Saturday, February 27, 2010 ISLAMABAD: You had to see it to believe it. Such was the maddening rush of our legislators to flee the legislative coop on the last day of the session. The parliamentary facade lasted a mere ninety minutes. The attendance was even thinner than our moral fibre. With the Speaker away on official business and her deputy missing in action as well, the entire sitting was chaired by ... Read More

Feb 27, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has barred sports minister Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani from attending the opening ceremony of the hockey World Cup in Delhi on Sunday, according to a media report in Islamabad on Saturday. Jakhrani was scheduled to visit India to attend the opening ceremony of the World Cup and also watch the match between India and Pakistan at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium. ... Read More

February 27th, 2010 New Delhi, Feb 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that terrorism remains the single biggest threat to peace and stressed the need for global efforts to defend the values of pluralism and peaceful co-existence. In a special interaction with Arab journalists prior to leaving New Delhi for a three day visit to Saudi Arabia, Singh said: “Terrorism remains the single biggest threat to peace, stability ... Read More

www.markfiore.com Forget Swine Flu. Take a look at a political cartoon exploring the pandemic of Taliban sweeping Pakistan. See what Zardari, Obama and others from Washington to Islamabad are doing to fight extremism and terrorism. A political animation by Mark Fiore. ... Read More

May 10, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari reacts to comments about the extent to which the Taliban insurgency has destabilized his country. ... Read More

Updated : Saturday February 27 , 2010 KARACHI: The Eid Milad-un-Nabi (Peace Be Upon Him) is being celebrated with religious reverence and fervor across the country, renewing the pledge to follow true teachings of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). In Karachi, the main procession will emerge from New Memon Mosque to be led by Shah Turab Ul-Haq after the Zohar prayer. Other small processions ... Read More

Updated : Saturday February 27 , 2010 KARACHI: Former test captain Waqar Younis accepted an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to take over as national team coach on Saturday, a day after the PCB had offered him the position. “I have received a proper offer from the Pakistan board and I am ready to take on this challenge,” Waqar told Reuters from Sydney, ... Read More

Updated : Saturday February 27 , 2010 TEL AVIV: Lebanon military authorities say Israeli jets have violated the country's air space and broke sound barriers over several villages in southern parts of the nation. Several Israeli fighters invaded Lebanese air space on Friday night and hovered over southern towns of Sidon, Marjayoun and Hasbaya. The incident came amid heightened concern in Lebanon over recent Israeli threats ... Read More

LAHORE (February 27 2010): Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that the Punjab government has started to return loan of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Rs 6 billion has been repaid so far, while outstanding amount would also be returned in monthly instalments. He was talking to a delegation of MPAs here on Friday. The minister said the government had converted its overdraft into loan by taking the ... Read More

ISLAMABAD (February 27 2010): The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has expressed confidence that Pakistan will continue its political, moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiris' just struggle for right to self-determination. The APHC Chairman, addressing a big public gathering at Jamia Masjid in occupied Srinagar, on Friday, said that during his meeting with Pakistan's Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir, he was reassured that Pakistan would not allow ... Read More

WASHINGTON (February 27 2010): The US drone program in Pakistan has probably reached the "outer limits of its utility" and robs intelligence forces of valuable information while angering Pakistanis, a new report said on Thursday. The United States has ramped up its use of the unmanned weapons, with President Barack Obama ordering more strikes in 2009 than were authorised in the eight years prior. But the report by Peter Bergen and ... Read More

Three policemen and a child have been killed and over 20 injured when a suicide bomber rammed a van packed with explosives into a police station in north-west Pakistan, police said. "The attacker detonated his pick-up van at the gate of the main police station in Karak town" of North West Frontier Province, local police chief Sajid Mohmand said on Saturday (local time). "Two policemen and one civilian were killed." At least ... Read More