Archive for the February 22, 2018
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Representatives of all four provinces on Wednesday opposed the idea of public hanging and collectively supported the idea of hanging any convict in jail premises during a session of Senate Standing Committee on Law and
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I am aghast at some of the advertisements being shown on TV. All our morals, values, manners are being negated. Take the advert of a detergent. It teaches you to lie to your mother, hide
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Some of the biggest electronics bazaars in Asia are being flooded with customers looking for the latest piece of technology: cryptocurrency mining rigs. Scores of miners from around the world are travelling to places like
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Ousted prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif knows, as do all those who have been following the Panama Papers corruption case proceedings, that he and his children have no creditable defence. Rather than accept the legal
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Where do Pakistani women get it from? It defies theory. Speaking generally, ours is a tradition-bound society where it is drilled into the girl-child's mind to mind the hearth and home and little else. Some
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In a belated move, Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has taken the PML-N's conflict with the judiciary to parliament. Addressing the National Assembly after presiding over a meeting of the PML-N parliamentary group, the
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The current account deficit exceeded 9 billion dollars during the first seven months of the current fiscal year (July-January) - an extremely disturbing trend that has not been arrested, leave alone reversed, in spite of
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday urged Turkey to lift its blockade of offshore gas exploration that would benefit both the Greek and Turkish Cypriots once the island is reunited. "The rhetoric by Turkey and
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday urged Turkey to lift its blockade of offshore gas exploration that would benefit both the Greek and Turkish Cypriots once the island is reunited. "The rhetoric by Turkey and
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Wednesday that China must not link its investments in the western Balkans to political demands. "I have no objections to the fact that China wants to trade ... and to
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