Fabric of identity : Making flags for the nation
Ejaz has been producing flags for various ceremonies hosted at government institutions, for over 45 years
ISLAMABAD:
Flags have been around for thousands of years, serving as a form of identification for most civilisations, dynasties, nations and colonies of the world. But where flags of today are primarily seen as symbols on a piece of fabric, earliest known records reveal that they started out as carvings on a wooden pole.
However, with the passage of time, fabric, which was introduced as a decorative item on a flag, soon became the main object rendering poles a mere hoisting accessory.
Electricity Blackout Engulfs Pakistan As Fault Triggers Shutdown Of Power Plants In The Nation
Pakistan flag (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was hit by a massive electricity blackout last night, spanning across much of the nation, pushing crores into darkness,
News18.
The blackout was triggered by a fault in southern Pakistan at 11:41 pm local time as per the information shared by the nation s Federal Power Minister Omae Ayub Khan who also elaborated that the fault tripped the transmission system of the country which resulted into the shutdown of power plants.
The black engulfed Pakistan s major cities, which include the capital city of Islamabad, economic hub of Karachi and the nation s second-largest city of Lahore. Interestingly, the power outage also resulted into the collapse of internet connectivity in Pakistan as per Netblocks which monitors internet outages and connectivity in the nation.
The writer is a former editor of Dawn.
IF bodies of slain loved ones can indeed be weaponised by mourning families to blackmail a prime minister, the Hazara Shias of Balochistan must be the most well-armed and lethal community in the country. But is that really the case?
To understand this point, let’s take a cursory look at what the Hazara community has gone through over the past two decades. The community is, or was, approximately 0.7 million strong. Over the past 21 years an estimated 1,500 of its members have been murdered.
The rage and the bloodlust of the murderers has not even spared unarmed women and children, including infants, what to talk of men. If the same proportion of about 220m Pakistanis had been killed as the Hazaras have lost of their own, the toll would be close to half a million.
New date for Reko Diq case at BVI court
National
January 10, 2021
LONDON: The High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has postponed the hearing on the enforcement of the $6 billion award in the Reko Diq case until the 18th January and meanwhile Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) assets registered in the BVI jurisdiction remain frozen.
The News and Geo has learnt that the hearing on Thursday lasted only for about half an hour and Justice Gerhard Wallbank of the BVI High Court of Justice, after dealing with some procedural matters, fixed the new hearing date for 18th of January where for half a day Pakistani lawyers will present their case for the first time as the freezing order during the last hearing was issued ex parte. Injunction on the PIA assets including Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, Scribe Hotel in Paris and Minhal Incorporated remains in place till 19th of January 2021, shared a source from Pakistani legal side that attended the meeting. The receive
The leadership of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (IRP), which has repeatedly stated that Pakistan highly values its relations with Ukraine and wants to