Category Archives: Social Issues

Be warned

By Zubeida Mustafa

RECENTLY, we had bad and good news in quick succession. It was first announced that Punjab’s interim government had issued a notification stating that it had signed an agreement with the army to hand over to the latter more than 45,000 acres of land in the province’s Bhakkar, Sahiwal and Khushab districts for corporate farming. A few weeks later, to my great relief, I learnt that Rafay Alam, the lawyer fighting cases to save Pakistan’s agriculture from the treachery of our rulers, petitioned the Lahore High Court to have the notification withdrawn. The court stopped the transfer.

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Voicing concerns

By Zubeida Mustafa

THE preamble to Unesco’s constitution reads, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be built.” That holds true not just for war and peace but practically everything that needs to be changed in life. If one agrees with this dictum, one should not be cynical about the concerns of the founders of the Concerned Citizens’ Alliance (CCA) over the economic crisis we face today.

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