Pakistani woman activist awarded Humanitarian award

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Jul 312009
 

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 whose work reflects such qualities as courage, initiative, and grace under pressure, integrity and personal sacrifice. Continue reading »

 Posted by Raheem at 9:15 pm

Supreme Court of Pakistan declares Nov 3 2007 actions unconstitutional

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Jul 312009
 

supremecourt1ISLAMABAD: 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 November 3, 2007 steps. Continue reading »

 Posted by Raheem at 6:58 pm

Hazards of “Commercialization” in Lahore

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Jul 312009
 

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 is much more to the concept of commercialisation that meets the eye. And most of it is incredibly destructive to urban development. Continue reading »

 Posted by Raheem at 4:07 pm

Strategic Dialogue between Russia and USA

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Jul 312009
 

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan

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

OBAMA RUSSIA JULY 8

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 many important regional and global issues. Some strategic experts say that it is paradigm shift in the US foreign policy while others term it style over substance. Many political scientists predict that it is the restart of new great game in the Central Asia region. Continue reading »

 Posted by Mehmood Ul-Hassan Khan at 2:33 pm

AMBASSADOR AT LARGE – MERELY TO ACCOMMODATE ONE

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Jul 312009
 

By Muhammad Javed

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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 way the new Ministry will serve the OPs better.  Such schemes or such new appointments whatever the label may given serve no practical purpose except that through this modus operandi some new posts are created, some dear ones are accommodated, some orders for new furniture computer etc are placed.  Continue reading »

 Posted by Javed at 11:11 am
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