Mardan, Quetta and Ziarat Blasts Interlinked
By Zaheerul Hassan The terrorists carried out sucide bombing and a blast in Mardan on June 18, 2013. In the first incident a sucide bomber exploded him in the funeral and in the second incident a bomb exploded in CMH Mardan, where in emergency the casualties were being evacuated. In these blasts more than more ...
Libya: Special Forces were only hours from Capital
In a bombshell admission that has until now gone unreported, Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded that highly trained Special Forces were stationed just a few hours away from Benghazi on the night of the attacks but were not told to deploy to Libya. In comments that may warrant further more ...
Nation shocked and grieved
Posted by Javed Iqbal Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - In the wee hours on Saturday morning, propelled grenade attacks by the militants destroyed Quaid-e-Azam’s residency in Ziarat, where he spent the last days of his life along with his sister Fatima Jinnah before moving to Karachi. A police constable deployed outsi more ...
Pakistan Budget 2013-14 presented in National Assembly
By Zaheerul Hassan Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar of newly elected PML (N) democratic government presented Federal Budget of about Rs 3.5 trillion for the fiscal year 2013-14 before the National Assembly. The government did not make any increase in the salaries of government employee more ...
ICC Champions Trophy 2013: Pakistan vs West Indies
Statistical highlights of the Champions Trophy cricket match between the West Indies and Pakistan on Friday. # Kamran Akmal became the fourth wicketkeeper after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and Australia's Adam Gilchrist and Tim Payne to effect five dismissals in an innings in the ICC Champions Trophy # Moham more ...
ICC Champions Trophy 2013: Pakistan vs West Indies
Statistical highlights of the Champions Trophy cricket match between the West Indies and Pakistan on Friday. # Kamran Akmal became the fourth wicketkeeper after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and Australia's Adam Gilchrist and Tim Payne to effect five dismissals in an innings in the ICC Champions Trophy # Moham more ...
IPL forced star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to retire
I think this is the right time to stop playing the IPL. I am 40. Got to accept it," Tendulkar said. The most notorious Spot fixing and sex scandal of Indian Premier League (IPL) forced Star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to say goodbye his favourit game . He announced his retirement when his team Mumbai Indi more ...
9 fascinating facts about how the world uses social networks
By Caitlin Dewey The team at bit.ly, a popular link-tracking service, has come out with an interesting new analysis on how people use social media around the world. To make the report, bit.ly tracked clicks on its links from 220 countries over the course of 12 months. (To give you an idea of how many clicks t more ...
Nasa’s advice on asteroid heading for Earth
Nasa chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray. That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told politicians at a US Ho more ...
داخلی خطرات پر توجہ۔ملکی استحکام کے لیے ناگزیر
(ایم خان چشتی) پاکستان کی حالیہ صورتحال کے پیشِ نظر جہاں دہشت گردی اور انتہا پسندی کی وجہ سے 35,000 سے زائد افراد جاں بحق ہو چکے ہیں اور آئے دن دہشت گرد حکومت اور قانون نافذ کرنے والے اداروں کی رٹ کو چیلنج کرتے نظر آتے ہیں۔ اندرونی سلامتی کو یقینی بنانا ایک ناگزیر عمل بن چکا ہے۔اسی پس منظر میں پاکستان کے سیکو more ...
ذرائع ابلاغ اور دہشت گردی کی ترغیب
انتہا پسندی /دہشت گردی ایک ایسا نا سور ہے جس کی موجودگی میں دنیا میں امن و امان قائم نہیں ہو سکتا۔ دہشت گردی کے سرطان نے دْنیا کے ہر طبقہء فکر کو اضطراب اور پریشانی میں مبتلا کر رکھا ہے اور اس عفریت سے نمٹنے کے لیے ہر ذی ہوش بر سرِ پیکار ہے۔ عالمی دہشت گردی کا آغاز 9/11 کے واقعہ سے ہوا جس میں القا عدہ منظرِعا more ...