PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER There will be time; there will be time; time to repent, time to regret, time to feel sorry and time to lament; but that will be too late. The people playing in hands of the conspirators would one day feel sorry for no one else but for their own-self, one day [...]
Shaukat M Zafar Globalization is not new but in recent years it has become the subject of an impassioned debate. Karl Marx had predicted that the relentless search for markets will alter older social structures. As he put it “all that is solid will melt”. That prediction is going to be proven to be true [...]
The News report LONDON: A foreign-born scholar of Pakistani descent, Dr Azeem Ibrahim, a PhD from Cambridge University, a former Research Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a World Fellow at Yale, world’s top three seats of learning, has joined Imran Khan and has been named his Strategic Policy Development [...]
The News report by Mansoor Ahmad The real estate market of the country is now dependent on high-end direct consumers and genuine long term investors as speculators have been eliminated from the current real estate market due to almost stagnant property rates. The real estate players point out that the low and midsized [...]
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom (UK) Border Agency (UKBA) will implement new global changes to the immigration rules for those aspiring to work or study in the UK, read a British High Commission press release issued on Friday. Full details of the changes, which come into effect on April 6, could be found on the UKBA’s [...]
By Zafar Iqbal Two brothers loved to visit the quiet pasture with their goats and sheep. However, they were unaware that this enjoyable hobby would be fatal for them. Suddenly, they slipped in the mud and were trapped by a hidden landmine which went off with a deadly bang. They were killed on the spot. [...]
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Though this world of today has to bear the blame of being very much complicated, intricate, self-centered and to some extant knotty and thorny because of its over-mechanized and ultra-computerized ways and manners but still we find in abundance a very strong urge and undefeatable passion of serving the suffering and [...]
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Rigorous meetings are being carried out at different levels about UAE bid for World Expo 2020. H. H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, Chairman of National Media Council stressed that the country has become a hub for specialized exhibition industry due to its strong economy, world class infrastructure and business [...]
By Qaisar Sultan How societies and culture figure out what is religious and what is within the helm of purely human free well and reasoning is the defining element of intellectual maturity. What is within the reason should be within the helm of any religion; any argument above and beyond reason is nothing more than [...]
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Many regional and international conferences and expos have already been held in the UAE. Taking a giant step, UAE submitted its bid for World Expo 2020. A comprehensive media campaign has already been initiated throughout the UAE and around the globe. According to many international economists and strategic market gurus holding of international [...]
KARACHI: Shamaeel-Sitara Premium Lawn recently presented a new collection for 2012 at a three-day exhibition, held at a local lawn. One of the pioneers of designer lawn in Pakistan having first designed for a textile house in 1996 and continuing ever since, the Shamaeel-Sitara Premium Lawn collection for 2012 comes with a special porter design [...]
LAHORE: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has granted permission to the UK-based professional examining body, the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), to open approved centres in Pakistan. The HEC has recognised ICM’s Level 6 Graduate Diploma qualifications as equivalent to Pakistan’s four-year bachelor degree, ICM Regional Director for Pakistan Moazam Shahbaz said while briefing media [...]
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER US Department of State says in one of its recent reports regarding drug trafficking in the Central Asian states, “The Central Asian states that border Afghanistanare facing a significant threat from illicit narcotic drugs transiting from Afghanistan. Violent extremist groups from Afghanistanand Pakistanthreaten stability in the region, with drug trafficking providing [...]
Official says general public to be involved in future development of capital The development of stalled sectors of Islamabad will be initiated within three months, Prime Minister’s Task Force on Islamabad Chairman Faisal Sakhi Butt said on Wednesday. Addressing a reception organised by the traders’ welfare association of Sector F-10 Markaz, he said the task [...]
By Arsalan Haider, Daily Times The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Thursday announced ranking of Pakistani universities, which may stir a controversy due to significant changes in the positions of different universities as compared to those in the last ranking. According to the ranking, two public-sector universities belonging to Lahore and two private-sector universities were [...]