MOLASSES, a waste material of sugar industries, can be converted into bio-diesel and used as fuel in vehicles. This fuel is cheaper and may cause 70 percent less pollution than other fuels.
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Jul 272008
Jul 272008
ISLAMABAD: Government will provide Rs5 billion subsidy on the import of CNG buses in a bid to provide cheap travel facilities to the people. Continue reading »
Jul 272008
ISLAMABAD: A late night press release issued by the Press Information Department (PID) said that the notification regarding Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been misunderstood and the ISI would remain under prime minister.
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’’بی بی کا مصاحب!‘‘انجم نیاز کاکالم
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Jul 262008
صحافی شیام بھاٹیہ کے اس دعویٰ پر بڑی لے د ے ہو رہی ہے کہ وہ بے نظیر کے محرم راز اور مصاحب رہے ہیں ۔بی بی کے معاملے میں یہ امتیاز اور اعزاز صرف ان لوگوں کو حاصل ہے جو آکسفورڈ کے زمانے میں ان کے دوست تھے۔ میں نے بھاٹیہ کے دعوے کے بارے میں لندن میں بی بی کی ایک سہیلی اور جا نشین وکٹوریہ شوفیلڈ سے رابطہ کیا جو 1977ء میں بے نظیر کے بعد آکسفورڈ یونین کی صدر بنیں ۔ان کی دوستی 33برس کے عرصے پر پھیلی ہوئی ہے ۔بی بی جب آکسفورڈ میں تھی تو مجھے نہیں یاد پڑتا کہ شیام سے کبھی اس کی ملاقات ہوئی یا بے نظیر نے اس کا قریبی دوست کے طور پر کبھی نام لیا۔
شیام بھاٹیہ نے اپنی کتاب’’گڈ بائی شہزادی‘‘ کے ڈرامائی آغاز میں بے نظیر اور اپنے تجسس آمیز تعلقات کے بارے میں قارئین کو دم بخود کرنے کی کوشش کی۔بھاٹیہ لکھتا ہے کہ بی بی سے میری مصاحبت تیس برس رہی Continue reading »
Jul 262008
Unfortunately, sections of the establishment in both India and Pakistan are far from reconciled to the idea of peace and closer ties between the two countries. But, whatever the veracity of these accusations and counter-accusations, they create more space for those who still think militancy is the answer
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Jul 262008
To effectively combat these terrorists, our forces need to be re-organised into smaller, self-contained, composite groups to improve their response capability Continue reading »
Jul 262008
While indigenous democracy activists have done much to reinitiate democratic rule, they remain beset with problems of militancy, institutional devolution and corruption that require resources and not simply rhetoric for solutions
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Jul 262008
* Bapsi Sidhwa says theocrats, Taliban defame Pakistan abroad
* Says Kinnaird College same as it was during her student days
* Laments that her books are not included in Pakistani syllabi
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LAHORE: “Every time I come to Lahore, I find it more beautiful than my previous visit,” said novelist Bapsi Sidhwa during an interview with Daily Times. Continue reading »
Jul 262008
“There is no plan to execute the four-year degree programme abruptly. The transition will be brought about in a phased manner initially through degree colleges to be identified and developed by the provincial governments.”
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Jul 262008
ISLAMABAD: Around 20,000 Pakistanis, making efforts to get the Spanish nationality, are facing uncertainty about their legal status after the host country introduced a new law on July 11, The News learnt on Friday.
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Jul 262008
ISLAMABAD – Higher energy and food prices have pushed inflation over 32 per cent, the highest in the last 30 years, as both the government and businessmen have started passing on the bulk to consumers.
Federal Bureau of Statistics on Friday reported that inflation for all the income groups, ranging from Rs 3,000 per month income to above Rs 12,000, increased by 32.3 per cent during the week ended on July 24 over the same period of the last year. Continue reading »
Jul 262008
Aid and conflict resolution-By Ayesha Siddiqa
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Jul 262008
LAST week I had the pleasure of attending an international conference on peace and sustainable development, courtesy the German Development Agency.
It was highly romantic to listen to papers for a week in an academic environment in Belgium about alternative methods of peace-building and economic development.
The emphasis was on interfaith dialogue success stories, interaction between parties in conflict through the assistance of European and American donors, and projects for the empowerment of indigenous communities.
Although the participants were supposed to take home lessons about how conflicts can be resolved through investment of funds and efforts by external and internal players, some of us were equally inspired to question the above-mentioned methodology. While it might sound silly to be sceptical, the fact of the matter is that the ‘project’ approach to peace, development, poverty reduction and empowerment creates islands that do not necessarily inspire change in the world around them. Continue reading »
Jul 262008
Terrorism breeds fear and living in fear makes people feel hopeless. It is this very hopelessness that terrorists thrive on. And yet, sometimes, all it takes is a few people to get a movement going that can change the course of events Continue reading »
Jul 262008
Looking at South and Southeast Asia, we see that politics has been overtaken by political culture instead; and what a crass and crude culture it is too
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