City getting deserted as mass exodus begins | Poor security arrangements made at bus stands, railway station
Nasir Butt
LAHORE: Half of the city has been vacated as Pardesis (those who have migrated to Lahore) have started leaving for their hometowns two days before Eid, while others have reserved their seats in the public transport for the Tuesday (today). Continue reading »
By Nasir Jamal
The financial markets in the United States are in a turmoil of historic proportions, most serious since the Great Depression. The crisis triggered by sub-prime mortgage debts and the unprecedented state intervention to stem the deepening trouble in the financial markets are being viewed by many as the beginning of the end of the American financial capitalism, at least as we have known it until a few days ago.
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By Afshan Subohi
Mr Badruddin, 70, an ex serviceman, struggled not to lean on a person sitting next to him as he adjusted himself on his chair. Neatly dressed, the senior citizen looked nervous, holding his leather pouch tight. He told Dawn that he was trying to avoid going to the rest room as he was expecting his name call and did not want to miss it. Continue reading »
By Engr Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui
The National Energy Security Plan 2005-2030 envisaged development of renewable energy, with focus on wind-power, to achieve, from almost zero to a five per cent share in national power generation mix by 2025. However, the ground realities do not raise any such hopes. Continue reading »
By Sultan Ahmed
Many people with large savings or surplus incomes are looking for means to protect their wealth as purchasing power of the rupee falls, and multiply their savings, if possible. Continue reading »
MELBOURNE, Sept 28: An Australian woman is blind three days out of every six because her eyes involuntarily shut and she can’t open them — a mysterious medical condition that has puzzled doctors, a report said on Sunday. Continue reading »
The office of the president carries with it a dignity which must be preserved at all costs. And dignity is neither a function of pusillanimity nor of belligerence
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I can accept politics but I do have a problem with our supposedly free media. They spend hours covering those killed in US strikes across the Durand Line but they have no time for all those killed by suicide bombers Continue reading »
The public discussion of this monumental Indo-US accord in Pakistan was a fraction of the debate in India. Pakistan’s nuclear bureaucracy, be it in the Foreign Office or in the dedicated nuclear establishments, mostly opted for silence and discouraged open discussion
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Common antidepressant drugs may reduce some men’s fertility by damaging the DNA in their sperm, according to scientists. A study of 35 healthy men given paroxetine — sold as Paxil or Seroxat by GlaxoSmithKline — found that, on average, the proportion of sperm cells with fragmented DNA rose from 13.8 percent before treatment to 30.3 percent after just four weeks. Continue reading »
“And how does one keep looking so good when one is so busy?”, this being Information Minister Sherry Rehman’s opening line to Sarah Palin, a politician with no real credentials, and now the Republican vice-presidential candidate. If this wasn’t bad enough, President Zardari shook her hand and opened with: “You’re gorgeous. Now I know why the whole of America (sic) is crazy about you”. Continue reading »
As I watched flames lashing out of the black holes that were once Marriott’s Margalla-facing rooms, I thought of the many friends who loved to dine at Royal Elephant, the hotel’s Thai restaurant which served the best Oriental soup I have ever tasted: the velvety Laksa. While watching coverage of the blast, I frantically texted friends in Islamabad afraid that someone I knew might have been there. Every message alert tone brought relief that they were alive and well, though shocked and grieved. Continue reading »
The following one-on-one interview with the recently caught hardened militant and Ameer of banned religious outfit Lashker-e-Jhangvi is published in today’s The News, in which he disclosed some details about the malicious designs of the terrorist organisation Continue reading »
By Nasir Jamal
LAHORE, Sept 27: The energy and food price inflation can be blamed for taking the shine off Eid shopping in the Punjab capital this year.
“There are fewer people out in the markets for shopping this year than ever,” says a retailer from Lahore’s famous Anarkali Bazaar as he awaits customers. Continue reading »
AS far back in time as a senior citizen can recall, say 40 years ago, the federal and provincial governments and the municipality of Karachi (also a government now) have been talking of a mass transport system for the city.
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