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Seeking raise, promotions: Police detain over 25 protesting clerks
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police on Wednesday detained over 25 protesting clerks of various government departments trying to enter the Red Zone. They were protesting against the government for not...
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Beating war drums: Indian objection to CPEC misplaced, says Sherry
ISLAMABAD: Senior PPP leader Sherry Rehman said on Wednesday that India organizing a war carnival on 50th anniversary of the 1965 Indo-Pak war will be detrimental. The Vice President of PPP said it...
View ArticleTreason case: Govt ready to probe abettors
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has once again submitted before the Islamabad High Court that it was ready to initiate investigations into the aiders and abettors in a pending treason case against...
View ArticleBail: Ayyan’s plea rejected
RAWALPINDI: A Customs Court on Wednesday rejected model Ayyan Ali’s bail application on the grounds that a higher court has already rejected her earlier bail application on merit. Lawyers said lower...
View ArticleEnsuring presence: Biometric attendance at AIOU soon
ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) would soon introduce a biometric authentication system to ensure transparency. The decision has been taken to ensure attendance of students in workshops,...
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Equity markets: KSE best performing in world, says Khaleej Times
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani equities have delivered returns of 26% a year in US dollar terms for investors since 2009, making Karachi the best-performing frontier stock exchange in the world, reports Khaleej...
View ArticleCriteria ‘Sadiq’ or ‘Ameen’: Musharraf challenges SHC verdict in top court
ISLAMABAD: Challenging the Sindh High Court (SHC) verdict regarding his disqualification from contesting elections, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Thursday requested the Supreme Court (SC)...
View ArticleUBA commander says farewell to arms
QUETTA: A seasoned insurgent who had fought for 40 years finally bid farewell to arms after realising, “there is nothing in insurgency, but attractive slogans.” Commander of banned United Baloch Army...
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Talking big numbers: ‘Budget outlay to be over Rs470 billion’
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has announced its fiscal budget is estimated to be Rs472 billion for the year 2015-16, including Rs124 billion for development schemes. K-P Minister for...
View ArticleGroundswell of support: JI leader throws weight behind govt claim against ECP
PESHAWAR: Reiterating the chief minister’s stance, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Inayatullah Khan has held the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) responsible for the chaos during the local government...
View ArticleThe government’s report card
Unlike any student anywhere on earth, governments are lucky enough to be able to issue their own report cards. So what does it say about the government of Pakistan when its own report card is riddled...
View ArticleOut of control
There is a disturbing frequency to reports of police brutality and violence, and an equally disturbing and worrying spread of incidence from all provinces and across urban and rural areas of the...
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Suppressed voices: The saving grace of Pashto music
PESHAWAR: Gone are the days when Pashto singers would enchant large crowds with their performances. In this hour of darkness when singers and musicians have plunged into silence, only a few voices of...
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No room to zoom: Northern Bypass, link roads need of the hour: traffic SSP
PESHAWAR: Traffic SSP Captain (retd) Wahid Mahmood said the completion of the Northern Bypass and link roads is crucial to solving the provincial capital’s traffic congestion woes. Talking to The...
View ArticleAt least 90 killed in Ghana petrol station fire
ACCRA: At least 90 people were killed in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, as they sought shelter from heavy rains that caused widespread flooding, emergency services said Thursday....
View ArticleUS says hackers may have accessed data on 4 million government staff
WASHINGTON: The US government on Thursday admitted hackers may have accessed the personal data of four million current and former federal employees, in a cyber-attack suspected to have originated in...
View ArticleThe case for gender equality
In early 2013, I ended up in a situation rather naively which didn’t go so well. I was assisting an expert on gender issues who was called in to propose a policy to the PTI as it self-assuredly...
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The poverty of the economic survey
The feel-good scenarios built by the officialdom on the basis of foreign press reports and projections of external donors and rating agencies have been punctured by the failure of the government to...
View ArticleCanada orders deportation of Pakistani accused of US consulate bomb plot
OTTAWA: Canadian immigration authorities on Friday ordered the deportation of a Pakistani man accused of plotting to bomb the US consulate and financial buildings in Toronto. Jahanzeb Malik is the...
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Can Juventus defy the writing on the wall in Berlin
And then there were two. A journey that started with 32 sides in the group stage will now draw to a close in front of 75,000 fans inside the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Millions more will watch on in...
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