Pakistan News Blog

KARACHI: Ayesha Tammy Haq’s article “The burden of shame” (September 3) was brilliant. It gets more frustrating every day when one goes out and sees people blatantly breaking the law and seeing no recourse.

One sees four-wheel drive vehicles with no number plates being driven by people as if they were More >

KARACHI: This is with reference to Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani’s article “Fire brigade or the triple-one! ” (September 3). I am convinced that the army would never have stepped into Pakistani politics had the civilian dispensation been strong and principle-centered. Not only were the generals ambitious, the politicians were equally More >

Imagine the roof on your head disappearing. Then imagine your laptop, your phone, your bed, your house, all gone in the blink of an eye. You are left with nothing. Who do you ask for help? Imagine all your relatives and contacts you could run to are in the same More >

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said rather disappointingly in his hometown of Multan recently that 80 per cent of the flood aid would come through the NGOs and not his government and that of this the NGOs would misuse at least half. He further said that this would instead be More >

Crimes are not just limited to Pakistan; rather it is a global phenomenon and with Crime Scene we want our audiences to know just that. With the influx of media in Pakistan, more crimes are being reported as opposed to a decade back is due to more awareness. Taboo subjects More >

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The move by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provisionally suspend Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamir and Mohammed Asif, the three cricketers accused of spot-fixing, may be unprecedented but the correct one. The clause allowing for a pre-emptive suspension was only added to cricket’s anti-corruption code last year and this is the More >

The floods have brought all kinds of unexpected dangers. The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that mines have moved into areas where they may not previously have been present, posing new risks to people who are unaware of their existence or how to watch out for them. More >

VIENNA: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, according to a report made public Friday, in a boost to Arab-led pressure on the Jewish state to join the treaty.

Israel refuses to confirm it possesses a nuclear arsenal More >

MOSCOW: Forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia’s southern farmlands, killing eight people and burning down more than 400 homes, officials said on Friday.

“At the moment we have information on eight dead,” an emergency services spokesman was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Strong winds overnight stoked More >

Louis Vuitton, Tod’s and Gucci bags for a fraction of the retail price sounds like every shopaholic’s dream come true. But purchasing these bags isn’t going to cause as much shopper’s guilt as one would expect. Proceeds collected from the sale of these bags, currently ongoing at Labels in Karachi, More >

KARACHI: Talk of the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan, idle gossip and the mutual admiration society (‘dahling, have you lost weight?’ and ‘I don’t even have a stylist!’) dominated the opening of Gulabo’s flagship store at Park Towers.

On Thursday afternoon, the mall was full of women, clutching More >

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said a UN investigating the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri did “not concern” him, because it had dismissed data provided by his militant group.

“We have said that the tribunal and its prosecutor do not concern us and subsequently we are not concerned More >

MIRAMSHAH: Two US drone strikes on Friday killed at least ten militants, including some foreign fighters, in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Both strikes hit North Waziristan district, a renowned hub for Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

The first struck a militant compound on the outskirts of More >