Overseas Pakistani Friends

By Ibrahim Sajid Malick
 
WASHINGTON: Women’s rights advocate Sameena Nazir was recognized Friday at InterAction’s annual forum, the largest forum for the not-for-profit, corporate and government sectors in Washington DC.
Nazir is the first Pakistani to ever receive the Humanitarian Award which is given annually to individuals who have made significant contributions in the developing world and [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday declared the steps taken on November 3, 2007 by former president Pervez Musharraf as unconstitutional.
The judgment came after the 14-judge larger bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry completed the hearing of constitutional petitions regarding PCO judges, appointments of judges of higher judiciary and [...]

Ahmad Rafay Alam
When the Lahore Development Authority published full-page advertisements inviting people to submit their opinions on whether or not 58 of the city’s roads should be ‘commercialised’, it struck one as ironic how an unrepresentative organisation like the LDA should suddenly turn to the people for input on complex urban planning issues.
Then again, there [...]

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan
Russia remains the world’s biggest state with enormous natural resources and a huge arsenal of non-conventional weapons.

The leaders of Russian Federation and the USA are trying their levels best to restart strategic dialogue between the two countries. Recently, Barak Hussian Obama visited to Moscow and met with his counterpart Dmitry Medvede and discussed on [...]

By Muhammad Javed

The government has appointed an Ambassador at Large particularly for Overseas Pakistanis (OPs).   Likewise in its own wisdom the Government separating the one Ministry has made two separate Ministries namely one as Ministry of Labour & Manpower  and second one as a new as Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis.   As we are told this [...]

* Govt working on software that will allow people to register FIRs with police electronically

The Punjab government is planning to switch to E-governance by January 2010 with a plan to enable all 36 districts of the province to update vital data on a daily basis.

By T.H Shah 
The recent suicidal attacks at Pearl Continental Hotel Peshawar on 10th June 2007 which led to series of bomb blasts on mosques in Pakistan raise many questions concerning love and affinity of Taliban to Islam.  Taliban have been reported to have accepted the responsibility of these brutal attacks and sought justification on the [...]

By T.H Shah
In a wake of heavy monsoon downpour in Karachi and Lahore, many casualties have been reported causing crushing blow to the victim families. At least thirty people reported to have been died and more than sixty injured due to last day heavy rain in Karachi. Though the monsoon raining is enthusiastically welcomed in [...]

By Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Iran and Turkey will alter the course of history on August 14, when the first-ever freight train will kick off its 6,506-kilometre journey from Islamabad to Istanbul via Iran.
The first train, tagged as the demonstration train, will take 15 days from Pakistan’s federal capital to the Turkish capital, whereas a ship [...]

By Zafar Iqbal
The uppermost court in Azad Jammu and Kashmir has banned the publication of news about it without its permission. All editors and media publishers in Pakistan and its part of Kashmir  received an order from the Supreme Court that they can not publish any matter about the court, except  issued by the  body [...]