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Surviving those teen years
Dec 17th
Teenage years are hard to survive. You’ve done well if you get through them in one piece just being yourself.
Sustainable Development: Getting to know the environment better
Dec 16th
One-month awareness workshop at Kinnaird College for Women concludes.
Equality for all: Nadra agrees to add boxes for eunuchs
Dec 15th
Nadra agrees to amend its application form for CNICs and include a column for transgendered people.
Tajikistan may support US air base: WikiLeaks
Dec 14th
DUSHANBE: Tajikistan has indicated it would welcome a US military air base on its territory as reinforcement against Afghan unrest and a means of funding its cash-strapped economy, a leaked US diplomatic cable said.
The cable, sent on Feb. 16 this yea…
MQM & PPP on Collision Course on RGST! Tonight With Najam Sethi 13 Dec 2010
Dec 14th
Dynamics of present political scenario in Pakistan; On one hand all parties are coming head to head on implementation of Sales Tax Bill (RGST) in Parliament, and on the other hand Nawaz Sharif and his party PML-N has upped the ante on Punjab politics. …
Care on campus: 60% of medical students feel belittled: study
Dec 13th
AKU found a strong link between feelings of depression among medical students.
Venezuelan missile purchase worried US: WikiLeaks
Dec 13th
WASHINGTON: The United States tried to stop delivery of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Venezuela in2009 amid concerns it could pass them on to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia or Mexican drug gangs, The Washington Post said on Sunday, citing diplomati…
Beyond Wikileaks: Afghanistan Review & The Story of the Afghan Drug Lord who was US Informer!
Dec 12th
Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on U.S. Payroll
By James Risen, New York Times, December 11, 2010
WASHINGTON — When Hajji Juma Khan was arrested and transported to New York to face charges under a new American narco-terrorism law in 2008, federal prosecutors described him as perhaps the biggest and most dangerous drug lord in Afghanistan, a shadowy figure who had helped keep the Taliban in
