Karzai’s house of cards will collapse the day America leaves. Permit him to begin talking to his real brethren so that he can find a stable order. Afghanistan must find its own solution; it simply is not programmed to accept one For one, he doesn’t belong there. He is seen as a foreign occupant of [...]
N M Sampathkumar Iyangar Eleven years after assisting Prime Minister Vajpayee in 1998 to divert public attention from the mess his government had created, India’s top science bureaucrats are issuing shrill denials of the startling revelations by senior scientist K Santhanam, who was coordinating director of India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for Pokhran [...]
ALI SUKHANVER The role of an intelligence agency should be different from that of a terrorist organization. The CIA, the Mussad, the ISI and the Raw must not be mixed up with LTTE, the Black Water Force and particularly the detracted groups of Taliban & Al- Qaida which are defaming not only Islam but also [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan International Airline (PIA) plans to operate a direct flight from Lahore to New York by the end of this year and the flight may operate twice a week, Daily Times learnt on Saturday. A four-member team of Traffic Safety Authority (TSA) from USA arrived in Lahore on August 24 to check the [...]
* Jaswant Singh calls Partition most damaging event in modern India NEW DELHI: One has to understand Muhammad Ali Jinnah – both as a man and as a statesman – to understand India’s relationship with Pakistan and Bangladesh, the Economist Times quoted former Indian external affairs minister Jaswant Singh as saying on Saturday. Recommend on [...]
By Mansoor Ahmad LAHORE: Pakistan has been losing its share in global markets which experts blame on the limited range of products and dependence on a small number of markets resulting in a constant decline in the country’s share in global trade. They say India has increased its share in global trade after diversification of [...]
Capital games - By Ayesha Siddiqa
People wonder why the present government is not trying Gen Musharraf. Is it just due to its goodness of heart or is there something else that might be the cause of this apparently cautious behaviour? Actually, there are two issues at hand here. First is the evasiveness of the prime minister. While not making any [...]
Student tier 4 visa applicants should ensure their chosen institution is on the tier 4 Sponsor Register when they submit their visa application. Applications made to attend institutions that have been suspended from the register will not be considered whilst the institution is under review. If you have a visa letter that you got before [...]
NEW DELHI: K Santhanam, who was director for 1998 test site preparations in Pokhran test range, has disclosed that the thermonuclear explosions conducted at that time were ‘actually of much below expectations and the tests were perhaps more a fizzle rather than a big bang’. In an interview with the Times of India, the nuclear [...]
* Shahbaz’s title changed back to chief minister in appeals and advertisements LAHORE: The media managers of the Punjab government have changed the nomenclature of the post of the province’s political head from ‘khadim-e-aala’ to chief minister (CM) in official advertisements. Since the day of his swearing-in, CM Shahbaz Sharif officially directed the provincial media [...]


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