JEDDAH: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has stressed the pressing need for an Emergency Disaster Response Fund to deal with natural calamities in member states, as the Kingdom raised SR400 million in relief for Pakistan. Ihsanoglu was speaking at an emergency meeting of the OIC on Wednesday [continue....]
BIRMINGHAM: President Asif Ali Zardari rounded off a trip to Britain by addressing a political rally Saturday, facing criticism and protesters for touring overseas as floods killed more than 1,500 people in his country. One heckler threw a shoe at Zardari during the event, missing the president, while outside the convention center police cordoned [continue....]
It should be abundantly clear that the British government and media have commenced a campaign against Pakistan both at the diplomatic and propaganda levels. Prime Minister David Cameron fired the first salvo deliberately choosing India so as to have the proper impact in Pakistan. Our state, seeming to wallow in abuse at the hands of [continue....]
ISLAMABAD: Revealing the division within its ranks, the government struggled all day on Friday to come up with a unified response to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s disparaging terror remarks. For once the PPP leaders were not just at odds with the military leadership, but also the Foreign Office, led by their party man. The army [continue....]
Officials fear the number could rise once emergency teams are able to survey devastated areas. Authorities are stepping up efforts to provide relief and rescue stranded villagers. As the death toll from this week’s flash floods rose to at least 800 Saturday, authorities tried desperately to rescue thousands of stranded villagers from [continue....]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in fog and intense rain near this capital city on Wednesday morning, killing all 152 people on board, according to civil aviation and airline officials. Rescue helicopters fought against thick smoke and flames as they tried to find survivors amid the wreckage — about a two-hour drive [continue....]
SLAMABAD, June 27: Secretary General of the PML Mushahid Hussain Sayed Sunday said traditional politicians were fast becoming “irrelevant”, they had no future in Pakistan as people at large wanted a new vibrant leadership which could lead them towards true democratic culture. Addressing an extraordinary session of Children Parliament of [continue....]
The financial year ending on June 30 has been particularly bad for the Punjab government which constantly availed the overdraft facility to run its official business. The provincial government on average needs about Rs32 billion per month to meet its current and development expenditures, of which Rs26 billion go toward the former (salaries, [continue....]
Four people lost their lives in a suspected target killing incident in PNT Colony of Karachi’s Korangi area on Tuesday. Four unidentified men riding motorbikes opened fire on a car, killing all four passengers. The incident took place on a narrow street where movement of the car was completely blocked by the suspects. Bodies of the deceased [continue....]
WASHINGTON: The US-based magazine Foreign Policy, has ranked Pakistan 10th on the Failed State Index, 2010. The list comprises 177 countries, and is topped by Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan and Chad. India is ranked 87, while China comes in at 57. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list. The magazine says Somalia has been the number one [continue....]
