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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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. Recommend [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
May 262009
ALI SUKHANVER alisukhanver@hotmail.com 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 [...]
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 [...]
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