Muhammad QasimThe Islamabad Medical & Dental College Friday organised a seminar to mark World No Tobacco Day with a primary objective of creating awareness among youth, students and general public about tobacco hazards and various techniques of smoking cessation. Continue reading »
May 312008
اس28مئی کو پاکستان کے ایٹمی دھماکے کو 10 سال ہو گئے ہیں سمجھ میں نہیں آتا کہ اسے اس واقعے کی سالگرہ کہا جائے یا برسی۔ خیال تھا کہ ایٹمی طاقت بننے کے بعد اقوام عالم میں ہمارا وقار بڑھے گا اور ہمارے بارے میں کوئی الٹی سیدھی بات کرنے سے پہلے ہمارے مخالفوں کو دس بار سوچنا پڑے گا اور ہماری سرحدوں کی طرف ٹیڑھی آنکھ سے دیکھنے کا حوصلہ تو اب شاید کسی سپرپاور کو بھی نہیں ہو گا اور یہ کہ پاکستان اب زندگی کے ہر شعبے میں ترقی کی نئی سے نئی منزلیں طے کرے گا Continue reading »
May 312008
آج 28مئی ہے ۔ دس سال قبل پاکستان آج کے روز ایٹمی دھماکے کرکے دنیا کی ساتویں ایٹمی طاقت کے طور پر ابھرا تھا۔ یہ دھماکے ڈاکٹر عبدالقدیر خان کی نگرانی میں ہوئے اور وہی اس پروگرام کے خالق اور معماربھی تھے۔ Continue reading »
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ISLAMABAD: Patients with type 2 diabetes might be at risk of chronic kidney disease, if they also have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study. Continue reading »
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to make the world adapt to him; all progress in the world, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man’ Continue reading »
Convenient smokescreens of poverty and superficial anti-Western rhetoric all represent convenient ruses used by leaders in their effort to fool a population into believing that respect for human dignity is somehow against Pakistan or Islam Continue reading »
Shakeel Anjum
During last ten years, around half-a-dozen prime ministers have come and gone, and so did as many interior ministers. Still a higher number of chief commissioners, deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners and magistrates had joined the Islamabad administration and left in a decade. However the mighty ‘tehsildar’ of Islamabad remains at his post. Continue reading »
Myra Imran
With traditional architecture vanishing from construction designs of new homes, open-air display of beautifully carved village-style furniture just off Kashmir Highway is a window to the past. Continue reading »
By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani
ISLAMABAD: The facts and figures regarding electricity generation and its consumption in 2007 and the first five months of 2008 prepared by PEPCO show the present electricity crisis in Pakistan is the result of some carefully managed mismanagement for attaining certain objectives. Continue reading »
May 312008
By Mian Abrar
ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, with a new approach, have finally reached an understanding to turn their guns on Musharraf, ultimately paving the way for Asif Zardari to become the country’s president in the “larger interest of the democratic process”. Continue reading »
ISLAMABAD: Amid press reports regarding President Pervez Musharraf being tamed out of presidency after remaining the sole centre of power in the country for around nine years, the authorities concerned have started cleanliness work at the Attock Fort, The Frontier Post learnt on Thursday. Continue reading »
By Yousuf Nazar
PAKISTAN’S economic outlook for the next year or two is serious even if it manages to get the planned three billion dollars in external financial assistance in the next few months.
Its currency has lost 10 per cent against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, trade deficit has jumped by 50 per cent this year, Standard & Poor’s has cut its rating by a single notch to a B with a negative outlook on May 15, and its Euro bonds are being quoted at a spread of 500-600 basis points to the US treasuries compared to an average spread of 261 points for emerging markets bonds. Continue reading »
May 302008
THE new government recently replaced the director-general of the country’s premier strategic think-tank, the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI), with the intention of rebuilding the organisation. Continue reading »
Tanvir Zahid
Much-needed, politicalised, opposed, condemned and supported multi-purpose Kalabagh Dam has at last been pronounced dead. Irrespective of the coalition regime of PPP Parliamentarians, PML (N), ANP and JUI (F) performance during the last about two months and implementation of the much-trumpetted Action Plan for first 100 Days, the democratically elected civilian government has earned the singular distinction of burying the KBD and shelving it finally for all times to come. Continue reading »
May 302008
انڈیا ٹو ڈے کے سروے کے مطابق ساٹھ عظیم ہندوستانیوں کی فہرست میں کیرالہ کی ریاست کے پہلے جمہوری طورپر منتخب ہونے والے کمیونسٹ وزیراعلیٰ نمبودری پد بھی شامل ہیں کمیونزم کے فلسفے کے برعکس وہ شدید طور پر جمہوریت پسند تھے اورانہوں نے کیرالہ کوایک مثالی ریاست بنادیا۔ خواندگی سوفیصد ہوگئی۔عورتوں کے حقوق کاتحفظ ہوا،طبی سہولتیں ہرشہری کوحاصل ہوئیںاور جاگیرداری نظام کوختم کردیا۔ نمبودری پد کی تصنیفات ڈیڑھ سو جلدوں پرمشتمل ان کے افکار کی نمائندگی کرتی ہیں۔ Continue reading »
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