Osama Bin Laden surprised everyone in late 1990s when he escaped from the Gulf to hide at an unexpected place: Sudan. Is it that the al-Qaeda chief is repeating history by choosing South Asia’s least likely place to hide? Osama bin Laden’s disappearance since late 2001 despite a massive high-tech military and intelligence hunt involving [...]
A week after the WikiLeaks disclosures, two local non-profit organizations held a seminar in Karachi titled “Freedom of Information: Access to Information, Using Freedom of Information for Advocacy.” Participants called for better enforcement of Pakistan’s freedom of information laws to enhance transparency and government accountability. While timing of the seminar was probably a coincidence, it [...]
The United States was never, and is not, an enemy of Pakistan. But the US political, military and intelligence thrust in Afghanistan over eight years has decidedly placed the US on the side of our enemies. This is a US choice, not a compulsion. From day one, Washington chose to turn Kabul into the new [...]
There is a line dropped by vested interests that Pakistan is a failed state. Many, within Pakistan, too, have picked up the line and quote it as a base for Pakistan bashing. By no account can Pakistan be deemed as a failed state. No, Pakistan is not a failed state. Pakistan is a state that [...]
Different reports in British press sniffs an imminent coup de tat in Pakistan, and looking at the melodramatic performance of Govt of the day at flood camps, and gauging from the polls and the perceptions the Govt is badly failing in a befitting recovery, relief and repatriation of flood victims. All at sundry are fearful [...]
FORMER President Pervez Musharraf has been able to mobilise Rs 250 million for the flood affected people, which he intends to utilise through the newly created Pervez Musharraf foundation, registered in UK. People who contributed to the fund instituted by the former General also inquired about his plan to return to Pakistan and many of [...]
Over the previous months, Kashmir has increasingly become a subject of international attention. Comity of nations is no longer ignoring the Indian brutalities, and the ensuing loss of innocent lives. Recently, Amnesty International has once again urged the Indian government to allow UN’s special representatives to visit occupied Kashmir for making a spot study of [...]
PUNJAB Governor Salman Taseer, who routinely makes controversial statements on different issues irrespective of the fact whether or not they fall within his purview, has made a very pertinent observation. Briefing media at Governor House in Lahore, he emphasized that Kalabagh Dam would not prove harmful for any province; hence, its construction could be started [...]
Former President Pervez Musharraf, who has announced his intentions to return to Pakistan before the 2013 general elections, will formally launch his new political party and unveil its programme in London on 1 October. Mr Musharraf, 67, is also planning to hold a show of power in Birmingham on 3 October, less than two months [...]
Barely two months after the Pakistani state-sponsored rally of President Asif Ali Zardari in the city of Birmingham, former president Pervez Musharraf will address a major a public rally in the same city. Scheduled for 3rd of October in Britain`s second largest city after London, the Oval Banqueting Suite in Birmingham`s Sparkhill area has been [...]
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