LAHORE: Punjab government and China State Construction and Engineering Company (CSCEC) have decided to cooperate in Lahore Ring Road and Rawalpindi Expressway projects and a team of Chinese company will visit Lahore on October 15 to settle details in this regard. The company will also complete its ongoing project of Software Park at Ferozpur Raod within timeframe.
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Associated Press of Pakistan
MIRPUR: The Government of Azad Jammu Kashmir is planning to set up a new industrial zone, over an area of 26000 kanal of land in Mirpur district to boost economic activities in the liberated territory, official sources said.
This big industrial zone is proposed to be constructed at Moori on Mirpur Jatlan road for which the required state-owned and private land was being acquired by the government of AJK to materialize the plan.
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Sep 282009
ANJUM IBRAHIM
The much-feared United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is credited with fearlessly placing not only influential and wealthy tax evaders on the mat, but also dangerous criminals, inclusive of those engaged in the drug trade. The IRS is able to do so effectively because IRS auditors/officials have no fear of any reprisals, including job loss or transfer of the investigator to the boondocks. Continue reading »
One thing though should be expressly clear: there is no military victory in Afghanistan. Success will be in leaving behind a stable Afghanistan minus Al Qaeda, but not minus what time has begun to define as the Taliban
Obama’s Afghan policy is in a flux. Having inherited it as work in progress, he ended up owning it by default. Of the two, Iraq and Afghanistan, he was committed to retrenching on Iraq, but had to stay the course on Afghanistan. Continue reading »
In our sixty-second year, perhaps it’s time we came to terms with the reality that we are and have always been a nation of beggars. Ironically, it is only in embracing this grim reality that we can find the opportunity to change our future Continue reading »
27 September 2009
Last month the Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Dr. Farooq Sattar the Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis observed that the Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) should not be treated merely as remittances sending machines. Rulers, ministers, parliamentarians and so called committees always spray such flowered academic feelings and sentiments but practically do nothing. For example addressing by any aggrieved OP even these members of Senate Committee on any problem does not bring back even an acknowledge of the communication let alone any practical attention. Continue reading »
* Expert claims human activities pushing world into danger zone
OSLO: A new users’ guide is needed to help protect the Earth from dangerous changes such as global warming and extinctions of animals and plants caused by humans, scientists said on Thursday.
A group of 28 experts suggested nine key areas, such as freshwater use, chemical pollutants or changes in land use, where governments could define limits to ensure a “safe operating space for humanity”. “Today we are clearly driving development in the world blindfolded,” Johan Rockstrom, leader of the study and director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, said. “We are not considering the risks that there are deep holes we can drive into,” he said. The call, for setting “planetary boundaries”, was published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature. Continue reading »
KARACHI: Pakistani rupee is likely to gain gradually against the US dollar during the rest of the year, says a foreign exchange analyst of a leading foreign bank.
Priyanka Chakravarty, an India based FX strategist at Standard Chartered Bank, says the IMF’s decision to allocate an additional $3.2bn to Pakistan, and the ensuing sovereign credit rating upgrade by Standard and Poor’s, bode well for the currency. She says the rupee is not likely to lose value despite pressure from a deteriorating trade deficit due to rising commodity prices. Continue reading »
Associated Press of Pakistan, 24th September 2009
The British Council has opened British Chevening Scholarship for enabling future leaders, decision-makers and opinion formers from around the world to become familiar with the UK to gain new skills, or update current professional skills. The last date for submission of forms is Sunday, October 4th 2009. The Chevening programme currently provides around 2,300 new scholarships each year for postgraduate studies or research at UK institutions of higher education. Continue reading »
By Ali Raza
LAHORE: Rapidly increasing industrialization and commercialisation has turned the provincial metropolis — once known as the City of Gardens — into one of the most polluted cities in the country.
Even residential localities are not safe from increasing trends of commercialization and industrialization because many industrial zones, which were established some years ago outside the city, are now situated right in middle of the City. Continue reading »
By Dr Shahid Masood
WASHINGTON: Americans see a change fast, but smoothly, coming in Pakistan in the wake of loss of credibility of the man at the helm, following some domestic legal developments.
After meeting top political and defence decision-makers here in the US capital, where I was invited by the National Defence University (NDU) for a two-day seminar on the anniversary of 9/11, I was told in unambiguous terms that a change in Pakistan was inevitable for US policy interests, although Washington does not intend to disrupt the system.
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In Pakistan, the same people or families produce goods, make laws about the production of those goods and then implement them. Therefore, the system is not structured for a free market economy
Bulleh Shah famously said:
Kitay Ramdas kitay Fateh Mohammad, eho qadeemi shor
Nipat gia dohan da jhag’ra, wichon nikal pia koi hor
(At one place, his name is Ramdas, and at another, Fateh Mohammad. This is the ongoing dispute since antiquity. When their dispute was dealt with, something else emerged.)
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Since long more particularly from the era of Shaukat Aziz a tendency erupted that the government organizations having huge funds started investing in “not-so-safe” ventures. In as much as the newspapers alleged a few years back a Registrar of a superior court having kept official money in his personal account or perhaps investing the same in a bank where it was almost lost. A fortnight back the serious newspaper Daily Jang and The News carried an article disclosing how allegedly corruption was prevailing in some of the organizations named therein. One such an organization which collects regular monthly prescribed contributions from the industrial employers for payment to labourers as pension, was alleged to be trying to invest the funds in purchase of a five star hotel in Islamabad. Continue reading »
Sep 222009
BUT PERHAPS UNDER GOVERNOR SALMAN TASEER
By Mir Akbar (An illiterate hotel worker Bahrain)
Last month an Overseas Pakistanis website captioned “CM Punjab no more Khadem-e-aala but now a Chief Minister”. Its meaning I could only understand when yesterday I myself tasted it by getting a letter from the Khadem-e-aala Secretariat. It also confirmed a general belief that these are only columnists, the professional columnists, who for some obvious interests join a group either for drum beating one particular leader of their choice or targeting the other one. During the last one year except for 2-3 months early this year there must had be hundreds and hundreds columns trying to prove that the CM Punjab was the only strong good administrator in the country only who can turn the country into a heaven. Continue reading »
Since long more particularly from the era of Shaukat Aziz a tendency erupted that the government organizations having huge funds started investing in “not-so-safe” ventures. In as much as the newspapers alleged a few years back a Registrar of a superior court having kept official money in his personal account or perhaps investing the same in a bank where it was almost lost. A fortnight back the serious newspaper Daily Jang and The News carried an article disclosing how allegedly corruption was prevailing in some of the organizations named therein. Continue reading »
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