By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its coalition partners in parliament — Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Awami National Party (ANP) — on Thursday chalked out a “budget strategy” to counter criticism of the opposition parties after the presentation of Budget 2011-12, official sources informed Daily […]
GILGIT: Hassan Sadpara, who hails from Skardu which is home to the world’s second-highest peak K2, scaled the world’s highest peak on Thursday, becoming the second Pakistani to achieve the feat. He made it without any oxygen supply, which makes his achievement even more courageous than that of Nazir Sabir, the first Pakistani who climbed […]
Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: Some positive steps have been taken to empower civilian rule and curb armed militancy but the overall situation of human rights deteriorated further in Pakistan – especially in northwest and Balochistan, said Amnesty International as it launched its global human rights report 2011 here on Thursday on the eve of its […]
ISLAMABAD: The US Embassy on Thursday said that some media outlets have mischaracterised statements by US Ambassador Cameron Munter at the University of Sindh on May 10 to imply that individuals with certain names are not eligible for US visas. “This is patently false. It is specifically untrue that the Ambassador in any way denigrated […]
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