A three member Huriyat Conference (APHC) team led by Mir Waiz Umar Farooq was on a visit to Pakistan last week The Huriyat leaders met with all the big guns in the new establishment, the prime minister, the foreign minister as well as the president, and also travelled to Muzaffarabad to exchange views with the AJK leadership What brought them to Islamabad at this point in time was easy to guess There has been a change of government in Islamabad and it was necessary for them to familiarise them with the new leadership, in particular those who would henceforth run the Kashmir policy...more
Just when everyone thought that recent peace deals signed between the new coalition government and the militants in Swat and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) will end the intense years-long conflict, surveillance by American drones registered an increase, while attacks were carried out inside the Pakistani border to jeopardize peace efforts...more
It seems Musharraf who always praised Shaukat Aziz for his economic wizardries and Shaukat Aziz who always bent on his knees to please him, had fallen apart According to a news item, Musharraf accused his economic wizard of financial failures and asked him to come back and face the accusers In return, Shaukat Aziz refused his ex-master...more
“Washington should stop pouring money into a black hole,” Tom Harkin, a member of the Senate appropriations committee, said While a member of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee, Sen Robert blaming the Bush administration said that it cares so little about the hunt for Osama bin Laden that it is barely paying attention to how the Pakistani military is carrying out the fight...more
Q: I am a moderate Muslim, I practise my faith to the best of my ability I am a stage my parents want me to get married But I am finding it difficult to say yes to anyone of the proposals because they have all had some kind of relationship or been clubbing etc in the past?
Cost of production of Pakistan’s largest sector ie agriculture has increased by almost 200 per cent during last seven years mainly due to increasing cost of inputs such as fertilisers, diesel and electricity etc Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, but it is still underperforming when compared with other sectors...more
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Amir Jamaat-i-Islami, has alleged that the government is inviting US to interfere in Pakistan’s internal matters by saying that Taliban can get control of Peshawar metropolis He said neither Peshawar is facing any danger nor Taliban has the potential to grab big cities like Peshawar “It’s the government, which is creating panic and fear among the people...more