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Nearly 50% of Pakistan Is Now ?Food Insecure?
2008-07-13 00:12:00 Pakistan is 160 million, with 77 million (48%) now ‘food insecure’, a 28% increase over this time last year. Soaring food prices and shortages of staples mean about 77 million people of Pakistan’s 160 million population are food insecure, a 28 percent increase over the past year, according to U.N. World Food Program (WFP) estimates. Hunger Brings ...
The Saudhouse
2008-07-09 07:55:00 Updated July 12:Are the Saudis behind Muslim terror most everywhere, or does it just seem like it?After all, 80% of Al Qaeda were Saudis several years ago. What's the figure now? We know that Zarqawi's Iraqi Al Qaeda was full of men from the Gulf, not necessarily Saudi Arabia, but Arabia nonetheless. Fallujah was full of these guys in 2004 during the two horrible US invasions of the town.And support for Al Qaeda is high in the Kingdom. A good 50% of the population supported bin Laden a few years back. The Al Qaeda unit inside Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, had vast support and was able to penetrate into the deepest recesses of the Saudi security forces during its operations. This is how it raided embassies.There were also times during the worst of the AQAP operations that the Saudi security forces just let AQAP escape from their very hands. This was due to huge support for AQAP inside the Saudi security forces themselves. What's happened since? With the death of...
By: Robert Lindsay
The Best Planned Localities of Pakistan: North Nazimabad, Karachi
2008-06-28 05:55:00 Owais MughalIn April 2008, we had a post on Eight Bazaars of Faisalabad, and we presented it as one of the best examples of town planning in Pakistan. We would like to develop this topic into a whole new series about the best planned localities of Pakistan. Among many examples of fine town planning in Pakistan are North Nazimabad Karachi, Model Town Lahore, Faisalabad?s 8 bazaars, Federal-B-Area Karachi, Islamabad Master Plan, Wah Cantonment, and many more in other cities. In today?s post we will cover North Nazimabad, Karachi.The satellite image below shows North Nazimabad?s 20 residential blocks bound in red polygon. East of NN is Federal-B-Area where as North of NN is North Karachi and Buffer Zone.Whenever the aesthetics of Civil Engineering and Town Planning Projects is considered; it is an accpetable fact that curves and gradiants are considered more natural than squares or rectangles. Cities planned in rectangular grids, though easy to navigate, don?t have same aesthtics as br...
By: Light Within
Made in Pakistan
2008-06-16 22:31:00 By Jyoti Kalsi, Gulf News ReportAuthentic Shahi Haleem from the famous Kausar restaurant in Karachi, a variety of delicious sweets, hand-embroidered salwar suits and shawls, trendy leather jackets and handbags, traditional handmade shoes, glittering jewellery, intricately carved wooden furniture, beautiful carpets and entertainment by well known performers ? you can get all this and more at the Pakistan pavilion in Global Village.The façade of this pavilion is modelled on the Baba E Khyber Fort in Peshawar, while the interior is a recreation of a typical Peshawari bazaar with over 80 stalls offering a taste of Pakistani culture, cuisine and creativity. While all the people managing the stalls and the items on sale are Pakistani, visitors will be surprised to find a German manning a stall here. Roman Laube is a media designer from Berlin and is spending his annual vacation as a volunteer for an NGO called Thatta Kedona. He has flown down to Dubai especially to help manage the organis...
By: Light Within
Happy Anniversary to All Things Pakistan
2008-06-12 07:28:00 On behalf of readers of Light Within and on my own behalf, I wish ATP happy anniversary. Able writers, particularly Adil Najam and Owais Mughal (and now Asma Mirza and all others) have done a wonderful job in chronicling what has happened; and what has not happened in Pakistan. The readers also need to be commended for their active and very meaningful participation. Well done every one.
By: Light Within
Pakistan accuses US-led forces of killing 11 border troops
2008-06-11 13:11:00 The 'cowardly' attack 'hit at the very basis of cooperation' between Pakistani and US-led forces in Afghanistan, the Pakistani military said.
By: Get rich
Pakistan troops 'die in US raid'
2008-06-11 08:44:00 At least 10 Pakistani soldiers are reported to have been killed in an apparent airstrike by US-led forces close to the Afghanistan border. Eight Taleban militants were also killed in the attack, reports say.
By: Get rich
US think tank: Pakistan helped Taliban insurgents
2008-06-10 01:13:00 Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train Taliban insurgents and have given them information about American troop movements in Afghanistan, said a report published Monday by a U.S. think tank. The study by the RAND Corp. also warned that the U.S. will face "crippling, long-term consequences" in Afghanistan if Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan are not eliminated. It echoes recent statements by American generals, who have increased their warnings that militant safe havens in Pakistan are threatening efforts in Afghanistan. The study was funded by the U.S. Defense Department. "Every successful insurgency in Afghanistan since 1979 enjoyed safe haven in neighboring countries, and the current insurgency is no different," said the report's author, Seth Jones. "Right now, the Taliban and other groups are getting help from individuals within Pakistan's government, and until that ends, the region's long-term security is in jeopardy." Pakistan's top military...
After Iraq: Manual of ?Chicago Doctrine? is opened in Pakistan
2008-06-08 10:00:00 Be warned that all the painstaking efforts that Mr. Pervez Musharraf took to groom and nurture his country- Pakistan to embrace the ‘Enlighten Moderation’ in democracy may be ditched all together. As per plan a fully groomed and democratized country has since been handed over to the Politician by President Pervez Musharraf in a plate ...
Zhob Valley Railway (ZVR) of Pakistan
2008-06-07 09:54:00 Owais Mughal Balochistan has been blessed by an awe inspiring landscape and scenery. A man made means to explore all this expanse of beauty had been the Railways in this province (see Bolan and Trans-Baluchistan). I have deliberately used past tense in the previous sentence because one such railways in Balochistan is getting uprooted right now; at this very moment; as I am writing these lines.This section of railways, when laid during the British Raj, was called the Zhob Valley Railway (ZVR). It has been out of service since 1986 but these days all the left over track is being uprooted and sold as scrap. This has provided me the motivation to write this post and re-visit the history of this once longest Narrow-Gauge Railways of the subcontinent.The photos above show the Narrow Gauge locos (#57) which was used on ZVR and is now preserved at PR HQ Building in LahoreDuring First World War, a Railway line was laid from a place called Khanai (30 km north of Quetta) to a place called Hind...
By: Light Within
Pakistan Will Protect Sovereignty Against US Or Others
2008-06-07 09:06:00 Pakistan’s Foreigtn Minister Shah Mehmod Qureshi, made clear his nation’s determination to defend its soveriegnty in face of a recent American attack on Taliban bases inside Pakistan. He emphasized his nation would not allow sanctuaries to exist within Pakistan but also emphasized, “this is our country and we have to protect its sovereignty.” The Foreign ...
Haier Pakistan, bringing smile to the devastated Chinese.
2008-06-06 09:25:00 The other day, I was passing through Jail Road, when I saw this Haier billboard. On the first look, I thought there was something wrong with there. Putting a Chinese face for targeting Pakistani audience. But later I realized the essence of the campaign and I say "TWO THUMBS FOR HAIER". There is a lot to learn from this. read more
By: BuzzVines
Government had Adopted a New Strategy
2008-06-06 05:54:00 Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday told the National Assembly that the government had adopted a new strategy to counter terrorism after realising that the policies of the previous regime were not working. Winding up a debate on an adjournment motion on last months missile attack in Bajaur Agency, the foreign minister sought ...
Asif dropped from Pakistan squad for tri-series
2008-06-04 15:52:00 Asif dropped from Pakistan squad for tri-series
Mohammad Asif was Released
2008-06-04 06:43:00 Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Asif was released by the authorities on Wednesday and all charges against him regarding the possession of contraband drugs were dropped and this was confirmed by the Pakistan ambassador to UAE and he told reporters that the speedster had been given a clean chit. Earlier Asif was held at Dubai airport ...
Norway closed its embassy in Pakistan
2008-06-03 10:49:00 With the recent blast near the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, guess what was the next wisest step anybody could take ! Yeah right, Norwegian Embassy has packed its bags and left Pakistan. read more
By: BuzzVines
Pakistan fast bowler Mohammed Asif detained in Dubai
2008-06-03 09:39:00 In a sensational turn of events, Pakistani pacer Mohd Asif has been detained at the Dubai International airport for allegedly carrying drugs in his luggage. The pacer, who was on his way back to Pakistan after a stint in the Indian Premier League, was detained on Sunday. Due to the hectic efforts of the Pakistan Cricket Board ...
By: Latest News
Bomb Blast Near Danish Embassy in Islamabad
2008-06-03 05:34:00 The death toll in car bomb blast near Danish embassy in Islamabad on Monday has reached to eight including two security guards while 18 were wounded in the attack and according to preliminary reports 30 kg explosives were used in the attack. Joint team of police FIA and secret agencies was constituted for the blast ...
Bustling Sialkot, Pakistan
2008-06-03 03:40:00 A photograph taken from a rooftop in Sialkot, Pakistan overlooking a food market. A very busy corner.
By: Design You Trust
Rogue cartoons kill six in Pakistan
2008-06-03 02:10:00 No, really. A suspected suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing six people and wounding about 20, police and hospital officials said. The blast will raise fresh questions about the safety of foreigners in Pakistan even though militant attacks have dropped off since a new government came ...
By: Webloggin
Islamic terrorists attack Danish Embassy in Pakistan
2008-06-02 18:46:00 The cowardly acts of radical Islam continue… This time, obviously in violent protest to the Mohammed cartoons. BBC At least six people have been killed and 30 injured in a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. An embassy worker was among the dead and three were hurt but no Danish citizens were killed ...
Blast near Danish Embassy in Pakistan kills 6
2008-06-02 16:07:00 Extract not available.
By: Get rich
Blast near Danish Embassy in Pakistan kills 6
2008-06-02 16:07:00 Extract not available.
By: Get rich
Beer Monday: Danish Embassy In Pakistan Bombed
2008-06-02 14:35:00 Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brownose the bosses. How ’bout a beer? All those folks who keep telling us that Islam is a religion of peace need a beer An apparent car bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan’s capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Bomb hits Pakistan Danish embassy
2008-06-02 13:05:00 The blast damaged the embassy and nearby vehiclesAt least eight people have been killed in a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, according to reports.More than a dozen people were wounded.
By: Get rich
8 killed in blast outside Danish Embassy in Pakistan
2008-06-02 12:38:00 At least eight people were feared killed and five others injured in a blast outside the Danish Embassy, located in a high-security area in the heart of the Pakistani capital on Monday. Reports said the explosive device was hidden in a car parked near the Danish Embassy in the upmarket, where several embassies are located. A number ...
By: Latest News
PPP Approved 18 Constitution Amendment Bill
2008-06-02 04:18:00 PPP Party co chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday approved a draft of the 18th Constitution Amendment Bill and, according to the law ministry the modified document will now be sent to other coalition partners in order to arrive at a consensus before its presentation in parliament. The law ministrys announcement that the constitutional package ...
Islamic teacher kills seven year old student for not memorizing quran lesso
2008-06-02 02:19:00 This is what goes on in ‘islamic schools’??? And our government has the temerity to allow this garbage to be promoted in the United States, in the interest of tolerance. Meanwhile many muslim countries don’t even allow ownership of a Bible. A student of a religious seminary in Pakistan’s Punjab province has died after he ...
Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to North Korea, Book Says
2008-06-01 06:46:00 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment — a route to making a nuclear weapon — to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the slain politician well. Read More… Video: The ...
By: 1913 Intel
Daylight Savings Introduced in Pakistan: Is This A Good Idea?
2008-06-01 00:17:00 Adil Najam As of the stroke of midnight Saturday-Sunday (May 31-June 1, 2008) Pakistan officially advanced its clocks by one hour. This “daylight savings” move is a bid to conserve energy in a increasingly energy strapped economy in conditions where everyone agrees that the energy situation is going to get worse well before it gets any ...
Pakistan: Can we change? by Freddie
2008-05-31 09:02:00 Pakistan: Can we change? The present author has in the past made his views clear on Pakistan?s broad model for success: the vision of Iqbal combined with the illustriousness of Jinnah. What is far less clear to all and sundry however, the present author included, is how exactly to go about this. It seems that Pakistan ...
By: MicroPakistan
How can we make Pakistan a better place? - REMOVED
2008-05-31 08:16:00 This post and all it's comments have been deleted, because the discussion was getting no where and personal remarks were passed that are against the policy of BuzzVines. It is expected of all the members that they should refrain from any personal harsh arguments that are not helping develop a healthy discussion. read more
By: BuzzVines
President Musharraf Refuted the Stories
2008-05-30 09:37:00 Rumours that President Pervez Musharraf is on his way out took the country by storm on Thursday severely affecting the public and commercial life. Despite repeated denials from the quarters concerned the mill continued to churn out rumours of various kinds till they were quashed by President Musharraf himself in the night. President Musharraf refuted ...
Musharraf to Resign as President of Pakistan.
2008-05-29 06:51:00 The past week had been tough and finally the things start to take shape. Wednesday Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held an extremely important meeting with President Pervez Musharraf at the Army House Rawalpindi.The meeting continued till after midnight lasting more than read more
By: BuzzVines
PML-N agreed to PPP proposed constitutional package
2008-05-29 05:52:00 The Pakistan Muslim League N on Tuesday agreed to most points of the PPP-proposed constitutional package but demanded reinstatement of the deposed judges through a parliamentary resolution in accordance with the Murree Declaration before tabling of the 18th Constitution Amendment Bill in the National Assembly sources in the two parties said. The PML-N sources said ...
How to make Pakistan a better Place for living?
2008-05-28 22:44:00 Pakistan is MASHALLAH 61 years Old. Many changes has been made. Which things can change the future of Pakistan?
By: BuzzVines
Juvenile Delinquency in Pakistan
2008-05-28 14:19:00 Irum Sarfaraz The state of juvenile delinquency in Pakistan is reaching epic proportion with neither the law nor other people associated with it willing to understand the continual and serious dangers being rendered to the health, social and moral development of these children and society. The majority of these delinquents are ?street children? who are increasing rapidly ...
Pakistan Load Shading has Reached New Heights
2008-05-28 07:54:00 Pakistan load shading has reached new heights KESC is proabably in Guinness Book of world records by now for the longest load shading hours yesterday we had load shading for about 7 hours. This is really bringing things to halt and one of key difference between a developing country and a developed a.k.a civilized country ...
Drawing inspiration from Pakistan
2008-05-28 03:55:00 In more ways than one, the Burmese (Myanmar) dictatorships (headed by army generals, ofcourse) have been emulating Pakistani dictatorships since the 'inspirational' take over by Ayub Kutta. Where the Pakistani generals have had the foresight of installing puppet regimes, the Burmese generals have gone a step further and brutally suppressed all opposition. read more
By: BuzzVines
Jajah Free International Calls: India, Pakistan, Gulf, Overseas, Worldwide
2008-05-27 20:22:00 http://www.techpavan.com/2008/0-3/22/make-free-calls-with-jajah--a-new-hack/Above featured link is Pavan's site and he writes with an authority on tech things. TechPavan says about Jajah's trick to call for free 5 minutes to any number and the phone calling number may be in India, UAE, Pakistan, Gulf or anywhere in the world. So virtually it is a free calls for 5 minutes to any number in the world for one time at that number, not bad. You have to use toktume + Jajah both to use this free calling trick. The free calls voice quality is good and remember this is a trick and Jajah may fix it any time : )Cheers : )
By: Talk Free
Afghan paper says US should target Taliban in Pakistan
2008-05-27 18:45:00 Something we should’ve done a long time ago. Too bad Robert Gates and Condi keep advising Bush to NOT fight the war on terror he pledged to do after 9-11. Reuters KABUL, May 26 (Reuters) - The United States should target militant bases in Pakistan, an Afghan state-controlled paper said on Monday, reacting to a threat ...
President Pervez Musharraf Already Impeached
2008-05-27 06:04:00 Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif said impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf had already been undertaken on February 18 and only formality remains to be fulfilled now and addressing a packed press conference here he announced that his nomination papers for participating in the by-elections have been accepted. PML-N chief claimed that he will contest ...
U.S. Forces Planning Major Operation To Kill Bin Laden
2008-05-26 21:16:00 U.S. intelligence agencies believes that terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, and they intend to drive him out in a major military offensive. General David Petraeus headed up a major meeting in the Qatari capital of Doja aimed at putting together a military operation to go after bin ...
By: The Hot Joints
Pakistan: Officials back Lawson
2008-05-26 13:25:00 A Pakistan Cricket Board official has denied that national team coach Geoff Lawson's position is precarious1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
The Persons Involved in Black Money Through Transparent
2008-05-26 05:45:00 Federal Board of Revenue FBR Chairman Abdullah Yusuf has said that his organization has attained the capability of unearthing the persons involved in black money through transparent electronic system and Nadra data and the black money holders would soon be brought to the fore and talking to senior journalist Hanif Khalid at the Planning Division ...
Mehsud denies slaying of Benazir, abduction of Pak envoy
2008-05-25 14:47:00 CNews PESHAWAR: Chief of Tehreek Taliban-e-Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud has denied his involvement in assassination of Benazir Bhutto.?We have not martyred Benazir Bhutto. If we have killed her, who had slain her father and brothers?? Mehsud asked in conversation with local and international media from an unspecified place in South Waziristan.The government if got any evidence about the incident it should produce those facts, he said. He however was of the view that the government have no proofs and it was extracting statements from the arrested persons by exerting pressure. He also denied kidnapping Pakistani ambassador in Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin adding that another group of Taliban had abducted the envoy and his group secured release of the ambassador.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Rumble: Recommended: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008-05-25 00:40:00 Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America.Thus starts the monologue of "Changez", the principle character in "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid.Seated at dusk at a Lahore cafe, Changez tells his story to a stranger, an American. A story of a Pakistani who studied in the US, found work in a prestigious company, met a girl and became singled out after 9/11. Gradually he starts question his path of life and how different he was from the people around him, in a Western country.The story is told with a light, almost frivolous, sometimes ironical English, jumping between the subjects of love, culture, religion, prejudices and the war on terror. Despite the weight of the topics, the story remains so light it almost starts to resonate with irony or sarcasm without giving away any hint of the faith both Changez and his American acquaintance will face towards the end of the book.Very well wri...
Heart Talk?poem duet by Grace Madison & Ernest Dempsey
2008-05-24 23:44:00 “Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication. Speaking from the heart is the other half.” ?Sara Paddison, author Hidden Power of the Heart When I sent this quotation to my friend Grace Madison (she is the mother of Curt Madison, one of my high school chums who know bases in Alaska), she wrote back ... |
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