The Students From Modernage Public School & College Abbottabad, Pakistan wrote a letter to Sri Lanka After The Horrific Attack On Sri Lankan Team In Pakistan. The attack on Sri Lankan Cricket team in Lahore on March 3rd, 2009 has affected almost every peace-loving individual and children are no exception. Therefore, to demonstrate their complete […]
Massive drop in exports Chinese exports in February fell much steeper than analysts had expected. The drop of 25.7 percent compared with a year ago continues the trend of falling export rates of the last four months, but is significantly steeper than the previous declines. Imports also fell sharply by 24.1 percent in February. China’s […]
Pakistan is going through difficult phase. This is a sentence that has been used one way or the other throughout Pakistan’s history. First, there was not enough stuff right after the patrician. Then, it was the threat of Communism, later the country lost one part, which became Bangladesh, followed by the crisis in Afghanistan. Now, […]
PAKISTAN has a terrorism problem. It also presently lacks the capacity to defeat that terrorism. This much is clear from the events of the past few years. But even now in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist strike a distressing pattern continues to unfold: officials acknowledge no mistakes or blame other officials for them; fingers […]
ISLAMABAD: A recent report by the US Government Accountability Office accuses Pakistan Navy of submitting duplicative charges for transport facilities it provided in aid of war against terror. The duplicative charges were detected during an audit by the Office of the Defence Reprsentative at the US Embassy which pointed out that Pakistan Navy charged $19,000 […]
TEHRAN: President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Iranian President Mehmood Ahmadinejad had a trilateral meeting here on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 10th Economic Coordination Organisation summit meeting. During the meeting, the leaders of the three neighborly countries discussed issues of mutual interest and concern including the security situation in the […]
LAHORE: The United States is planning to escalate aerial raids on the Tribal Areas, The Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday. Officials consulted on President Barack Obama’s plans for talks with the Taliban told the paper on Sunday there would be “a dramatic increase in Predator drone attacks on Taliban targets in defiance of Pakistani objections” […]
PESHAWAR: Taliban shot dead three men, including two brothers, in South Waziristan after filming them confessing to spying for the United States, officials said on Monday. “This is the first time in South Waziristan that Taliban have made confession videos. Earlier, they just used to put notes on the bodies of alleged spies,” Allahbagh Khan, […]
Declining consumer prices cause fear of deflation A 1.6 percent drop in consumer prices in February from a year earlier sparked fears of increasing deflationary problems in China. The price drop in February ends more than six years of price increases, with February 2008 seeing a record consumer price index (CPI) rise of 8.7 percent […]
NPC vows close supervision over stimulus plan Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, emphasized the NPC’s important role regarding China’s economic stimulus package. According to Mr. Wu, the NPC will closely supervise the implementation of major stimulus measures. Of China’s RMB 4 trillion stimulus package announced in November last […]
People rally behind politicians who stand up for national honor, but in rare cases, phony politicians fail to win support from masses. In the process, heroes lose respect, and turn followers into adversaries. Take for example Imran Khan, a national hero so many of us grew up worshiping, but sadly, now we are witnessing him […]
NEW DELHI: Former president General Pervez Musharraf has said he would consider returning to politics again provided he was invited to play a useful role for the country, Press Trust of India said on Saturday, quoting from an interview he gave to an Indian TV channel. ‘If someone offers, I will see whether I can […]
WANA, PAKISTAN: Taliban militants claimed to have shot down a US drone in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan on Saturday. Militants loyal to Taliban commander Maulvi Mohammad Nazir said the unmanned aircraft had crashed in a jungle after the attack and soldiers took away the wreckage. But security officials and political authorities disputed […]
NEW DELHI: Flames of terrorism from Pakistan are leaping across the borders and, unless checked with a sense of urgency, could engulf the world, more so India, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Friday. Inaugurating an international conclave that will be addressed on Saturday by former president Gen Pervez Musharraf, Mr Mukherjee urged international […]
LONDON/LAHORE: Pakistan is facing a “mortal threat” from its internal enemies amid worsening security in the country, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday. It is now vital that rival democratic forces unite to combat the “very grave” security situation, he told BBC radio in the wake of the attack on the Sri Lanka […]
