News & Blogs from Pakistan
Archive for September, 2010
Musharraf warns Pakistan at threat of new coup
Sep 30th
LONDON: Former President Gen. (r) Pervez Musharraf has warned that the country is at risk of a new coup, as he prepared to launch his own audacious bid for a comeback as a civilian president. According to a private television channel, he said the Army …
Babri Mosque judgment is international conspiracy
Sep 30th
ISLAMABAD: Lawyer for the Sunni Waqf Board Zaffaryab Jilani said that he will appeal against the Indian court ruling that would divide Babri Masjid’s holy site between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Conflict over the site in Ayodhya has sparked bl…
Chauvinistic and narrow-minded
Sep 30th
Generalisation is one thing, but to group all women as in the article is highly chauvinistic and narrow-minded.
Dr Aafia’s conviction (II)
Sep 30th
It is hard to believe that Aafia had no idea what her second husband and his uncle were planning.
Dr Aafia’s conviction
Sep 30th
Pakistan must bring Aafia back to the country and put her on trial here if there is evidence of substantial nature.
Attack by Nato copters in Kurram
Sep 30th
If Pakistan is not responding in kind, can we please have the DG ISPR state exactly what Pakistan’s position is.
Lost footage of Neil Armstrong moonwalk coming next week
Sep 30th
WASHINGTON: The previously lost footage of Neil Armstrong’s 1969 moonwalk is to be surfaced in Australia next week, a private television channel reported Thursday. As per details, the recording which has been going unnoticed for years in archives…
India braces for Ayodhya verdict
Sep 30th
AYODHYA: India was braced Thursday for a court ruling on a bitter Hindu-Muslim dispute which led to the razing of a mosque in 1992 and subsequent riots in which 2,000 people died.
Thousands of paramilitary police have been deployed around the north…
$130M approved by World Bank for Highway’s rehab
Sep 30th
ISLAMABAD: In order to continue revitalizing and modernizing Pakistan’s highway system, a credit worth $130 million has been approved by the World Bank (WB) in additional financing for the Pakistan Highway Rehabilitation Project. According to a priva…
Territorial borders and sovereignty to be protected at all cost: FO
Sep 30th
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has emphatically stated that it will not allow violation of its territorial borders and protect sovereignty at all costs. Responding to the queries of media persons in his weekly briefing in Islamabad Thursday, Foreign Office Spokes…
