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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.

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 [...]

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۔

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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.

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’

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.