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Wahab is a civil engineer from University of Hong Kong and works in a top notch engineering firm. He is also associated with PTV News as the bureau chief for Hong Kong and currently enrolled in LLB at University of London (external program). He tweets @wahabtariqbutt

Social Diary

PML N, we will keep reminding you of your promises

Wahab Butt Mar 29, 2014

A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of a political party when it asks the public for their votes to gain power. In 2013 elections, every political party of Pakistan prepared a…

Social Diary

I saved ‘Asma’ by transferring balance of Rs 20

Wahab Butt Mar 28, 2014

Asma was just an ordinary girl from a far flung village in Southern Punjab but her dreams were big. She belonged to a ‘haari’ family which was under debt of the village landlord. The landlord was a cruel guy who would not let…

Off the Record

The story behind Saudi help in negotiations with TTP

Wahab Butt Mar 24, 2014

Sources have disclosed that Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif requested the Saudi foreign minister to use his country’s ‘good offices’ in persuading the TTP and its affiliates to come to the negotiating table. In…

Howzat!

No one cheers for the Hong Kong cricket team

Wahab Butt Mar 21, 2014

Hong Kong gave every Associate nation a reason to rejoice by pulling off the shock of the tournament thus far beating Bangladesh by two wickets in a last-over finish, despite the hosts managing to edge past Nepal on net run-rate for a…

Off the Record

5 things the nurses can do to woo the PML N government

Wahab Butt Mar 17, 2014

A nurse protesting in front of the Punjab Assembly on Friday succumbed to her injuries after she was baton-charged by the police. This makes one wonder why nurses are beaten, while the terrorists are negotiated with and what can the…

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