This is the first time in the history of Pakistan that elections are being held after the assemblies and elected governments have completed their five-year term. Secondly, the neutral caretaker ...
AT a moment when election commission is all geared up to hold elections, former president Pervez Musharraf and Sardar Akhtar Mengal have arrived in Pakistan arguably under an insidious London plan to ...
After taking oath as Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim was in high spirits. He promised to hold free, fair and impartial elections, and also vowed to implement the ...
We today celebrate the birthday of Mohammad (pbuh), who was the last Prophet and Messenger of God. On this day, therefore, we need to introspect ourselves honestly as to what extent we have acted on ...
A new chapter, entitled “Sub-conventional Warfare”, has been added to the Army Green Book. In it home-grown militancy has been described as the biggest threat to national security. Since ...
President Asif Ali Zardari recently signed, “The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill-2012” in a ceremony held at the Chief Minister House in Karachi, which has now become a law. ...
On December 20, 2012, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a fair trial legislative bill, authorising the state to intercept private communications to identify and apprehend terrorists, and ...
On the sidelines of the trilateral meeting at Ankara, President Hamid Karzai said that he had a “good conversation” with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Zardari about the abortive life ...
On December 4, 2012, the Supreme Court constituted a one-man judicial commission to probe into the Lal Masjid operation launched in July 2007 by former dictator Pervez Musharraf against the ...
An English language Indian daily, The Hindu, in its latest report stated that “one hundred and fifty more people, including Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, and organisations will be honoured ...
A debate is going on in the media and in political circles after the murder attempt on Malala Yousufzai. The religious right propagate that the attack on Malala will be used as a pretext to conduct ...
America is an imperialist power and it will continue pursuing its goals, whether the Democrats or the Republicans form the government. Against this backdrop, Republican presidential nominee Mitt ...
Last week, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Chief of his own faction of the Balochistan National Party, was in Pakistan after three years of self-imposed exile. Anchorpersons of almost all TV channels wanted to ...
The second round of Trilateral Summit of Pakistan,Afghanistanand theUKwas held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. President Asif Ali Zardari, President Hamid Karzai and Prime ...
The anti-Islamic documentary movie, Innocence of Muslims, has sparked global protests and outrage in the Muslim world. Many governments have condemned the film made by a California-based Egyptian ...
Afghanistan is already in the maelstrom of tribal, ethnic and factional violence; and post-drawdown Afghanistan is likely to further drift into chaos and uncertainty. In the first eight months of ...
After the propaganda about the purported joint operations against terrorists, there were hostile outpourings that it was not our war. Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani himself had to set the record ...
Adam Smith is said to have conceived the Wealth of Nations on the eve of Industrial Revolution. He was in favour of the principle of economic freedom, expecting that free markets would bring a high ...
A recent report on the violations of the protocol of diplomatic conduct by US Embassy indicates that the CIA officials in the cover of diplomatic immunity are taking advantage of the host ...
Balochistan is in throes of violence; apart from a large number of sectarian killings, Punjabis, Pashtuns and non-Balochis have been killed. Seven coal mine workers hailing from Swat who were earlier ...
A curriculum for US military officers at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, was reportedly meant to “inculcate the spirit to prepare for total war against Muslims, including ...
The Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, while addressing members of the Youth Parliament, said: “Parliament cannot make laws repugnant to the Constitution and injunctions of ...
Last week, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan while delivering verdict on Dr Arsalan Iftikhar’s case observed: “The series of events, the run up to this suo motu case ...
The Memo Commission, constituted by the Supreme Court in December 2011, under the Chairmanship of Chief Justice Balochistan High Court Justice, Qazi Faiz Isa, has submitted a report to the Supreme ...
For quite some time, government functionaries have been telling the nation that there is a foreign hand behind the unrest in Balochistan, but they have never named the country or agencies involved in ...
President Asif Zardari recently sent a reference to the Speaker National Assembly, Dr Fehmida Mirza, about the establishment of a commission to form two new provinces, Multan and Bahawalpur, in ...
It was a sad day, Wednesday, when the Punjab Assembly unanimously passed separate resolutions calling for the restoration of provincial status of Bahawalpur and the creation of a new province of ...
Despite Pakistan’s vociferous demand to end drone strikes, eight suspected militants were reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack on Saturday in Dre Nishtar area of Shawal valley. As if to add ...
Last month, the Commerce Ministry issued the Statutory Regulatory Order, or SRO, stating that India could import everything from Pakistan, except the 1,209 items placed on the Negative List by ...
National sovereignty means the right of people of a country to choose any form of government and way of life that suits them without any outside interference. However, all concepts of political ...
Sunday, 19 May, 2013
May 14, 2013, 3:44 pmECP announces results of 254 National Assembly seats
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 14, 2013Won’t speak against Pakistan
May 13, 2013MQM retains hold on Sindh urban pockets
May 14, 2013, 4:03 pmSherry Rehman quits as Ambassador to US
