Washington 29 July 2010:  The underway youth led, indigenous and spontaneous movement, non-violent pluralistic and resilient youth   for right to self-determination in Jammu and Kashmir is at a critical juncture calls upon the United Nations to ‘lead the effort to achieve a fair and lasting settlement of the Kashmir dispute’, were the opening remarks of [...]

Kaira says survey based on presumptions 53 pc Pakistanis see India as biggest threat Nawaz popularity rating 71pc WASHINGTON: Only one in five Pakistanis view their president, Asif Ali Zardari, favourably while the country’s army chief gets a more positive rating, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday. The US-based Pew Research Center said [...]

* Receives $3.647 billion from donors in same period By Ijaz Kakakhel ISLAMABAD: The government reportedly paid $3.136 billion as debt servicing from July 2009 to June 2010, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. Out of the total payment, an amount of $2.380 billion was paid as principal amount and $756 million as interest on [...]

May 20, 1965: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 707 crashes on its inaugural flight while attempting to land at Cairo airport. The crash killed 124 people. August 6, 1970: A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while attempting to take off from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people onboard. December 8, 1972: [...]

Khalid Mustafa Pakistan’s public debt has alarmingly swelled to whopping figure of Rs9 trillion meaning thereby that every person and even a child who is yet to be born will come to this world with a gift from the incumbent regime of debt of Rs54,000. The incumbent regime has virtually failed to improve its economic [...]

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Education plays very important role in the socio-economic development of a country and UAE portrays a rare success in this field. High qualitative education has already enabled Emiratis to compete in regional markets and international slots with ease and full of confidence. It is crystal clear that right from the beginning UAE under [...]

By Tahir Khalil The Energy Sector Task Force Report (ESTFR) of the FODP provides a roadmap to eliminate energy deficit in Pakistan in the next three years. It includes a detailed set of recommendations and an action plan to enable the country to achieve energy security and sustainability. The report recommends five key areas of [...]

By Muhammad Yasir Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has directed all cellular operators to establish a system to sell SIM (Subscribers Identity Modules) by post to applicant subscribers within 15 days. Briefing the media at the conclusion of exclusive meeting on prevailing law and order situation of Karachi, he said every mobile phone company should [...]

By Noor Aftab A drastic cut in the annual budget is likely to force Higher Education Commission (HEC) to drop 80 per cent of students for foreign scholarships due to non-availability of required funds, sources told ‘The News’ here on Friday. The data showed that HEC set a target to select 800 students for foreign [...]

Why do people commit suicide? Are they really fed up with their life or the circumstances around them compel them to do so? According to various psycho-analysts suicide is nothing but an extempore reaction of some emotional disturbance resulting by some unexpected failure or some irreparable loss. Most of the time a feeling of helplessness [...]

Dubai—Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that Nawaz Sharif is foolish and mindless and when he talks sense then he would respond. Talking to media here, the former President said that he wants to return to the country and play his role in the country’s politics and take the country out of challenges it is [...]

ISLAMABAD: COMSATS in collaboration with Lancaster University UK here on Thursday launched Dual Degree Programme (DDP) enabling the willing students to obtain a degree simultaneously from high ranking international and national university. The DDP was launched at a local hotel. This landmark agreement between COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) and Lancaster University (LU) UK [...]

Almost everyone loves music and whether you have a good singing voice or not, you surely love to sing or hum a song that takes your fancy. You can even sing out loud — it’s called ‘bathroom singing’ because you do it in privacy and what place could be more private? If by chance you [...]

Average worth of Pak MPs is $900,000 but only a few pay income tax ISLAMABAD: Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb, says a report published in New York Times. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out [...]

Attacks Nawaz, Zardari policies By Rauf Klasra LONDON: Former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf finally kicked off his campaign to return to Pakistan as he launched an attack on Saturday from Dubai against his political rivals — Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari — and their poor governance and said the Army would provide him security [...]

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan ABSTRACT We are living in a complicated arena of free market and complex prophecies of globalization. Integration of economic markets and financial centers around the world has made our planet a virtual village. Furthermore, emergence of global socio-economic-politico sensitivities and trans-boundary influxes of geo-politics have already polluted the concept of true and simple [...]

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Foreign policy of any country reflects its levels of political maturity/understanding, contributory role of visionary leadership, reconciliation willingness of its strategic organs of the state, business/commercial diplomacy and the last not the least peaceful coexistence and UAE is not any exemption. Since, from its independence UAE followed an articulated foreign policy to protect [...]

LAHORE: Power generation through steam turbines is environment friendly and it lowers dependence on the national grid. Chief executive officer of a private turbine manufacturing firm, Mian Suhail Hussain, said this while giving a presentation on power generation through steam turbines at Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry here on Friday. One solution to curb [...]

ISLAMABAD: Google officially denied the accuracy of its search trends that declared Pakistan as the top nation searching for illicit material on the internet, according to Dawn sources. Internet Service Provider Association of Pakistan has also declared statistics regarding pornography in Pakistan as flawed. Earlier based on these findings, a number of foreign newspapers and websites [...]

Following are the car prices in Pakistan as of July 2010 TOYOTA CAMRY Automatic Transmission: Rs.  6900000 Manual Transmission: Rs. 6700000 COROLLA COROLLA Model Price 1.3L XLI 1,300,000 1.3L GLI 1,426,000 2.0D 1,358,500 2.0D SN 1,713,500 2.0D SN SR 1,799,000 1.8L MT 1,713,500 1.8L MT SR 1,799,000 1.8L AT 1,799,000 1.8L AT SR 1,885,000 COURE [...]