posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoIN the matter of reintegrating Taliban fighters into Afghan society, the question is no longer whether to talk or not. President Hamid Karzai has already invited the Taliban to a peace jirga and UN represe...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoDAY in, day out, week after week, since this wonky and dysfunctional government has been with us we read that there is no conflict between what are known as ‘institutions’ and no conflict between the dispa...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoTHE revolution the Punjab chief minister has been talking about appears that much nearer. Mr Shahbaz Sharif’s own province and men from his party and his government are of late contributing a lion’s share ...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoJUDICIAL activism by fearless, impartial judiciary is essential for maintaining its integrity and public confidence. How one understands judicial activism depends on one’s idea of the role of constitutiona...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoREBUILDING Haiti will take generations because the earthquake-shattered country was starting from “below zero” and logistics remained a “nightmare”, the United Nations has warned. The bleak long-term asses...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoADDRESSING a bar association in Islamabad recently, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry assured his audience that the judiciary would not betray the trust that the masses had reposed in it. They expected the j...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoQuestion 1: Sir, you have doubled the number of American troops in Afghanistan and, at the same time, given a withdrawal timeline beginning June 2011. The militants swiftly adapted and have now begun decli...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoIn 480 BC, Persia's emperor Xerxes attacked and defeated Greece. He bridged the Hellespont, the slim neck between Europe and Asia now called the Dardanelles, and marched his army of Iraqis, Iranians, Egypt...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoLike it or not, the PPP government, more specifically the president, has, it would seem, climbed out of a pretty deep hole. They have scrapped and scratched, jousted and hustled, and have managed to fight ...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoOn Friday, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Women Protection Bill into law. This law, passed by the Senate and National Assembly about a week ago, relates to harassment of women at workplaces. It amen...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoPerhaps the only thing worse than being an Ahmedi in modern-day Islamic Pakistan is to be a bakra, particularly the black variety. If a report emanating from Islamabad is to be believed, they are having th...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoCuba has in the past been a good friend to Pakistan, and many who suffered in the earthquake of 2005 will remember the Cuban medical teams who gave unstintingly of their services – staying long after other...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoThe issue of an illegal plaza owned by the Punjab law minister has been echoing in the province for weeks. The minister insists he has done nothing wrong. Fingers have been pointed at him by the Punjab gov...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoThe PML-N has accused the government of essentially creating a false crisis of power to make it easier to bring in controversial Rental Power Projects (RPPs) which would help line pockets with many wads of...
posted by Fani at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoThe PML-N has accused the government of essentially creating a false crisis of power to make it easier to bring in controversial Rental Power Projects (RPPs) which would help line pockets with many wads of...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoCHRISTCHURCH: Australia’s next generation of cricketers proved they are primed to make it to the top when they won the Under-19 cricket World Cup on Saturday, beating Pakistan by 25 runs in the final. In ...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoPERTH: The thought of preventing the second-ever 5-0 whitewash in their history should spur Pakistan to seek their first win of a long and increasingly arduous tour when they meet Australia in their...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoKARACHI: Ijaz Butt on Saturday took yet another U-turn on the captaincy issue when he hinted that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will appoint a young player as the new skipper, replacing the disappointin...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 2 hours agoKARACHI: Foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank were projected to reach close to $15 billion by the end of the current fiscal year in June, SBP Governor Syed Salim Raza said, anticipating additio...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoLAHORE: Central banks of Pakistan and India use different monetary options to tackle inflation. The former puts pressure on banks by withdrawing liquidity from the market through an increase in Cash R...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours ago‘Govt harassing journalists’ ; ‘There appears to be a settling of scores with critics of the govt’ COLOMBO: International human rights groups are urging the Sri Lankan government to stop what they say...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours ago‘Govt harassing journalists’ ; ‘There appears to be a settling of scores with critics of the govt’ COLOMBO: International human rights groups are urging the Sri Lankan government to stop what they say...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoLONDON: One day after the trumpeted international Afghanistan conference here, doubts have emerged about the fate of the new and ambiguous Afghanistan package by the world to achieve peace and stability in...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoFAISALABAD: Fifty prisoners were injured in a clash between jail officials and prisoners at the Central Jail here on Saturday. The clash started when the newly-appointed Superintendent Jail Tariq Baba...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoPESHAWAR: Death toll from the US drone attack in Dattakhel Tehsil of North Waziristan rose to nine as four more suspected militants succumbed to injuries here on Saturday. Five suspected militants had ...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Qazi Anwer on Saturday said he was ready to face rigging or any other charges against him or the association he is heading. “I would not only...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: The prime minister followed the procedure while recently promoting 54 civil servants, asserted an official. “The prime minister made an effort to correct regional and service imbalance,” he...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: The longstanding enmity between Malik Riaz, chairman of Bahria Town, and Malik Tabarak Hussain alias Malik Bari ended here into a warm friendship and reconciliation. The reconciliation, in whic...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: Tax authorities have proposed to charge 15 per cent Value Added Tax on the supply of consumer items such as fruit juices, vegetable juices, ice cream, beverages, syrups and squashes, cigare...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Pakistan should be more closely involved in solving the Afghan conflict. In a newspaper interview, due to be published on Sunday, she said: “There will...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoKARACHI: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said that dollar gained against the rupee due to currency smuggling and money laundering. Some banks and some employees of the State Bank are...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday cooled down the much-debated issue of the appointment of judges to the superior courts and said the appointments would be made after mutua...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: Pakistan says that it is totally unaware of India’s new stance that it would like “measured contacts” with Pakistan instead of re-opening the composite dialogue under which several contenti...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoKARACHI: Eight people, including activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP), were killed here on Saturday in a new spate of target killings that started on Frid...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoNEW DELHI: India is willing to back efforts to seek peace with Taliban to stabilise Afghanistan, Foreign Minister SM Krishna said, indicating a softening of stand towards a group known to be close to Paki...
posted by Newspaper Man at Newspaper Articles - 4 hours agoISLAMABAD: Top management of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has devoured Rs 28.1 billion of creditors, gratuity funds and loans & advances of the Employees Welfare Fund in the financial year 2008-09 t...
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