Afzal Khan
ISLAMABAD – MQM’s latest threat to sit in the opposition has a familiar ring designed to convey a message to the PPP. Its timing is intriguing. As has been the pattern of its moves in the past, the present action has some multi-dimensional motives and objectives vastly distinct from what the party has publicly stated. Continue reading »
Choice before developing countries
By Aftab Ahmad Khan
Governments throughout the world are confronting the challenge of costly public programmes, bureaucratic inefficiencies and inadequacies in economic performance by turning to the private sector and free markets for assistance. Continue reading »
Associated Press of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Researchers have developed a revolutionary process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which they claim could be used to economically and efficiently run vehicles.
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LAHORE: Political turmoil and violence in the country have claimed a high-profile cultural victim – a centuries-old kite-flying festival that draws thousands of visitors. Continue reading »
World Risk Society — The Play. Act one: Chernobyl. Act two: The threat of climate change. Act Three: 9/11. Now the curtain is rising on act four: Global financial crises. Continue reading »
WHILE Pakistan’s hesitant political transformation falters further, one has to note that developments over the last decade or so have given rise to numerous substantive changes, which have altered social relations and societal structures. Continue reading »
By Qazi Faez Isa
PRIME Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani vowed to accomplish Bhutto’s mission on his 29th death anniversary. What was the ‘mission’ of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and what were the powers confronting Bhutto when he embarked upon it. Continue reading »
By Muhammad Faisal Ali LAHORE, April 13: Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) of Civil Defence is for the first time launching a country-wide two-week training course for members of public during the month to enable them to identify the would-be suicide bombers and explosive material and adopt preventive measures. Continue reading »
Gwadar Port finally making history by beginning its cargo handling from March 15, 2008,” says a newspaper report.
And the port is certainly making history. This is perhaps the first port in the annals of the history of port development which could not receive the first commercial ship specifically chartered to use the port on its inauguration. Somebody just forgot to check the draft of the ship against the depth available at the port. The ship had to be partially unloaded at the anchorage to MV Hyderabad, engaged from PNSC, before the ship was able to enter the port. Continue reading »
By Yousuf Nazar
There seems a dangerous disconnect between the economic challenges confronting Pakistan and its response to it. The leadership’s inability to anticipate their gravity and the inadequacy of its response could prove disastrous. Continue reading »
* Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
* It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
* The average life of a taste bud is 10 days. Continue reading »
Perhaps, I wildly ruminated, the expectation of delay indicates not a dysfunctional society, but a more relaxed, open and, dare I say it, democratic one? Perhaps the further one gets towards extremism, the less room there is for temporal deviance as well as political? Continue reading »
We live in fantastic times. Life is so demanding that the modern man cannot do without some fantasies. But he cannot do without a reality-check either Continue reading »
According to financial circles in London, Islamabad is going to be graced with financial royalty when Shaukat Aziz arrives. And before people begin to get all excited that he’s coming to play another round of spectacular golf at the Islamabad Golf Club and repeat his hole-in-one at the 16th hole televised by the Golf Channel, they should know that far more serious things are at stake. Continue reading »
After the triennial congresses of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), it’s time to ask where they’re headed. The CPs’ highest decision-making bodies met at a crucial juncture, when their support to the United Progressive Alliance, premised upon the Left’s greatest-ever representation in India’s parliament, has been critical to the government’s survival; and when they’re expected to formulate strategies to move out of the political margins. Continue reading »