...[T]HE government tends to have the federal budget approved hurriedly while playing up its ‘successes’ in...
Published 07 Jun, 2014 01:41am
AFGHANISTAN has announced that the second phase of its presidential election [will take place on] June 14. ... Dr...
Published 06 Jun, 2014 01:03am
DEFENCE Minister Kim Kwan-jin’s hawkish stance against North Korea has made him No. 1 target of Pyongyang’s...
Published 05 Jun, 2014 01:27am
MOST people woke to the news of floods, giving an inauspicious start to the week. Torrential rains continued to lash...
Published 04 Jun, 2014 06:47am
…DAILY the media is reporting a number of incidents [in Sindh] from tribal feuds to honour killings to dacoities...
Published 03 Jun, 2014 07:07am
… AS within the country, there is a sense in the wider world that a significant political transformation has taken...
Published 02 Jun, 2014 07:49am
CHICAGO has many law-abiding gun owners who handle their weapons safely and responsibly.
The ordinance proposed by...
Published 01 Jun, 2014 06:06am
THE World Health Organisation has disclosed that 34pc of Pakistani males and 5.7pc of females are ‘addicted’ to...
Published 31 May, 2014 05:34am
THE nation has attached great expectations to the recent visit of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to New Delhi and...
Published 30 May, 2014 07:18am
THE double standard on the pork barrel controversy is becoming too glaring as [President Benigno Aquino III,...
Published 29 May, 2014 07:16am
SINDH is under the rule of criminals. … An operation is continuing in Bagerji forest near Sukkur. … But it has...
Published 28 May, 2014 05:46am
HOW venal and vicious has become criminality in ruling party politics is [being revealed] in shocking detail with...
Published 27 May, 2014 06:54am
CREDIT Suisse Group ... has agreed to pay $2.6 billion in penalties after pleading guilty to charges of criminal...
Published 26 May, 2014 07:09am
IN Canada, for the most part, the imminent arrival of a child is a time of joyful anticipation.… ... For much of...
Published 25 May, 2014 07:39am
PUNJAB Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has signed an agreement in Shanghai for … an Orange Line Metro Train in...
Published 24 May, 2014 05:31am
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan has constituted a high-level Fata reforms commission with the...
Published 23 May, 2014 05:45am
PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will never miss an opportunity to justify his stubborn refusal to come to an...
Published 22 May, 2014 06:49am
AN article published … [recently] … revealed how Indian businesses … are marketing prime minister-elect...
Published 21 May, 2014 05:29am
[RECENTLY] the Sindh chief minister, education minister and secretary education were … expressing their concern...
Published 20 May, 2014 05:23am
TEN years as head of government have taken a toll on Manmohan Singh, as they might of any other figure, no matter ...
Published 19 May, 2014 06:51am