Mir Adnan Aziz The valley of Kashmir is an emerald set in pearls; a land of lakes, clear streams, green turf, magnificent trees and mighty mountains where the air is cool, and the water sweet. Sir Walter Lawrence. Released from Kot Lakhpat prison, the now 67-year Mr. Kashmir Singh will be back in his native [...]
Fraz Akram Email: ranafrazakram@hotmail.com After the founding of Pakistani State in 1947, the Government’s economic policy concentrated attention on developing an economic infrastructure, achieving self-sufficiency in food, and developing export industries.
By Kunwar Idris PAKISTAN’S political parties have always been, now more than ever, vociferous in demanding, as the Benazir-Nawaz Sharif charter of May 2006 puts it, ‘undiluted democracy’. But the parties themselves hardly ever had even a semblance of democracy in their own organisations – now less than ever.
Shafqat Ali ISLAMABAD: The newly elected members of the Parliament on women reserved seats are mostly either relatives of politicians or have a strong feudal background, as the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N bagged most of the reserved seats followed by the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q and other parties.
Two of the most extraordinary developments in the recent socio-political history of our country have been the lawyers’ movement that awakened the civil society and the induction of numerous cable television networks that employed in their news channels many fearless and well-informed anchors with exceptional analytical capabilities.
PPP’s Asif Zardari has correctly pointed out the need to re-negotiate the contract with the establishment. This is no mean task and would, besides other things, require major changes in the design of the state.
PML-N gets 90, PML-Q bags 51 seats By Shafqat Ali ISLAMABAD: As the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is just a few days away from making a government in the centre, the Election Commission of Pakistan Thursday announced parties’ final strength with the reserved seats making the PPP the single largest party in the Lower House.
KARACHI: Since there is no cure for most kidney disease, treatment options are limited to simply delaying kidney failure. If the disease is detected early, a patient is more likely to lead a normal life, emphasised a panel of doctors speaking at the Aga Khan University (AKU) Thursday.
BABAR AYAZ ARTICLE (March 05 2008): Benazir Bhutto’s last book ‘Reconciliation – Islam, Democracy and the West’ is actually her political will.
LAHORE: For 10 years, surgeon Hasnat Khan has refused to discuss his love for Diana, Princess of Wales. He declined to give evidence at her inquest. But in this explosive statement to police, he laid bare their two-year affair, said a report published by Herald Sun.
Shaheen Buneri The first breeze of the coming spring may have caused flowers to blossom and reinvigorated life across the deserts and rugged mountains of the Pakistan tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. And on this side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border a group of enthusiastic youth in the backyard of a private university in Hayatabad Peshawar are [...]
Islamabad—Researchers from the Harvard’s Dana- Farber Cancer Institute, USA, have discovered the molecular switch that turns the bad fats present in food into the cholesterol that clogs the arteries.
ANY objective assessment of the true state of Pakistan’s economy at this juncture will throw up many paradoxes and contradictions. The economic managers of the past eight years have been claiming enormous success in achieving economic recovery, attracting foreign investment and building up large foreign exchange reserves.
* Pakistani surgeon says he believes Diana remained faithful to him LONDON: A Pakistani surgeon who had a two-year romance with Princess Diana revealed details of their relationship on Monday, including how she disguised herself to avoid publicity.
While prices of kerosene oil and light diesel oil have been raised by Rs3.50 per litre, even now the government is still providing a subsidy of Rs16.82 per litre on kerosene oil and Rs15.30 per litre on light diesel oil By Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan