A welfare state is determined by the type of government, if the government provides services for the welfare or well-being of its citizens, then it is known as a welfare state. Such a government is a part of the lives of its people as it caters to the physical, material and social needs of its ...

The PTI was founded in mid 1990’s as an idealist’s reaction, who did not believe in compromising on its beliefs or convictions. A man in mid 40s, who hailed from right leaning Punjab, with no training in politics, conceived the idea of politics based on clean governance, instead of the ...

The Punjab Government appears to - in the final run up to the elections, of course - be going all-out to try and con potential voters into believing that it actually wants to do something to cut down the eternal hell of loadshedding that the populace, especially those residing in the rural areas, ...

Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi seems to have given up on his efforts to restore the traditional kite-flying event saying that his hands are tied. This is in the backdrop of the Supreme Court orders of 2007 maintaining that the pastime meant risking people’s lives due to the use of ...

Mr Hameed Nizami felt suffocated because of the imposition of martial law in the country. He wanted these debilitating fetters of confinement to be broken so that the nation’s multiple problems could be addressed. But the martial law continued; it was hissing like a python. Mr Nizami was ...

DESPITE a war of words over programme scheduling, both The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent have proved to be ratings winners for the BBC and ITV. ITV had the most viewers, with a peak audience of 11.5 million watching Simon Cowell return to Britain’s Got Talent. On the BBC, new reality ...

Usman carefully and methodically folded the length of cloth selected by a very fussy customer and set it down on the heavy duty scales perched at the entrance to his little store in Ring Road Bazaar, as the ramshackle yet colourfully decked out narrow lane of stores between The Mall road and the ...

The controversy over the desecration of copies of the Quran in Afghanistan and the murder of Americans that followed is, on one level, one moment in a long war. But it also highlights the difficult and ultimately unsustainable aspect of America’s Afghan policy. President Obama wants to draw ...

LAHORE – Instead of launching fumigation practically, the City District Government authorities’ focus is just on holding meetings and making plans like previous year, as the drive looks a distant reality from another angle. The Health Department of CDGL has not yet even started buying ...

While top officials representing rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, signed yet another unity agreement on February 6 in Doha, Qatar, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan crossed the 50-day mark of his hunger strike. His health was rapidly deteriorating.Since his arrest on December 17, ...

US researchers have created silkworms that are genetically modified to spin much stronger silk. Writing in the PNAS journal, scientists from the University of Wyoming say that their eventual aim is to produce silk from worms that has the toughness of spider silk. In weight-for-weight terms, spider ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reality TV star Tareq Salahi has filed for divorce from his runaway wife Michaele, and accused her of having an affair with Journey guitarist Neal Schon. Salahi, who appeared with Michaele last year in the Bravo network show The Real Housewives of D.C., filed the divorce ...

THE growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues, and threatens to make war more likely as armed robots take over from human beings, according to an internal study by the UK Ministry of Defence. The report warns of the dangers of an 'incremental and ...

ISLAMABAD Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday that security agencies had so far apprehended 2,200 suspected terrorists in the country and out of them 80 terror suspects were arrested from the Federal Capital. Responding to different points of order ...

President Karzai blamed Western forces in Afghanistan for the deaths of a party of schoolchildren in eastern Afghanistan yesterday the day the UN revealed that civilian deaths in the first ten months of this year were 10 per cent higher than in the same period last year. It sounds like the same ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said the government was determined to translate Quaid-e-Azams vision of Pakistan into reality and urged the nation to strive harder to achieve a peaceful, prosperous and democratic Pakistan. In a message on the 133rd birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad ...

Arguing that the fight against terror is very much an economic uplift struggle, Pakistans top diplomat in Washington has asked the United States to step up its effort toward creating jobs in the militancy-hit areas along Pak-Afghn border.If the United States cannot get the people on its side, then ...

A headset that harnesses all five senses will create such a convincing virtual reality that it will be indistinguishable from real life, designers promised. The Virtual Cocoon, unveiled today, will enable users to go on safari from the comfort of their own front rooms. The headsest will enable ...

LONDON (AFP) - Nato would be making a major strategic error trying to expand in the face of Russian anger, a respected international think-tank said Thursday. It said North Korea can put its nuclear programme back on track in less than a year, after the reclusive state stopped disabling atomic ...

JAVED MAHMOOD talks to Naeem Rafi, Chief Executive Rafi Securities and a senior member of Karachi Stock Exchange, about issues relating to downgrading of rating, increase in discount rate, its impact on investment and economy of Pakistan Q: How do you see the downgrading of ratings of ...