
2010 floods damaged 4403.5 hectares of Kahrif crops, Reports The devastating floods in 2010 damaged Kahrif crops on 4403.5 hectares area, Pakistan National Assembly was told during its last session. According to a survey conducted by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), a total of 2.364 million hectares of Kharif crops were sown during 2010 […]

UNAIDS confirms live-saving drugs have dramatically increased HIV patients In its annual report on the pandemic, United Nations AID programme (UNAIDS) has confirmed that more people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years. In […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Aung San Suu Kyi is Mayanmar’s most prominent and unorthodox politician is destined to run in an upcoming parliamentary election. A senior official from her party said that three days after the National League for Democracy (NLD) ended its boycott of the country’s dire political system. Suu Kyi has not been in the running for any […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Reduction in Oil Import by Pakistan The decrease in import of oil by Pakistan has been observed last month. Even the biggest oil company of Pakistan, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has reduced the import of oil to the lowest volume of 780,000 tonnes, which is required for the period of three-months. Though, import of less […]

There was a time when the political processions and gatherings were held keeping some high profile cause and agenda in mind, they were considered as pioneer events and were respected, rarely ever negatively criticized. As this government has broken numerous records, it did not even stay behind in making the political gatherings and processions an […]

Muslim League – Nawaz’s Faisalabad stage show After getting stunned by the procession of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Muslim League-Nawaz gave everything to make their Faisalabad procession successful. The procession although got the crowd and infuriated speeches of several top law makers from PML-N including the veteran leader himself, Mian Nawaz Shareef. However, still PML-N failed to […]

No one should question Pakistan’s intentions in the war of terror – Yousuf Raza Gillani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has said that no one in the world should have any doubt about Pakistan’s intentions to deal with the evil of terrorism and reinstated that the country is committed to eradicate extremism […]

Former Military ruler and President Pervez Musharraf determined to return to Pakistan Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has stressed that he is determined to return to Pakistan on March 23 next year, ending a self-imposed exile that began over two years ago. Addressing a gathering of thousands of supporters at Hyderabad in Sindh province on Sunday […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Government should focus on delivering rather than making hues and cries now The next general elections are round the corner and all the political parties are finalising their future line of actions to gain better results. The opposition including, PML-N, JI and PTI would try to exploit the federal government by highlighting its loop poles […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and “the noble savage” Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid may have captured something rather interesting in his short story published this month by The Guardian. And it is not as obvious as it looks. In “Terminator: Attack of the Drone”, Hamid imagines life in Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan under constant attack […]

A peace deal may be made between Pakistani Taliban and authorities A senior militant commander as well as intelligence officials has recently revealed that talks were held between the government intermediaries as well as the Pakistani Taliban representatives. The talks were based on the issue of getting the process of peaceful negotiation through discussion started […]
Nov 21 2011 | Posted in
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Pakistan’s cellular networks to apply obscene text message ban from today Pakistan’s mobile operators were Sunday scrambling to block text messages containing any of over 1,600 " obscene" terms banned by the country’s telecoms authority ahead of a Monday deadline. The list, including words from "quickie" to "fairy" to "Jesus Christ" and obtained by AFP, […]