This one attack which, due to the unnecessarily harsh Indian reaction, forced Pakistani security forces to look westward, and the resultant diversion has allowed the extremists to consolidate their positions in Swat as well as Waziristan
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Pakistan exhibits xenophobia in various ways by fostering grand conspiracy theories about “foreign influence” and “hidden hands”. Media pundits are proudly willing to blame anyone but us for the country’s continuing problems
During my childhood years in Pakistan, every spring we would make a vacation trip by road from Lahore to the Swat valley to witness the melting snows and enjoy the crisp mountain air of this fabled destination. On those long drives with my companion relatives, the adults kept us occupied by a host of impromptu alphabet games like “Name, Place, Animal, Thing”.
73% say their personal economic situation improved in past year
PPP govt’s unfavourable rating close to previous govt’s in January
LAHORE: A recent International Republican Institute survey shows a high degree of pessimism and discontent in Pakistan, with 88 percent of respondents saying their country was headed in the wrong direction. Continue reading »
When Iraqi journalist Muntazar Al Zaidi heaved his two shoes at the head of President George W Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, he did something that the White House press corps should have done years ago.
Al Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been “necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace” and something just snapped. The television correspondent, who had been kidnapped and held for a while last year by Shiite militants, pulled off a shoe and threw it at Bush — a serious insult in Iraqi culture– and shouted “This is a farewell kiss, you dog!” When the first shoe missed its target, he grabbed a second shoe and heaved it too, causing the president to duck a second time as Al Zaidi shouted, “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!” Continue reading »
More financing is urgently needed to strengthen Pakistan’s resilience to potential shocks, help finance the expanded social safety net, and allow for higher spending on development programmes
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Both India and Pakistan lack even basic civil defence facilities and the infrastructure to handle a limited strike on its cities, painfully evidenced by the terrorist attacks on the Marriott in Islamabad, and the Taj, the Oberoi and the Victoria Terminus in Mumbai
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Schezee Zaidi
Islamabad
Capturing the tales of dreams, desires and struggles of a common man, Asif Hussain Shah has compiled the moving account of life around him in his first book titled ‘For Hire’. Being a taxi driver, he takes us on a ride through pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow on the road of life in a quest for self-confidence.
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By Shahab Ansari
Samina Zaheer, a PhD student at the Punjab University has put her artistic creations, mixed media paintings and collages at the K39 Art Gallery in Model Town , which certainly provide a different flavour and artistic perception of things.
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By Rauf Klasra
An inquiry has been launched into the scandalous reports that the FWO had sublet a multi-billion rupees overseas housing society development Zone-V contract, which it had earlier got from the OPF through questionable means, to the friends of a PPP minister.
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The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has developed websites for members of the National Assembly with an objective to reinforce link between elected representatives and masses.
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By Amir Mir
LAHORE: In a sensational development, authorities have claimed busting a clandestine terror network set up by jailed killer of Daniel Pearl inside the Hyderabad Jail and the Sindh government has suspended senior police and jail officials after a large number of cell phones, SIMs and other equipment were recovered.
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Noor Aftab
Elimination of the buffer zone between the industrial and residential areas in sectors I-9 and I-10 has increased the risk of health hazards for the residents, who can become direct victims of unending air and water pollution by industrial units.
In Islamabad’s master plan prepared by a Greek firm — Doxiadis Associates — in 1960, the Industrial Area (sectors I-9 and I-10) was isolated from residential areas through a buffer zone. But now residential areas have developed very close to it due to the buffer zone’s elimination by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). Continue reading »
Heavy snorers burn more calories than light snorers, even while they are awake and resting, according to research.
Scientists found that those with the most serious snoring problems used around 2,000 calories a day while at rest, compared to an average of 1,626 calories for those who snored lightly. Continue reading »