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Posts tagged Swat
Oil up, stocks down on Mideast concerns
Feb 24th
HONG KONG: The crisis in Libya sent most Asian shares down and oil to fresh highs on Thursday amid fears of a bloodbath as the government of the north African country tries to crack down on an insurrection.
As thousands of Libyans and foreigners f…
Gaddafi loses control of east Libya, mass exodus
Feb 24th
TOBRUK: Moamer Kadhafi''s regime has lost vast swaths of Libya''s east to an insurrection, it emerged Wednesday, as the West braced for a mass exodus from a “bloodbath” in the oil-rich African state.
As Kadhafi sought to cling on t…
Hajj expenditure per pilgrim for 2011 announced
Feb 23rd
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs announced Hajj expenditure to stand at Rs190,000 per pilgrim.
International Mother Tongue Day: ‘Teach children in their mother tongues’
Feb 23rd
Call for preservation and promotion of endangered languages.
My disappointment with Pakistan
Feb 22nd
Cheers for the governor’s assassin have me mourning for the flight of reason, tolerance and rule of law from Pakistan.
What Next?
Feb 22nd
The Pak-Afghan border in another time would be the stuff of fiction: drugs, arms, failed peace agreements, militants who hop back and forth across the border as freely as the wind blows, and then the innocent civilians caught in the quagmire of the century. Somewhere in between there is Pakistan, its role contentious even after [...]
The Imran Khan factor
Feb 21st
If Imran can reconsider his approach to politics, they may rise to the credibility of his philanthropic compassion.
Security check: Experts say we need to look at women more carefully
Feb 21st
Security measures extremely lax in Karachi, especially when it comes to females.
Winter Games: Skiing sisters from Punial make history
Feb 20th
This is the first time that any Pakistani female athlete has won a medal in the South Asian Games for ski events.
Fancy footwork: No hands? No problem for Swati teenager
Feb 19th
In an already patriarchal society, the birth of a daughter with no hands was a double blow for her parents.
