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Daily Archives: December 7, 2015

Climate change: A case of forgotten priorities

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Whether the Paris’ Climate Conference delivers or not, the more pressing and immediate task for Pakistan is to set its priorities right. Survivability and security of a country and its people against all sorts of existential threats, usually features at the top in the security calculus of any state. However looking at these threats only […]


Youtube accessible in mega cities despite ban

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Islamabad – After a ban of almost three years, video sharing website Youtube is once again accessible in many parts of the country. The cities where the video sharing site is operational only in three big cities – Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. YouTube website has been blocked in Pakistan since September, 2012, when the website […]


Check on human smuggling: Ministry contemplates bringing visa firms under regulations

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Lahore – Deliberation at the interior ministry are underway to bring the visa consultancy firms and travel agents under regulations as part of its efforts to control human smuggling. “Fraudulently obtained visa” is the real problem irking the Federal Investigation Agency to check human smuggling. Although the visa consultancy firms and travel agents meet legal […]


Journalist, diplomat Qutbuddin Aziz passes away

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Karachi – Veteran journalist and diplomat Qutbuddin Aziz died of respiratory complications at a hospital here on Saturday night. He was 86. He was born in 1929 in Lucknow where his maternal grandfather, Nawab Abdullah Khan, owned and edited Urdu daily Hamdam. He was educated in New Delhi, Simla and Hyderabad Deccan. He was vice […]


Reporters prevent from reporting about background of California shooter

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According to some journalists Pakistan security officials were preventing journalists from investigating about background of Tashfeen Malik, one of the San Bernardino terrorists involved shooting dead 14 people in California. Some foreign journalists probing about life of Malik in the city of Multan in Punjab province of Pakistan complained the security officials did not allow […]