Archive for: March, 2012

Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 3

The truth is that while you technically can compare the 2012 Jaguar XKR-S with a 2012 Ford Shelby GT500 by the numbers, doing so is sort of missing the point. Sure, both cars will hustle away from a stoplight with similar zeal, but if you’re drag racing kids in Mustangs and 370Zs with your XKR-S, […]

Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 4

Let’s get back to that last day of wet roads that I mentioned earlier. From the driver’s seat of the XKR-S, I followed Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham in the 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S — not exactly a competitor for the Jaguar, but an interesting benchmark. The slippery conditions pretty much mitigated the Jaguar’s approximately […]

Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 5

Switching seats with Cunningham and taking a turn in the Porsche, I was unsurprised to find that it was much more involved than the Jaguar. When the turns got twisty and the speedo began to climb, I found the 911’s steering to be much more direct, the suspension much more communicative, and the throttle and […]

Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 6

The lack of physical shortcuts to each menus area is just part of the problem. Jaguar seems to place other odd functions within the touch-screen interface where honest-to-goodness physical buttons would be better. For example, the seat and steering-wheel heater controls are located on the home screen; a pair of knobs on the center console […]

Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 7

In the 2004 film “Anchorman,” Brian Fantana presents to Ron Burgundy a particularly pungent cologne called Sex Panther by Odion, making the preposterous claim that “60 percent of the time, it works every time” when it comes to wooing women. That bizarre claim is what kept popping into my head as my week with the […]

More movies to look forward to in 2012

Newspakistan takes a look at a few more movies everyone should be getting excited about as 2012 begins to kick itself into gear. There are a number of major blockbusters set to wow audiences throughout the year, yet at the same time there are a fair number of movies that many will not know about […]

Movies to look forward to in 2012

Newspakistan takes a look at a number of films that movie enthusiasts should be jotting down on their ‘To watch’ list. The list includes a few films that the reader may not have even heard of. 2011 was a great year for movies with a number of entertaining, immersive and outrageous movies hitting cinemas across […]

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 3

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 3 Russian expressed its keen interest to finance the billion-dollar IP gas pipeline project, when Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was on a four-day visit to Moscow in February 2012, however Russian energy giant Gazprom linked this offer with awarding contract […]

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 2

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part 2 An official of the Petroleum Ministry said that under the GSPA Pakistan was likely to pay 70 percent of crude oil price in international market. The federal government has also decided to avail the offer of financial and technical support […]

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part one

Afghanistan decides to quit TAPI project – Pakistan oil and gas news – part one ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has decided to opt out of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project and if Afghanistan does, then its share of 500 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) gas will be distributed between Pakistan zand India. This was stated by […]

Pope asks USA to end the trade embargo on Cuba

On his final day of a three-day tour of Cuba, Pope Benedict has requested the United States to put an end to their 50-year-long trade embargo on the Caribbean country Pope Benedict was on a three-day visit to Cuba in order to look at the economic and social situation of the country. On the third […]

Use the power of your vote to change the fate of Pakistan

Use the power of your vote to change the fate of Pakistan The true method to determine the fate of a democratic nation is Election in which general masses in the whole country elect their representatives through whom they find solutions to their problems. On the other hand, if these general masses stay at home […]

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