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 […]
At 3,100m, Shimshal is the highest settlement in Pakistan’s Hunza region; its isolation has likely led to concept called Nomas, which translates as ���showing concern for humanity’. By Vanessa Nirode […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A top Emirati security official suggested Friday that Al Jazeera headquarters must be bombed, blaming the Qatari news network for Friday’s terror attack in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL PublishedNovember 23, 2017 AFP Photo Saudi Arabia banned visitors from taking photos and videos at Islam’s two holiest mosques, a statement said Thursday. According to the […]
News of the police intervention spread quickly, prompting sympathizers in cities round the country to take to the streets in a show of solidarity with the Islamabad protesters. Pakistani police cracked down on hundreds of Islamist protesters in a section of Islamabad where the protesters had camped out for weeks, […]
Islamabad on November 25, 201 Video by FRANCE 24 Text by NEWS WIRES Pakistan’s government on Saturday called on the army to help clear a sit-in by Islamist hard-liners blockading the capital after police clashed with activists and religious protests spread to other cities. Dozens of people were injured in […]
Source: ET WASHINGTON: The White House said on Saturday there would be repercussions for US-Pakistan relations unless Islamabad took action to detain and charge Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed. “Saeed’s release, after Pakistan’s failure to prosecute or charge him, sends a deeply troubling message about Pakistan’s commitment to [combating] […]
Source: CNN By Rafia Zakaria, who is the author of “The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan” (Beacon 2015) and Veil (Bloomsbury 2017). She is a columnist for Dawn […]
Major social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter have been shut down on Saturday in major areas of Pakistan, according to reports. It is being said that the decision has been […]
By Reuters – Nov 23,2017 -JORDAN TIMES People inspect the debris of a building after Assad regime’s warplanes allegedly carried out air strikes over residential areas of Kafr Batna […]
Source: BBC News A Beijing nursery is accused of giving injections and feeding drugs to toddlers, in a case that has sparked outrage in China. Authorities are now investigating the […]
Source: BBC News By Vanessa Nirode 24 November 2017 At 3,100m, Shimshal is the highest settlement in Pakistan’s northern Hunza region and the last village before the Chinese border. It […]
By Imogen Foulkes November 20, 2017 The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a US Navy prototype unmanned combat aircraft which was successfully tested between 2011-2015(Keystone) Since the day it opened, the United […]