PML-N’s help sought to down government
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Irfan Ghauri Published: December 23, 2011 ISLAMABAD: While its leader has gone out of his way to openly reject any military intervention, […]
Pakistan faces flood threat, says study: That Sinking Feeling
DAWN News: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been warned of frequent floods of disastrous nature like the ones that battered the country in 2010 and 2011 in the Indus river owing to rapid glacier retreat and shifting of monsoonal zones by about 100 kilometres towards northwest regions. In a recent communication it […]
US, Pakistan share blame for NATO attack: Reports
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Huma Imtiaz Published: December 22, 2011 WASHINGTON: The American and Pakistani forces both are to be blamed for the November 26 Nato […]
Solve the Pakistan problem by redrawing the map- Create Baluchistan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/solve-the-pakistan-problem-by-redrawing-the-map/article2278388/ Relations between the United States and Pakistan have reached an all-time low. The Khyber Pass is closed to NATO cargo, U.S. personnel were evicted from Shamsi airbase and Pakistani observers have been recalled from joint co-operation centres. Much more importantly, senior officials in Washington now know that Pakistan has […]
US expert claims Khan network supplied nuke technology to India
Source: TOI on line. A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that Pakistan’s notorious nuclear engineer AQ Khan may have proliferated nuclear technology to India. WASHINGTON: A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that Pakistan’s notorious nuclear engineer AQ Khan may have proliferated […]
Bangladesh wrestles with trials from ’71 war
Courtesy: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM – DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — It should have been like any other morning. But March 26, 1971, was the first full day of a war that would tear apart the region then called East Pakistan. When the fighting ended nine months later, as many […]
Bangladesh on its 40th Anniversary – The Takeaway
Courtesy: thetakeaway.org, mumbaimirror.org, amnistyusa.org http://www.thetakeaway.org/media/audioplayer/takeaway_player.swf// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // On Friday, Bangladesh marks its 40th anniversary. The Takeaway spends a few minutes on one American hero tied to this anniversary, a former U.S. diplomat who served in what was then known as East […]
Memogate case: Kayani submits rejoinder, says Haqqani sent memo
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: December 21, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday said in his rejoinder to the Supreme Court that […]
Playing chess in Eurasia
Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it the “birth pangs” of the Greater Middle East remixed as serial regime changes? Is […]
Accountability in aid: World Bank downgrades anti-poverty programme
Express News: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund seems to be losing momentum. The $250 million programme was recently downgraded by the World Bank in a report issued by the Washington-based lender’s supervisory mission. The anti-poverty program was downgraded to ‘moderately satisfactory’, the lowest grade it has received in 12 years. […]
Unsafe for journalists: ‘Pakistan among most dangerous countries again’
AFP: GENEVA: At least 106 journalists were killed in 2011, among them 12 in Mexico and 11 in Pakistan, making them the most dangerous countries to work in, a campaign group said on Monday. Twenty journalists who reported on the Arab spring uprisings were killed this year and more than […]
The Pakistanis Have a Point
Source: NY Times. As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress of the Serena Hotel to the exclusive apartments of the parliamentary housing blocks, you can expect three […]
675 ‘honour killing’ victims in Pakistan: HRCP
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: December 20, 2011 ISLAMABAD: At least 675 Pakistani women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of the […]
Mansoor Ijaz interview with Duniya TV UK, in punjabi
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Facing the music: President Zardari returns under the cover of night
The Mulim Times’s Editor for Pakistan Credit:XPress Tribune Published: December 18, 2011 KARACHI: The president’s arrival prompted almost as much confusion as his departure. Protocol was in place for […]
Hopefully Pak Army Chief will have the wisdom to read “Writing on the Wall”
By: Zubair Khan This fact needs no emphasis that from the very outset, current People Party (PP) Government of Pakistan was asked to perform its duties in accordance with the tight compartment of rules and regulations set off by the General Head Quarters (GHQ). Go and no go areas were […]
Musharraf announces January 2012 return
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Abdul Manan Published: December 18, 2011 LAHORE: All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) President Pervez Musharraf announced on Sunday that he will come […]
Persecution of Ahmadis in the Islamic Republic
By Yasser Latif Hamdani esq. The basic premise on which we won ourselves Pakistan was that a permanent majority cannot and should not dominate a permanent minority on account of numeric strength. Yet contrary to that founding logic, Pakistan is today legally a totalitarian fundamentalist theocracy A fresh round of […]
Ahmadi student from Rabwah beats world record in Biology O level
watch the video This 10 year old Ahmadi Muslim girl, Sitara Burooj Akbar, from Rabwah Pakistan has broken world record by passing GCSE (O’Level) Biology at such a young age. The same little girl also holds the honour of becoming youngest Pakistani girl ever to pass GCSE Chemistry. She received […]
PM-army chief meet: Gilani, Kayani go three hours, one-on-one
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Irfan Ghauri Published: December 17, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Amidst a rapidly-shifting and charged political scenario, the prime minister and the army chief held […]