DG CDNS says if old investors want to benefit from new rates, they need to deposit service charges
By Daphne Barak
LONDON: “President would love to see you” I was told a rainy Sunday afternoon in London. I went to see Musharraf. Frankly, I was as intrigued to see him as he was intrigued to see me. It is very known that the late Benazir Bhutto was like a big sister to me, and I warned her not to go back to Pakistan. Funny enough—from different reasons—he did the same. Continue reading »
Local currency market displayed mixed sentiments amid dull trading this week. The rupee stood firm versus the dollar and euro. Dollar supply improved significantly amid low demand. The inflow of $3.1 billion under the IMF $7.6 billion loan has released pressure on the rupee to some extent. The rupee this week resisted major decline versus the euro and dollar in the inter-bank as well as open market.
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Washington should cease unilateral missile strikes into Pakistan’s territory. These attacks have inflamed public opinion, undercut Pakistan’s own counter-insurgency efforts and risk shattering ties with Islamabad
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Few in Pakistan today wish to remember, or are even taught in their schools, that a Hindu fanatic assassinated Gandhi for demanding that Pakistan be paid its share of the Indian money. Gandhi went on a fast unto death, which he stopped only after India paid Pakistan a sum of 55 crore rupees
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan and the funding of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is currently implementing the project titled ‘Sustainable Development of Utility Scale Wind Power Production.’
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Dr Zafar Altaf
Economists might feel a bit slighted if I say that economic development is not about economics alone and economists must learn to understand the elements that are there in economic development. That understanding will take a long time. In the developing world the economists are generally brained in the western theories and they lack the depth of local knowledge. Conceited, as they are and with degrees from elsewhere they romp around as if they are the cat’s whiskers, hopping around the world with another country’s agenda that is not in consonance with one’s own. Continue reading »
MANY years ago a judge of the Lahore High Court remarked that a nation got the leaders it deserved. More recently Barbara Kellerman, author of a book on bad leaders, has noted that there is no bad leadership without bad ‘followership’. I do not accept these interpretations.
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The story goes that a cap seller in Bengal while passing through a forest took an afternoon siesta. When he woke up he found that the monkeys had removed all the caps he was carrying and were up in the trees wearing them and shrieking their heads off with delight. Continue reading »
Call it what you will — gasping, gurgling, moaning — but noisy breathing increases the chances for survival when someone is suffering sudden cardiac arrest, a new study shows.
The recipe for action calls for swiftness; Call emergency medical help and start compressing the chest, 100 times a minute. Continue reading »
The cholesterol test is a quantitative analysis of the cholesterol levels in a sample of the patient’s blood. Total serum cholesterol (TC) is the measurement routinely taken. Doctors sometimes order a complete lipoprotein profile to better evaluate the risk for atherosclerosis (coronary artery disease, or CAD). Continue reading »
By Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Telling the truth has never been the forte of Pakistani leaders, ruling or retired, political or marshal. And those who are ruled remain fully aware of the maladies their rulers suffer from. Hardly the ruled hold malice towards their rulers for being so fickle but hope flickers nonetheless in their broken hearts that a day would dawn when their governors would feel proud in sharing the tales of their nocturnal shenanigans with Pakistan’s lesser beings. After all they rule in their name.
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If our political leadership shows some courage, it is possible for us to negotiate with the incoming US a combined strategy to deal with this scourge of terrorism on equal terms
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ISLAMABAD: European Union (EU) on Thursday announced two scholarship programmes for Pakistani students for MA in European universities.
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The United Kingdom (UK) government has started implementing various important changes to the UK immigration system on Thursday, which would directly affect applications from Pakistan.
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