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The Long Awaited Abdul Wahab Interview is Here

https://propakistani.pk/2017/11/10/long-awaited-abdul-wahab-interview/

If you are a regular ProPakistani reader, you must know about Abdul Wahab. A constant presence in our comments section, he has become a cult figure and a source of great amusement.

We asked you to chip in with your questions a while back and today, we are finally publishing the full interview with Abdul Wahab for your reading pleasure. We have kept editing to a minimum to let Wahab’s unique personality shine through the text.

Onwards to the readers’ questions and Abdul Wahab’s answers.

When did you start following ProPakistani?

Exactly i don’t know but I remembered that I am following ProPk since 1 year ago.

I have to ask from Abdul Wahab. What’s your age?

It’s not about age, it’s about 26 Years of my Life (My DOB is 26-SEP-1991) on 17th Rabi O Awal 1412 Hijri on Thursday Morning.

Stars Kabhi Khabaar He Paida Hote hai :)

Tell us about your academic qualifications?

I am studying MA (Economics) Final (Pata Nahi Nursery Se Final Tak Ka Safar Main Ne Kis Tarha Suffer Kiya)

What inspires you to read and post on ProPakistani?

Gossip, Entertainment & a Lot of Knowledge.

Wo alag baat hai ye saare articles main pehly he KAHI aur pharh chuka hota hou.

And wo alag baat hai K main bina parhe he comments karta deta ho heading main kuch baaten samajh ati hai.

What are your hobbies and what do you do for a living? Are you a student?

My Hobby is Surfing, Browsing, Working, Cleaning My Home, Watching Horror Movie, Shows, Carton, Movies, Outing, Long Driving & Don’t Forget Sleeping.

I take oxygen for Living & yes I am Student, Professional, Bachelor (means Single).

What do you do in your free time and when ProPakistani doesn’t publish (on weekends)?

I am totally considering on my job only during free time.

Abdul Wahab, I have seen you ignoring hateful comments or seeing the funny side of it. What many people would like to know is that how do you manage to take all those negative trolls so bravely and remain positive all the time?

Dil Bara Hona Chahyeh & My Dadi Said to me “Jo Bura Kehte hai Asal Main Wahi Bure Hote hai Don’t take seriously.”

I am smiling on every time & don’t take seriously my haters.

Its my haters who are gonna make me famous (So Thank U for Hating Me & for the Bad Replies on my funny Comments).

Do you think that ProPakistani articles are going to make a change in Pakistan? Where do you see your comments in this regard? Do you see your commenting make a difference?

Yes ProPk & me want change in Pakistan. We demand a Better Pakistan as Iqbal Sahab dreamed & as our Quaid wanted.

Hi Wahab. Brother you are one of the great persons here and the best at the comments. My Question is why mostly your comments are judgmental, declarative or biased? Why not make them based on your experiences or arguments-based?

Express the Experience is on my first priority, sometime when i stuck due to policies and department politics then ” Sunata Ho Phir Bohat ”

Wahab bhai, what are your future plans?? Any other forums you plan to target on?

My First Future plan to get marry after that (my thinking will start to end only on my Wife).

Anyway Mr. Aamir Atta is my ideal Tech person. I want to become like this man since I got a lot of info here from ProPk.

What do you think about the IT sector in Pakistan and its future ? Do you think our low Internet Penetration is hindering our IT sector from booming ?

We need highly qualified and experience person in IT sectors specially in PTA chairman who have a skill to understand the lack of IT Sectors Problem.

Enhance the PTCL Network, Internet Speed, 3G 4G Covered Areas, Polices & Benefits to Export on IT Sector, Low Taxes rate of IT Product Import. Interest free loan etc.

No doubt you are quite Popular in a wide reader’s network (ProPakistani), how does it feel?

Well, feeling never express in words : I can feel only Aaj lagta hai main hawaon mein hoon, Aaj itni khushi mili hai,

Have you ever thought of writing an article for ProPakistani? If yes what topic you would have chosen?

Yes i am thinking on daily basis to write a article to ProPk.

My topics would be #How to Implement a Policies in Pakistan, #Education Priority, #Save Tree, #Islamic # Current Affairs, #Politics & My Favorite “Bacho Ki Shaadi Jaldi Karni Chahyeh ”

What interests you more, Technology or Politics?

Of course Marriage But Officially i Consider on the Tech Q K Pakistan K Politics Main Kuch Nahi Rakha Ye Sub Mill K HUM Ko Mamu Bana Rahy hai.

Please tell us about your prospective about Pakistan? Do you see you have a better future here or you will become a part of brain drain?

Pakistan have a great talent, natural resources & here is great future, But some politician have wasted these things.

We have to be saved these things to making a bright future of Pakistan for our child & family.

If you are ever considered as the Prime Minister or President of Pakistan, what three steps would you take first?

Less Inflation, Pure Water Purified Plant, Arrange Energy Crisis.

How can he be always online to comment?

I am available in ProPk only 10AM TO 7PM (My Office Time Only).

I am Not Using ProPk At Home Or outside Working Areas.

If you could make a suggestion on improving ProPakistani, what would it be?

ProPk Is best it’s my first website to comments on there : I’ve some queries for ProPk :

We have many apps & software to convert ENGLISH to URDU (ProPk) Used it to Share Article in One Page into Two Languages to Share anyone.

ProPk Must have Windows, Andriod, & IOS Apps & Update Daily.

ProPk add searching option contains format to search out anything in ProPk Pages

ProPk showing yearly profit & lose statement

ProPk arrange camping to participate any training with the help of Organization

ProPk arrange online computer course in both or URDU languages to learn easily

ProPk make apps for (Games, Books, Education,Songs Movie Etc)

PorPk Focus on Current Affair TECH News

ProPk Advise us regarding addmission, test, result, exam, etc for each university & Faculty

ProPk launch compliant cell (Some Member have issue)

ProPk have proff reading problem make sure each and everything before posting

ProPk conduct a surcvey report monthly basis (Which article best, what you want, suggest, comments, voting etc)

ProPk arrange MEMBER ot the Month (for Best Comments, Most Comments Etc)

ProPk add website vising counting on daily basis

ProPK notification issue please resolve it

Add twitter notification to get any one who are following on you in Twitter

What if you are made Prime Minister of Pakistan; any to do list?

I Want to do something. I have a lot of ideas on to how to grow income & how to save money & how to spend money in Pakistan & on the Pakistani People:

Focus to open Tax Free Manufacturing Plant (Growth Our Local Industry)

Focus to open Water Purification Plant at KARACHI SEA for Pure Drink & Supply to Whole Pakistan

Focus on KALA BAGH DAM & Another PAK DAM in PAKISTAN

Focus on Wind Turbine to produce electricity

Focus to open GAS & Oil Plant to avoid importing

Change Complete High Level Management & Staff of PIA, Post Office, Steel Mill, Government Department, Custom, Associations, Police, Rangers, Army Etc

Completely bio metric system from Child Birth to Death & In All Stage (Admission, Job, Purchasing, Buying, GSM, Mobile, Traveling Etc)

All Social Websites & Apps linked with Bio Metric system. Per CNIC only One ID can be registered in all social sites to secure internet security & safety.

Focus to open Registered Free Hospitals, School, Collage, University, Shop, Industries, Bank, Etc (On Government Stage)

Completely Free Education From Nursery to Under Graduation with Books, Notes Etc (& Scholarship for onward education)

Road, Bridge, Under Pass, Repair & New to be prepared

Only Government Public Buses are allowed on road (All Private should be banned). Rate 5 Rupee Per Stop (Student Free) 06AM TO 06PM

In Pakistan, Saturday, Sunday should be considered as Leave for Industry, Banks, Education, Etc (Except Hospital)

Working Timing for all sectors : 07 AM TO 3PM (One Shift 8 Hours) Each Industry must be working on 8 Huors Shift ( No More Overtime)

Working Benefits : Annual Leaves, Bonus, Gratuity, Provident Fund, Medical, Loan (Interest Free) Etc

All Policies, Rules, Regulation & Law are same in Pakistan & applicable in all areas of Pakistan including all provinces & department

Focus to open Pakistan Foods Authority

No More SASTA Bike & Car E.g Bike Min PKR 70,000 & Car E.g 1,000,000 Starting Price Without Taxes

Heavy Taxes on Using, Bike, Car, Smart Phone,(Any Other Like this) & Import (Those Product already made in PAK) (To Save the environment)

Same Price of All Product in Pakistan e.g. Fuel, Foods, Veg, Fruits, Equipment., Etc

Monthly Rent on Using Social Apps

All Women Should be wear Scarf, in all premises of Pakistan.

Each Government, Private Department Office, Industry should have valid Uniforms.

No Morning Show, No Ramadan Show, No Game Show, No Music Show, No Women on Commercials allowed in Pakistan

First Priority on ISLAM then Pakistan

All MNA MPA, Mayor, PM, CM, DIG, SP SHO, etc should be Graduates & Master. They must be Beard on Face & Five Time Namazi & Know the Baisc Rules of ISLAM

No Parci, Sifarish, Relation Ship to be entertain in Pakistan Only Merit & Experience are allowed

All Online Shopping processes must be registered

SAZA On Public Places

Focus to Plant Trees. Strict Rules for Plant Tree on Each Home Office Areas for All Pakistanis

Banned complete Import Indian Items, Iran Afghanistan , Sham. Israil Etc Countries

Basic Salary of Employee PKR 20,000 (8 Hours Only)

Complete Salary to be giving through Bank Accounts ONLY No More taking Cash Allowed to AnyOne

Focus to Moderate Highways & Tourism Areas

All Rules & Regulation to be changed according to current affairs (After Public Verification)

NAB have authorized to check all people money & transaction etc

All Government Vacancy, Hiring, Appointment Etc to be launch under One Department

Low Taxes in all sectors

9PM is last timing for shutdown complete markets (Medical Facility will be available on 24Hours)

Marriage are allowed only in Marriage LAWN, No More Street, Ground Ceremony : Time Closed 11PM Otherwise Jail

Focus to open & support IT Sectors to compare international markets using apps, software etc.

Allow PayPal, & Permission to Branch less Banking to remit internationally with limits.

Focus to Quick Problem Resolving.

Bearing of all types of Expense by Pakistan Bait ul Maal for child births

Jobless person are allowed to get the cash from any bank with thumb impression PKR : 5000 to survive life no More Beggars until unless the getting job.

Focus to Enhance the network of AmanTech Faculty in Pakistan.

Salary taxes starting on 1 Lac

All Department using ERP , MRP Etc Software

Focus to Online with Quality, Paper Less Working

Searching Bridal & Groom & Support Poor People for Marriage

Focus to open Government Compliant Cell to launch complaint against, Any Government, Private Department, Any Education , Any Foods, Any Person with Proff:

Only these taxes would be eligible in Pakistan, Custom Duty (1% to 35%), Sales Tax (5% to 15%) Income Tax (1% to 20%) Regular Duty (10% to 100%) Anti Dumping Duty (15% 55%) Depends the product and category

Fixed Rates for Utilities Bill e.g

Teacher License, Coaching License Etc for Quality of Education

At the Time of Azaan, All types of PTCL, Internet, Mobile, Social Apps, TV Cable Etc is stopped until the completion on Namaz (Five Times)

Government Arrange PAKISTAN TALENT HUNT Program on Live on Media to showing talent, skill of Each Pakistani.

Poor Family Loan Services without interest

Emergency ATM Loan Service 500 (In Case of CashLess Pockets) One Time Transaction on Each Month (Only For Account Holder Who have Good Rating in Bank)

In Case of Employee Terminated then Factory Or Department giving him or her 6 Month Bonus Salary

Salary of Each People of Pakistani transferred into account before 30th Of Each Month

Online CNIC, CRC, Pass Port, Domicile, PRC Etc facilities

Online Police Station FIR Facilities

CPCL & PTA have free hand to track any person using IP Address, Mobile Number Code Etc

Corruption, Bribes Case Etc (Recover All Amount & JILAWATAN Til Death Or Phansi )

Government decided consumer product price with subside

Protocol of 3 Van Only (Without STOPPED the Road & Etc) for PM, President, General ARMY NAVY & AIR FORCE Only No More Protocol for MNA MPA Mayor Etc & They all will be in touch with Public

Public Platform for advising

All People of Pakistani Should be marry within 25 Years (Boys & Girls too) Government Support Financially (if need it) & registered marry otherwise take serious action.

Government makes a village for support all beggars,poor people by living, by medical by education

Only One Jail System In Pakistan that name “PAKISTAN CENTRAL JAIL” suited in Sea Or Desert Area (Which People who has courrt assine a terror more than 3 month) (NO More Jail in Public Places) (Fully Mobile Signal Jammers, No Internet, Etc) All person who have in Jail make sure for Foods, Education, Islamic Education, Timing limit for News & Watching Movie Etc

All Government Privatized action will be taken after Public Voting :

All Pakistani House ,Flat, Building, Floor Wise home Etc should be registered and get the MAP too : OtherWise taken serious aciton

Government scheme arrange Middle Class Family Housing Scheme with Under Budget

Government arrange to learning Modern Langues that name ” Pakistan Institute of Languages” which is providing you More Than 100 Languges in affordable fee & free for poor people

Government can arrange 5000 People of Pakistani On Monthly Basis Will be going to Performed UMRAH for 10 Days In Just PKR 25,000 (Including all Expense) (Who have never Gone for UMRAH)

Government can arrange 75% of Quota of Approve HAJI for PAKISTAN will be going under Govt Scheme in Just PKR : 200,000 (On Installment)

All Companies , Industry, Office, School, Collage University Etc Shall be using resisted Window 10 With Office 365 & IDM in PC.

No More Window, Software, Games Available in CD Or DVD in less than 100 Rupees With Two Time Installation ( In Karachi CD Or DVD Cost Right Now 25/50)

Government makes Apps for Cloud Storage with Contact (Your Memory Card & PC Data) Free & Some Affordable Price in One CNIC with One Number

In All August, All Pakistani should be arrange Falg of Pakistan out side of home, at in Bike Or Car, Bus, Road, Building etc\

No More Job Posting In News Paper & Any Other Site without Pro Per Mention Work, Lum Sum Salary Benefit. With Company nameEtc & Must be used Office Domain Email lD. No More Add published with Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Etc

All Pakistani News Media Have Proper WebSites Page in URDU Langues Or Convert into Urdu

Politician Age Starting 20 to 40 Years Only (No More Allowed in Politics & Government Job After 40) (Until Unless Public Vote)

If Any One Political Party Have Won the General Election Then No More Allowed In Next Election Only

No More Smoking, Tobacco, Chalia, Gutka, Chars, Afheem, Ghanjah, Durgs, Alcohol Etc in the Premise of Pakistan (For Public Using Not For Medical Purpose) Only Simple PAN Allowed With Sweet Supari

Arrange to All Clean City Green City & Lot More Policies & Working in my mind but i didn’t get any platform to enhance my skills

Electric 3 Rupee for Residential

5 Rupee for Commercial,

Or Fixed 1000 Rupee Per Ground Floor (300 Unit tak) :

More Floor More 1000 (Commercial 5 Rupee Per Unit)

Gas 2 Rupee for Residential

6 Rupee for Commercial,

Fixed 500 Per Ground Floor More Floor More 500 (100 Unit tak)

Water 500 Per Ground Floor Fixed

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inhumansforever · 7 years ago

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Ms. Marvel #29 Review

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Bruno’s back and Kamala becomes an aunt in the latest issue of Ms. Marvel from the creative team of G. Willow Wilson, Nico Leon and Ian Herring. Recap and review following the jump.

Things have been rather hectic of late, with Ms. Marvel and her pals having to take on the evil Inventor... but the villain has been defeated and now the real drama is ready to ensue.

The story starts off at the maternity ward where Kamala’s sister-in-law, Tyesha, is about to give birth to her and Aamir’s child. It’s an intense ordeal, too much so for poor Aamir, whose kicked out of the delivery room after he faints. Fortunately, everything turns out fine and it’s not too long before Kamala is introduced to her nephew, Malik.

Aamir is overwhelmed by the joys and terrors of parenthood. Within an instant he is dedicated heart-and-soul to this tiny human and is just consumed with the anxiety that he can never live up to the extreme pressures of being the ideal parent.

Kamala, meanwhile, is on cloud nine. She’s in love with little Malik, loves being an aunt, and it all just fills her with a bubbling joy. Some time later, she goes out on patrol as Ms. Marvel and just dances across the rooftops, feeling like a Disney princess in the first act of a movie where they sing and dance over the joys of their lives.

It’s all interrupted when The Red Dagger jumps in to join her. Ms. Marvel has had mixed feelings about this mysterious young hero who has so suddenly relocated from Karachi. She feels a bit defensive toward him in that he sometimes acts in a way that has made Kamala feel as though her idealism stems from a place of naïveté. Yet Red Dagger catches her off guard, when he professes how much he had missed her, how he’s thought about her constantly and just feel that she is wonderful.

Kamala is often very hard on herself and to hear this debonaire hero profess such admiration kind of sweeps her off her feet. Before she knows it, she and Red Dagger are kissing atop the minimart. Kamala’s first kiss! And it’s a good one.

Yet the romantic moment is cut short when Ms. Marvel realizes they are being watched. She looks down to see Bruno, who has just arrived back from Wakanda, glaring up at her... clearly alarmed to see his longtime crush making kissy-face with some handsome stranger with perfect hair.

Bruno had been living in Wakanda and his school in the Golden City has gone on break. He’s returned home in order to try to figure out his future - should he stay in Wakanda or return home to Jersey. He’s accompanied by his roommate, Kwezi, who has taken the opportunity to explore America.

Kamala and Bruno meet the next morning before school. They catch up, likely hoping that they can slip back into being lifelong friends the way things had been in the past. It’s not to be. Too much as changed. Bruno is in love with Kamala, he has been for as long as he can remember. Kamala had believed that Bruno blamed her for the accident that left him so badly injured. And though she’s very happy that he no longer hates her, it’s clear that Bruno still doesn’t agree with Kamala’s double life as Ms. Marvel. He wants things to go back to how they were; she wants him to accept her for who she is.

In Bruno’s rush to come see Kamala, he has entirely forgotten that when he initially left for Wakanda, he had basically abandoned his then girlfriend, Mike. Mike sees him when she arrives for school and it is crushing for her. It’s quite clear to her that she hasn’t at all been in Bruno’s thoughts and she runs off in tears. Bruno doesn’t seem especially phased by it, more intrigued in learning that his classmate Zoe has recently come out as gay.

As all this unfolds, Kamala and the gang are also introduced to a new student at their school… a brash, glamorous and conceited ‘mean-girl’ named Kaylee Kirk. She’s a total snob, but also quite attractive, and she very much catches Zoe’s eye (much to Nakia’s chagrin; she’s not going to stand by and watch her bestie fall for such poorly mannered glamortant).

Artists Nico Leon does a great job at capturing the look of abject befuddlement on Bruno’s face as he takes in all that has changed in his absence.

After school, Kamala catches up with Bruno at the Circle Q, where they continue their conversation. Bruno explains the ways in which Kamala’s becoming Ms. Marvel was so difficult for him. They had been such close friends, but Kamala’s priorities changed after she went through Terrigenesis. She became a masked superhero and Bruno was cast down to the trusty sidekick - a role that left him feeling unappreciated and left behind.

Hearing Bruno express his feelings in such a straight forward manner has a dramatic effect on Kamala. It all leaves her hugely confused and conflicted. She dashes away, b-lining to her local Mosque to seek council from her Masjid, Sheik Abdullah.

This is where the issue really comes to life.

Sheik Abdullah is such a wonderful character and his depictions have always maintained a near uncanny balance of humor, poignancy, snark and reverence. Furthermore, the conversation he and Kamala have re-centers the story back onto Kamala and her ongoing struggles to grow, learn and become the best person she can.

Navigating around keeping her dual identity a secret, Kamala explains that she had kissed a boy, might actually love a different boy, and doesn’t have the faintest idea what to do.

Sheik Abdullah has to admit that when it comes to young romance he often feels it represents a great failing in his effort to guide those who come to him for advice When one is young, everything felt so monumental, romantic interests were overwhelming and seemed the biggest thing in the world. As one grows older, however, recollections of the intensity of young love tends to fade, leaving the older generation Ill-suited to truly relate to these confused, love-struck kids. It becomes essential for someone in Sheik Abdullah’s place to think back and fully remember what it was like to be so young, how every decision felt unbearably crucial and world-changing.

Ultimately, Sheik Abdullah’s guidance is that Kamala should slow down, understand that she has room to make mistakes, and follow her heart as best she can. It’s sage advice.

Elsewhere, Zoe seeks out new girl, Kaylee Kirk. She just wants to be friendly, welcome Kaylee to the school. Kaylee is disinterested in any ovations toward being friends She’s angry, she’s mean, and it would appear that she possesses super powers. In the heat of barking her dismissal of Zoe’s friendship, Kaylee clutches at the metal of the school lockers... squeezing and contorting the metal as though it were a soft clay. She then marches off leaving poor Zoe feeling rather alarmed.

I’ve no idea who this Kaylee Kirk is, what her deal is nor the nature of her apparent super powers. With her being so angry, so mean, and so strong, however, it’s a rather good bet she may quite soon become a threat that our hero, Ms. Marvel, with have to face off against. Unfortunately, this matter, along with Kamala’s romantic crisis will have to wait until next issue.

There were some parts of this issue I quite liked, as well as a few I didn’t at all care for...

I enjoyed the change of pace, focusing more intently on Kamala’s emotional development and struggle with the onslaught of feelings that are so endemic to being a teen. After her relative absence in the previous arc, it was nice to see Kamala and her inner life so center stage.

And her discussion with Sheik Abdullah was the highlight of the issue, managing to be both funny, touching and profound all at the same time. I liked the way in which Sheik Abdullah’s advice paralleled with Aamir’s being so overwhelmed by the prospect of parenthood. The advice Kamala gleaned could just as easily apply to Aamir and his own struggle. Every stage of life can feel like a bombardment... the only way forward is one step at a time, learning gradually, understanding perfection is unattainable, and just trying to do the best you can.

As for what didn’t work so well for me, I found the pacing a bit off The narrative made some odd jumps and the scenes didn’t move with the same degree of effortless fluidity that I’ve come to expect from this book. Kaylee Kirk’s introduction felt obtrusive, characters seemed to be coming and going all at once and Kwezi was sort of wasted as comic relief (though he did have some very funny lines).

Nico Leon’s art was terrific as usual, yet his line work and panel composition is not as crisp and dynamic as it had been in the previous arc.

These quibbles on my part may be just that, quibbles... small, unimportant complaints that actually stand in for what actually rubbed me the wrong way. That being that I just don’t really like Bruno.

I know I’ll catch heat from pro-Bruno Ms. Marvel fans out there, but for me the character just kind of perturbs me. Yes, he’s had a difficult life, but I don’t think he’s treating Kamala fairly and I’m rather disappointed to find that Kamala may actually have feelings for him.

His relationship with Kamala all too often feels transactional... like he feels deserving of her love because he’s been a good friend. The injuries he sustained in the civil war II story were entirely his own fault, yet he blamed Kamala; he basically got Kwezi to help him by acting pathetic and eliciting pity; the way he has treated/is treating Mike is altogether inexcusable.

I’m likely not being fair here... but I just don’t like Bruno.

I’d much rather Kamala not have a romantic interest, or her be with Kareem as opposed to her being with Bruno, whom I see as kind of manipulative and self-centered.

Here of course I’m speaking entirely as a fan with a fan’s opinion and not some objective reviewer. We’re closing in on fifty issues of Ms. Marvel and she has definitely become a fictional character I care a great deal for. And as such, I want the best for her and feel quite protective. I guess I’m worried Bruno will end up hurting her.

And it’s hard to tell if my distaste for Bruno has acted to diminish my enjoyment of this issue as a whole. As such I’ll give it two scores. A more objective four out of five Lockjaws; as well as a less objective, more gut-felt two out of five Lockjaws.

Either way, it’s nonetheless very much recommend.

#Ms. Marvel #Kamala Khan #G Willow Wilson #Nico Leon #Ian Herring #review #spoilers #Inhumans

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juniperpublisherscasestudies · 4 years ago

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Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Case Studies

Chikungunya - A Persistent Pakistani Public Health Crisis

Authored by Amna Amad Siddiqui

Letter to Editor

Over the past few years, Pakistan has been under a significant burden of various health crises--ranging from our persistent battle with the polio virus to a boom in infectious outbreaks such as that of Dengue Fever and Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever. Despite multiple such challenges over the decade, presence of an ongoing Chikungunya epidemic in Pakistan makes the inefficiency of our public health system glaringly obvious.

A viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus), Chikungunya was first isolated in Pakistan in rodents and one human by Darvesh et al.[1]. Later, it was detected in a number of individuals in Lahore amidst the dengue epidemic of 2011 [2]. Since the official report of an outbreak in November 2016, [3] cases of chikungunya have had an exponential increase with 405 reported cases in 2016 and a total of 4,868 cases in 2017, with majority (4138) reported from Karachi while the rest from Tharparkar and other districts of Sindh [4]. Although with a low mortality risk, infection with the chikungunya virus can be chronic with systemic complications and can, in rare case, prove to be fatal. Symptoms of this condition mainly include fever and joint pain. Patients may also present with muscle pain, headache, rash, nausea and fatigue. Joint pain in particular can be debilitating and may last for years [5].

Several factors have contributed to the difficulty in battling this major public health concern; deplorable sanitary conditions of the affected areas with widespread decomposing waste, open feculent sewers and gutters, inappropriate disposal of garbage and most importantly insufficient reduction in exposed water-filled containers and stagnant water bodies have made our communities an excellent breeding ground for mosquitos that serve as a vector for chikungunya, among other transmissible diseases (the most notable of which in our set-up is Dengue Fever). A consistent failure of the government authorities to note and rectify this predicament serves as a major obstacle in solving this ongoing epidemic.

Furthermore, abrupt climate changes in Pakistan with harsher summers and milder winters with each passing year can also be correlated with an explosive rise in vector-borne diseases [6]. Poor government-led healthcare facilities, lack of public education, and an altogether absence of systematic strategies to battle this outbreak from a nationwide epidemic perspective has led this outbreak to flourish instead of diminishing since its inception in 2016. Besides spraying drives across affected areas to eradicate mosquitoes, [7] there has been no effort to eliminate unhygienic mounds of garbage and waste all over the cities for vector control. Public awareness and education about prevention and control techniques, improvement in public healthcare infrastructure, surveillance of further spread of the virus and promotion of research to combat this disease are some modalities that the healthcare authorities must put emphasize on in order to provide adequate protection to the general masses against this disease outbreak.

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xtruss · 5 years ago

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT AS PAKISTAN LURCHES FROM CRISIS TO CRISIS

— | Time.Com | June 20, 2020 |

A resident (R) wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus offers Friday prayers along with other Muslims at a mosque in Rawalpindi on March 13, 2020. Aamir Qureshi — AFP/Getty Images

Ideas

Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He teaches applied geopolitics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and his most recent book is Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism. — By Ian Bremmer

I recently wrote about the countries that have delivered the world’s best coronavirus responses… and Pakistan wasn’t anywhere on the list. But that doesn’t mean Pakistan’s battle with coronavirus isn’t instructive for other countries. As the pandemic continues its march through the developing world, Pakistan stands out as a cautionary tale. Here’s why.

Why It Matters:

Much attention has been paid to strongmen using the cover of crisis to centralize more power for themselves—China, Russia, Belarus and Hungary are just a few of the countries with leaders refusing to let a good crisis go to waste. Something similar is happening in Pakistan, but with a twist—rather than power being seized by the country’s political leader, in this case former cricket star and current Prime Minister Imran Khan, the country’s woeful management of the coronavirus crisis is strengthening the country’s military.

Surveying the most successful coronavirus responses to date, some common themes pop out. Aggressive approaches to testing and isolation work. So does clear messaging, as do strong financial measures to support citizens dealing with both the health and economic fallout of the pandemic. Pakistan has done little of any of that. And while the country already has 170,000 confirmed cases and 3,300 deaths as of this writing, the trajectory points to much worse to come. Khan’s government had initially believed the COVID-19 caseload would peak in late May or the beginning of June, but have been forced to consistently revise that estimate—current estimates point to the peak coming sometime in late July or August, infecting over a million Pakistanis. That’s roughly a 600%+ increase compared to today. Too abstract? Think of it this way—the city of Karachi currently has 600 ICU beds for a city with roughly 20 million inhabitants.

Faced with such daunting projections, many countries around the world locked themselves down in drastic attempts to “bend the curve.” Unfortunately, Pakistan doesn’t have that luxury… and neither do many other emerging markets, a theme which will define the next phase of the crisis. Even before the pandemic hit, the Pakistani economy was struggling mightily; locking down and isolating isn’t an option for people living in overcrowded spaces, and when you work in the “informal economy” (as 72% of working Pakistanis do), working remotely isn’t an option either. Not to mention the locust infestation that has jeopardized the country’s ability to feed itself.

Pakistan’s ability to shut down its economy was limited to begin with, but the problems have been compounded by the Khan government, which vacillates from treating Covid as a serious threat to considering it nothing more dangerous than the common flu, making it difficult for Pakistanis to gauge just how seriously to take the threat. It has refused to ban religious gatherings at the behest of the mullahs. And it’s not like the Khan government had much political capital to burn—even before coronavirus grabbed headlines, 55% of Pakistanis believed Khan and his ministers were incompetent.

Without a majority in Parliament, the Khan government has had a cozy relationship with the country’s powerful military, who for years played an outsized role in the country’s political life (and helped get Khan elected), much to the chagrin of those pushing for Pakistan to become a genuine democracy (more on that below). While Khan was always hesitant to impose a lockdown given the economic costs it would entail, he was finally forced to take the issue more seriously once the military came out in favor of them. He had been constantly touting a “smart lockdown” approach that strategically shuts down hot spots as coronavirus cases flair, but which until this week was more rhetoric than actual policy. The Khan government’s healthcare response leaves plenty to be desired. Which brings us to the 18th amendment.

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In 2010, the country passed the 18th amendment, transitioning the country from a semi-presidential system into a genuine parliamentary democracy by removing the president’s powers to dissolve parliament and to institute emergency rule unilaterally (in addition to abolishing the courts’ ability to approve suspensions of the constitution). The 18th amendment further decentralized power by establishing the prime minister and ministers as the federal government and gave more governing powers to provinces (including over healthcare), and with it more control over their finances and a greater share of the federal revenue. The 18th amendment is an important step for democracy in Pakistan, which has been under a military dictatorship multiple times since independence; in each case the military has imposed martial law, while relying on the courts to justify the move before taking over the presidency.

The Pakistani army has long had concerns over the 18th amendment, since it makes it harder for them to assert its influence over decentralized finances (robbing it of the ability to establish patronage networks and consolidate more power for itself). Army leaders equate the new powers granted to provinces with the “six point” movement, which led to the creation of Bangladesh, a stinging blow for Pakistan’s military. So it comes as little surprise that the Khan government, which relies on the army’s support to remain in power, has been pushing to make revisions to the law—in recent weeks, the Khan government has argued that one of the reasons why its healthcare response has been so lacking is precisely because of this decentralization of power and resources, and want to tweak it accordingly. But since the 18th amendment also gave provinces more power to determine their own healthcare policy, the army has used Khan’s own reticence to impose lockdowns for fear of the economic fallout to strengthen its own popularity… by supporting the provinces in the lockdown. In the meantime, an increasing amount of army officials have joined Khan’s cabinet, increasing concerns about how much divide there really is between the country’s military and its ostensibly civilian leadership.

Pakistan has plenty of problems heading its way over the next few summer months; in terms of the economy, in terms of public health, and in terms of society. It can now add a looming crisis of democracy to the list.

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President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi has mentioned that provincial Karachi and the remainder of Sindh won’t ever be left alone.

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An H.I.V. Outbreak Puts Spotlight on Pakistan’s Health Care System

A pediatrician accused of reusing syringes and infecting scores of Pakistani children with H.I.V. is now practicing in a government-run hospital after his private clinic was shuttered, in a case that is raising widespread questions about the integrity of Pakistan’s health care system.

The pediatrician, Muzaffar Ghanghro, was initially the sole focus of blame in an H.I.V. outbreak that has hit more than 1,100 people — so far nearly 900 of them are children — in the small city of Ratodero.

But government officials believe that he is not the only cause there, and that the bad practices he is accused of, including reusing syringes and IV needles, are so widespread across Pakistan that the entire health care system needs better regulation.

Health workers say the government needs to revamp the national medical syllabus to prioritize infection control, currently a minor part of doctor training. And they say hospitals often scrimp on the sterilization process for tools.

“The only good thing about the outbreak has been that it laid bare the multiple flaws in the system that the government with support of U.N. agencies needs to address,” said Dr. Fatima Mir, a pediatric infectious disease expert working at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. She was one of the first medical workers to help with the outbreak in Ratodero.

“What the outbreak in Ratodero says about Pakistan’s health care is that infection control is poor or nonexistent. Pakistan’s health care system is now trying to integrate infection control as a formal part of the system,” Dr. Mir added.

She said that Pakistan’s medical practitioners often lack the logistics and supplies necessary to prevent and contain infections. When she was in Ratodero to help, Dr. Fatima said it was a challenge finding clean water to wash her hands with while seeing patients.

“With the lack of infection control, this outbreak is not unexpected. What is unexpected is that this time, children are the main victims, and there are a lot of them,” she said.

Of the nearly 36,000 residents in Ratodero tested since late April, 1,112 have tested positive for H.I.V., 889 of them young children. With not even a quarter of Ratodero’s population tested, officials worry the real numbers are much higher.

The police investigation into Dr. Ghanghro is continuing, and he has been cleared only of the charge that he intentionally spread the virus, the district inspector general in charge of the case said in an interview. Dr. Ghanghro’s court case for medical malpractice is still continuing, said the district inspector general, Irfan Ali Baloch.

Dr. Ghanghro has denied that he reused syringes, which is illegal.

“A team of medical experts came and interviewed him,” Mr. Baloch said. “The medical board determined that he did not intentionally spread H.I.V., but his clinic was in such a condition that the protocols were not being maintained.”

Dr. Ghanghro still faces criminal charges, making it unclear how he is able to continue practicing, and why he was recently posted to a government-run hospital near Ratodero.

Provincial health care officials in Sindh Province, who would be responsible for reassigning Dr. Ghanghro, said that he has not been given the permission to resume practicing medicine and that his medical license was not recently renewed.

But Dr. Ghanghro said in an interview with The New York Times last week that he recently renewed his license, and was practicing in a government hospital with a stream of patients waiting to be seen by him, questioning the government’s ability to regulate the system.

“He has applied to us to start practicing again,” said Abdul Sami, an official from the Sindh provincial health care commission. “But so far, we have not allowed it.”

“If he has already started practicing, it is not to our knowledge,” added Mr. Sami, who is based in the district of Larkana, where Ratodero is.

Officials from the governing Tehreek-e-Insaf party blamed the outbreak on the poor governance and corruption of the local government of Sindh Province.

Other observers said the outbreak is more about systemic failure.

Zaigham Khan, a development expert who writes a column for the newspaper The News, noted that Pakistan spends less than 1 percent of its G.D.P. on health care, and that only one doctor is available for every 6,000 people, mostly concentrated in urban areas.

“Pakistan is facing a full-blown public health crisis, mainly rooted in ineffective governance and dominance of special interests,” Mr. Khan said.

“Pakistan is one of the two countries in the world where polio persists, the other being Afghanistan,” and treatable conditions like rabies and dengue contribute to dozens of deaths annually, he added. “In rural areas, most people are treated by quack doctors. As if that was not enough, even doctors often administer expired medicine. Doctors are hardly ever made accountable for these practices in the legal system.”

Dr. Baseer Khan Achakzai, the program manager of the central government-run National AIDS Control Program, said that Ratodero’s conditions were not unique, and that much of Pakistan was struggling to combat the spread of H.I.V., which causes AIDS. Unregulated clinics were continuing to operate, he said, and used syringes are frequently repackaged to sell as new, although they are supposed to be incinerated after use.

From 2010 to 2018, the number of H.I.V.-positive people in Pakistan nearly doubled, to about 160,000, according to estimates by U.N.AIDS, the United Nations task force that specializes in H.I.V. and AIDS. During that time, the number of new infections jumped 38 percent in those 15 to 24. And only about 10 percent of people thought to be H.I.V.-positive are being treated.

“With the help of U.N. agencies, a state-of-the-art AIDS control center is being established,” Dr. Achakzai said. “It will ensure that contaminated syringes will not be used and all medical waste would be put in the incinerator.”

With the exception of the capital, Islamabad, medical laboratories across Pakistan are not under any regulatory framework, Dr. Achakzai said.

“There is no check and balance,” he said.

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Cast out by HIV: Families living with the spectre of a deadly virus

Cast out by HIV Living with the spectre of a deadly virus Cast out by HIV Living with the spectre of a deadly virus Hundreds of children in Pakistan face a potential death sentence after being infected with HIV. Ben Farmer meets families at the centre of an unprecedented outbreak. Pictures by Saiyna Bashir This article has an estimated read time of seven minutes One-by-one Irshad Khatoon points out the children in her family who have tested positive. In the cramped brick compound she shares with five related families, 22 people have been told they have HIV. Seventeen of those are children. None had ever heard of the virus before April, or knew how it could be caught. Now they know little more except they have a potentially deadly infection, must travel miles for medicine and their neighbours shun them. “We had never seen such a disease. We had never heard of it,” the 43-year-old widow explains. Among her immediate family, she is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, as are her daughter and two grandchildren. With the shock diagnosis, the family of rural labourers in a village outside Ratodero, near Larkana in Sindh province, have found themselves rejected by their neighbours. Irshad Khatoon, left, along with her daughter-in-law, Heera Khatoon, and grandchildren have all been diagnosed with HIV “They don't shake hands with us, they don't talk to us, they don't mingle with us. “The doctors told us not to segregate the children. But still because of fear, I am keeping their utensils separate from the others.” The story is repeated in the nearby village of Thango Bozdar. There, 21 have tested positive, all but three of them children. As parents bring the children out to sit under a tree while the heat pushes 120F, some appear healthy and lively, while others, like Mohammad Ilyas, who leans weakly against his father's shoulder, appear emaciated and exhausted. Only three months ago, this corner of southern Pakistan discovered it was harbouring an unprecedented HIV outbreak which has shocked the town and alarmed public health officials. The outbreak is blamed on backstreet quack clinics and lax doctors spreading the virus among patients by reusing dirty needles. By the end of July the number of cases found was nudging 1,000 with 80 per cent of them children. The high proportion of children makes the outbreak unparalleled, health officials believe. Dr Imran Arbani was one of the first doctors to notice something was amiss among his patients and raised the alarm Lab technician Mansoor Ali tests for HIV testing at a screening camp at Tehsil Headquarter Hospital In the early days of the outbreak, in late April, the town was gripped by panic as hundreds thronged a makeshift screening centre and scores tested positive each day. But as the shock subsides and number of new cases dwindles, residents and health officials are now facing up to how they cope in the long term in an area already blighted by lack of education, poverty and malnutrition. For epidemiologists and public health workers, there is also now the concern that what was discovered in Ratodero could be the tip of a nationwide problem. It was a Ratodero native called Dr Imran Akbar Arbani who first noticed something was amiss and went on to raise the alarm. The 40-year-old urologist also keeps a general practice in the town of 300,000 where he has been practising for 15 years. It was a little girl called Emaan Fatima who first alerted him to the unseen outbreak. When she arrived at his clinic in late February, she had a history of stubborn fevers that multiple doctors had been unable to relieve. Suspecting something was wrong with the 15-month-old's immune system, he sent her to a lab for an HIV test. “When it came back positive, I was astonished in such a small child,” he told the Telegraph. “The father and mother were negative. Her siblings were also negative.” He began sending other patients for tests and was even more shocked by the results. In 20 days, 20 more patients had tested positive. He went to the town's local media. Waqar Ali, three, sits on the ground in front of five-year-old Abdullah Khan (left) and six-year-old Zeeshan Ali. All three were diagnosed with HIV in Subhani Shar village, around 8 km from Ratodero Gul Bahar Sheikh, a 40-year-old reporter for local channel Sindh TV News was one of the first journalists on the story. He had already seen social media postings of a man complaining he could not get public treatment for his 17-month-old daughter suffering from HIV. When he spoke to the man, he said five other families were in the same situation. The first television reports in the last week of April triggered panic. As far as health officials knew, the only previous local cases had largely been confined to high risk groups like sex workers and drug addicts. “The whole city was shocked and surprised and people were asking what has gone wrong? But the surprising issue was that the parents were negative and the children were positive,” Mr Sheikh said. As word spread, a government screening camp was overwhelmed with up to 1,800 people a day and sometimes 50 or 60 being tested positive. Officials quickly pointed to a culprit. Many of those affected had been treated by Ratodero's only paediatrician, Muzaffar Ghanghro. The doctor worked at a local public hospital, but also ran a thriving private practice. Residents took their sick children to him where he often prescribed injections or IV drips. The biggest story Mr Sheikh had ever reported on had suddenly become horribly close to home. The paediatrician had treated all of the reporter's seven children. He and his wife took them all to be screened and found his youngest daughter, two-year-old Rida Batool, was positive. Gul Bahar Sheikh and his wife shower affection on their two-year-old daughter, who has been shunned by other relatives since her HIV diagnosis Gulbahar Sheikh takes a rickshaw with his two-year-old daughter Rida Batool as part of a 30 km journey to receive HIV treatment “That is the tragedy. When I was trying to put out the fire, I didn't realise that the disease is also in my own house,” he said. His daughter's infection has seen her shunned by his own relatives. “My wife and I are educated. We hug our daughter and love her, but when our relatives come they push her to one side,” he said tearfully. Dr Ghanghro was arrested within days and accused of spreading the disease deliberately. Local anger against him rose when it was disclosed he was HIV positive himself. An investigation team later rejected the allegation he had spread the virus deliberately, but he remains on bail and is accused of being a major source of infection. Now working at a rural health centre, he told the Telegraph he had done nothing wrong and denied sharing needles between patients. As a qualified doctor it was impossible he would use unsafe practices, he said. He believes he was infected with the virus himself during blood transfusions when he lost his foot in a road accident three years ago. Faraz Rabail, three, has been diagnosed with HIV along with 11 of his family members The outbreak is almost certainly the fault of more than one doctor, health officials said. Lax safety rules and the reuse of syringes or needles happen among both the town's registered medics and unregistered quacks. Medical waste is not safely disposed of and syringes are even recycled in the bazaar and sold again. Unsterilised dentists instruments and barbers' razors, and poorly regulated blood-transfusions all add to the risks of spreading blood-borne diseases. The number of new infections has now slowed to one or two each day, but as the initial panic subsides, health officials are left with the question of how to stop the spread of the infection and how to treat those who have it. Medics at Pakistan's AIDS Control Programme admit they were overwhelmed to start with. There were not enough medicines or staff to address the crisis. Parents complain they were not receiving medicine and have to travel 20 miles from Ratodero to Larkana to get drugs. Health officials now deny there is a shortage, and say a clinical service to treat patients is being set up from scratch. More than half of patients are receiving antiretroviral drugs and the rest will be as soon as they are treated for other infections like TB. Yet despite the reassurances, an estimated 25 HIV positive children have already died since they were diagnosed, in an area already hit by malnutrition and high infant mortality. Treatment for AIDS is patchy at best in Pakistan, with the United Nations estimating 6,400 died from the disease last year. Dr Sikander Ali Memon, director of Sindh's AIDS control programme, said: “Not all the patients have been provided all the treatment because certain people have prior infections, like TB. When they get cured of those, they will start treatment of HIV.” He said so far 600 are on antiretroviral drugs. He said a public information campaign would run to try to remove some of the stigma surrounding infection, which many still associated with sex or drugs. Mohsin Ali, 11 Jeehjan, aged three Muhammad Ilyas, three Lax infection control among doctors and lack of education among the public means the virus is almost certainly still spreading as well. Such problems are not restricted to this corner of Sindh either, raising concerns there could be other undiscovered outbreaks elsewhere. “The truth is the infection control practices in Larkana are not very different from other cities of Pakistan,” said Dr Fatima Mir, a child health expert at Karachi's Agha Khan University. “There is quackery, there is poor and unsafe injection practices. The baseline knowledge of infection control even in registered practitioners is very poor.” The United Nations estimates a total of 160,000 people had HIV last year in Pakistan, up from 67,000 in 2010. But screening is minimal and the true figure could be far higher. Until March, only 1,400 children had ever been registered with the national AIDS control programme and since then 800 new child cases have been found in Ratodero alone. As Mr Sheikh watches his daughter play in his home above a shoe shop, he fears that Ratodero's HIV-infected generation will need more than medicine. He is worried about hundreds growing up as outcasts unless a public education campaign informs people how the disease is spread. He said he had seen women in remote villages chained up outside their homes after testing positive, as ignorant relatives tried to keep the infection at bay. “What I fear is that many more will die and even those like us who are getting treatment, their children will go to school and people will hate them,” he said. Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security Global Health Bulletin REFERRAL article

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With the menacing threats of the world’s condition under unvarying deterioration due to the negligence of the human race, 10 year old Lina Osama has taken it upon herself to build a greener future for her surroundings.Perhaps the youngest Chief Executive Officer of her company Green’s Better, in not only Pakistan but her current place of residence Qatar as well, Lina has partnered up with her seven year old sister Ruba to stimulate the withering zest about nature in today’s youth and to spark a sense of responsibility in them to serve the planet. In conversation with The News, Lina opened up about how she turned into a green warrior stating “I had always been intrigued by nature, and in the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a lot of changes in Pakistan. Extreme weather conditions, heatwaves in Karachi, less rainfall, drying up dams, air pollution, people getting sick more often so I wanted to do something about it.” Commenting further about her mission to save the planet, Lina states: “We encourage them to not waste paper, food, water and plastic. All of this is done in planting sessions, in which we tell them how to plant seeds and at the end of each planting session we hand them each a seed of a tree which they will grow and take care of.” The two superhero sisters pay visits to schools in Pakistan and Qatar where they enlighten children their age about planting trees and rejuvenating the love for nature in them which drives them to become part of the green campaign, which is managed by the Chief Green Warrior Ruba. The company that initially came into existence two years prior is also running a mobile application with the name of Green’s Better which Lina terms is ‘like Instagram’ for schools to unite teachers, parents and students for the communal angst of saving the environment through awareness. “Teachers can use the app, post pictures of students planting trees and reward them with green points. The purpose of green points is to encourage children to plant trees, love nature and take care of the environment,” states Lina. Presently the duo is aiming to plant 10,000 trees in University of Karachi and are also striving to make one of the most populated neighborhoods of the metropolis, -Lyari into a shed of peace and tranquility with their project titled ‘Lyari Chown Mein.’ “We plan to plant a tree on every rooftop and creeping vines along the walls of each house. This will attract lots of bees and butterflies there as they are rarely spotted here anymore. For this again I want as many people to be involved and help me in this mission,” states Lina about her Lyari project. While the imminent water crisis that is gradually enveloping the nation into its grasp has the entire country under frenzy, these young stars are perhaps one of the few who have decided to take the duty upon themselves and play their part in ensuring the present day condition we have created for them does not result in a perilous situation for the generations to come. from The News International - National https://ift.tt/2zWtQR7

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Ensure of Pakistan Life Why is the water wasted?

Water is one of the most essential blessings given by the power of the earth. Every living animal, including humans, animals, birds, trees, trees, plants, water is critical. According to statistics from the United Nations, every person drinks two to four liters of water daily, including food available. 60% of the human body is made of water, 71% of the planet's surface is covered with water While 96.5% of the world's water contains seafood.

In the current century, problems faced by groundwater environment have become a problem of pressing issues facing earth. Violent, global experts say that wars between the future societies and nations will be fought on a water issue.

Climate is the reason why to look at the history; it is a fact that the civilizations of the world started evolving from the surrounding populations. The famous researcher Wil Dent, mentioned in his story of the culture, said that the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmins in India gave birth to the civilizations here, Chinese contribution is a significant role in China's commitment to culture,

Rivers You Should Know

Egypt is famous for the name of the River Nile, so many cultures have taken birth from the banks of Iraq's rivers. When the population of the Greeks increased, even if their problems began to grow, they were able to establish their society on the beaches of the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean and the Sea of Bosnia, to meet the shortage of resources,

Similarly in the river Tiberia in Italy, the river Danube in Austria, the River Elbe in Germany and the Rhine and the Mediterranean River of San Francisco and the leaves. Due to the strengthening of its grip on fertile regions and water supply, different nations have been fighting each other until today.

Global warming, pollution, climate change, and scarcity problems came in the last decade of the twentieth century. In which rapid growth is increasing worldwide. According to a global water survey in the past, China is the world's largest country in population, with only 7% of its total water reserves.

The average population of the Middle East is only one percent water. India is the second largest country in the world, where water problem is going to be severe And because of lack of water in South India, many foreign companies have taken out their capital. To overcome this crisis of water India contradicts the global agreements with other sources of water supply Pakistan's water stolen at different times And stops running. According to experts, according to the environment, rule over the world for nearly a century, which experts have called Black Gold.

But the water which has been considered as blue gold by a large number of specialists' environment, according to them, will now rule over the world "blue gold." Due to lack of water in the Arab world, problems are increasing in the coming days To deal with, Diameter has started building the world's largest reservoirs, Canada has stored water for over 60 years, and it has more work on storage of water.

In Canada, 80 thousand cubic meter of water is available for every citizen, whereas 8,000 cubic meters of water is available for every citizen in the United States. The severe shortage of clean water in Iran, Africa, and Arab countries has created an economic and socially disturbing trend. Thousands of people are killed in a series of deadly deaths in most African countries. Apart from this, water disputes between Ethiopia and Kenya are also in front of the world.

A few years ago, 40 countries had appealed to the UN to count the issue of water scarcity in the global agenda. The United Nations Environment Organization has expressed concern over the water crisis in its investigative report. According to a worldwide report published a few years ago, almost 4,000 cubic kilometers per year, the clean water is decreasing from the ground. And due to the water crisis, 18 percent of the world's population has lost water

And the majority are forced to use saddle water due to which stomach diseases are spreading rapidly in particular children. And in every twenty seconds, a child is killed. Additionally, more than 35 million people die annually due to contaminated water.

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Five thousand years ago, due to the importance of water, civilized nations had invented methods of building artificial lakes, pools and canal systems to store water, and this chain continues to be But sorry sorry, in the last 70 years, most of the billionaire people of Pakistan have been proving to be 5000, years ago. Because since the year 1960, construction of a massive dam has not started yet As far as 2002, India has built more than 52 dams on Pakistan rivers coming from India.

There are two major dams in Pakistan: Tarbela and Mangla and surface water are at low level. According to a recent IMF latest published report, Pakistan has reached third place in the short-lived countries around the world. Which does not cause water storage and its inappropriate use.

In 1951, five thousand six hundred cubic meter water was available for every citizen in Pakistan, which is now less than one thousand cubic metres. And if the rapidly increasing situation was not controlled So according to experts 2025 Five hundred cubic meters of water will be available for every citizen. The horizontal African countries will be less than Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia.

On March 22, at the World Water Day, the speakers in Karachi have also pointed out on this anxious situation that If the worst case were not found early on the skin, the next twenty years later in Pakistan, forty-five in 2038 water would not be available to the people.

This situation is a momentary factor for the entire nation, And if immediate action was not taken on this side, admittedly without any enemy operation, a large part of Pakistan and its population could be hazardous due to horrific destruction. 90% of Pakistan's water is used for agriculture and irrigation And even today the decade's old irrigation system is operating in the country Due to which an estimated 45 percent of the water is lost. Apart from this, the common man in Pakistan is not aware of the importance of clean water,

He wastes more water than the water he uses. Due to drinking water, 52 thousand children die of diarrhea with diarrhea, diarrhea, and other diseases every year in Pakistan. According to a report, 80% of the infections are caused by drinking water. According to a World Health Organization report, only 15 percent of Pakistan's population is drinking water, and 85 percent of people are forced to drink polluted water.

One Look In Pakistan

Now that Pakistan too has become a serious obstacle to the problem of deficit water and it is impossible for water without life, it is necessary that this severe problem of deficit irrigation in Pakistan should be described as a national security issue.

In the National Assembly, the contract for making small dams across the country has also passed And our fortune is that there are thousands of natural places in Northern Territories, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, North Punjab and Sindh, which can be stored in small, big dams and can store water of monsoon. Therefore keeping a five-year target by maintaining the most severe situation, making a quick startup work on building small, big dams all over the country.

Apart from this, a continuation of water importance, water reservoirs, water shortage, and drinking water utilization of water from the schools, colleges, universities, continued continuously in every sector of life. Water management system, continuous broadcasting and publishing daily publications on print, Apart from this, a continuation of water importance throughout the country, water reservoir, preventing drinking water and campaigning of proper drinking water from schools, colleges, universities, continued in every sector of life.

Especially water, including broadcasting and publishing its publications on print, electronic and social media regularly, making water management system, water security system, strengthening canal system, To prevent water use in cities, villages, to introduce "railgun", "drip water system" to avoid accurate use of water and its waste, Water treatment plants are intriguing to quickly plant the annual billions of trees for planting plants, planting the ocean water and continuous yearly billions of trees according to the environment of everywhere.

And to start the work of the national and national interests mentioned earlier, to bring them to fulfill the fulfillment of the present and future, the Pakistani Uttar Pradesh class is sincerity, sincerity, selflessness, and integrity.

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On This Day...

On this day in 1979, a mob of protestors overran the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan and laid waste to the compound, setting fire to the consular and diplomatic buildings. This attack occurred only seventeen days after the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, was similarly attacked and overrun, beginning a hostage crisis which lasted 444 days. Unlike in Iran, however, the diplomatic staff was not taken hostage in Islamabad and the protestors abandoned the embassy grounds of their own accord. Two Americans and two Pakistani embassy workers were killed, while two protestors also lost their lives in the incident. Because it occurred so immediately after the Iran hostage crisis started in Tehran, the Islamabad attack is less known and is often referred to as “the other November 1979 embassy attack.”

One day earlier, on November 20, a group extremist Islamic insurgents infiltrated and seized the Masjid Al Haram, or Great Mosque of Mecca, the largest mosque in the world and the most important mosque in Mecca, the holiest city of Islam. The insurgents claimed that the Mahdi, or Redeemer of Islam (i.e. the Islamic version of the Messiah), was among their ranks and that all Muslims should heed his instructions. The insurgents simultaneously called for the Saudi Royal Family to step down from power. The insurgents took many worshippers hostage and killed others. Saudi Arabia deployed 10,000 troops to encircle the Great Mosque and, with the assistance of a Pakistani special forces unit and three advisors from France’s national counter-terrorism unit, gradually rooted out the insurgents. The fighting ended on December 4 with the surrender of the remaining militants. During the siege 127 Saudi soldiers were killed and another 451 wounded. 117 militants were killed and an unknown number were wounded. After a short trial, 68 of the captured insurgents were publicly beheaded by the Saudi government in January 1980.

The United States was neither directly nor indirectly involved with either the seizure of the Great Mosque or with the Saudi government’s armed response, but out of the confusion of the first day, rumors spread throughout the Islamic world that the violence and destruction at Masjid Al Haram was caused by a U.S. bombing raid. This rumor was enthusiastically spread, and perhaps even started by, Ruhollah Khomeini, the new ruler of Iran who had sanctioned the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran just two weeks earlier. This claim by Khomeini was picked up by news outlets around the world and broadcast the next morning, the 21st. Though it was quickly discredited by the Saudi government, the rumor, as often happens, spread faster than its disclaimer could.

On the morning of November 21 in Islamabad, Pakistan, nearly 2,200 miles away from the violence and confusion in Mecca, small crowds began gathering outside the walls of the U.S. Embassy. It is thought that these early crowds were made up of Pakistanis who intended to demonstrate against U.S. military action in Cambodia earlier in the year and perceived American involvement in the ouster of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto two years earlier. Regardless of the reason, the early protests were largely peaceful and the American diplomatic staff inside the legation walls were not overly concerned.

Around midday, however, busloads of members of Jamaat-e-Islami, a nationalist-Islamist group in Pakistan, arrived outside the embassy gates and the demonstrations grew in intensity. Anti-American slogans were yelled out and a commotion swept through the crowd. Suddenly protestors began trying to climb the embassy walls or pull down sections by attaching ropes and pulling. To this day, it is not certain who opened fire first: a Pakistani investigation concluded that U.S. Marine stationed on the roof of the embassy panicked and shot once into the ground, while an American report claimed that a Pakistani protestor attempted to shoot the lock off the embassy gate, but the round deflected off the lock and into the crowd, wounding several people. Whatever actually happened, the now enraged protestors pushed forth into the embassy compound, firing shots off in all directions; Corporal Steven Crowley of the Marine Security Guard detachment and Army Warrant Officer Bryan Ellis were both struck by bullets as they fell back towards the the embassy’s armored communications vault. Crowley and Ellis were carried by other Marines and embassy staff to the vault where they barred the doors and tried to call for help.

As the hours went by, the protestors devolved into a ruinous horde, ransacking the embassy complex and setting fires in numerous places. The diplomatic and consular staff and military attaches in the vault waited for help to arrive from Pakistani security forces while the air inside the vault grew thick and acrid as smoke from the fires outside seeped in. After the sun set, the noise outside decreased and a Marine guard volunteered to sneak outside to assess the situation. The Marine discovered that several fires were still raging while other buildings had already burnt out, but the courtyard was otherwise empty. The communications fault doors were too heavily damaged to open, and so a back exit, unknown to the Pakistanis, was used and the 140 embassy officials and Marines returned to the wrecked embassy buildings.

The embassy was too damaged to repair and so it was razed and a new embassy, with greater security features was built. In August 2015, a new U.S. Embassy, with even more protections was opened in Islamabad. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad remains one of the largest American diplomatic posts in the world, with over 2,500 staff who represent American interests in the nation and support three consulates in Lahore, Karachi, and Peshawar.

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In Pakistan, scorching Ramadan month highlights chronic water, power shortages.

By Pamela Constable, Washington Post, June 28, 2017

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--On May 27, in the date-growing desert town of Turbat in Baluchistan province, the temperature reached 128.3 degrees--the hottest ever reported in Pakistan.

What followed was a month of intense heat and humidity nationwide coinciding with Ramadan, the Muslim period of fasting and prayer that ended Sunday. Every day, millions of sweltering Pakistanis struggled to forgo food and water from sunrise to sunset, then roused themselves before dawn to wash, pray, cook and eat.

The Ramadan ordeal has brought into sharp relief the chronic water and power shortages plaguing this arid, Muslim-majority country of 180 million. In cities, families had to fill jugs and bottles from public taps at 3 a.m. In villages, long daily electrical outages stopped fans from whirring and tube wells from pumping water to irrigate parched fields.

As the month dragged on, people lost patience. Violent protests broke out from the vast port city of Karachi to the hilly tribal region of Malakand. Electric company offices were looted, police stations attacked, roads blocked. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered the electricity cuts shortened to several hours a day, but everyone knew that the move was only a temporary appeasement.

“Here I am, filling bottles while my kids wait in the car, because the water at home is not fit to drink,” fumed Shahadat Ali, 40, a printer lugging containers from a water station in the capital last week.

“This should not be happening,” Ali said as sweat poured down his face. “It’s all because of politics and mismanagement. It’s a disgrace.”

In a village of wheat and peanut fields 40 miles west of the capital, Rafiq Mohammed rested on a string bed in 97-degree heat, cooling his water buffaloes under a shade tree. The farmer said he was used to a hard life with hot summers. But he, too, said he was angry at the Sharif government, which won election in 2013 promising to end the power shortages but has struggled to fulfill that pledge.

“In our house, we can only use one fan and one light,” said Mohammed, 52. “We need the tube wells, but we can’t run them without power. Even when there is no power at all, we still get big bills we can’t afford to pay. The authorities come to get our votes, but after that they disappear.”

For years, Pakistan, an impoverished, mostly agricultural country with a fast-growing population, has faced a protracted problem of how to supply its farms, factories and urban households with water and power. But despite increasing public clamor and official investment, the shortages persist and are predicted to worsen.

The Sharif government can hardly be accused of ignoring the power issue. He vowed to make the problem a top priority, having inherited a system in shambles--with massive thefts of electricity, power plants operating far below capacity and a huge built-up debt to oil companies and other creditors.

Soon after taking office, Sharif ordered finance officials to repay the power debt of $480 million. Since then, he has focused on generating new power sources. Every few weeks, he appears on TV newscasts, inaugurating a new coal- or gas-fired plant. Many are being built in partnership with China, Pakistan’s major foreign investor.

But critics say the government has focused too narrowly on such high-profile projects, while failing to grapple with festering problems such as antiquated infrastructure and consumer theft via illegal hookups. They also note that power blackouts tend to be worse in rural areas, in part because cities have more influence.

“On the surface, it looks like there is not enough power, but the root issues are governance and mismanagement,” said Asad Umer, a legislator in the opposition Movement for Justice party who has led public protests on the problem. He said that the power debt has already crept back up to its 2013 level. “The market is not regulated and investors are offered huge rates of return,” he said. “But if you can’t run the state efficiently, you can’t pass on the cost to the consumer.”

During a debate in the national legislature after the protests erupted, the minister for water and power, Asif Khawaja, complained that 89 percent of electricity was being stolen. He was met with cries of “thief, thief,” and an opposition lawmaker retorted, “billions of rupees are taken from the people but no electricity is given, yet the people are called thieves.”

Pakistan’s water problem runs much deeper, and has far more potential to devastate the country. Unlike power, water is a finite resource, highly vulnerable to global warming. Pakistan’s access to it depends partly on rivers from India, a hostile neighbor, and regionally on Himalayan glaciers that are beginning to melt. By midcentury, experts predict, the country could run out of water entirely.

Many Pakistanis blame India for using dams to divert river water that, under a treaty signed in the 1960s, should be flowing into Pakistan. India has fought three wars with Pakistan, and people are concerned that the water dispute will intensify under its Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an ardent Hindu nationalist.

Yet according to experts, much of the water problem stems from domestic negligence and faulty policies.

Pakistan has five large dams and hundreds of small ones, with more planned or being built. But many are poorly maintained, and decrepit pipes leak millions of gallons. Fields are heavily flooded rather than using drip-irrigation, wasting water and ruining the soil. River water has been diverted to cities and mountain water has been pumped uphill at great cost.

“We blame India, but we can’t manage our own water,” said Arshad Abbasi, a water specialist at the Pakistan Institute of Sustainable Development. The water crisis, he said, “is really a crisis of bad governance and poor management. The politicians want to build big visible projects, but nobody sees the pipes and underground problems that are deteriorating by the day.”

“This problem has been going on for years. If the leaders are sincere, they can solve it easily,” said Bedar Hussaini, 49, a pediatrician who was filling plastic jugs at a suburban water station. He said that enduring a hot Ramadan without water was frustrating, but that the future worries him more.

“We have had times when India wanted to go to war with us, but if they try to take our water, or if we run out of it, that will be worse than war,” he said. “If the water stops, there will be no crops, and people will die.”

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