By Moonis Ahmed
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (PSMCL) has raised its car prices (excluding Liana) by Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 in response to the rising cost pressures amid appreciation of foreign currencies against the rupee. The prices will be effective from January 1, 2010.
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By Zubeida Mustafa
WHAT keeps Pakistan afloat? How, despite its seemingly precarious political existence and the gloom and doom spread by the highly politicised media, as well as the horrendous bomb blasts, does the country manage to survive?
Shaukat Tarin, Federal Minister for Finance said on Tuesday that strategic alliance between Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) would contribute towards enhancement of remittance flows through official channels and help the Government to achieve the goal of formalizing the remittance market in the country.Addressing a MoU signing ceremony between PRI and PIA held at State Bank of Pakistan, here he urged the overseas Pakistanis to make sure that they are transferring their hard-earned income through official channels into Pakistan.Read More »Alliance between PIA, PRI to boost remittances from overseas Pakistanis
Written by Mr. Zahid Malik, Editor-in-Chief Pakistan Observer
Published in Pakistan Observer on 28th December 2009 Read More »Developing phenomenon of White Taliban in the West
The increasing age factor is commonly attributed to the fall of youth but people usually forget to think that youth remains in the backdrop of `desires and aspirations’ while older age is known to be losing charm in the beauty of life.Read More »Feel younger and defeat old age
Zardari at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh زرداری گڑھی خدا بخش میں
صدر پاکستان جناب آصف زرداری نے بے نظیر بھٹو شہید کی دوسری برسی کے موقع پر ایک دل چسپ تقریر کی۔
اس دوران ان کا اعتماد بہتر، اور انداز بہت جارحانہ تھا۔
اس تقریر میں زرداری نے احتیاط کا دامن کئی بار چھوڑ دیا، اور حکومت دشمن عناصر کو سخت تنبیہہ کی۔Read More »Zardari at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh زرداری گڑھی خدا بخش میں
LONDON: Former president Pervez Musharraf has said he has never written off loan of any rich or influential individual.
He, however, said he had written off loans of the poor, especially those struck by natural calamities. Musharraf stated this on the social networking site, Facebook, while replying to questions.Read More »I didn’t write off loans of rich: Musharraf
After the departure of Ayub Khan I have never seen any scheme introduced or any law enacted with real honesty and intent for the benefit of the common man and for the nation as a whole. Since 1971-72 whatever has been done I saw it being done in the name of and for the sake of “common man” raising the slogans “Awam kay muffad main” but actually all this was done ensuring that a hidden invisible door forthe vested interests remains open. Read More »SYMPATHIES ALWAYS FOR CRIMINALS-Muhammad Javed
Rana Ikram Rabbani introduces himself I have always been a vocal advocate of normal relations between neighbors based on the principle of peaceful-coexistence and relations based on tolerance, peace and love between different religious and… Read More »Rana Ikram Rabbani-Introduction
By Mohammad Jamil
People of Pakistan desire a change in the system of elections and governance and not mere faces, as they have no choice but to vote for corruption-tainted politicians who in league with corrupt bureaucracy plunder the country’s wealth. The situation is that there is so much is to be done by every pillar of the state. So far as judiciary is concerned, it has tremendous backlog of cases in higher and lower courts. Of course, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has the will to revamp the judicial system. Parliament has to legislate to effectively deal with the threats to Pakistan’s internal and external security, and also to rein in those elements that are fighting proxy wars of foreign countries’ intelligence agencies.Read More »Pakistani Nation desires change of system