By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Saudi Arabia signed an agreement in Riyadh on Monday with the local chapter of UNICEF to rebuild a massive water supply network in Pakistan devastated by ravaging floods. The move follows an instruction from Crown Prince Naif, deputy prime minister and interior […]
RT: Pakistan is turning away from the US and looking east for its future partnerships, with the president now firming up the country’s friendship with China. Asif Ali Zardari hailed the strengthening ties between the two countries on Saturday as he met with Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo. The senior […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Kamran Yousaf Published: December 26, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Rumours abound as to who’s going to make the first move – the civilian government, or […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune Published: December 26, 2011 Senior British officials believe that the senior members of al Qaeda might be moving towards North Africa […]
I cannot emphasize it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community, because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on, and […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Saba Imtiaz / Web Desk Published: December 25, 2011 KARACHI: Addressing a mammoth crowd at the Quaid’s Mausoleum, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf Chief Imran Khan signaled […]
DAWN: Nadeem Paracha: OP-ED: When on December 18 leaders from more than a dozen radical religious parties, certain down-and-out politicians, one very verbose former ISI chief and the son of a bygone and dead dictator graced the ‘Defend Pakistan’ rally organised by the controversial Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), I wondered, was the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit:DAWN.COM DawnNews LAHORE: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Aitzaz Ahsan on Saturday showed his concerns over contradictory statements of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Owais Jafri Published: December 24, 2011 MULTAN / KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Javed Hashmi announced joining […]
Source: Dawn Author: Irfan Husain Indeed, these functionaries are today`s media stars, together with their inquisitors. So focused are we on the non-stop political drama unfolding before us virtually around the clock that we forget that state institutions were created for purposes other than public entertainment. Read More
ISLAMABAD: It appears the turn of the year will not witness a coup d’état, though there has been much coup de théâtre. On Friday, army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani categorically denied rampant speculation that the military is planning to oust the civilian government, calling the rumours ‘misleading’ and an […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]