An article appeared in monthly Herarld Karachi-sindh-Pakistn in August .2010 with title ^ Life , the name is adversity (an injured journalist struggles for survival all by herself) that perhaps created a ray of hope that journalists, print and electronic media organizations, the government i.e the President , the Prime Minister, Federal and provincial Information Ministers etc. would outpace one another in helping the ailing female journalist Zarnageen who received serious injuries during bomb blast took place at Jinnah Hospital on February 5, 2010.
The journalist was reporter of daily Aajkal in Karachi and before this she has been serving in Daily Times(which owner was late Salman Taseer,was Governor of Punjab).
She is a devoted and dedicated reporter of the said newspapers and she did all her assignment, job and task on war-footing basis and never cared of her life. She always remained forefront in cases of women and children and raised a voice for their rights by means of pen. One of major case of Miss Khushboo hailing from Ratodero is before us who was suffering from bone-marrow deficiency for that she struggle day and night till she received an amount of Rs. 18 lac for her treatment .
It is a matter of sorrow that a women who had been doing help for others is now passing a miserable life without job, money , help and treatment with her two minor daughters in a house of a friend because she was displace from a rented house whose rent she could not pay due to jobless situation Her one daughter lost her one year of education because of non-payment of exam fee. Only God knows how she manages her expenses of her house but in this regard some her friends help her financially.
She expressed grief over the attitude of the owners of the newspapers who did not pay the salary of six months and never asked for any treatment. Besides, the big guns of media including Senior Journalist,Editors,and Taj Hyder (PPP,when he was in Information Department Government Of Sindh)women media centre, who did nothing for her treatment or job though they promised for it and still C Vs lying with them.She is dismal because none from the journalists brethren has reached her for help, aid and solace.
It will be of no use when she would be no more in the world due to negligible attention towards her by the fellow workers, journalists organizations and the government have also done nothing done so far and if she left the world in such state, this colossal stigma left by this incident will never be washed or removed with afterward action.
Hence, all the national and international media organizations are appealed to take timely action so that we could save a pear of media from destruction. It may be recalled that she is a member of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Karachi Press club and she has also earned many professional awards.In the end, the APNS and CPNE should come forward to help ailing female journalist who is asset of the media.
 

نیلم  میں امن کے دشمن موبائل فون سروس کی فراہمی کے خلاف سازشوں کی 
کوششیں ناکام بنا دی جائیں گی
  اتوار  25 ستمبر  2011 
 آٹھ مقام ( بیورو رپورٹ ) پیپلز پارٹی کے مرکزی رہنماہ پیرازدہ سید اقبال شاہ نے اپنے بیان میں کہا کہ وادی نیلم میں ایس کام موبائل فون سروس کا آغاز خوش آئند ہے ڈائریکٹر جنرل سپیشل کمیونیکیشن ارگنائزیشن سیکٹر کمانڈر مبارک باد کے مستحق ہیں وزیر اعظم پاکستان سید یوسف رضا گیلانی کی خصوصی احکامات پر موبائل فون سروس کا آغاز کیا گیا ہے وزیر اعظم پاکستان جلد افتتاح فرمائیں گے دیگر موبائل کمپنیوں کو بھی سال کے اواخر تک کام کا آغاز کر دیں گی موبائل فون سروس کا دائرہ کار پوری وادی نیلم تک پھیلایا جائے گا وزیر اعظم پاکستان کی ہدایات پر تمام خدشات تحفطات دور کر دئیے گئے ہیں نیلم  میں امن کے دشمن موبائل فون سروس کی فراہمی کے خلاف سازشوں کی کوششیں ناکام بنا دی جائیں گی پیپلز پارٹی کو عوام کے مفاد سے زیادہ کوئی چیز عزیز نہیں ہے حکومت ان سازشی عناصر کا سختی سے نوٹس لے گی عوام 
کے مفادات کے ساتھ کھیلنے کی کسی کو اجازت نہیں دیں گے۔ 


 آٹھ مقام ( بیورو رپورٹ ) مہتمم برقیات نیلم عبدالاکبر طاہر نے اپنی جاری پریس 
ریلیز میں کہا کہ اورلوڈنگ کے باعث بجلی گریڈ سٹیشن سے ٹرپ ہو جاتی ہے صارفین شام کے اقات کار میں بجلی کا کم سے کم استعمال کریں بجلی چوری کی روک تھام کے لئے خصوصی ٹیمیں تشکیل دی گئی ہیں تاکہ غیر ضروری ضیاع کم ہو سکے نادہندگان سے ریکوری کا آغاز کر دیا گیا ہے واجبات کی ادائیگی نہ کرنے والوں کے کیس ریونیوڈیپارٹمنٹ کو لینڈ ایکٹ ریونیو کے تحت وصول کرنے کے لئے ارسال کر دئیے گئے ہیں صارفین اپنی بلات کی بروقت ادائیگی کریں کسی شکایت کی صورت میں مقامی کمپین آفس سے رجوع کیا جائے لوڈشیڈنگ کا دورانیہ واپڈا کے شیڈول کے مطابق کیا جاتاہے پانی کی کمی کی وجہ سے بجلی کی پیداوار کم ہوگئی ہے محکمہ برقیات کا عملہ چوبیس گھنٹے عوام کی خدمت میں مصروف رہتا ہے۔


 آٹھ مقام ( بیورو رپورٹ ) دسویں کلاس کا طالب علم غائب پویس نے تحقیقات شروع کر دیں۔ تفصیلات کے مطابق ضلع آٹھمقام کے بالائی علاقہ لوات میں دسوین کلاس کا طالب علم یاسر ولد صفی اللہ گھر سے پرسرار طریقے سے غائب ہو گیا ہے ورثاءکی اطلاع پر مقامی پولیس نت تفتیش شروع کر دی ہے۔ 


 آٹھ مقام ( بیورو رپورٹ ) پیپکو نے آزاد کشمیر میں برائے راست لوڈ شیڈنگ کرنا شروع کر دی۔ تفصیلات کے مطابق پیکو نے گذشتہ شام سات بجے ایبٹ آباد سے آزاد کشمیر مظفرآباد ڈویثرن کی بجلی غیر اعلانیہ طور پر بند کر دی گئی جاگراں پاور ہاﺅس کی بجلی بھی نوسیری گریڈ اسٹیشن سے بند کر نے کے احکامات دئیے گئے جس سے مظفرآباد، نیلم، ہٹیاں مضافاتی علاقے پورا دویثرن تاریکی میں ڈوب گیا جس سے عوام کو شدید مشکلات کا سامنا کرنا پرا گریڈ اسٹیشن پر رابطہ کرنے پر بتایا گیا کہ مرکزی آر ایس ایس اسلام آباد سے بریک ڈاﺅن کرنے اور رات دس بجے تک کوئی فیڈر نہ چلانے کے احکامات جاری کئے گئے ہیں دارلحکومت مظفرآباد میں رات ساڑھے دس بجے کے قریب بجلی بحال کر دی گئی تھی جب کہ نیلم میں15 گھنٹے کے طویل بریک ڈاﺅن کے بعد بجلی بحال کی گئی ہے جبکہ اکثر مضفاتی علاقوں کی بجلی بند پڑی ہوئی ہے۔ 

Attacked against the editor condemned

Rawalakot (PR): 23 September, 2011

Press For Peace (PFP)-a human rights organization has condemned the attacked on the Chief Editor of local news paper and called upon the government to take action against the culprits.

Abid Journalist, Chief Editor of Daily Dharti(Rawalakot,Azad Kashmir) was attacked by some people who allegedly were furious over editorial which appeared on the paper few days ago.

Criticizing the corporate punishment by some teachers in the schools, the newspaper in editorial has asked the teachers to behave professionally and morally.

However, a group of local teachers attacked the newspaper and abused the staff of the newspaper, including threatening the chief editor, Abid Siddique for dire consequences.

Press For Peace (PFP) spokesperson Jalal-Uddin Mughal has condemned this act and urged the government to protect the journalists and take action against the people involved in the incident.

The role of press is to highlight the social evils and malfunctioning of national institutes, therefore, its criticism should be taken tolerantly by the society , the statement further said.

He said that attack on journalists and a newspaper is a lamentable act. Authorities should take action against the sacraments.  

Pakistan warns US: ‘You will lose an ally’ if accusations continue
                               

“You will lose an ally,” Hina Rabbani Khar told Geo TV in New York.

“You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan, you cannot afford to alienate the Pakistani people. If you are choosing to do so and if they are choosing to do so it will be at their (the United States’) own cost.”

Khar was responding to Senate testimony by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who said Pakistan’s top spy agency was closely tied to the Haqqani Network, the most violent and effective faction in the Afghan Taliban insurgency.

Mullen said on Thursday that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) played a role in the September 13 attack on the US embassy in Kabul, supporting militants known as the Haqqani network. That network, he said, is a “veritable arm” of the ISI.

The embassy attack was the latest in a series of violent episodes that have set back US efforts to bring the Afghan war to a peaceful close.

Mullen’s comments and Khar’s retort mark an unusual escalation of rhetoric between the allies in the struggle against militants and, at least in public, marks a low point in their relationship.

“At the operational level it will be appropriate to say that there are serious difficulties (between the two countries),” Khar told Geo.

In a separate interview with India’s NDTV, Khar added: “Pointing fingers at each other will not help. Finding scapegoats will not help … We want to be a mature, responsible country that is fighting terrorism with a lot of maturity.”

The tensions could have repercussions across Asia, from India, Pakistan’s economically booming arch-rival, to China, which has edged closer to Pakistan in recent years. A complete break between the United States and Pakistan – sometimes friends, often adversaries – seems unlikely, if only because the United States depends on Pakistan as a route to supply US troops in Afghanistan, and as a base for unmanned US drones.

Pakistan relies on Washington for military and economic aid and for acting as a backer on the world stage. Washington does not want to see further instability in the nuclear-armed country.

But support in the US Congress for curbing assistance or making conditions on aid more stringent is rising rapidly. And Mullen, CIA Director David Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all met their Pakistani counterparts in recent days to demand Islamabad rein in militants.