tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60891077907276043182024-10-02T20:56:01.203+05:00Collection of Articles From Different Newspapers and Websites..Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409045356737094667noreply@blogger.comBlogger2382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089107790727604318.post-72409019951536002102012-06-20T22:38:00.000+05:002012-06-20T22:38:15.831+05:00

Source : http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-115471-ET-phones-home  Dear Mr Gilani...as a kid I used to be fascinated by the possibility of life on other worlds. My Mum and Dad used to get me a comic back in those days called ‘The Eagle’ and I always looked forwards to the adventures of Dan Dare, who had his own spaceship, several pals one of them a woman of interesting proportions

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Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\20\story_20-6-2012_pg3_4 Now living happily as citizens of their adoptive countries, the vast majority of them nevertheless remain loyal and loving citizens of their country of originMuch has been said in the press and on TV on the issue of dual citizenship or dual nationality, following the Supreme Court’s suspension of

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Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\20\story_20-6-2012_pg3_1 The Supreme Court’s (SC’s) verdict on the petitions challenging the ruling of the Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) that rejected the argument that Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani stood disqualified after being convicted and sentenced for contempt of court has pronounced that he does stand

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Source : http://dawn.com/2012/06/20/give-greece-a-chance/ “GREEKS are fond of pointing out that they invented democracy,” John Lanchester pointed out in The New Yorker a week or so ago; “they invented tragedy, too….”That the two phenomena are hardly incompatible has been underlined not so much by last Sunday’s elections but by the overall Greek experience of recent decades.The two parties

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Source : http://dawn.com/2012/06/20/censorship-attempts/ THERE has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the Internet in the last six months, according to a report from Google.Since the search engine last published its biannual transparency report, it said it had seen a troubling increase in requests to remove political content. Many of these requests

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Source: http://dawn.com/2012/06/20/what-does-the-us-want/ IN my last article I had concluded that Pakistan and the United States have more areas of convergence than divergence on what they want to see in Afghanistan.In this column I will attempt to validate this assertion in the hope that this will contribute to a rational debate on the subject. This convergence, or absence thereof, is

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Source:  http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20120615&page=1 In India at least half a dozen chief justices in the past have been accused of corrupt practices or conduct unbecoming a judge of high stature. However, none has ever been dragged to the dock. But matters are very different in Pakistan where the chief justice and the Supreme Court are battling for

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=24347&title=Islamabad-High-Court-stays-Mumtaz-Qadris-death-penalty  ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court has stayed the implementation on Mumtaz Qadri's death orders Tuesday, Geo News reported. He was accused in assassinating former Punjab governor Salman Taseer. According to sources, the hearing of the appeal against the death

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-115408-State-honour---Part-II  In recent years, as honour killings have occurred in western cultures there has begun to be an exploration of the psychology behind them, and herein may lie some clues as to the sense of national honour, the honour of the nation state. Honour killings appear to be linked to a form of ‘status anxiety’; the

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-115406-A-region-in-transition   The post-9/11 world has seen an unprecedented change in the nature and gravity of its problems. While countries and nations have been able to move away from the bitter antagonisms of the past to embrace peace, Asia’s major regions continue to be a global hotspot. The long-standing Asian issues include

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-115405-Why-the-ice-didn%E2%80%99t-melt From Print Edition  The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. The anodyne joint statement said it all. No progress was made on the Siachen dispute in last week’s talks between the defence officials of Pakistan and India. The only agreement

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Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\19\story_19-6-2012_pg3_4 The Mehsud IDPs of SWA are bitterly frustrated and complain of being the only victims of the military operations as none resulted in the elimination of the TTPThe Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly issued a warning to the residents of the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) to vacate

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Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\06\19\story_19-6-2012_pg3_1 EDITORIAL : A self-inflicted debacleAnother energy conference is planned for today. Another Rs 8 billion has been released to PEPCO for distribution to fuel-starved powerhouses. Another order is issued to the Ministries of Power Petroleum and Finance by the president to bottle the genie gone berserk

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Source: http://dawn.com/2012/06/19/leaders-and-mere-emperors/ OF all the names the one that hurt most last week was when I was called an “amused spectator”.The complainant was the producer of a television channel looking for a journalist to speak on the ‘way forward’ for the profession for an evening discussion show.The not-so-amusing spectator bit was in response to excuses mumbled on

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirin-sadeghi/pakistan-supreme-court-scandal_b_1603259.html The saying goes that boys will be boys. The trouble is when men are still boys. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan knows about that all too well. Like a repeat of the 2007 debacle, in which he was fired by then-President Pervez Musharraf under the guise of corruption associated

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Source: http://dawn.com/2012/06/19/democracy-under-threat/ THE masks are off and daggers drawn. Pakistan’s democratic process may once again become a part of history, leaving the world to wonder how we could so willingly poison ourselves in the belief that it would lead to better days.Those in power have consistently let their people down — ruthlessly. But no one is being fooled. They may

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/21/a-lurch-to-the-right.html OVER the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can’t go wrong going to the right. Politicians across the continent have found a new magic formula for electoral success and survival by playing on fears of foreigners and particularly of Islam — the wink and a

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/21/the-changing-endgame.html AS parliament begins its debate on the resetting of US-Pakistan relations and presumably insists on laying out transparently the parameters for the relationship it should bear in mind the recent dramatic changes in the Afghan situation which are an important though not dominant element in the US-Pakistan relationship. I

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/21/self-interest-in-afghanistan.html “I been knocking on the door/ That holds the throne/ I been looking for the map/ That leads me home/ I been stumbling on good hearts/ Turned to stone/ The road of good intentions/ Has gone dry as a bone/ We take care of our own…/ Wherever this flag’s flown/ We take care of our own.” Bruce Springsteen is no

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/21/the-begums-burka.html THERE are those who wear the burka for purely pragmatic reasons: to ward off the catcalls of men loafing at bus stops and in bazaars, to stanch the slick rumour-mongering tongues of neighbours, to better protect the outfit underneath from the grime of city life. Their needs are simple and can be met easily. The burka is a

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/21/remembering-naveed-anwar.html NOT many may recall Naveed Anwar today because when he slipped into the valley of death 14 years ago he went silently without making a splash in the media. At a time when the Transplant Society of Pakistan is launching its deceased organ donation campaign we should be paying homage to Naveed and the four others who

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Source : http://www.dawn.com/category/today-editorial Going forward From the Newspaper | Editorial | 21st March, 2012 THE Parliamentary Committee on National Security’s recommendations on the US-Pakistan relationship contain at least one major new and positive suggestion and at least one significant sticking point. Perhaps the most promising change Senator Rabbani laid out was

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Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\03\21\story_21-3-2012_pg3_5 The ladies section in the front part of Pakistani buses resembles a cage in a Third World zoo, complete with iron grills and nets, in full view of men at the backThere is a certain strangeness or, should I say, familiarity about Mississauga. Here, a mere 30 km from Toronto, one has to wait long to see a

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Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\03\21\story_21-3-2012_pg3_3 What General Musharraf has asked the ethnic Baloch is to barter away their political rights for the development work he did in Balochistan. The Baloch are declining that propositionOn last Wednesday March 14 and Thursday March 15, under the heading Understanding Balochistan, General (retired) Pervaiz

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Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\03\21\story_21-3-2012_pg3_2 The main reason for China’s relatively slower growth rate is a contraction of its major export markets in Europe and the United StatesIn the midst of global economic doom and gloom, China has attracted much attention and admiration for its impressive growth. Not long ago, China’s annual GDP was growing

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