Shah Nawaz Mohal

Shah Nawaz Mohal

The writer is a law graduate and journalist based in Islamabad.

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Witnessing human zoo

March of humanity continues in shared cages where they fight against alienation and hanker after happiness in shopping bags Our cage is cramped, food is getting scarce for many, for others misery<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/03/witnessing-human-zoo/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Dec 3, 2018
Reporting truth with empty pocketsColumns

Reporting truth with empty pockets

Breathing in the shadows of precarious jobs, delayed, shrinking paychecks, and massive layoffs The situation is dire and uncertain. The old watchdog (read print) is down on its knees. The new kids<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/26/reporting-truth-with-empty-pockets/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 26, 2018
Affectees and allottees of E-12 await resolution of issues by PTI govtISLAMABAD

Affectees and allottees of E-12 await resolution of issues by PTI govt

–Affectees say PTI government has taken to excuses, dallying tactics like last government ISLAMABAD: The promises Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), made while it was in the opposition, regarding the resolution of the perennial issues<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/20/affectees-and-allottees-of-e-12-await-resolution-of-issues-by-pti-govt/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 20, 2018
Tragedy of great menColumns

Tragedy of great men

And how we betray and eventually are forgotten by our own idealsTragedy, traditionally speaking, revolved around lives of great men ending in dust, shrieks, bloodshed and tears. King Oedipus p

Nov 19, 2018
Rs756m irregularly paid by FGEHF for ‘mobilisation advance’ISLAMABAD

Rs756m irregularly paid by FGEHF for ‘mobilisation advance’

-advance payments were made for infrastructure development of sectors F-14 and F-15 ISLAMABAD: The Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) released Rs756 million under the head of mobilisation advance to a contractor for infrastructure development<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/17/rs756m-irregularly-paid-by-fgehf-for-mobilisation-advance/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 17, 2018
Rawalpindi commissioner’s car claims life of navy officialNATIONAL

Rawalpindi commissioner’s car claims life of navy official

ISLAMABAD: Son of the Rawalpindi commissioner is suspected to have killed an official of the Pakistan Navy in a road accident near the office of Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP), it has emerged.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/rawalpindi-commissioners-car-claims-life-of-navy-official/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 15, 2018
Delays, irregularities, losses mar construction of FSA hostel buildingISLAMABAD

Delays, irregularities, losses mar construction of FSA hostel building

-Irregular expenditures worth 362.3 million rupees cited in audit –Loss of 108.6 million rupees due to execution of work at higher rates than approved by ECNEC ISLAMABAD: A special audit has pointed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/delays-irregularities-losses-mar-construction-of-fsa-hostel-building/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 15, 2018
The necessity of softening clenched fistsNATIONAL

The necessity of softening clenched fists

–And why India and Pakistan should sack the burden of history that weighs them down ‘CBM: Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists’ by Asma Shakir Khawaja, who specialises in conflict resolution, traditional and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/15/the-necessity-of-softening-clenched-fists/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 15, 2018
Dysfunctional, archaic solid waste management system in capital ruining environmentISLAMABAD

Dysfunctional, archaic solid waste management system in capital ruining environment

–City managers despite eyeing Sangjani as new dumping site yet to make it functional ISLAMABAD: After decades of dumping solid waste produced by the capital out in the open, the dumping sites in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/13/dysfunctional-archaic-solid-waste-management-system-in-capital-ruining-environment/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 13, 2018
Illegal housing societies growing rapidly under CDA’s noseISLAMABAD

Illegal housing societies growing rapidly under CDA’s nose

–Dozens of illegal housing schemes lack schools, parks and graveyards ISLAMABAD: Illegal housing schemes in the capital are growing rapidly, resulting in the abuse of already-scarce natural resources on one hand and the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/12/illegal-housing-societies-growing-rapidly-under-cdas-nose/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 12, 2018
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World of wounds

How to live, laugh, languish and die in scattered, simmering world of today Wounds are strange creatures. When they heal, they leave marks. When they don’t, they kill. Either way, they remain.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/12/world-of-wounds/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 12, 2018
CDA penniless owing to non-recovery of receivables, taxesISLAMABAD

CDA penniless owing to non-recovery of receivables, taxes

-Civic authority owed millions of rupees ISLAMABAD: Non-recovery of security advances, receivables, fees and taxes have caused revenue losses worth millions of rupees to the already cash-starved Capital Development Authority (CDA) that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/09/failure-to-make-recoveries-results-in-scarce-financial-resources-for-cda/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 9, 2018