By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: With the growing consumerism, brand names of different commodities are not only attractive for the highly educated and rich – who select their shirts, shoes, wrist watches or fast food and beverages of certain brands – but also matters to the poor such as the war victims from the northern areas of Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan living in the temporary camps set in different areas of the city. Continue reading »
During a hearing in the missing persons case the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while listing the number of Pakistanis in jails abroad told the court that the financial constrain was the major hurdle in their repatriation besides some other difficulties. Continue reading »
ANDY GOLDBERG ARTICLE (May 24 2010): It’s spawned scandals, spoofs and sensations and is probably the biggest time waster on the planet. But as video-sharing internet site YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday on Monday, all the signs were that it’s just getting started. Continue reading »
CAIRO (May 24 2010): Egypt’s Sewedy Cables is considering investing in Pakistan’s wind energy sector, Pakistan’s foreign minister said in Cairo on Sunday. “We have met with the Sewedy group yesterday and they have shown interest in investing in the energy sector in Pakistan. They have expertise and technology to fulfil our requirements,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters. Continue reading »
EAC constitutes body to address IFIs concerns
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank got alarmed and expressed grave concern and no confidence in the “manipulated” GDP growth of 4.1 per cent for outgoing fiscal year 2009-10 worked out by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) and then approved by the National Accounts Committee (NAC), a senior official at Finance Ministry confided to The News.
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Pakistan is now ranked at 112th position among 125 countries in the Global Trade Index, moving down from 100th position that it held last year. This is the second consecutive year that Pakistan’s position has been lowered, according to The Global Enabling Trade Report 2010, released by the World Economic Forum on Saturday.
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TOKYO: Toyota Motor said on Friday it is to acquire a 50 million dollar stake in Tesla Motors and will jointly develop electric vehicles with the Silicon Valley firm.
Toyota and Tesla Motors, based in Palo Alto, California, “intend to cooperate on the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support,” they said in a joint statement. Continue reading »
The Islamabad Traffic Police plans to launch an online registration system to facilitate people in getting hassle-free registration of their vehicles, said SSP Islamabad Traffic Police Dr Moeen Masood.
During his visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), he said that the ICT Traffic Police also plans to provide a points-based driving license, which will be issued in the shape of a smart card. Continue reading »
By Bushra Zulfiqar
The last two decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on women’s empowerment as gender has moved at the centre of contemporary development debates. International commitments like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have brought women’s empowerment as an extremely important component of all development interventions across the globe. Women’s empowerment has been approached with a variety of rationales such as women’s empowerment through improved access to educational opportunities, women’s empowerment through participation in the political process and provision of economic opportunities including but not limited to micro-credit programmes. However the market or economic participation approach towards women’s empowerment is highly debatable. Continue reading »
By Saeed Minhas
Amidst the turning and twisting political and judicial scenarios and the arrival of US and NATO campaigners, the Upper House somehow managed to conclude its debate on the presidential address with the closing remarks of Law Minister Babar Awan on Wednesday with an end note that the adventurous judo-cratic ride is not yet over.
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ALI SUKHANVER
Political turmoil, economic disorder, scarcity of energy resources and no doubt above all the ever growing population; the developing countries have their own particular problems throughout the world. All these problems join hand together and ultimately create sky-kissing hurdles in the way to stability and prosperity of these countries. Continue reading »
An email from a friend:
Dr Stephen Mak is a friend of mine at the BSF course.
He told me he treats terminal ill cancer patients by “un-orthodox” way and many patients recovered.
He explains to me before he is using solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients.
He believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses. See the article below. Continue reading »
ALI SUKHANVER
Of brain, heart and hands, no doubt, the brain is always the most important gadget in the whole of human machinery. The brainless actions guided by an eager heart always lead to a whole-sale catastrophe. Successful are those who think well before they leap; whose actions are under the command of their brain not their heart. .The actual problem begins when our heart starts thinking and becomes the controlling authority of all our actions. Ruling all over the world without any sharing and interference is a natural desire of every living nation but most of the times this desire remains a dream when it is not patronized by the brain. At present the USA is trying to materialize its same type of dreams in a very irrational and illogical way; the dream of invading and conquering the countries like Pakistan. Continue reading »
Humayun Akhtar Khan
The total installed power-generation capacity in Pakistan is about 20,000 MW. At any point in time, only about 75 per cent of it is operational. Pakistan`s demand is around 15,000 MW. The operational capacity and demand seem to match. Why is it, then, that we are only able to produce a little over 10,000 MW these days, to suffer the huge load-shedding and industry closures? Continue reading »
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
In 1971 we lost more than half our compatriots who offered up joyful prayers of gratitude on their deliverance from the hell we chose to inflict upon them in the name of an “ideology” interpreted largely by our military and clergy neither of whom played any role in the Pakistan Movement.
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