There have been calls for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation after his conviction by the Supreme Court. While Nawaz Sharif has demanded resignation, Imran Khan has threatened a tsunami march on Islamabad. Read more »
There have been calls for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation after his conviction by the Supreme Court. While Nawaz Sharif has demanded resignation, Imran Khan has threatened a tsunami march on Islamabad. Read more »
Updated April 22, 2012: 1210 Hours PST
The crash of Bhoja Airlines is a horrible tragedy. The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 carrying about 127 people was on its first flight from Karachi to Islamabad. The Bhoja airliner crashed in stormy weather on Friday evening. There were no reports of survivors. Read more »
One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. Read more »
Is Pakistan’s middle class around 70 million (or nearly 40% of Pakistan’s population) as a recent article published in the daily DAWN suggested? After the publication of this article titled “Consumption conundrum” by Sakib Sherani (an ex-Banker), a former World Bank official Shahid Javed Burki writing in the Express Tribune Read more »
Former Army Chief Walks to the Supreme Court to appear in the Mehrangate Case
April 16 (Bloomberg) — The snarling between the U.S. and Pakistan won’t let up. The battle began, of course, when U.S. forces sneaked into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden last May. Read more »
We are pleased to publish copy of a classified internal document prepared by a special operations team of the US/NATO forces in Afghanistan.
By Unni Krishnan
April 13 (Bloomberg News) — Commercial University Ltd. in New Delhi offers degrees in commerce, one of hundreds of private colleges trying to fill an education gap as India’s growth creates a middle class eager for its children to succeed. Read more »
As I watched reports on GEO TV showing relatives of Dr Khalil Chisti eating sweets to celeberate his release in India, Read more »
DAWN
by Syed Shoaib Hasan
A Pakistani rescue worker is seen through the bullet-riddled window of a passenger train following an attack by unknown gunmen in Mach near Quetta.—AP Photo Read more »
ZULFIKAR LANGAU was 17 when he ran away “to the mountains”, a euphemism for joining independence-seeking insurgents in Balochistan, a vast, thinly populated province of deserts and mountains in the west of Pakistan. Read more »
April 5 (Bloomberg) — An Indian security guard, cradling a Kalashnikov assault rifle, shadowed two Indian engineers as they inspected the concrete shell of the parliament building they are constructing — in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Read more »
The battle that started in earnest last week to replace Robert Zoellick as the bank’s president reflects the complications of a world where power over the institutions of global governance is shifting from those developed nations that set up the bank to emerging economies. Read more »
Do you know that:
In 2000, there were 14 bomb blasts in Pakistan; 5 in Punjab, 4 in Sindh, 3 in Balochistan, and one each in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in which a total of 79 people died; 55 in Punjab and Sindh, 18 in Baluchistan, 5 in FATA and only one in the KPK. Read more »
