PESHAWAR: Disposing of the petition of a suspected drug trafficker, the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday asked him to approach the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Commission for details of the cases pending against him in the province. A bench consisting of Justice Sahibzada Asadullah and Justice Shahid Khan observed that it was inappropriate that
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January 17, 2021
Dr Ajaz Anwar writes about the Mozang and Achha gangs, and Arif Shah who dared to challenge the goons Image supplied
History does not repeat itself but it follows the pattern set by the preceding events. The first casualty of the 1958 regime change was taking over of Progressive Papers. All its papers, namely,
The
Sportimes, were put under strict censorship.
Its chief editor, Faiz, was still in Montgomery Jail. Editor Mazhar Ali Khan immediately resigned and turned down the offer to continue till a new editor could be appointed. My father, for his part, refused to contribute any political cartoons after the leaders were barred from taking part in politics under the EBDO for seven years, which actually meant two elections or 10 years (by which time most of the senior politicians were expected to die anyway).
December 20, 2020
Dr Ajaz Anwar fondly remembers his school friends, chiefly Manzar Amin, for whom it was “more important to accept the challenge and give the opponent a tough time than to win”
The sketch appeared in The Pakistan Times, on October 7, 1955. Image: Supplied
Normally, our activities at the Joan McDonald Junior Cambridge School were peaceful because of it being a co-educational institute. Children in such schools often behave better, say psychologists. Our sports instructor was a WWII veteran, an Englishman who had opted to stay back in the post-Independence Pakistan. It was because, according to him, it was easier to live here on his ‘European grade’ pension.