By Black Cobra

On January 27, 2011, a U.S. citizen, named Raymond Allen Davis, shot dead two young Pakistani boys riding a motorbike in a crowded area in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

The two youths shot dead at pointblank range were identified as "Faizan Hayder", aged 22, and "Faheem", 20. Faheem had just gotten married six months ago.

After " ( Read more... )

By Jawwad Rizvi

LAHORE: The government has failed to deliver and the escalating inflation is eating up everything. Good governance and management is the need of the hour to counter the inflation, which has entered the phase of stagflation.

Giving up extra expenditures, the government should give the Charter of Economic Recovery, coming out of the ( Read more... )

Salman Shah Jilani

So far Pakistan's economic loss due to the massive flooding is calculated to be$43 billion. This is equivalent to one fourth of the total GDP which today stands at $170 billion.


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The News International

ISLAMABAD: The military in Pakistan may decide to take measured action if the government fails to deliver, as the Army is fed up with the government.

Millions of people forced to flee their homes by Pakistan's worst ever floods may emerge as the most explosive issue for a feeble government in the wake of a disaster that will ( Read more... )

By Ahsan Waheed

Today's Daily Times Lahore Edition has a picture on its front page of well dressed well fed children holding placards saying 'child for sale'. Lined up behind them is a bunch of over fed men in clean clothes with upraised arms and faces with foolish false smiles. The caption says that they are sacked employees of some government ( Read more... )

Daily Times

LAHORE: Despite a lapse of almost two years, the government has failed to initiate action on the findings of the Chief Minister's Task Force on Administrative and Financial Efficiency regarding irregularities committed by officials in the IMAX theatre project, Daily Times has learnt.

In September 2008, a tribunal was appointed to ( Read more... )

Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has announced a £60 million assistance to help normalise the lives of over 2 million conflict-affected people in the NWFP and FATA.

International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander made the announcement in UK a couple of days ago, however, Department for International Development (DFID) chief George ( Read more... )

RAW desires to shift global focus from Maoist rebels' activities to Sikhs' movement
Delhi plans to implicate ISI in Paunjab fiasco as RAW miserably fails in halting Maoists' movement
RAW once again sends fake terror alerts to create panic, annoys Sikhs
Delhi was earlier embarrassed globally last month because of RAW's fake intelligence reports ( Read more... )

* Interior minister says weapons, terrorists coming from Afghanistan

By Razzak AbroKARACHI: The government has concrete evidence of India’s involvement in terrorism across the country and the issue will be taken up during a round of talks with New Delhi soon, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday ( Read more... )

"Although the attack was directed against the Sri Lankan cricket team, in many ways it is against the Pakistani government and the state because, unlike India, Pakistan maintains very cordial relations with Sri Lanka and an attack against Sri Lankan targets is a good way to embarrass both governments".

(Rohan Gunaratna, the international terrorism ( Read more... )