Months after her aunt Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, Fatima Bhutto is fighting to reveal the truth surrounding the murder of her father in 1996  and making some very dangerous enemies.
ISLAMABAD: Utterly distressed by the uninterrupted transmission of poliovirus in Sindh  a province for which she proposed extraordinary measures, increased accountability and redoubling of efforts to reach all eligible children  Minister for Health Sherry Rehman advised her team here on Monday to follow out-of-the-box solutions such as the ministry’s partnership with the National […]
ARTICLE: It was refreshing to hear Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Zardari acknowledging that the electorate voted the PPP into office with a mandate of solving, Roti, Kapra, aur Makan problems - not the judges issue.
Such is the level of politicisation in the judges’ restoration case that now even parliament is under pressure to give a “good decision†in line with the demands of a section of the community. In the latest development, the bipartisan committee formed to arrive at a text of the resolution restoring the judges deposed on […]
LAHORE: A litigant seeking recovery of a person from the illegal custody of police or a private person has to pay Rs 800 as the Court Bailiff Fee which is contrary to the law of land.
ARTICLE: A report appearing in this paper on Friday mentioned the expected arrival of a 290-meter-long container ship with a 13-meter draft to dock at the newly constructed berth of Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT). The expected arrival in Pakistan territorial waters is around April 30 for the ship, that has a capacity to carry […]
ONLINE: The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Author: Ashfaq Hussain Shah
“We must remember that while the masses are on one side, there is also an entrenched vested interest that has been created through years of dictatorship or subjugation and these people are waiting to hit out at every single opportunity … through several different ways … with intrigue and conspiracy … [and] […]
For the second time in the new Sindh Assembly, outgoing chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim was pelted with shoes, stones and abuses and had to be escorted by security guards even while seated in the house pending his oath as a new MPA. As soon as he took the oath amid intense slogans, he was […]
L K Advani feels that more Hindu-majority districts in the Sindh region would have remained with India at the time of partition had there been an `assertive leadership’ in India.