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The recent blasts in Peshawar are a terrible reminder, yet again; of how unsettled the militancy crisis is in the country. The preachers of the complacency argue that the war on terror needs not be prioritized above anything else for the state to fight, citing gradually decreased numbers of terror cases. It is quite a […]
The strings have been getting tight around former president Pervez Musharraf, as the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued a notice summoning him in the May 12, 2007, Karachi bloodshed case. The court ordered the authorities concerned that the summon notice be printed in London’s newspapers, adjourning the hearing of the case by April […]
In yet another brazen militant attack, four policemen including an SHO were killed and another seven sustained injuries on Friday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in an attack on a police station in Peshawar. The three assailants, armed with hand grenades, barged into the Kotwali Police Station, situated in the heart of Peshawar […]
In what appeared to be a good-will gesture, the government quashed all the cases against Brahamdagh Bugti and other Baloch leaders in line with its policy of reconciliation. Despite heightened urgency, the incumbent seems to have taken some frantic steps to break a crippling standoff on Balochistan. Federal Interior Minister on Thursday observed, “All cases […]
Incensed by prolonged loadshedding, the people are not happy with their leaders. The bitter truth is better than a string of lies that build false hopes among the masses. Additionally such lies only reduce credibility of the government and further disappoint people when come from sitting ministers and representatives of the government. In the latest […]
Interior Minister Rehman Malik briefed the Sindh Assembly about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which may not have been world-shaking but it certainly held everyone who heard it gripped. The truth or at least all of it, in our country, is always hard to acquire. However, some interesting facts have been revealed by Rehman Malik […]
US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, the man who architected the memogate controversy, made a much-awaited testimony before the judicial commission constituted by the Supreme Court to probe the matter. His testimony will continue on Thursday at Pakistan’s High Commission in London. On the other, the Memo Commission is reviewing the applications filed by Husain Haqqani’s […]
Lashing out at America, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the United States should force India to stop barbarities in Indian administered Kashmir rather than interfering in the internal matter of Pakistan. Fazlur Rehman, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, released the statement at a time […]
In what appeared to be a quite hard-line stance by the PML-N, Mian Nawaz Sharif has rolled out two non-negotiable conditions for ensuring his party’s participation in an All Parties Conference (APC) on Balochistan. He has made his party’s participation in the proposed APC conditional to the arrest of Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killers and recovery […]
Imran Khan, the Pakistan’s new political sensation and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has said that talks with the Taliban is only solution to end war on terror, saying he would holds negotiations with them if he is given mandate to do so. While interviewing to Gulf News, the cricket-turned politician observed, “I can talk […]
Brahamdagh Bugti, the self-exiled chief of Baloch Republican Party (BPP), seconded the US Congressional hearing and resolution on Balochistan tabled in the house, welcoming all foreign interventions in the region whether it is by the NATO forces, India or the US. The Baloch nationalist leader while addressing a telephonic news conference at the Quetta Press […]
The Defence Council of Pakistan (DPC), despite the earlier assurances that banned outfits will not be permitted to hold a rally in Islamabad, held a public gathering, taking out a march at roads of the federal capital. The DPC includes several organizations that have been banned by the government of Pakistan and the United Nations. […]
