Archive for the ‘Pakistan Affairs’ Category

The Indus Basin Water Dispute

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The Indus Basin water dispute had its origin in the partition of the Punjab. It broke in to the open on April 1, 1948, when East Punjab in India cut off the flow of canal water to west Punjab in Pakistan. Pakistan has fertile soil but a hot and dry climate. ...

Pakhtunistan Movement

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

In the western wing of Pakistan the speakers of Pushto-Pakhtunsled by the “Frontier Gandhi” khan at the very outset raised question demanding themselves a nation within Pakistan and thus making an attempt to undo the unity, solidarity, and security of the state which just took its birth. While the infant ...

Constitutional Problems After Independence Of Pakistan

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Under section 8 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the Government of India Act, 1935 became, with certain adaptations, the working Constitution of Pakistan. But the need of a constitution framed by the elected representatives of the people was all the more necessary for the free people. So the first ...