Missing skull mystery: Key clue to man’s evolution shipped to US
Source: ET PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: A key clue in unlocking the mysteries of the evolutionary path of modern man — the Sivapithecus Indicus fossil skull, which was discovered in Pakistan’s Potohar plateau and went missing in 1996, had been shipped to the United States under a secret deal. The revelation was […]
Funds for the military
Source: ET For many years now, we have been hearing the valid complaint that nearly one-third of the federal budget is taken up by military spending while vital needs like health and education receive only a minuscule amount of money. Now, we find out that the military is swallowing up […]
Punjab interim CM: Najam Sethi’s name approved
Source: ET. LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday approved the name of journalist Najam Sethi for the Punjab caretaker chief minister slot, Express News reported. Hours before the matter would have gone to the Election Commission of Pakistan for a final solution, the PML-N, after a grand review meeting […]
Rumors galore as Bilawal leaves for UK at crucial election time
ISLAMABAD: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 27 March 2013 Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Zardari will not be leading the party’s election campaign as party officials confirmed his departure for London […]
A question of Identity — Yasser Latif Hamdani
Since all identities are imagined, my identity as a Pakistani is no more, no less sacred than religious, cultural, ideological, linguistic or racial identities you subscribe to A lot of […]
Bilawal leaves Pak after tiff with Zardari over PPP affairs
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left for Dubai after a tiff with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, over the affairs of the PPP, leaving the party without its star campaigner for Pakistan’s general election. Bilawal, recently named patron-in-chief of the Pakistan People’s Party, developed differences with Zardari […]
To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves
Source:NYTimes By MOHSIN HAMID ON Monday, my mother’s and sister’s eye doctor was assassinated. He was a Shiite. He was shot six times while driving to drop his son off at school. His son, age 12, was executed with a single shot to the head. Tuesday, I attended a protest in […]
Jamat-e-Islami Election Agenda: KHILAFAT!!!
Reporter: M Haleem Asad | PakObserver.Net Monday, March 25, 2013 – Timergara—The central vice chief of the Jamaat-i-Islami and partynominated candidate for PK-95 Sirajul Haq has said that establishment of ‘khilafat […]
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support Courtesy: Zee News Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday honoured 13 “Pakistani friends” for their outstanding moral support during its nine-month long liberation war, 42 years after they defied risks of persecution by the then military junta. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed them over the […]
Security for ex-PMs: Police officers refuse to lead squads
Source: Dawn.Com RAWALPINDI: Police officers selected to head special squads for the security of former prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf have reportedly refused to join the duty terming the move unlawful. Some of them have gone on medical leaves, it has been learnt. Just one day […]
Punjab excludes Islamic subjects from Matric book
The News: ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has excluded several key subjects from the fresh 10th class Urdu text book edition published in February 2013 which is now being marketed for […]
Homecoming: Musharraf arrives in Karachi
Source:ET KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf has arrived in Karachi after four years in exile, Express News reported on Sunday. A huge crowd of Musharraf supporters and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) members is present outside the Karachi airport to welcome their leader. While speaking to Express News anchor Shahzaib Khanzada, Musharraf said he has […]
Justice (r) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso named interim PM of Pakistan
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sunday finally selected a caretaker prime minister, a retired judge, to head up an interim administration to guide the country through its historic election period. Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, 84, was selected by the election commission after a parliamentary committee and rival parties failed to agree on […]
A molvi singing Hadhrat Masih Maud Na’at
Source: Pakturk of Germany Click HERE to watch it.
ECP meets on selection of caretaker PM
Source: Dawn.Com Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim chairs a meeting of the ECP. — INP/File Photo ISLAMABAD: A consultative meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan for the selection of a caretaker prime minister was taking place on Saturday, DawnNews reported. The meeting was being chaired by Chief Election […]
Nisar’s ‘solo flight’ threw spanner in the works
Source: Dawn.Com ISLAMABAD, March 20: The PPP and the PML-N might have reached an agreement on caretaker prime minister had the leader of opposition in the now dissolved National Assembly not thrown a spanner in the works. Dawn has learnt that by holding a press conference on Tuesday evening Chaudhry […]
A dying society
Source: LUBP by Shazia Nwaz The more I read from young Pakistanis on social media, the more I wonder how in the world they did this to us. Such inability to think critically is not easy to acquire, and yet countless have acquired it. Recently, Dr. Javed Iqbal, son of […]
Pakistan’s Extremist Democracy
by Ahmed Rashid NYR BLOG This spring was supposed to open a new chapter in Pakistan’s tenuous embrace of inclusive democracy. At midnight on March 17, following constitutional rules, the […]
Interpol rejects Pakistan’s request to arrest Pervez Musharraf
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: The Interpol has turned down Pakistan’s request to issue a red corner notice for the former military ruler PervezMusharraf for refusing to cooperate in the probe into BenazirBhutto’s assassination, days ahead of his homcoming from self-exile. Musharraf has cleared the final hurdle to his plans to return […]