Yet another year has been lost and another opportunity to reform and stabilise Pakistan’s economy has been wasted. The year 2011 has ended on a note of real disappointment. Pakistan has entered 2012, laden with an accumulated baggage of problems and challenges.
Written on January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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England may be the top Test side in the world, but it is a different story in the one-day game, where they are somewhat less than proficient. There was the 6-1 drubbing by Australia after the Ashes and the 5-0 whitewash in India later in the year. But no one expected them to lose to Ireland in the World Cup after they racked up 327 for 8. Not even Kevin O’Brien, who took matters into his own hands with a blistering hundred. In the Telegraph, Jonathan Liew recaps one of…
Written on December 30, 2011 | Posted in
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At least 675 “honour killings” were carried out in Pakistan during the first nine months of this year, according to a human rights group which is calling for urgent steps to protect women …
Written on December 21, 2011 | Posted in
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AT least 675 Pakistani women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of the year for allegedly defaming their family's honour, a leading human rights group …
Written on December 20, 2011 | Posted in
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Shahriar Nafees's half-century on the first day of the second Test against Pakistan has put the other two Test fifties he made this year in the shade. Despite the significance of half-centuries …
Written on December 17, 2011 | Posted in
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State Department funding that Republicans had pursued this year.
Written on December 17, 2011 | Posted in
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Pakistan News: Islamabad, Dec 15 (IANS) The widow of a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) member had facilitated the attack on a key Pakistan Navy base in Karachi in May this year, said …
Written on December 15, 2011 | Posted in
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's interior minister thanked the country's Taleban militant movement Tuesday for not staging attacks during this year's Shiite ritual of Ashoura, a remark likely to …
Written on December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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The non-stop crises between the US and Pakistan this year has reportedly led to huge differences surfacing among American military, its intelligence network and diplomats, officials have said.
Written on December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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Security is tight in Pakistan ahead of the Day of Ashura, which is the climax of a period of remembrance for Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Already this year, hundreds of Shia …
Written on December 6, 2011 | Posted in
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