Archive for the ‘World’ Category

All worries about Pakistan

A leading Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that .Pakistan’s nukes are at risk of being seized by extremists. He was talking to CNN in the second week of this December in Washington. He said, “My guess is Pakistan has well over 100 nuclear weapons. And that the Pakistani military is so penetrated by [...]

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Searching for Obama

Shifting the portrait of President Obama from his room to the adjoining store-room, my elder son said to me, “The Americans are the misguided missiles. We will have to lead them to the right path. We will have to put them in the right place”. I still remember the day when President Obama was elected [...]

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Human Rights Enforcement- UNO’s Inability

Human Rights day has been celebrated world over on 10 December, 2011. The International Human Rights Day in Indian occupied Kashmir, with rights bodies and activists demanding an end to violations. In this connection, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) submitted a fresh list of 132 cases of disappeared persons to the State [...]

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External Debt: The Next Big Pakistani Crisis?

Indebtedness represents one of the greatest problems facing Pakistan in recent times and presently the country is facing mountains of debt and huge budget deficits that hinder its abilities to create jobs for the unemployed and help the poor, causing poverty to spread, allocations to educational and social programs to be cut, and a sense [...]

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Make Love Not War

Everyday when we rise in the morning and switch the TV on or go through the newspapers, we are confronted with the same sad news: bomb blasts, violence, crime, suicides, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere in Pakistan. Even in these modern times it [...]

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Pakistan Boycotts Upcoming Bonn Conference

On November 29, 2011 Pakistani cabinet announced a boycott and has decided not to attend the upcoming Bonn conference as a protest,” a government official said after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in Lahore. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar briefed the Cabinet about the incident and described the ongoing diplomatic [...]

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NATO’s attack on Pakistani checkpost – Protests are for military personnel only!

NATO’s air attack on Pakistani checkpost Silala resulted in killing 24 Pakistani troops, including two officers. At least 13 injuries have been reported as well. The unprovoked and surprised attack took place around 2am, when the soldiers were asleep. As a result, Pakistan has stopped the NATO supplies and asked US to vacate Shamsi air [...]

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China-A Threat to Indian Hegemonic Designs

It is a day-light fact that at present China is the only force which can guarantee the balance of power as well as peace and prosperity in the South-Asian region. With the increasing influence and interference of USA in the South-Asian region and after the rapidly growing US-India closeness, world is looking towards China for [...]

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Call for Help; We are Drowning

Everyone is completely aware of the current situation of the country, that apart from political instability, failure of law and order maintenance and terrorism, we also being a victim of harsh climatic conditions. Monsoon rain started from 18th August and like previous year, because of improper drainage and water preservation system, these rains are proving [...]

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Mission Clean Sweep

Our beloved country Pakistan is currently under attack by both foreign and domestic hostile elements. The biggest city of Pakistan, Karachi is the major victim of all the violence that is going on within the nation. Target killing is at its peak. Hundreds of innocent people are dying each day. The streets of Karachi are [...]

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