Recent content by Durrani

WASHINGTON: Pakistan should incorporate the Federally Administered Tribal Areas into the full political and economical life of the country, bringing the areas on equal par with the rest of the nation, and ending the age-old British system of Political Agents and Comissioners, says US special...

Children have learned to tell the difference between the sound of artillery fire and a suicide blast. BRANDISHING toy guns, dummy rocket launchers and with staves in hand, over 100 hooded children, between five and 12 years, marched in the main bazaar of the Barikot tehsil in Swat shouting...

DUBAI: ‘Dubai is such a cosmopolitan city, it would be a shame not to take advantage of that,’ says Mariya Kassam, Pakistani owner of the Soiree boutique, a one-of-its-kind fashion outlet in the United Arab Emirates that is fast gaining popularity among all nationalities in the Emirates. Soiree...

I just think parties should not be based on 'ethnicity' plain and simple.... Political parties should be based on ideology (like PML and PPP) but any kind of ethinicity-based party (ANP, MQM, Nationalist Parties like BNP and so on) should all be banned..... Because by the end of the day it is...

^^ Yup I found that interesting too... Just shows how politicians pretty much twist everything to promote whatever agenda they possess.... Unfortunately the aam admi in between bears the brunt of all of this political nonsense..... :tsk::tsk::tsk:

Migrants from Bajaur have yet to adjust to life in a cosmopolitan city ‘I am not at ease here,’ admits Mohammad Salaar, surveying the bustle and traffic at Safora Chowk in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area. ‘The political culture of the city is unfavourable for displaced families like mine...

ISLAMABAD: At a closed-door Senate session on Thursday, Interior Adviser Rehman Malik presented a bleak picture of the security situation in the country and showed what he called evidence of the involvement of India, Afghanistan and Russia in terrorist activities within the country. It is the...

Foreign policy disputes with the US intensify ISLAMABAD: Differences over India’s enhanced role in Afghanistan led to the drift in strategic relations between Pakistan and the United States that caught public eye after prickly Foreign Minister Qureshi pointed towards a trust deficit between...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama’s new strategy is causing serious differences between the United States and Pakistan over how to fight the militants hiding in the Pak-Afghan region. US think-tanks and the media believe that the differences revolve around two major issues...

WASHINGTON: When they ask Pakistan to sever its alleged ties with the Taliban, US officials focus on three militant leaders, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and Commander Nazir. Diplomatic observers in Washington, however, acknowledge that while urging Pakistan to end its...

I agree, but maybe we dont have much of a choice right now either... Maybe this is our only way out of this mess !

I hate him, I would never read his book ! (Although ofcourse I do like him when he represents us patriotically overseas) :cheesy::whistle:

WHILE analysts cite ‘ideology’ as the chief factor responsible for the rising militancy in the country, it is unfortunate that little attention is being paid to the nexus between militants and the black economy. Smugglers and businessmen engaged in dubious trade foster anarchy in the...

US, Japan, China pledge support for FoP meeting WASHINGTON: The United States, China and Japan have vowed their support for next month’s Friends of Pakistan (FoP) meeting in Tokyo, where major economic powers are expected to back the South Asian country’s economic development programmes...

Sino-India relations heading towards dead end: Mishra By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: India-China relations are heading towards a dead end, India’s former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra said on Saturday. Participating in a seminar on China’s Internal Scene at the Observer...