By Asif Haroon Raja Amidst the hullabaloo of election campaign when all eyes were focused on the outcome of May 11 election results, Dr Fahad Rafique Dogar came out with a bloomer. His article titled ‘Curriculum reform’ in ‘The News’ dated May 9, 2013 was out of place with no relevance to the overall environment. However, the message in the article was quite clear and in line with similar articles written o ...

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. ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat During the election campaign, the militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated groups who had accelerated their terror-activities to sabotage the elections 2013 in Pakistan failed in their nefarious designs as they did not want to see democracy to be flourished in the country. TTP which had accepted responsibly for terror-assaults on the election-sites, especially ...

By Rida Zaheer Pakistani lawyers who had filed a petition in the judges' detention case has withdrawn their complaint against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. It was decided by  Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman a day before the hearing of the case on Saturday by the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court. According to Dawn News, the case was to be heard at General Musharraf's Chak Shahzad farmhou ...

By Phil Greaves  A recent interview given by, yes, you guessed it: an ‘anonymous’ Qatari security official, has shed further light on CIA-led covert arms shipments to militants fighting in Syria. In this Reuters article, the security official and several ‘anonymous’ rebel Commanders confirm that Qatar has “tightened coordination of arms flows [plural] to Syria,” under alleged concern of weapons ending up in ...

Asif Haroon Raja   The whole nation remained glued towards the elections and as May 11 neared, election fever heightened and so did variety of speculations and theories about election results. Political pundits remained divided about the winning party, some suggesting PML-N and others PTI as the victorious party. There was a tiny minority which kept insisting not to rule out PPP. Most suggested a close figh ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt reached the TADA court to surrender in connection with the 1993 Mumbai Blasts case. While leaving the house  Sanjay Dutt accompanied by his sisters Priya and Narmata Dutt along with wife Maanyata to surrender in the court to serve the remaining jail term.  He will be  first sent to Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai and then is likely to be moved to Pune's Yerawada ja ...

 By Rida Zaheer   It takes only 2 minutes for a car thief to runaway with your car. No matter you have a trekker and auto-alarming devices fitted in your car.   The best safety for your car is a live and active Mobile Phone hidden in a sage place in your car: 1.      Buy any low price mobile phone with longer standby time (Qmobile has one model which run for 10 days on standby and cost around Rs.2,200/-). 2 ...