It was reported by TheNation last week that a case has been registered against two District Forest Officers and 20 other employees of the Forest Department for theft of trees in Bhakkar. The worth of ...
Last week, the MQM jumped off Tahirul Qadri’s rickety bandwagon at the eleventh hour. Only a day before this announcement, the all-powerful chief of the party spoke via telephone from London ...
Last week President Zardari added fuel to the fire by assigning Rehman Malik to talk to Tahirul Qadri regarding his so-called long march, as advised by Altaf Hussain from London. This has raised ...
Last Sunday, Tahirul Qadri resurfaced at Minar-e-Pakistan after years abroad, his heart bleeding for democracy. He gave an ultimatum to the government to reform the electoral process by January 10, ...
Acts of terror in and around Peshawar last week reminded us once again that we are in the middle of a war. These recent attacks that claimed many innocent lives made some commentators renew their ...
The Supreme Court issued a contempt notice to MQM Chief Altaf Hussain last week, asking him to appear in person to explain his unrestrained banter against the apex court order regarding the ...
President Asif Zardari landed in London instead of Tehran last Friday, thanks to a last-minute change in his travel plans. Earlier in the week, Prime Minister Pervaiz Ashraf didn’t attend the ...
At a seminar in Lahore to mark the 46th birthday of Pakistan Peoples Party last week, the provisional Punjab President of the party, Manzoor Wattoo, was greeted by workers with banners against lotas. ...
Last week, the terrorist state of Israel started bombing Gaza once again, killing innocent civilians in the name of targeting terrorists. Soon enough, the Israeli Defence Forces had announced the ...
The Supreme Court issued its detailed judgment in the Asghar Khan case last week, directing the government to take action against former COAS General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg and former DG ISI ...
Last Friday in Islamabad, three left-wing parties announced their merger at a press conference. Workers Party Pakistan, Awami Party Pakistan and Labour Party Pakistan will launch the newly-formed ...
Something wonderful happened last week: Pakistan’s daughter Malala came out of her coma. While a whole nation prayed for her well being, the apologists of TTP and the apologists of the empire ...
With a safe end to PTI’s peace march to Waziristan last Sunday, we witnessed a miracle of national healing. And then, as if in revenge, the TTP-claimed militants targeted Malala Yousufzai, a ...
Addressing ministers, parliamentarians and office bearers of his party in Karachi via satellite from London, MQM Chief Altaf Hussain asked the Supreme Court last week to review its decision in the ...
Shamelessly continuing asPakistan’s Interior Minister, despite tons of dirt on his face, Rehman Malik’s quest for survival is finally running out of steam. Last week, he had to eat his ...
The government named last Friday as Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool and declared it a national holiday to honour Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as a response to a third-rate blasphemous film that has enraged Muslims ...
Speaking at a press conference in Skurdu last Sunday, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of targeted killing of members of the ...
Last week the Supreme Court gave the Prime Minister another three weeks to decide his course of action regarding writing the letter to Swiss authorities. The Prime Minister had pleaded that he was ...
A series of murderous attacks on members of the Shia community were unleashed in Kohistan, Karachi and Quetta last week. Those killed in the Kohistan incident were headed home for Eid with their ...
The Contempt of Court Bill 2012 was presented in the National Assembly and the Senate, passed by the two houses without much debate and signed into law by the President, all in the span of four days ...
In his separate note that was issued by the Supreme Court with its detailed judgment on the Gillani Disqualification case last week, Justice Jawad S. Khawaja wrote: “It is about time, ...
Visiting the graves of Bhuttos last week, the new Prime Minister reiterated his party’s stance on writing the letter to Swiss authorities. According to the Constitution, he is bound to follow ...
Last week a convicted but stubborn Prime Minister was kicked out of office for violating the Constitution and ridiculing the judiciary. The unceremonious exit of Yousuf Raza Gilani was a victory for ...
Last week, in his capacity as the President of Pakistan, Asif Zardari pardoned a personal guard of Malik Riaz, a convicted murderer who had confessed his crime before a lower court and was awarded 33 ...
Last week, the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan took a suo moto notice of allegations in the media regarding his son, bringing an end to a whispering campaign that had been going on for some ...
Dr Shakil Afridi, better known for running a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad at CIA’s behest with the aim of tracking down Osama bin Laden, and sentenced to 33 years by a Fata court ...
In Quetta, heading a three-member bench hearing cases regarding human rights violations and the worrisome law and order situation in Balochistan last week, the Chief Justice urged the government to ...
Four containers crossed the Torkham border on their way to Kabul last week. Though it was reported that the containers carried office equipment and stationery for the US Embassy there, the recent ...
The United States decided to go all out, gunning for a non-compliant Pakistan last week. The drone attacks in the North Waziristan Agency were supplemented by the ballistic missile launched by ...
As if the political turmoil in the country was not bad enough already, the ruling PPP and its coalition partners passed a resolution in the National Assembly last week for carving out a new province ...






