New Delhi, July 27 (ANI): Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, here on Wednesday. She also met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, today. Thirty four-year-old Khar, who is Pakistan’s first woman foreign minister, met the two leaders after holding talks with External Affairs Minister […]
MULTAN: Jamatud Dawa organised a gathering to unite all religious parties against terrorism, suicide attacks and US and Indian intervention in Pakistan. On Saturday, Prof Hafiz Saeed made an appearance in a gathering organised under the umbrella of the Defence Pakistan Forum in Multan. Saeed led a gathering of […]
Source / Credit: The Huffington Post By Samia Khan Bambrah Growing up as a member of the privileged class of Karachi, I was blinded to many of the realities of my city. My friends and I were what the average Pakistani would call “burgers,” an affectionately derogatory term to describe the […]
source:asiatimes on line Saudi Arabia has reacted sharply to a “new era” in economic and political ties taking shape between its Sunni-dominated ally Pakistan and its Shi’ite rival Iran. Reports that Islamabad sought closer links in the religious sphere by sending devout Sunni scholars to Tehran on a secret mission […]
In a previous essay in April, “Learn from Pakistan“, I described the rapidly increasing coarseness of feeling and language against the Ahmadis in the Indian Urdu press, concluding that it does not bode well for either India or its Muslims. The article mainly dealt with some events in Punjab, Haryana, […]
Source:dawn.com NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Pakistan’s new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue. Hina Rabbani Khar also told reporters on the […]
Source: uktimeslondon One senior US Official working in counterterrorism department disclosed that there was an agreement between US President Bush and Pakistan Army Ruler Musharraf that if US forces knew where Osama was, they were going to come and get him. The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, […]
Source: arabnews.com Pakistan may be the next theater of war as the US military establishment and Israeli lobby expand their campaign Even though it was Colin Powell who rang up Musharraf that cold September morning in 2001 asking him to join America’s war in the finest diplomatese, it was his […]
Source: Dawn.com By Cyril Almeida SOMETIMES big decisions turn on simple questions. In the aftermath of 9/11, the question was a simple one: did we get it? Did our generals get that 9/11 was an epochal, seismic shift, that the old way of doing business had to be chucked out, […]
Source: Dawn.com THE comprador, clientelist military of a clientelist state has suddenly found its own sense of pride and nationalism. A military which has been critically dependent on US aid for far too many years has now turned around to say that it will ‘rely on domestic resources’ to make […]
Source: Dawn.com National Assembly of Pakistan. – File Photo ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan embassy in Washington leads in terms of annual expenditures among all 121 foreign missions which the country maintains throughout the world, the National Assembly was informed on Thursday. More:
The Sikh community in Lahore have been prevented from observing a religious celebration at a gurdwara, their musical equipment thrown out and their entry barred, after a religious group persuaded the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) that celebrating the Muslim holy day of Shab-e-Barat was more important than the Sikh […]
The father of former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi, Sahebzada Fazal-ur Rehman Afridi, passed away at the age of 64 at a private hospital on Wednesday. Sahebzada Fazal-ur Rehman had fought a prolonged battle with intestinal cancer and had undergone surgery in the US in May. Last month, he […]
Source: The Express Pakistan Fresh air blowing through the often stagnant realm of political life is usually a rarity. It blows in only now and then and this time seems to have done so with the appointment of Hina Rabbani Khar as Pakistan’s new foreign minister. Ms Khar breaks away from the […]
“Weaponisation” as a negative concept was something to which I was completely unfamiliar while growing up. Though I spent most of my childhood in Lahore, my rural, agricultural background meant arms had always been a regular presence in my life. I had learnt to fire, load/unload and clean them as […]
Source/Credit: Dailytimes on Line. I have a serious issue with fundamental rights. Sometimes I feel that my definition of the term is totally delusional, given the respect that it commands in this country, and the true term is actually ‘fund-a-mental’, in its urban sense. The more I read and the […]
(CNN) — As Mark Anthony Stroman faces execution Wednesday for the killing of an Indian man in revenge for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, one of the jurors who sentenced him to death and one of his surviving victims are among those calling on Texas officials to spare his life. […]
The banners in the picture reflect extreme form of hatemongering, suggesting that if a Sunni or a Shiite Muslim dies while shaking hand with an Ahmadi Muslim, he or she will be guaranteed hell, for the act of being kind to the Ahmadi! Source/Credit: The News Pakistan, Wednesday July 20, 2011 Although […]
Leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan political party raising joined hands as a show of solidarity during a demonstration in Quetta, yesterday, to protest against the US drone attacks and the Nato supply. The drone war, targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan’s tribal badlands, is hugely unpopular among a public […]