NEW DELHI: A smartphone app launched Wednesday in the Indian capital Delhi aims to fight a rise in sexual assault cases by enabling women to immediately alert friends or family if they feel at risk. The “Fight Back” app created by Indian non-profit Whypoll will — at the press of a single key — send [...]
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan UAE macro-economy despite ongoing waves of the Arab Spring, European Union economic downfall, the slowdown of the UAE economy and the last but not the least, persistence global economic recession and financial crunch is achieving tremendous standards. The wise leadership continuously and rigorously institutionalized economic and financial reforms and made business and investments [...]
* New PTI entrants repose full confidence in Imran’s leadership As many as 28 bigwigs most of them hailing from southern Punjab, including present and former parliamentarians and technocrats, reposed confidence in the leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday, apparently to secure their political future in the next elections. These included former federal [...]
By Mohsin Khan KARACHI: Local automotive companies are likely to increase car prices in coming days on surging cost of production by uncontrolled utility expenses and depreciation of Pakistani currency against dollar and Japanese currency. Sources in the market said the Suzuki and Honda carmakers are likely to jack up prices of their brands. They [...]
(The News report) By Tariq Butt The talented sons and daughters of political heavyweights are bracing up to find their niche in Pakistan’s political landscape with some currently playing a supporting role, often forced to defend the deeds or misdeeds of their illustrious fathers in the murky political arena. Their growing political ascendance is basically [...]
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Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan On 2nd December 2011, the United Arab Emirates celebrates its fortieth National Day. UAE leadership jointly decided to form a federation in 1971 and worked collectively for the common socio-economic development of all the seven emirates. Economic liberalization, financial reforms, active participation of private sector, and business & investment friendly policies subsequently made [...]
The News report by Shaheen Sehbai WASHINGTON: The big official secret of the NRO deal, brokered by the United States between then President Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, has been revealed in full detail by its sponsor, the former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, in her memoirs published here. She admits everything and reveals [...]
By Amir Mir Report published in “The News” on 15th December 2011 As the Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the National Accountability Bureau to prove that the Sharif brothers had left Pakistan under a clandestine deal in December 2000, the NAB is all set to furnish all available records. It will include details of [...]
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER A leading Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that .Pakistan’s nukes are at risk of being seized by extremists. He was talking to CNN in the second week of this December inWashington. He said, “My guess isPakistanhas well over 100 nuclear weapons. And that the Pakistani military is so penetrated by [...]
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan United Arab Emirates (UAE) is our strategic partner. Pakistan and the UAE enjoy cordial and harmonious relations marked by mutual respect. UAE is one of the biggest investors and trading destination of us. We receive highest inflows of foreign remittance from the UAE send by Pakistanis which is producing substantial support to our [...]
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Shifting the portrait of President Obama from his room to the adjoining store-room, my elder son said to me, “The Americans are the misguided missiles. We will have to lead them to the right path. We will have to put them in the right place”. I still remember the day when [...]
11-12-2011 Increasing utility expenses and record depreciation in Pakistani rupee, which in last month only has depreciated by almost 5 percent against Japanese Yen (from 1.0980 to 1.152) and 4 percent US$ (from 86 to 89) has forced the Indus Motor Company (IMC) to marginally increase the retail prices of Corolla, Cuore and Hilux variants [...]
By Muhammad Akram The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has decided to tread cautiously on the path, it chose for itself last month, to bring the PPP-led coalition government to its knees following the emergence of volatile and uncertain political situation in the country in the wake of ‘sudden’ travel abroad of President Asif Ali Zardari, [...]
Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Humanitarian assistance is one of the salient features of the UAE foreign policy. According to Global Humanitarian Assistance (2010), the UAE has become the first non-western nation in the global top 10 humanitarian aid donors per head of population. Donations of US$138.9 million in 2009, an average of $30.30 (Dh111.28) per person, put [...]