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Small manufacturers start making candles, generators, UPS etc

Nafees Tahir

LAHORE: The unending loadshedding was giving rise to a new form of cottage industry which was producing scores of goods to counter the power outages. Loadshedding, though, has adversely affected the big industries, yet it helped small industry to grow.

Rizwan Ghani
In response to Western diplomats propaganda that Nawaz Sharif cannot, or will not, deliver on their greatest concern: hunting Al-Qaeda and Taliban militancy I as an observer of American, British and European politics can cite numerous instances showing that Americans and Europeans have rejected Bush’s war on terrorism.

By Mohammad Ali Siddiqi
IN one of his well-argued articles for Dawn, Eric Margolis wrote (before President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency on Nov 3) that the politicians should help him get out of uniform. After all, by getting himself elected by the outgoing assemblies he was merely carrying out the wishes of the opposition, which for [...]

Dr Paul D. Scott
IN Cambodia, ‘the night of the barking dogs’ is the name given to the hours immediately before polling day.
It is at night when threats, intimidation, and bribes are made.

NOW that the elections are over the next step is to think about what the political parties will do next. There is a need for institutionalising politics and improving the overall health of state institutions so that they could support strengthening of democracy in the country.

By Kuldip Nayar
IF you want to assess a country’s progress you should pick up the poorest from among the people and see how far he has gone up the ladder, so said Mahatma Gandhi. The budget session of parliament, in progress, is a stock-taking exercise, not of economy alone but of other fields as well.

KARACHI, Feb 28: Fatima Bhutto, daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, does not think the “new parliament can bring any hope of good governance to people” and believes the coalition of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari is destined to be very short.

By Zaffar Abbas
ISLAMABAD and its twin city Rawalpindi continue to remain in the grip of frenzied political activities with various power-brokers on both sides of the divide being involved either in last-minute wheeling-dealing or making last-ditch efforts for a favourable outcome for their respective groups.

* O-level students urge govt to improve education system, introduce new disciplines
* Students slam extremism

LAHORE: The British Council on Thursday held an award distribution ceremony to celebrate Pakistani students who scored achieved the best results in the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) 2007.

In a meeting convened in a hotel in Islamabad, three leading political parties — the PPP, the PMLN and the ANP — announced on Wednesday that they had a simple majority in the National Assembly to form a government, and that therefore a session of the National Assembly should be called by the president “as [...]