Pakistan’s Debt Policy Statement 2012-13

Total external debt recorded at $66.2bn till Q1 FY13

ISLAMABAD: The total external debt has been recorded at $63.8 billion and after including foreign exchange liabilities of $2.4 billion the total external debt and liabilities have been estimated at $66.2 billion till first quarter of fiscal year 2012-13.

This was revealed in the Debt [...]

Musharraf himself crossed LoC during Kargil mission

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI – In an explosive revelation, Colonel (r) Ashfaq Hussain has accused former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf of aggression against India in 1999, saying the former army chief had himself crossed the Line of Control (LoC). Hussain, in his book Witness to Blunder, said the Kargil mission was masterminded by Major General Javed [...]

ALL AGAINST TERRORISM

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

 

In this world of conspiracies, spreading of depression has proved one of the very successful strategies used as the war tactics and its repercussions are more fatal and lethal than those of a nuclear bomb. Now survival is not the fate of the fittest ones but of those who don’t fall [...]

Rawalpindi Development Authority declares 27 housing societies illegal

Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has declared 27 housing societies including the Airport Housing Society (extension) and the Lawyers Cooperative Housing Society, as illegal and has issued notices to them.

The RDA, while recommending to the additional district collector (revenue) for banning transfer of land in respect of these societies, has warned the citizens to refrain [...]

The long lost Basant

Association asks Supreme Court to allow kite flying in rural areas

LAHORE: As authorities are planning to continue the ban on the festival of kites this year, the All Pakistan Kite Flying Association has urged the Supreme Court chief justice to allow holding the festival outside the urban areas so that the centuries-old tradition could [...]

The pitfalls of packaged milk in Pakistan

By Shireen Campwala

It is quite hectic to evaluate, explain and understand the delicate situation about packaged milk in Pakistan as there are many dangerous and poisonous substances and other harmful detergents being mixed in the packaged milk in Pakistan, Canada, USA and other European countries.

Justice Mian Saquib Nasir of the Lahore High Court [...]

HOSTILE FRIENDS

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

 

A few weeks back the Pakistan army published its new Green Book which identified internal insurgent forces as the country’s principal national security threat. The book also indicated a shift of concentration of the Pakistan army from Eastern borders to the western front. This doctrinal change was warmly welcomed by various [...]

LEARNING FROM THE USA

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

According to the New York Times, an ex-CIA officer Mr. John C. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A officer to a freelance reporter. [...]

CDA cancels NOC issued to Roshan Pakistan housing scheme in Sector E-16

 

Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has cancelled the NOC issued for development of the Roshan Pakistan Housing Scheme in Sector E-16, as according to it, the planners of the project were not completing various formalities.

The CDA has informed the public and other concerned regarding cancellation of the No Objection Certificate (NOC) issued [...]

Dr Tahir-al-Qadri’s clarion call

By Saeed Qureshi

Tuesday, January 08, 2013 – If Dr Allama Muhammad Tahirul-Qadri can bring about a change for the better in Pakistan, it should be diligently welcomed. His political party Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) that he founded in 1990 outlines the mission “to introduce the culture of true democracy, economic stability, improve the state [...]

Pakistan National Saving Schemes profit rates decreased from 1-Jan-13

The government has revised down the interest rates on the National Savings Schemes (NSS) on investments with effect from January 1, 2013, according to a statement.

According to the announcement made by the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS), in response to considerable slash in the discount rate by the State Bank of Pakistan [...]

Islamabad G-14 allottees concerned over delay in development work

The allottees of Sector G-14 of the federal capital have expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the development work of the sector.

The allottees also pointed out the delay in the report of a commission about houses of affected people, especially complaints of construction of illegal houses and one-room structures.

The [...]

2012 bleak year for Karachi real estate sector

 

* Law and order, weak economy, land grabbing remain major factors

Poor law and order situation, unstable economy and land grabbing remained the major contributors towards dull activity in real estate sector during 2012, said Anwar Gagai Chairman Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) on Saturday.

We still have enough demand [...]

LAHORE: LDA set up new wing to monitor private housing societies

* March 31 set as final payment date for LDA Avenue-I allottees

In order to closely monitor the affairs of the approved private housing schemes in the city, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General Ahad Khan Cheema on Wednesday set up a separate directorate, called Directorate of Estate Management (Private Housing Schemes), in the [...]

AFGHANISTAN-A DECEPTIVE IMPRESSION

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

While going through the details of suicide attack on Asadullah Khalid, the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan, one feels that Khalid was strolling somewhere in a public park or enjoying a cup of hot Afghani Qahwa in a café along some deserted highway; he was not at a guesthouse used by the [...]

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