By Farrukh Saleem
ISLAMABAD: Article 1 of our Constitution states, “Pakistan shall be a Federal Republic to be known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan…” A Federal Republic, by definition, is a “federation of states with a republican form of government.” And, a republic is a “type of government where citizens choose the leaders of their country”.
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By Nasim Zehra
At the April 12-13 Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) organised in Washington DC on the personal initiative of US President Barack Hussain Obama, the “P” word was missing from the entire formal proceedings of the conference. The objective was to globally underscore the great risk and the grave dangers of nuclear terrorism. The bottom line was that the conference participants must deny terrorists, through strict and stringent security systems, the opportunity to make “dirty bombs”. All nuclear materials must be prevented from getting into the hands of terrorists.Read More »Pakistan-US: A new deal?
Directorate General of Internal Audit, Lahore, has proposed to the federal government to make obtaining National Tax Number (NTN) mandatory for installation of commercial electricity meter, purchase of immoveable property and for obtaining various commercial services. Read More »ISLAMABAD: Proposal to make NTN necessary for electricity meter installation
ALI SUKHANVER
We were in a state of war. All around blazing particles of sand and pinching dust, unkind gushes of fire-like wind, no water, no trees; with a group of journalists I was in Khairpur Tamewali , the part of the Cholistan desert , about 70 kilometers from Bahawalpur , the great historical city of Pakistan. We were invited there by the Directorate of Inter Services Public Relations; a department of the Pakistan Army.Read More »PAKISTAN ARMY-DETRMINATION AGAINST TERRORISM
KATHMANDU: Nepalese university students awaiting results of end-of-year exams may be kept in suspense for a while longer after it emerged that many of their papers had been eaten by rats. Hundreds of unmarked exam papers from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University were handed to a local police station to be kept under lock and key, but were inadvertently placed in a store room infested with rats, a police official told AFP. Read More »‘Rats ate your exams,’ Nepalese students told