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State sponsored 1981 PIA plane hijack: Brig Imtiaz

Moayyed Jafri

LAHORE: Brigadier (retd) Imtiaz Ahmed, former director-general of Intelligence Bureau (IB), who also served as the in-charge of ISI’s Internal Security Wing, has said that terrorism was introduced for the first time in the history of Pakistan with the hijacking of a PIA plane from Peshawar to Kabul in 1981, not by a stand-alone terrorist outfit, but through an organised state-sponsored terrorist act. Read More »State sponsored 1981 PIA plane hijack: Brig Imtiaz

Pakistan Economic Survey 2010-2011

The current fiscal year unemployment rate remained at 5.6 percent, while the per capita income amounted to $1264, says the Economic Survey 2010-11.

Islamabad released statistics said that Pakistan’s local debts amounted to Rs5463 billion, while the foreign loans stood at Rs4726 billion, which adding up to make the total loans amount peaked at Rs10189 billion.Read More »Pakistan Economic Survey 2010-2011

WikiLeaks: What Taliban leader could tell about ISI

Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b) (d) Feb 26, 2010

American anxiety over the fate of Mullah Brader, a Taliban leader captured in Karachi in February 2010. A court decision preventing Brader’s extradition to Afghanistan comes amid renewed anti-American hostility in the media. The Americans speculate that the Pakistanis might swap Brader for a Baloch nationalist leader hiding in Kabul, but feel he ‘knows too much’.

The Beradar arrest was raised at a February 24 tripartite meeting of FBI Director Robert Mueller, Minister Rehman Malik of the Pakistan Ministry of Interior, and Minister Atmar Hanif of the Afghan Ministry of Interior in Islamabad. There was no agreement from either side about the transfer of “wanted persons.”Read More »WikiLeaks: What Taliban leader could tell about ISI

Best Friend + Living Legend – Himayat Alis Shayer حمایت علی شاعر: ایک بہترین دوست

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جناب حمایت علی شاعر ایک محبوب شخصیت کے مالک ہیں۔ وہ ایک منفرد شاعر، ایک خوب صورت اور نغمہ ریز آہنگ کی شاعری کرتے رہے ہیں۔ 1960 سے آج تک ان کے نغموں، شاعری، اور ڈراموں اور فلموں نے لاتعداد لوگوں کے دل جیتے ہیں۔

مشہور فرانسیسی فلسفی، والٹیئر، [1694-1778] کا کہنا ہے کہ میرے نزدیک اصلی شاعر وہ ہے جو روح کو چھوتا، اور اسے گداز بخشتا ہے۔ وہ مزید کہتا ہے کہ شاعری کی ایک ایسی خوبی ہے جس سے کوئی انکار نہیں کرسکتا ۔۔۔ شاعری چند الفاظ میں نثر کے مقابلہ میں زیادہ بیان کرنے کی صلاحیّت رکھتی ہے۔ چنانچہ، جناب حمایت علی شاعر صاحب کو یہ اعزاز حاصل ہے کہ انہوں نے اردو شاعری کو سہ مصرعی مختصر ترین شاعری کی نئی جہتوں سے روشناس کرایا۔ انہوں نے ایک نئی صنف اردو شاعری، ثلاثی ایجاد کی۔

Mr. Himayat Ali Shayer is a very lovable person. An Urdu poet of distinction. His melodious poetry has won him accolades, and many awards, and the hearts of his readers and listeners since early 1960s. Famous French philosopher, Voltaire (1694-1778), says that to me a real poet is who touches the soul, and gives it a spirit. Poetry is capable of describing more in a few words than the prose. So, the credit of introducing a new genre in Urdu poetry goes to Mr. Himayat Ali Shayer, who introduced “Trinity”, a 3 lined poetry form in Urdu poetry.