Tens of armed men have been killed or injured in blasts that occurred when explosive charges they were planting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo detonated accidentally, Press TV reports.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Pakistan needs consensus-based policy for 20 years: Haider Abbas Rizvi
ABBOTABAD: All stakeholders should come together and devise a national security policy for Pakistan, said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Haider Abbas Rizvi on Tuesday. Speaking to media in Abbotabad alo...
Water shortage
What a shame that the CDA has failed to provide one of the most basic necessities of life – water – to the residents of the capital city. A resident o
Electricity theft
I am an infrastructure engineer by profession, and got a chance to visit some rural areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa recently. I noticed that almost the en
The meme thing
I fully support the views expressed by Chris Cork in his article ‘The meme thing (July 30) and condemn atrocities committed anywhere in the world aga
Whos in charge?
Despite repeated claims by the prime minister and the minister for water and power that no loadshedding would be carried out during iftar and sehr dur
All the peacocks have died
I have been following news reports in the press and the electronic media about the magnificent peacocks of the Thar Desert in Sindh dying of some myst
Let us hope
President Zardari has claimed that Punjab is a PPP bastion and that the PPP will emerge victorious in the next elections too. For me this is not as im
New regional realities
Conflict dynamics in the region have undergone a great transformation after the Salala attack as Afghanistan takes on the new role of the only non-Nat
The Balochistan problem
This is with reference to your editorial ‘Who is in charge? (July 30). The horrible stories of violence in Balochistan on political, ethnic and secta
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