Allama Muhmmad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Just a few months ago, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, brimmed with charm and confidence as he hosted lavish dinner parties for diplomats, generals, journalists and White House aides in Washington. Now Mr. Haqqani is confined to the regal hilltop residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, tangled in a legal battle […]
Arab ministers gathered on Sunday to review the record of a widely criticised observer mission to Syria, amid growing calls for the bloc to cede to the United Nations the lead role in trying to end nearly 10 months of bloodshed. The ministerial committee on Syria met in Cairo, where the Arab League has its […]
Three leading US senators Thursday voiced concern over Pakistan’s treatment of its former envoy to Washington accused of crafting a controversial memo which has triggered a scandal. Husain Haqqani resigned over the affair and a Pakistani commission is probing the unsigned memo said to have sought Washington’s help to head off a feared military coup […]
“Wisdom demands that the PPP seek a fresh mandate because it is the only way to wriggle out from the morass they find themselves in,” the former prime minister said while talking to media at a hotel. “I had decided to call early elections in 1993 after the restoration of my government by the Supreme […]
The Pakistani army on Friday rejected key findings from a U.S. investigation into American airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and said the report was unlikely to repair the severely damaged relationship between the two countries. The investigation — details of which were released Thursday — concluded that mistakes on both sides led […]
Pakistan’s powerful military pledged on Friday to continue supporting democracy, reiterating it was not planning a takeover as tensions grew over a controversial memo alleging an army plot to seize power. At the same time, President Asif Ali Zardari’s office said Zardari had no intention of leaving the country over the scandal, which has raised […]
Critical attention has been focused on the National Defence Authorization Act; a controversial provision allowing for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. Obama alluded to being willing to veto the bill, but instead, after revisions, he did the unthinkable, signing it into law, and as a result we no longer have our civil rights or […]
German Chancellor Merkel laments Pakistan’s plans to boycott the Bonn conference Merkel said Germany would “see what could be done to change” Islamabad’s decision to stay away from the meeting in the western German city, taken in protest at Nato air strikes which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. “We are both interested in constructive development of […]
Pakistan promptly sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supplies after allied strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the border on Saturday. “The war effort continues,” press secretary George Little told reporters. Asked how long U.S and coalition forces could operate without supplies from routes running through Pakistan, he said: “I don’t have a time […]
Pakistan’s Foreign Office has condemned NATO’s strike on Pakistani check post in the tribal area agency near the Pak-Afghan border inside the Pakistani territory. Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua stated in her statement, “Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has condemned in the strongest terms the Nato/Isaf attack on the Pakistani post. On his direction, […]
Mark Sidwell says that U.K wants Pakistan to retain peace with the Haqqani network Urging Pakistan to use its influence to get the Haqqani network to come to the negotiation table with NATO and enter a reconciliation process, British Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Mark Sedwill said, “We don’t want Pakistan to take military […]
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has come out and said that his government will not lose any power and those targeting the government on purpose in the ongoing memogate scandal are setting themselves up for a massive disappointment. He said that his government will make sure that they hold free and fair elections in 2013 […]
