ISLAMABAD: CDA Sports and Cultural Directorate will complete a Rs 180 million Potohari Craft and Village project by September 30. Continue reading »
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ISLAMABAD: The British government announced the extension of the Points Based System (PBS) for UK visas to students on Wednesday, a statement by the British High Commission (BHC) said.
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Pakistan has invested a lot into the careers of such fine officers as Munir Akram and his younger brother. Let us not fritter away such assets because of a perceived missed beat of the party line Continue reading »
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Wednesday rejected a “malicious” report that a top Central Intelligence Agency official visiting this month confronted Islamabad over ties between the country’s intelligence service and militants. Continue reading »
The hiccups in development of residential sectors D-12, I-15 and G-13 are fast adding to the woes of allottees – thanks to slow pace of development work, lack of professionalism and differences between the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and contractors. Continue reading »
By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani
ISLAMABAD: After a failed coup against the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the interior ministry is now out to grab the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
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Timed to go into effect before the prime minister reached the US, the bizarre government notification at nine pm on July 26, putting both the ISI and the IB under the “administrative, financial and operational” control of the federal interior ministry was no accident, it was deliberately intended to (1) demonstrate grandly to the US while the prime minister was there that the civilian govt had “brought the ISI to heel” and (2) enhance and solidify Asif Zardari’s control over the country. Continue reading »
Asif Ezdi
In an interview on Dec 18, 2006, Under-secretary Burns said “There are some Pakistanis who…are not happy about [the nuclear deal with India] — not President Musharraf, but people beneath him.” The question naturally arises why Musharraf was “happy” – or at least not unhappy – with the deal. Why was he able to declare that the results of Bush’s visit, in which the US president bluntly and categorically told the Pakistani people that Pakistan would not be given civil nuclear technology, were “positive”? Why did Musharraf not refute Bush’s arguments, at their joint press conference, that Pakistan could not get nuclear technology while India would? Continue reading »
Jul 312008
By Saad Hasan
KARACHI: Deep inside a part of Landhi, where even a jeep struggles to cross, lies state-of-the-art technology which will use buffalo dung to change the economics and environment of the locality.
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Saeed Qureshi
Pakistan is in the grip of a pervasive panic and swelling tumult. The downtrodden sections of society are clamoring for a right to live. The poverty and despondency is writ large on the face of Pakistan and its inhabitants barring the resourceful. Prophets of doom and skeptics apart, the agonizing fact cannot be overlooked that the country is drifting to nowhere like a rudderless ship on a turbulent sea and is entirely at the mercy of fierce lashing winds. Continue reading »
Jul 302008
ایک کہاوت ہے کہ حبس کے موسموں میں پرندے مرجاتے ہیں لیکن ہم کیسے پرندے ہیں کہ جب سے آنکھ کھولی ہے تب سے نہ بہار آئی ہے ،نہ گل کھلے ہیں اورنہ ان سے ملے ہیں بس حبس کے موسموں کی بادشاہت ہے اورہم منہ کھولے مٹھی بھرہوا کی آس میں بمشکل زندہ ہیں جانے ہم مرکیوں نہیں گئے کبھی کبھارہوا کاایک جھونکا آتاہے توہم جی اٹھتے ہیں چونچیں کھول کرچہچہانے لگتے ہیں کہ بالآخر حبس کے موسموں کاخاتمہ ہورہاہے جمہوریت کادور شروع ہورہاہے عوام الناس نے بہار کے حق میں ووٹ دیاہے الیکشن میں کامیاب ہونے والی تمام سیاسی پارٹیاں ایک ہی پلیٹ فارم پرجمع ہوگئی ہیں ان کاآپس میں کوئی قابل ذکر اختلاف نہیں ،اوراتفاق ہے توپاکستان کے بہتر مستقبل پر ،ایک ایسے جمہوری نظام پرجس میں راج کرے گی خلق خدا مری ڈیکلریشن میں آتاہے تولوگوں کے چہرے کھل اٹھتے ہیں تیس دن کے اندراندر عدلیہ بحال کی جارہی ہے قدم سے قدم ملا کرچلیں گے سب بھائی بھائی ہیں اور الطاف حسین توپہلے سے ہی بھائی ہیں ہرجانب مسکراہٹیں ہیں اورپھر یہ مسکراہٹیں پھیکی پڑنے لگتی ہیں Continue reading »
MR Obama’s ‘tough’ remarks about Pakistan delivered during his recent visit to Afghanistan, the ‘tone’ of the remarks, and his subsequent flip-flopping on the issue have been meticulously parsed in our press to detect signs of ‘softening’ in his attitude towards us.
But the general, rather hasty, conclusion of this exercise is that the prospect of his presidency should be a source of apprehension for us. This kind of discussion is unhelpful, and the conclusion is misconstrued.
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FOR a few short hours the ISI had a new boss: Rehman Malik. Yes, the hyper-powerful, state-within-a-state, doer-of-all-things-bad-and-evil, Taliban-loving, government-slaying, election-rigging, tool-of-the-establishment ISI was going to report to a civilian, unelected adviser to a lame duck prime minister.
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The four individuals – Bush, Musharraf, Kayani and Zardari – who are key to resolving the judicial crisis, are not disposed towards doing so because of their own interests
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We, as a nation love talking politics; and our media is a powerful reflection of that propensity. That said, I am far from impressed at the general level of maturity and sophistication usually on display
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