Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Pope Francis opened a diplomatically fraught trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday by immediately diving into the crisis over […]
Source: Dawn The Lahore High Court issued on Monday a notice to the Punjab secretary of the school education department on a petition by a teacher allegedly terminated for being an Ahmadi. Shaukat Rauf contended that he had been terminated without being given an opportunity of defence merely on a […]
Dawn Editorial: Faizabad surrender is a blow to the legitimacy of government and all state institutions Source: Dawn IT is a surrender so abject that the mind is numb and […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 27, 2017 3:47 PMNov 27, 2017 – 15:47 Pope Francis is welcomed as he arrives at Yangon International Airport, […]
By Camille Dupire – Nov 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES The IOM platform seeks to change negative public perceptions about migration by ‘putting a face’ on the issue (Photo courtesy of ‘i am a migrant’ website) AMMAN — “I never thought of myself as a migrant before, but now, I […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 28, 2017 Primary school children play outside their classroom as Mount Sinabung, active since 2010, erupts in the […]
Nadir Guramani Updated November 27, 2017 Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday admonished Minister of State for Interior Affairs Talal Chaudhry and asked that “the house wants to know what forced the government to sign an agreement with the protesters” who had staged a sit-in at Faizabad. After the […]
Source: Times of India GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council is expected to hold a special session on killings, rapes and other crimes committed against Rohingya in Myanmar that have driven more than 600,000 into Bangladesh […]
Source: The Times Of India “When I walk into a five star hotel today and know that the chef is a student of mine, I feel proud and satisfied”, says […]
Source: BBC News By Kerry Allen BBC Monitoring Pictures of two Chinese boys who travelled 80km (50 miles) in the undercarriage of a bus have sparked an online outcry about […]
Source: Al Jazeera by Asad Hashim 7 hours ago Protesters have been blocking a key highway in Islamabad [Shahzaib Akber/EPA]Islamabad – Pakistan’s federal law minister has resigned, acceding to a key […]
Asif Shahzad, Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani hardline Islamist group on Monday said it would call off nationwide protests after the government agreed to its demands and the […]
Sunday’s meeting coincides with escalation in tensions between Riyadh, Tehran By AFP – Nov 27,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed Bin Salman (centre) motions […]
Published at October 30, 2017 Mumtaz Qadri is dead. But is he? A year before, in February 2016, Mumtaz Qadri was executed for assassinating Salman Taseer, the then Governor of Punjab in 2011. Mumtaz Qadri was neither a criminal nor a terrorist when he carried […]
Bloody, violent and effective – the latest dharna has achieved what the last three dharnas were unable to accomplish. All these achievements would not be possible had dharna technology not been invented, tested and tried on three earlier occasions, twice by Barelvi scholars. The newly invented Pakistani dharna technology is […]
Source: Time By Associated Press November 25, 2017 (WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — The White House is calling the release of a U.S.-wanted militant by Pakistan a “step in the wrong […]
Source: Dawn There’s now a ray of hope. Last week, two towering piles of books from the Punjab Textbook Board somehow found their way onto my desk. Many bear the imprimatur ‘Punjab Chief Minister’s Programme for Education Reforms’ stamped upon their front cover. This immediately sent to me a negative […]
Source: Dawn And for three weeks, we watched as the fringe dragged itself to the centre and raised itself into a miasma that has engulfed us all. It wasn’t particularly surprising. There is effectively no government. And definitely no one who could handle this situation. Civilian government or military dictator, […]
Hyderabad, November 26 Tribuneindia.com Newly-crowned Miss World Manushi Chhillar, star woman cricketer Mithali Raj and ace tennis player Sania Mirza will be among the speakers at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), beginning here on November 28.The summit, on the theme of ‘Women First, Prosperity for All’, will be inaugurated by […]
Source: Bloomberg By Kamran Haider and Khalid Qayum Pakistan’s federal government called in the army to help police control deadly Islamist protests in the capital city, just days before […]