entire staff hostage. This was followed by a gun fight with the police but as a result 5 employees of WV including two women lost their life. Once again in a very short span the terrorists have shown that they are not only present,but with ease they can unleash the wave of terror.

Few hours after the controversial and shocking decision of life time ban on former Pakistani CaptainsYounus and Yousuf, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has backtracked saying no such action has been taken. PCB also issued a clarification on the issue saying that the two players can be selected for Pakistan as and when the PCB deems it appropriate.

On the website of PCB the inquiry committee recommends that;

Another suicide bomb blast in Lahore and you can’t help wondering why the government is paralyzed. Why can’t it do something to catch the bombers before they strike? Perhaps if they stop filling the police department with incompetent people who have been recommended by National/Provincial Assembly members or those who’re close to Zardari, it would be possible to reduce the number of such incidents.

As long as the VVIPs keep using the police as their own servants, the law and order situation will continue to deteriorate. Why doesn’t the ruling party realize that it is supposed to serve the people, not to exploit them? Or do they think the people are simpletons who will continue to vote for them, no matter how much they loot the country?