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Naqvi wins 1st S Asian Literature prize $50,000 For Pakistani author's debut novel Shalini Umachandran, TNN, Jan 23, 2011, 03.51am IST JAIPUR: You can usually spot a winner from the way he walks, and more importantly from the way people around him treat him. Even before the first...

Dear members! please listen to this interview, very informative and revealing. Jawab deyh – 24th december 2010

(Reuters) - Pakistan's poor public education system helps stoke militancy, while the religious schools often cited as a cause of extremism appear not to be a major risk factor, says a report by a Washington think tank. World The report, set to be released by the Brookings Institution on...

Thursday, June 17, 2010 Rickhaw driver, two daughters die; wife, third daughter survive By Salman Aslam & Sajid Bashir LAHORE: Abject poverty forced a ricksaw driver to commit suicide after poisoning his family here on Wednesday. He and his two daughters died while timely medical...

Thursday, June 17, 2010 By Faizan Bangash LAHORE: The PPP leadership has collected resignations from 11 out of its total 17 women members elected on reserved seats in the wake of a recent brawl between its two women parliamentarians. Sources have stated that in a meeting chaired by PPP...

Thursday, June 17, 2010 By Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: In an unexpected but dramatic move, President Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, has sought resignations from all of his sitting MPs — senators, MNAs and MPAs — it is reliably learnt. Although the...

Thursday, June 17, 2010 By our correspondent LAHORE: PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif said that his party would not award a ticket to any candidate holding fake degree. He asked elected representatives, holding fake degrees, to resign to avoid embarrassment. In a statement here Wednesday, he said...

Monday, June 14, 2010 By Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-Fazl) is poised to bag another coveted slot in Islamabad, as its Senator from Balochistan Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani is most likely to be the next chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology...

Monday, June 14, 2010 By Asim Hussain LAHORE: A marathon meeting of central leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) component parties failed on Sunday to revive the defunct religio-political alliance. The participants of the meeting, hosted by Jamiat Ahle Hadith (JAH) Vice President...

Asif Ali Zardari I am posting this with no comments.

An interesting interview with Gen. (Rtd.) Hamid Gul Jawab Deyh – 28th March 2010 Any comments?

An interesting interview of Shahbaz Shareef about the Punjab Endowment Education Fund. http://pakistanherald.com/Program/Kal-Tak-March-16-2010-Javed-Choudhry-3266

Govt scraps Hajj quota for parliamentarians Friday, August 14, 2009 News Desk ISLAMABAD: The Hajj quota of the parliamentarians has been scrapped for the first time in the countryís history. Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi said the quota has been scrapped in...

PCB opts for out-of-court World Cup 2011 settlement By Khalid H. Khan Friday, 14 Aug, 2009 | 04:40 AM PST | KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday that it has decided to put an end to its legal confrontation with the International Cricket Council (ICC) after Pakistan...

MOD EDIT: History of FATA The areas that today make up FATA were once part of the battleground on which the ‘Great Game’ of imperial domination was played out in the 19th century. For the British colonial administrators of India, effective control of the region was imperative for the...

‘Nehru was draftsman of partition’ Kanchan Gupta | New Delhi There are now no more points left to score; all have already been scored, no great issues of partition left to resolve, except one: An ability to understand what, after all, did this partition achieve?” Jaswant Singh asks in the...

SC approves petition against NRO for hearing ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has formally approved a petition against National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) for hearing and advice to form larger bench. According to details, the advice of formation of larger bench on NRO has been given during a...

Here is the Gallup Pakistan survey. it is quite interesting as the Pakistanis have termed US a biggest threat to Pakistan than India. This paradigm shift in thinking despite billion dollars US aid to war ragged country shows the people's political awareness and a slap on the face of our rulers...

We are nearing the 62nd Independence Day of our beloved motherland-Pakistan. I would request all the members on DF to share any patriotic poetry, quote or incidence for tribute to Pakistan. To start with: Fiqr o Khayaal ko, jazbooN ko Azaad kerna hai Iss khabooN k Chaman ko Ham Hi naiN Aabad...

Former Pakistan foreign secretary Niaz Naik murdered SLAMABAD: Former Pakistan foreign secretary Niaz A Naik, who was involved in back-channel diplomacy with India during the 1999 Kargil conflict, has been tortured and murdered by unidentified persons at his residence here, police said on...