By Moonis Ahmed
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (PSMCL) has raised its car prices (excluding Liana) by Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 in response to the rising cost pressures amid appreciation of foreign currencies against the rupee. The prices will be effective from January 1, 2010.
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By Zubeida Mustafa
WHAT keeps Pakistan afloat? How, despite its seemingly precarious political existence and the gloom and doom spread by the highly politicised media, as well as the horrendous bomb blasts, does the country manage to survive?
Shaukat Tarin, Federal Minister for Finance said on Tuesday that strategic alliance between Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) would contribute towards enhancement of remittance flows through official channels and help the Government to achieve the goal of formalizing the remittance market in the country.Addressing a MoU signing ceremony between PRI and PIA held at State Bank of Pakistan, here he urged the overseas Pakistanis to make sure that they are transferring their hard-earned income through official channels into Pakistan. Continue reading »
Written by Mr. Zahid Malik, Editor-in-Chief Pakistan Observer
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The increasing age factor is commonly attributed to the fall of youth but people usually forget to think that youth remains in the backdrop of `desires and aspirations’ while older age is known to be losing charm in the beauty of life. Continue reading »
Zardari at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh زرداری گڑھی خدا بخش میں
صدر پاکستان جناب آصف زرداری نے بے نظیر بھٹو شہید کی دوسری برسی کے موقع پر ایک دل چسپ تقریر کی۔
اس دوران ان کا اعتماد بہتر، اور انداز بہت جارحانہ تھا۔
اس تقریر میں زرداری نے احتیاط کا دامن کئی بار چھوڑ دیا، اور حکومت دشمن عناصر کو سخت تنبیہہ کی۔ Continue reading »
LONDON: Former president Pervez Musharraf has said he has never written off loan of any rich or influential individual.
He, however, said he had written off loans of the poor, especially those struck by natural calamities. Musharraf stated this on the social networking site, Facebook, while replying to questions. Continue reading »
After the departure of Ayub Khan I have never seen any scheme introduced or any law enacted with real honesty and intent for the benefit of the common man and for the nation as a whole. Since 1971-72 whatever has been done I saw it being done in the name of and for the sake of “common man” raising the slogans “Awam kay muffad main” but actually all this was done ensuring that a hidden invisible door forthe vested interests remains open. Continue reading »
Rana Ikram Rabbani introduces himself
I have always been a vocal advocate of normal relations between neighbors based on the principle of peaceful-coexistence and relations based on tolerance, peace and love between different religious and faith groups. I have been writing articles to detoxify the minds of the People at large, convey to them “our” message of peace and non-violence and make them understand better “our” efforts to make this world a more peaceful and serene place to live for them and for the generations to come by joining hands to fight against terrorism. Continue reading »
By Mohammad Jamil
People of Pakistan desire a change in the system of elections and governance and not mere faces, as they have no choice but to vote for corruption-tainted politicians who in league with corrupt bureaucracy plunder the country’s wealth. The situation is that there is so much is to be done by every pillar of the state. So far as judiciary is concerned, it has tremendous backlog of cases in higher and lower courts. Of course, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has the will to revamp the judicial system. Parliament has to legislate to effectively deal with the threats to Pakistan’s internal and external security, and also to rein in those elements that are fighting proxy wars of foreign countries’ intelligence agencies. Continue reading »
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company (PSMC) is launching Suzuki Swift, a 1300cc hatchback car in mid-January 2010.
“The launch will directly compete with major players in this category i.e. Honda City (Honda Atlas) and Toyota Corolla (Indus Motors)”, an auto expert said in his comments. The company believes that the new model will cater the local market needs with powerful engine capacity in the hatchback category. Continue reading »
Why Islamabad resists going after Quetta shura
LAHORE: No matter how many troops President Obama orders to Afghanistan, victory will also require a surge across the Pakistan border that the Taliban and al Qaeda-but not American GIs-cross easily. The President knows this, but he hasn’t made Pakistan’s help any easier to obtain by signalling his intention to draw down a mere year after his surge troops arrive in Afghanistan. Continue reading »
Ayaz Amir
Lampooning presidents, prime ministers and politicians is the very stuff, indeed the soul, of journalism. There is no such thing as positive journalism, a notion put about, mostly in a whining manner, by government information departments. Journalism is at its most responsible when it is explosive and incendiary, shaking people out of accepted modes of thinking. It is at its most irresponsible when it follows the dotted line.
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Ahmad Rafay Alam
A few days ago, I found myself in a room full of people who agreed that Karachi “has been turned around” and now “looks like a reasonably functioning city.” This impression had been brought about someone’s recent visit to the same city where gun-battles had claimed 28 lives in July, where news of the death of Rehman Dakait brought out tens of thousands of mourners to offer his namaz-e-janaza, where over half its people live in slums and where water is now critically short in supply. A strange opinion to hold, given the circumstances, I thought, and wondered what criterion must be applied for someone to completely overlook the real issues that face a city. Continue reading »
Islamabad: Asad Khan, a Pakistani boy studying in Maryland (USA), has been awarded the ‘President’s Award for Educational Excellence’ in recognition of his outstanding academic performance in 2009, says a press release issued here on Wednesday. Continue reading »
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