Posted By Zaheerul Hassan ISLAMABAD, Nov 21 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday stressed the need for fast tracking the conclusion of Pakistan-Turkey Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and creating facilitative mechanisms and opportunities for investors and private sectors of the two countries to bolster bilateral trade to new heights and achieve mutually agreed trade target of $ 2 billion. The Pres ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak-Iranian relations are rapidly strengthening day by day. During the visit of Iran’s Vice President for International Affairs Ali Seedlou, both the countries signed three agreements on November 13, this year as part of Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to promote economic cooperation, timely completion of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project and electricity import from Iran. Both th ...

by Khalid Khokhar WHILE addressing a group of officers at GHQ on November 5, the Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani warned that much is desired for all state institutions to work within their constitutional limits. The political pundits observed that the statement carried veiled challenges to the judiciary as well as media creating uproar in political, legal and social circles. The stateme ...

Poated:  Zaheerul Hassan November 18, 2012 "Al Jazeera" --- Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza, has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the same family in Gaza. Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood". Five children were among the nine ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan 'Spider-Man' stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are taking their relationship to the next level by buying a USD 2.5 million home together. Once owned by late actor and comedian Dudley Moore, the property boasts four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bedrooms, Although it is not clear whose name is on the title deeds for the luxury home, the privately gated community in which it stand ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has come down heavily on Indian cricket authorities for preventing a section of the international news media from covering the ongoing Test series between India and England. in fact indian authorities have also got full control over the ICC. The countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa time and again raised the issue but no fruit ...

Asif Haroon Raja India is largest in size and population and militarily and economically the strongest country in South Asia. Indian Army of 1.4 million with 34 combat divisions is the third largest in the world and Indian air force and navy too are formidable. India has made its standing in the world because of its geo-strategic importance and huge economic market. Diplomatically it is well placed in the w ...

Asif Haroon Raja US-NATO continue to reiterate the old allegation that the ISI is ‘intimately involved’ with the insurgency in Afghanistan and is secretly aiding Haqqani network. Although the allegation is frivolous, even for argument sake it is hypothesized that the ISI is involved, what is so strange about it and why should it surprise NATO or the US? Why should it cause so much anguish since all the inte ...