Overseas Pakistani Friends

* Diverse food menu catering to different tastes attracts people from various localities
* Customers hail provision of hygienic desi and cheap Western food at one market

By Afnan Khan

LAHORE: The eateries at the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Main Market have become some of the city’s most famous eateries, as they have maintained a high quality of food as well as proper hygienic conditions, Daily Times learnt on Saturday.

Improved hygienic conditions, quality food, ample parking, and the prompt takeaway service offered at the market attracts a large number of non-residents from various other localities of the city. Continue reading »

The menace of extremism and terrorism has now become the major internal threat to Pakistan. The recent attacks in Lahore and suicide bombings elsewhere, coupled with increased religious-sectarian killings, aim at discrediting the state and causing insecurity among the people

The terrorist attack on the Police Training Centre in Manawan on March 30 underlined the mounting challenge terrorism poses to Pakistan. A small group of well-trained and ideologically motivated attackers carried out the assault in a coordinated manner. Though the attackers were neutralised in eight hours by the Elite Force, Pakistan Rangers and the Army, the attack displayed the confidence these groups have gained to undertake a second high-profile raid in Lahore in March. Continue reading »

Dr Maleeha Lodhi

President Barack Obama’s strategy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan unveiled on March 27 has set the broad parameters for a new approach. But the test of this strategy will come in translating it into a workable plan of action and in its actual execution. As the devil is always in the detail, close consultations with Pakistan and Afghanistan will remain critical if a viable and implement able plan is to be evolved, that rests on broad consensus.

From Pakistan’s perspective several aspects of Washington’s interagency review are consistent with its views and represent positive shifts in policy. But other elements of the revised approach are grounds for concern and reservations. While the two countries are in agreement over the principal goals, differences in tactics and approach will have to be reconciled and harmonised. President Obama has acknowledged that Pakistan is pivotal for the new strategy to work. This makes it all the more necessary for Washington to adjust its policy approach to Islamabad’s concerns. Continue reading »