WASHINGTON: Google is expected to ring in the new year by unveiling its own smartphone on Tuesday, the Nexus One, in a bid to expand its powerful Web brand in the booming mobile arena.Read More »‘Google phone’ debut expected this week
Ahmad Rafay Alam
The Lahore Development Authority is in the process of demolishing illegally built highrises. It is doing this on the orders of the Supreme Court. More than anything else, this is the symbol of the burst property bubble of the mid-decade. Now, with competing statements coming from the governor of Punjab on the one hand and senior ministers of the government of Punjab, a massive oversight appears to be growing day by day: the protection of the tens of thousands of investors with whose money these highrises were built. This is a subject that has not been properly discussed, and deserves to be.Read More »The highrise-demolition fallout
* Psychiatrists say intolerance, frustration and post-traumatic tensions cause street fights
By Muhammad Aayan
LAHORE: Walking on the streets, driving around or even hanging out with friends, hot-headed Lahoris got embroiled in more than 1200 street fights across the city during the year 2009, while 400 people were injured as a result of these brawls, sources told Daily Times. Read More »Lahori anger hit the roads in 2009
ALI SUKHANVER
The enigmatic dreamlike valley of the Indian held Kashmir belongs to the people of Kashmir; says the history. The Kashmiris are a nation, having an individual identity, a separate culture and independent traditional values. It might be the fertility of their lands or the geographical importance of their sky-kissing hills which are pouring out precious rivers that the independence of this charismatic land is always in danger. Not a single moment without fear .No peace, no security. Read More »A TALE OF DISHONEST SOLDIERS
Zafar Iqbal
The election of Northern Areas Legislative Assembly has completed the most considerable constituent of the Constitutional Package enforced by the Government of Pakistan to empower the local population in Pakistan Controlled Gilgit-Baltistan region, however, allegations of massive procedural irregularities, government interference and rigging have been levelled against the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which emerged as the single largest party in the election on Nov 12 with 11 seats from total 23. Four independent candidates also won in the elections and as per political traditions of the country have joined the ruling party-the PPP.Read More »Gilgit Baltsitan: The dawn of democracy or the continuity of blemished political system
It is noteworthy that parliament does not figure in different scenarios that the opposition is constructing for Zardari’s exit. The focus of the PML-N is on the developments outside parliament
Read More »Democracy in 2010 —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
New Year 2010 Resolutions نئے سال ۲۰۱۰ کی قراردادیں
(This is a bilingual English / Urdu Presentation)
سال ۲۰۰۹ جاتے جاتے پاکستان کو کئی نئے زخم دے گیا۔ ۲۸ دسمبر کو کراچی میں ہونے والا واقعہ، اور اس کے بعد لوٹ مار ہمارے معاشرہ کی ایک بھیانک تصویر پیش کرتی ہے۔Read More »New Year 2011 Resolutions نئے سال ۲۰۱۱ کے عہدوپیماں
By Ansar Abbasi
The post-1996 probe into the Agosta submarine deal, which led to the removal of the then-Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Mansurul Haq and a corruption reference against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari, was an alleged cover-up to save many key officials of the Pakistan Navy, besides turning a blind eye to a controversial $550 million deal of minehunters signed in 1992 during Nawaz Sharif’s first tenure.
Read More »ISLAMABAD: The submarine kickbacks Pandora’s box reopened
Once-bustling Dubai will open the world’s tallest skyscraper, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate.
Emaar, the giant property firm part-owned by the government and which developed the needle-shaped concrete, steel and glass structure, has declined to reveal Burj Dubai’s exact height.Read More »World’s tallest building in Dubai
ISLAMABAD: City administrators have decided to launch a security project ‘Safe City Islamabad’ to make the Capital more secure and protected, the source said here on Friday.
Under this new project, an effective and adequate security framework would be created in Islamabad and law-enforcement agencies would be strengthened by utilising the state of the art technologies, said the sources.Read More »`Safe City Islamabad’ Project soon