ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) is finalising a plan to allot land to former presidents and prime ministers of the country in non-residential sectors of the federal capital. According to sources, the CDA had conducted a survey of various areas of the capital to identify sites for the allotment of land to former presidents and prime ministers of the country. They said as soon as the sites were identified, details and locations would be finalised. Continue reading »
Rustam Shah Mohmand
In the nineteenth century they fought the British imperialists in a long-drawn-out war of attrition. In the twentieth century they were pitted against the might of another empire, the Soviet Union. In the 21st century, in yet another unequal contest, they are confronted by and fighting against the US empire.
To make matters worse, the Pakistani Pakhtoons are also under attack by the security forces of their own country. Continue reading »
ZAHEER ABBASI
ISLAMABAD (May 29 2009): The global financial crisis and recession pose risk to Pakistan’s economy with it growth, exports, remittances and capital inflow could decline further in the next fiscal year, according to the International Monetary Fund “Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia,” released here on Thursday.
The Outlook said that a prolonged economic slowdown in oil exporting countries could translate into lower growth in neighbouring trade partners including Pakistan by declining exports, private capital inflows, workers remittances and Foreign Direct Investment. The ultimate outcome could be increase in poverty, said Paul Ross, resident representative of the IMF at a media briefing about the finding of the Outlook.
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Pakistani Friends in Holland are invited
This match is between my university ITC and other university in same town. Can you share this idea on your website so that pakistani people can come up with ideas like this to collect funding for Swat people.
As we are students we don’t have much money but we want to help our Pakistani people in trouble, so we come up with this idea to collect money without much investment. Continue reading »
May 282009
Brig Imtiaz reveals 30-year-old secret
By Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: As the nation celebrates the eleventh anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear tests today (May 28), a shocking 30-year-old secret has been exposed. It reveals how a young woman college lecturer, feeling betrayed after a romance with a nuclear scientist of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), had given a lead to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1978, which in turn had led to the dramatic arrest of 12 Pakistani scientists and engineers, planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear sites at the behest of a superpower. Continue reading »
Today jihad has come to be associated with suicide bombings rather than noble deeds. — AFP/File Photo
By Kunwar Idris
Ideology and jihad have always remained a part of Pakistan’s political discourse but without an agreement on what the two concepts mean. They have meant different things to different people at different times. Continue reading »
BERLIN: A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs — the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide — was unveiled on Tuesday in Germany. The ‘Jugene,’ capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, ranks behind the ‘Roadrunner’ and ‘Jaguar’ computers in the United States, said Kosta Schinarakis from the Juelich research centre, where the computer is located. Continue reading »
May 262009
Islamabad, May 26: Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Yaqub Khan is leading state to confusion, chaos and anarchy.
His rule is no different from his predecessor Sardar Attiq Ahmed Khan
Sardar Yaqub’s administration assumed office in January 2009, after ouster of Attiq Ahmed Khan through a no-confidence move.
Soon after he took power, Mr Khan promised he would administer justice, provide good governance, uphold merit, and rid the state from nepotism, favourritim, menace of deep-rooted corruption and Bardarism. Continue reading »
May 262009
ALI SUKHANVER
Once my grandma baked a cake, covered it with a lid and put it in the kitchen window for drying. I still remember her crying, “Be vigilant, the rats might drag the cake to their hole.” Now, when I am a grown up man, I hear the ‘grandpa’ crying, “Be vigilant, the terrorists might run away with your nuclear program.” I feel a strange similarity between the cake and the nuclear program; both easily approachable; cake for the rats and nukes for the terrorists. The cake could never be stolen by the rats; how could be the nukes. God knows better why our sympathizers are so much doubtful about our abilities regarding the security of our nuclear program. They feel that we are innocent children, holding a toy in our hands and any one might snatch and run away with it .To be very honest and straightforward, the nuclear program is the most precious asset for the people of Pakistan. It is just like a dream based on hope and life. We, the Pakistanis know very well how to take care of our dreams. Continue reading »
The Overseas Investors’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) is an important stakeholder in the economy of Pakistan. It has prepared a brief report that takes a broader approach and focuses on long-term issues. The report gives a comprehensive overview of the recommended changes and the rationale for suggesting the same. The report outlines policy and procedural amendments that are intended towards strengthening the taxation system in Pakistan and hence require serious consideration. A brief description of these proposals is presented in the executive summary
By A.G. Noorani
How can the law punish defectors without penalising dissent?
THE ideal of democracy is firmly rooted in the psyche and aspirations of the people of South Asia. But its practice falls far short of what the founding fathers of the states of South Asia envisaged.
Alone in the entire democratic world India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka stand out as countries whose constitutions are disfigured by laws to combat the vice of defection by their legislators. They are called lotas in Pakistan and aya rams, gaya rams in India. Mass defections first erupted in India in 1967 when the Congress party lost its control over the states in North India. Continue reading »
These four SSG commandoes from Kahuta, Mandi Bahauddin and Karor (Layyah), however, produced a new tale of heroism and bravery when before being gunned down and beheaded, they broke the necks of eight Taliban, once they came close to them to record their beheading scenes on camera to frighten their uniformed colleagues by sending the videos to them.
May 252009
Sunday Times quotes Wali of Swat as saying Taliban aiming for whole country
* Says government should have sought his advice
Miangul Aurangzeb would be the ruler of Swat had it not been brought under Pakistan rule in 1969. The family retained the title and a few palaces. Today, he sits in exile. Continue reading »
Plastic drinking and baby bottles can pose serious health risks, as a recent study has revealed that the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) — used to make plastics and linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes — often releases into the liquid contained in such containers. This is the first time any study has conclusively shown that drinking from polycarbonate bottles increases the level of urinary BPA, and that drinking containers made with BPA release the chemical into the liquid in sufficient amounts to endanger health, the BBC has reported. Continue reading »
Former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf said in an interview aired on Saturday that he would have to deal with the allegations being levelled against him in Pakistan.
Talking to Dunya News, he said the allegations were baseless and concocted, and that he did not deem it necessary to respond to them.
He denied he had been asked to vacate the Army House, and added that he had moved because the construction of his own house at Chak Shahzad had been completed.
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