Once-disgraced opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich led Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday but fell well short of a majority and will face Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a run-off, according to exit polls. Both sides immediately

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International Financial Consultants' Studies, informal finance providers in Pakistan, have shown that they have found it difficult to provide larger and longer-term loans, and it is also more difficult to determine, manage and provide the

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We are living in such a world where there are thousands of problems especially in the absence of a central authority, a major concern for state as is to maintain their survival. We know that

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What is to be done? This question has been posed in a Leninist tradition by Dr Jaffar Ahmed from the platform of Irtiqa, which is a think-tank mainly focused on literature. By posing this question

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In the recent past, we have seen increasing reports in the media of financial irregularities, rampant corruption and complete disregard for good corporate governance by public sector corporations. The failure of corporate governance in public

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Much is being made in Pakistani politics these days of the necessity of ensuring that there is division of powers between the executive (and within the executive between the president and the prime minister), the

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On the face of it, the Pakistani perspective on the United States' position in the war against terrorism in this region seems to be undergoing a drastic transformation, with mutual bickering nudging out the co-operative

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Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, while launching the National Savings Bonds with multiple maturities, revealed that the United States has committed to the release of 1.8 billion dollars as part of the pledges made in

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Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was the most read Muslim poet in the West because he emphasised upon the need to love the created (human beings) for the sake of the Creator (Allah). His poetry was the

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No improvement has been witnessed in power crisis situation across the country, as the total electricity shortfall continues remain 3,000 MW, resultantly, more than 70,000 powerlooms, hosieries and other ancillaries are remained closed, while large

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