Front page of THE PAKISTANI OBSERVER - August 16, 1966
u/mushmanMAD — 15 hours ago
r/realPakistaniVoice
Should we bring back the Federally Administered Tribal Areas?
Arguments for bringing it back:
- Preserves centuries old cultural practices.
- Directly controlled by Islamabad, which can manage resource and mineral collection, something local governments were struggling to do.
- Many tribal residents argue that the merge has resulted in economic neglect.
- More local autonomy.
- It would be easier to manage and suppress insurgents.
Arguments against bringing it back:
- Would strip millions of Pashtuns of their rights as full Pakistani citizens.
- Bringing back collective punishment (authorities can punish families or tribes for the actions of one person).
- Impossible to reverse a constitutional amendment.
There are probably more arguments for and against bringing the FATA back that I didn’t include.
u/mushmanMAD — 3 days ago
“TO ALL OUR PATRONS WE OFFER OUR VERY BEST WISHES ON THIS AUSPICIOUS OCCASION” - The Civil & Military Gazette - Lahore (August 15, 1947), after the partition.
u/mushmanMAD — 1 day ago
What are your thoughts and opinions on Sanskrit teaching in Pakistan?
Courses are being offered at some high-level institutions, such as Lahore University of Management Sciences and Punjab University in Lahore.
The program is spearheaded and run by Dr. Shahid Rasheed.
Passages from the Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita are being studied.
What is your thoughts on this matter?
u/mushmanMAD — 4 days ago
What is your opinion on Pakistan’s birthright citizenship?
Under the Pakistan Citizenship Act of 1951, every person born in the country (except children of foreign diplomats and enemy aliens) will be a citizen of Pakistan.
What is your thoughts on this matter? Should we abolish it? Is it a good thing that we have it?
u/mushmanMAD — 4 days ago
Information about Pakistan in my atlas from 2001:
u/mushmanMAD — 4 days ago
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh: do you agree that it is not our responsibility to bring them back?
u/mushmanMAD — 6 days ago
Neighbor tries to STEAL our poet and NATIONAL PRIDE: Hafeez Jalandhari, the person who wrote our national anthem.
u/mushmanMAD — 6 days ago
Holy exaggeration. And it’s ironic that a neighbor is saying this:
u/mushmanMAD — 9 days ago
Neighbors think that we don’t get any bad press in Western News 🤡
u/mushmanMAD — 9 days ago
Paintings of Lahore, by the American painter, Edwin Lord, Lahore (1896)
u/AwarenessNo4986 — 11 days ago
Neighbor thinks that everything is free and that we don’t “have to work” for anything. 🤡
u/mushmanMAD — 12 days ago
Pakistan and Palestine flag side by side at FIFA 2026
The flag of my country and the flag of Palestine side by side, really beautiful to see.
u/ChaiPeenyChalain — 14 days ago