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The hysterical synchronicity of these happenings is typical of the Pakistan encountered nowadays in the news. It is also Manto-esque, which is to say that it feels like it could have been imagined, in exactly these tones, with just such a flatly ironic counterpoint for an ending, more than fifty years ago by a man called Saadat Hassan Manto, the writer whose centennial is being marked this year in Lahore amid an unshakeable and vaguely shaming sense of déjà vu.

Vapi tops the list of critically polluted areas in the country as per the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index of the Central Pollution Control Board. According to a report submitted by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board to the Central board, the estate houses 759 industries, of which 70 per cent manufacture chemicals such as dyes and dye intermediates, pigments, pesticides, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The report also includes an action plan to curb pollution.

This is the last and concluding part of 8 part essay on the 1947 Partition of India and its impact on east and west Punjab.

We, the Pakistani and Indian signatories of this joint statement, welcome the positive outcome of the just-concluded Pakistan-India foreign ministers’ talks in Islamabad, especially with regard to the newly announced liberalized and relaxed visa regime.

Class V and VIII History syllabus had stirred up a hornet’s nest last year while it was being framed since it had elements perceived as an attempt at giving a “saffron” tint to the text by the BJP government. An expert committee was appointed to look into these objections and some changes made relating to the glaring omissions and commissions. However, the collapsing of time and space of the Indus and Aryan periods of history had then not been pointed out.