Politicians belonging to different parties, retired army generals and members of civil society Monday created a non-political forum – Centre for Discussions and Solutions (CDS) – with ex-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed as its convener to promote national thinking on national issues and the problems being faced by the country.
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Dr Jassim Taqui
In the next decade the United States would be out of Afghanistan and Iraq. The American dominance would be in retreat. In terms of military, America will remain overwhelming military power in the world but would withdraw from aggressive operations in the world to a model of regional balances of power, which Washington maintains and manipulates when necessary. Continue reading »
Director General of Pakistan Geological Survey, Dr. Imran Ahmed Khan has said that earthquake of a magnitude of 8.6 or higher might hit Pakistan this year.
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Khalid A Khokhar
Amongst dozens of ongoing mega development projects in Balochistan, Reko-Diq gold and copper mining project is considered to be a big national strategic asset that would transform Balochistan as the richest province in the country. According to experts involved in mining and exploration, some 12.3 million tons of copper and 20.9 million ounces of gold lie in the Reko Diq area (EL-5) in the Chaghi area of Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province – bigger than those evaluated at Sarcheshmeh in Iran and Escondido in Chile. The discovery heralded attraction of all the 12 major companies involved in mining & exploration business with the mining magnets started “behind-the-scene lobbying” for getting the contract at Reko-Diq from Balochistan Development Authority (BDA). After due deliberations, a Canadian and Chilean company Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) was given the licence for exploring copper, gold and other base metals in EL-5 area, by the government of Balochistan. Under the agreement, 75 per cent shares were given to TCC and 25 per cent to the BDA. Reports emerging from various sources indicate that the US $52 billion of natural deposit will be sold for just US $08 billion to the TCC. The mind-boggling question is why 75% of reserves are being given to get 25% back after investing 25% in (EL-5) project? According to reliable estimate, only a small part of the Reko Diq gold and copper mines (EL-5) have deposits worth US $270 billion. Two licences (EL-6 & EL-8 other bigger deposits in the same belt) were given to the same company (TCC) on a 100 per cent ownership basis and without any share to the government of Pakistan.
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All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Quaid Pervez Musharraf has said Pakistan is desperately in need of a democratic government that has support both from military and bureaucracy. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of APML office in Texas (USA), the APML Quaid in his inaugural address underscored that both PPP and PML-N has lost supporting hands from military and bureaucracy. He said that when he assumed power in 1999; the country was on the verge of bankruptcy but with day-in and day-out struggle of few years, Pakistan was enlisted among the 11 countries’ list with the fastest growth and progress ratio. Continue reading »
Dr Jassim Taqui
More surprises are unveiling about the real story of deteriorating ties between Pakistan and the United States. The issue is not confined to US spy Raymond Allen Davis or Geronimo Operation. It is much bigger. For several years, the American special troops or the so-called Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC) were combining with the infamous American mercenaries Blackwater disguised as security personnel to protect the American interests in Pakistan in target assassination of high value targets and sensitive places inside Pakistan. Former President Gen. Pervez Musharraf permitted these troops in a classified agreement, which remains a mystery.
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You can do a lot with an iPhone these days — text, take pictures, surf the net, and even
make a phone call..
And soon, thanks to two Australian entrepreneurs, you will be able use it to open a bottle of beer by way of the “Opena,” a hard plastic case that fits over the iPhone and is equipped with a slide-out bottle opener, reports the Daily Mail. Continue reading »
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
Addressing a seminar at the UN inGenevaon June 9, 2011, the British parliamentarian George Galloway said, “Eighty thousand had died in the more than twenty year freedom struggle in the Indian heldvalleyofKashmir. Uncountable numbers had been wounded and maimed, mass imprisonment and exile and even the use of rape as a tool of occupation had been the lot of the Kashmiris and yet the only demand of the occupied people ofKashmiris for the right to vote.” The topic of this seminar was, “Defending the Democratic Processes.” Continue reading »
Pakistan Suzuki Motor Company (PSMC) and Indus Motor Company (IMC) have reduced the prices of their vehicles effective from July 1, 2011. Continue reading »
The government is considering introducing short-term National Savings Schemes (NSS) products for a year and below.
The government with the consent of finance experts in the Ministry of Finance was about to launch such a scheme last year for the benefit of small investors, but after finding some flaws in the said scheme, the government decided not to float the proposed NSS. Continue reading »
Federal Government Thursday said rates of return on National Savings Schemes (NSS) would remain unchanged. The existing rates of return on NSS are 13.55 percent for Continue reading »
WASHINGTON: The United States continues to pay for historical mistakes with Pakistan, such as the decision to walk away from the region after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 and imposing sanctions on Pakistan in response to its nuclear ambitions, outgoing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said. Continue reading »
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
Pakistan is a problem or solution to the problem; the American hi ups are in a continuous state of confusion regarding the role of Pakistan in the Afghan war since day one. Their confusions are giving birth to more perplexity and the bitter consequences of these Continue reading »
By Ali Hassan
In order to earn fistful amount of money to live a better and save future, citizens of Pakistan striving for their better future and earnings ultimately fall prey to traps of unscrupulous agents and earn a bad name to themselves and their country. Continue reading »
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
It is neither the Pakistan army nor the ISI; it is Pakistan which few of our own media-men are targeting, knowingly or unknowingly. For the last many years, the world around us has been exploiting all possible resources to defame the two very sacred and no doubt holy institutions of Pakistan, the Pakistan army and the ISI. The world is very well aware of the fact that no harm could come to Pakistan unless these two institutions are stable and strong. It won’t be an exaggeration if we call the ISI a continuous pain in the neck and a throbbing thorn for the forces eager to destabilize Pakistan. The international plan of defaming these two institutions could have never succeeded if our own Continue reading »