Tue, 21-Oct-2025

‘The government plans to upgrade the system through the LG law’

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KARACHI: While the opposition parties in Sindh are on the warpath where the Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Act (SLGA), 2021 is concerned, heaping scorn on the Pakistan Peoples Party for passing a ‘black law’, senior PPP leader Taj Haider feels the law is designed to “serve” the people. Haider, who is also the party’s core … Read more

EU indigenous population: Nordics look to atone for past wrongs

Nordics

From her home in Finland’s far north, Ristenrauna Magga recalls the day in 1968 when she and her family were stripped naked while researchers took measurements and blood tests. “Sami people were used to doing what we were told, no-one questioned the research,” Magga says, of Finland’s “racial biology” programme into the Sami minority which … Read more

Pakistan plans cultivation of 220 million acres of land

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ISLAMABAD: The government plans to bring into cultivation all the land where human being or a plant can survive across the country under its Agriculture Transformation Plan, a government official said on Wednesday. Briefing newsmen on the Agriculture Transformation Plan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema said: “We … Read more