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Pakistan rises in corruption Pakistan is ranked 34th on the recently released Transparency International global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt. Pakistan’s CPI score for the year 2010 is 2.3, falling 0.2 since 2008. The country worsened by eight places from its previous...

Orakzai: Window on Pakistan's war against militancy By Emmanuel Duparcq (AFP) KALAYA, Pakistan — Seven months after launching an air and ground offensive against the Taliban in Orakzai, Pakistani generals say the mountain district outside direct government control is "90 percent" clear...

Here you go Zaki.. 10/10 for Angelina ! Happy ?

Pakistan says time not right for anti-Taliban assault By Michael Georgy KALAYA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will consider mounting an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan only when other tribal areas are stabilized, a senior military officer said on Tuesday, a position likely to...

Thanks. The PDF file had small fonts. Couldn't make out the 6 from 0. Still ranks below Pakistan though.

Also, i am surprised with the rating of Iran. It ranks above Pakistan at 140 along with Haiti, Cameroon and Ivory Coast.

Indian Arms Race Offers Prizes For Presidential Visits NEW DELHI, Oct 26, 2010 (AFP) - Arms-hungry India is expected to hand out a raft of military deals worth billions of dollars during an upcoming rush of presidential visits from the United States, France and Russia. The biggest-ticket...

Surveys for the report were conducted between January 2009 and September 2010.

If you see Pakistan's ratings in the last 15 years, Pakistan was on number 2 in 1996 [PPP was in govt]. In 1998, we came down to number 15. In 2001 [Musharraf period] we were at 13. 2002 : 26. 2003: 42. 2004: 19. 2005: 16. 2006: 20. 2007: 42. 2008: [ PPP came...

Pakistan rises in corruption Pakistan is ranked 34th on the recently released Transparency International global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt. Pakistan’s CPI score for the year 2010 is 2.3, falling 0.2 since 2008. The country worsened by eight places from its previous...

Hardline Bhartiya Janata Party leader Ram Jethmalani says dialogue with Pakistan is a must to resolve the disputed Kashmir issue. His remarks came in support of Indian writer Arundhati Roy's speech in which she said that Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. The BJP leader...

He ain't anymore. He's been in prison for some months now. Pick some other example !

What you wrote didn't cross my mind when i first read the article. Perhaps you are reading too much into it. I cannot say for sure what Talat's intention was in writing the article the way he did. My view about the ultimate aim of the article remains the same, though i do concede he could have...

As i said, the article [as i see it] seems to be a satire. I don't see it as a violation of ethical standards of journalism. If it were, it was the job of the editors to make sure it didn't run. You also wrote that she might have declined him an interview and Talat might be trying to score a...

You have to bear in mind his target audience. Most of the people here wouldn't read it the way it might be in the west.

I agree to this. I read the article and found it a satire. I don't think Talat intended to portray Angelina in a bad light.. he was setting it up for the last para. He intended to show that someone who might be perceived as a charachter-less person in our society has more sense about our misery...

Kashmir issue: Can't ignore Pak role, says Omar Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has supported one of the interlocutors' remarks about involving Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute. Omar said this, in fact, is the truth and there's no avoiding it. "What is...

The rise of the military (This is the fifth of a series of eight articles on the role of the military from 1958-1971) On October 28, 1958 commander-in-chief of the army, General Mohammad Ayub Khan, deposed President Iskander Mirza and assumed sovereign power over Pakistan as president and...

The civil executive as sovereign (This is the fourth of a series of eight articles on the role of the military from 1947- 1977) On August 14, 1947, Britain handed over sovereign power of two parts of British India to then Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Constituent Assembly...

The dominant role of the military (This is the third of a series of eight articles on the role of the military from 1858–1947) Lord Curzon was no ordinary member of the House of Lords. He was a political heavyweight of the British ruling elite. Anxious to reform the army set up and place...