By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan has been facing various kinds of subversive activities, yet foreign hostile elements have also accelerated sectarian violence as part of their unfinished agenda to destabilise the country. In the last week of Muharram, several people have been killed and injured in suicide attacks and bomb blasts. Despite the tight security measures, a bomb attack on a procession kil ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan MALE pipefish pregnancy may suit the females, but it's a real boon for their offspring. In human fetuses, antibodies from the mother's egg and others that pass across the placenta help build its developing immune system. Sperm are too small to carry antibodies, so males aren't thought to contribute. Not so in pipefish, where the male carries the pregnancy. To see if the immune prim ...

By Harold Brown Xi Jinping, China's newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China's leading military official. Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter's administration. ...

 Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BRISBANE: The Brisbane International starting next month will feature the world's top three women players with confirmation on Wednesday that top-ranked Victoria Azarenka will take part. Azarenka, of Belarus, joins Russian world number two Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams of the United States in the main lead-up tournament to January's Australian Open in Melbourne, the season's ...

By  Zaheerul Hassan A blast was reported to have taken place in a Muharram mourning procession on Misrihall road in Rawalpindi, Express News reported. The police sources had told him that the blast took place in the mourning procession near Dhok Saeydan. President, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has strongly and PML(N) Chief Nawaz Shrief condemned the bomb blast in Rawalpindi, and expressed grief and sor ...

By Sam Webb dailymail This is the dramatic moment a bow-tie wearing bridegroom was arrested by police as he was about to say ‘I do’ in a sham marriage. The grey-suited man was about to marry his bride, dressed in white and carrying a bouquet of red blooms, when stab-vest wearing police and border officials stormed into the register office in Slough, Berkshire. The officers from the UK Border Agency dramatic ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver:   [caption id="attachment_3997" align="alignright" width="236"] Malala-Yousaf undr treatment in Uk[/caption] What happened to Malala is not simply a tale of brutality, cruelty, violence and aggression, it is something else based on intrigue and conspiracy. Though the militants in Pakistan are being held responsible for this cowardly inhuman action against an innocent young girl b ...

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 ...