Posts tagged as: Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai could be victim of government conspiracy; says Lord Nazir Ahmed

Lord Nazir Ahmed has said that Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by Taliban last month, could be victim of the government conspiracy.   According to a report carried out by UK daily The Telegraph, Pakistani-origin Lord Nazir Ahmed said he believed Malala could have been shot as part of a government’s plot […]

Bal Thackeray terms Pakistan’s cricket team tour shame for India

Indian hardliner Bal Thackeray on Thursday said it was a matter of national shame that the Pakistan’s cricket team will be playing matches at Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore. According to the Indian media reports, he said Pakistani terrorists have attacked these cities at one point or the other where their players will play the […]

Police arrest alleged attacker of Malala Yousafzai: Rehman Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the key suspect involved in shooting 15-year-old education activist Malala Yousufzai, Ataullah along with all the others has been arrested by the law enforcement agencies. According to a report published by BBC Urdu, the minister said that Ataullah was arrested along with his fiancée. The report quoting Malik […]

Indian Women thrash Pakistan to lift T20 Asia Cup

After overcoming arch-rivals Pakistan by 18 runs in a low-scoring final, the Indian women’s cricket team on Wednesday lifted the inaugural Asian Cricket Council’s Twenty20 Asia Cup. After winning the toss and choosing to bat, India posted a total of just 81 runs all out in the allotted 20 overs, with only Poonam Raut, acting […]

Pakistan supports the promotion of human rights: Hina Rabbani Khar

Despite many challenges on different fronts, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that Pakistan strongly remains steadfast in its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. In her opening statement at the 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Foreign Minister […]

Education sector is not our priority at all (Part Three)

The first and foremost factor in choosing a profession anywhere is the respect that it gives to a person who joins it. The situation is so bad today that qualified people opt for other professions and majority of persons joining this profession are of low caliber. The salary of our teacher is quite meager and […]

Education sector is not our priority at all (Part Two)

In spite of making valuable changes, those who are in power and highly educated go abroad either for higher education or in search of better job opportunities. Most of them do not return and cause a large public loss. Furthermore, the quality of primary and secondary education has a declining trend in the country. It […]

Education sector is not our priority at all (Part One)

No one can deny the fact that education is the most dynamic factor for the concrete foundation of a society and no society can make progress in the challenge of this scientific era without remarkable progress in this sector. Apart from playing vital role in human capital formation, education raises competence and the level of […]

Up to 30 percent still live below the poverty line in Pakistan (Part Two)

Apparently, the reason for not making public the poverty data is that the country’s abject poverty stood at 24 per cent when the last such report came in 2007-08 and nine per cent more people were pushed below the poverty line during the period the Pakistan People’s Party has been in power. A district-wise study […]

Up to 30 percent still live below the poverty line in Pakistan (Part One)

The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ can be defined as the increase in proportion and what an Islamic state is where every day passing is pushing the populace to more disgusting situation than a day earlier. Here, less than one per cent of the people have stashed around $100 billion of their ill-gotten money in foreign banks […]

Polio again breathing in many parts of the country

Polio stood more less reduced to the brinks of total elimination across the world a couple of years ago but some cases used to be occasionally reported in four countries, India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus could not be completely eradicated. Still the number of polio patients never exceeded to the degree of […]

Weekly review of Petroleum products’ prices

The system of the change of the prices of petroleum products has come under severe criticism of late and all the voices raised talk that the system the adjustment of fuel prices on a weekly basis suffers from a severe anomaly in. In the first instance, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum expressed its […]

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