Covering the political environment and developments concerning Pakistan and region at large.
1. 29 Aug 2019
2. Similarly, Title 18, sections 1389, which prohibits any attacks on US servicemen and their property, also hands out 5 - 10 years imprisonment for major injury and damages. 
2. So, the critical question to consider here is, what is the country getting in return for the hefty amounts being paid to judges?
1. DHA (Defence Housing Authority) covers 0.113 Mn acres in 8 cities of Pakistan, including Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Gwadar, Multan, Bahawalpur, Quetta, and Karachi. It also extends to relatively remote cities like Quetta, Bahawalpur, and Gwadar. 
1. #India has long desired to target Pakistan's strategically located cantonments, which are critical for the country's defense. However, due to Pakistan's well-planned cantonments, Indian attempts of harming Pakistan were stopped in their tracks. 
1. Complain ye not of heart unkind! Nor speak of tyranny! When Love no bondage knows, Why should Beauty not be free?
According to initial credible media reports, and as declared by @rajnathsingh himself, 5 Indian soldiers had died after a truck caught fire due to lightning strike in #PoonchDistrict, #IIOJK. However, the incident is, now, being painted as a Terrorist attack.
📌A martial coup is a temporary rule by military authorities in a designated area when civil authorities are unable to function. As a result, civil rights are usually suspended, and summary justice or military law is extended to the civilian population.
1. Richard Sisson & Leo Rose in the book 'War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh', highlighted discrepancies in figures quoted pertaining to alleged killings by Pak Army from 300,000 to 500,000. The huge variation was only meant to malign #PakArmy. 
After President Yahya Khan had postponed the national assembly session scheduled to be held on March 3, 1971, under the pressure of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, it had disastrous consequences. 
Xi’s three-day visit to the Russian capital, which concluded Wednesday, was an opportunity for the two self-described “friends” to showcase their close personal rapport amid the pomp of a state visit – and lay out how they could advance a world order.
Ample availability of water, a suitable climate, arable land, employment of innovative technologies, and availability of power supplies are crucial elements of food security.
Construction of dams, airstrips, highways, railway tracks, and buildings, and drilling of tunnels, including military activity, in this hazard-prone area, can be taken as a result of #India's geopolitical competition and rivalry.
The key takeways of the report are:
The civil and military officials were left with a difficult task when Mountbatten decided on 3 June 1947 that Pakistan and India would be divided into two portions.
Bhutto’s bureaucratic reforms led to the destruction of governance, weak civil institutions, and the promotion of mega-corruption during institutional atrophy.
Their salary scale goes from INR 20,700 to INR 2,50,000, with a grade pay level ranging from 3 to 18. The table below shows the salaries of Indian Army officers by post.
Two years later, in 1949, the committee evolved into the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) under Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan as its founder. 
In the first Pakistani legislative assembly (Aug. 10, 1947, to Oct. 24, 1954), for example, women acquired 3% of the total seats (the number of total seats was 30, and women acquired 2 of these).