“Sometimes tragedy can lead to resurrection of hope and spirit” wrote late Benazir Bhutto in her book Whiter Pakistan: Dictatorship or Democracy? (page 34).
No surrender to the barrel of gun was the message the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto conveyed to his able daughter, Pinky, the late Benazir Bhutto. Theirs was the struggle against the establishment. Both raised voice for the down trodden people of Pakistan called Awam. Both Bhuttos bequeathed on the people awareness to their rights and the accompanied strength to demand the same: roti, kapra, aur makan..
RAWALPINDI : President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said the moral development of students is the responsibility of teachers and they should ensure that the young generation understands and rejects corruption and nepotism.
JOHI: As Karachi sweltered in the summer’s heat, it was a cool night at Gorakh Hill in district Dadu, which is otherwise known for its cooking 40-degree plus temperatures.
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.