By Rajesh Indian film star Sanjay   has been dispatched to Pune's Yerwada jail where he will finish his sentence for firearms offences linked to blasts which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. The actor gave himself up last week and was initially housed in Mumbai's Arthur Road prison. A court has allowed him access to medicines and food from home during his stay in the prison. He has already served 18 mon ...

 By Ikram Sehgal   Visiting China is a never ending revelation, the amazing 7.7% growth rate in a sluggish global economy is considered “disappointing”.  Of China’s 31 Provinces, Guangdong has the highest GDP, US$ 960 billion with a growth rate of 8.2% while Tibet lags behind lowest with 12% growth rate and a GDP of US$ 11 billion.  Guizhou Province has the highest growth rate 12%, bordering Pakistan vastly ...

It's 2013. We've made it. For those of us watching from the United States, the last few days of 2012 (to say nothing of the first couple of this year) were touch and go. But here we are. Political risk has entered our vocabulary. Whether staring over the fiscal cliff, battling the eurozone crisis, trying to profit from a rising China, or taking cover from the Middle East; around the world, politics has come ...

F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: The newly-elected Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is arriving in Pakistan today (Wednesday) on a two-day official visit along with a high level delegation to give further impetus to strategic relations between the two countries. The new Chinese Prime Minister is expected to sign several agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on various sectors including science, technolo ...

Case of "Witness Tampering" Not of "Mistaken Identity" - Claims SFJ Rights group will take the human rights violation case against CM Badal to the US Court of Appeals asking for a remand to depose CM Badal personally before a US Federal Judge on the issue of the service of summons. In its May 17 order, the US District Court in Wisconsin ruled that Badal was never served with the court summons as being claim ...

Muhammad Munir Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - The India-Pakistan relations have been passing through a tense phase since January 2013 due to violent incidents at Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed territory of Kashmir. During these incidents two Pakistani and two Indian soldiers were killed. It was the worst clash there since India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire nearly in a decade ago in 2003. The recent in ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat                         Although elections 2013 were free and fair, yet isolated incidents of rigging which are very common in South Asia are creating uncertainty in Pakistan where terrorists continue their subversive activities to further destabilise the country by blocking the way of democracy. Even, observers of the EU remarked that only 10 percent rigging occurred, while on the who ...

Asif Haroon Raja The people have lost trust in their leaders because they have repeatedly betrayed them in the name of democracy. While democracy was sold as the remedy for all their ailments, democracy made the lives of the lower class of society miserable. The elites enriched themselves by using state resources and looting the national wealth but did little to allay the sufferings of the under privileged. ...