KARACHI, Oct 24 (AP): The senior detective leading the probe into the suicide attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has withdrawn from the case because she objected to his credentials, a senior official said Wednesday. "The investigation team will...
Tom Engelhardt They can't help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow out of the inner sancta of this administration, the most recent of which were evidently leaked to the New...
Beena Sarwar from Karachi'Jaanisar-e-Benazir' (bodyguards ready to die for Benazir) proclaimed the white t-shirts sported by Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) workers responsible for security around the convoy of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she returned to Pakistan on Thursday,...
Some members of the administrative cadre last Sunday at a seminar harangued the government against the process of judiciary separation with the threat of work stoppage from November 1, the date of implementing the work of judiciary separation. However, on...
Enayet RasulTHE pages of newspapers and contents of media these days focus prominently and regularly on the depressed economic scenario of the country. Specially, the poor investment rate is emphasised and how the same is debilitating the economy.The acceleration of...
James Wilsdon THE names of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Ibn al-Nafis may be less familiar to many people than those of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. But these and other Islamic scholars of the 12th and 13th centuries belong in...
Amirul Islam THE triumph of the market economy or free market economy is evident everywhere. The features of it are less state control, wider choice of consumers and their benefiting in terms of prices and quality from the intense competition...
The former chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) who has announced his decision to go on voluntary retirement from public service obviously in protest against the order transferring him to the ministry of flood and disaster management as...
The regularities in Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), the country's largest local government body, are being investigated by the members of a special task force. This is a welcome move for cleansing the DCC of corruption. All concerned know how the...
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (AFP): The head of the International Monetary Fund, Rodrigo Rato, warned yesterday of a potential "abrupt fall" in the US dollar that could roil the global economy. "There are risks that an abrupt fall in the dollar...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (AFP): The UN General Assembly is to host a meeting this week to lay the groundwork for a review of global poverty reduction pledges, made in Mexico five years ago, a UN statement said yesterday. The...
GENEVA, Oct 23 (AFP): The chief World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiator on the contentious topic of industrial goods yesterday urged member states to inject fresh life into stalled talks, trade sources said. Don Stephenson, the chair of the negotiating group...
MARRAKESH, Morocco, Oct 23 (AFP): France signed more than two billion euros (2.8 billion dollars) of civilian and military contracts with Morocco Monday during a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Top among them was a draft accord for...
SEOUL, Oct 23 (AFP): A South Korean shipbuilder said today it has bought a major stake in a Norwegian shipyard for 800 million dollars in an attempt to move into the European market. STX Shipbuilding, the world's seventh-largest shipyard, said...
BEIJING, Oct 23 (AFP): China has hit back at the International Monetary Fund after the organisation pressed Beijing to free up the exchange rate for the yuan, state media said today. Speaking at the annual meeting of the IMF and...
BEIJING, Oct 23 (AFP): China has begun laying a 500- million- dollar fiber optic cable to the United States that will be vital in meeting booming Internet traffic between the two nations, state press reported today. The "Trans Pacific Express"...
TOKYO, Oct 23 (AFP): Japan's Hitachi Ltd said Tuesday that it will stop making most personal computers (PCs) amid heated price competition with foreign rivals. The company already outsources production of business computers to US maker Hewlett-Packard and will continue...
MANILA, Oct 23 (AFP): Free trade, changing diets, and rapid urbanisation is leading to a decline in rice production, one of the world's leading experts on the crop said. "As prosperous rice-growing countries move toward free trade in agricultural production,...
GENEVA, Oct 23 (AFP): China yesterday blocked a US request for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to rule on a complaint that Beijing restricts the import of cultural goods such as books, music and DVDs. The US asked that the...
BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (Xinhua): The anti-fraud authority of the European Union (EU) said yesterday it had uncovered a multinational ring smuggling large quantities of textiles and shoes from China to the EU in a scheme to avoid millions of euros...
SINGAPORE, Oct 23 (AFP): World oil prices slipped further in Asia today as worries over slowing economic growth in the United States shadowed the market, dealers said. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December,...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (PTI): At USD 100, a laptop is still beyond the reach of children in many poor nations, the United Nations has told a renowned computer scientist, who is behind the highly ambitious "One Laptop Per Child"...
SAN DIEGO, Oct 23 (Agencies): Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken...
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (AFP): Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday she is considering "virtual" mass rallies and campaigning via phone to avoid mass violence after last week's deadly suicide attack on her convoy. Bhutto wrote her suggestions in a...
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (AFP): More than three million dollars donated to the Indian prime minister's relief fund for victims of disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Kashmir earthquake are missing, reports said Tuesday. The hole in the accounts...
BAGHDAD, Oct 13 (Agencies): Osama bin Laden scolded his al-Qaida followers in Iraq and other insurgents, saying they have "been lax" for failing to overcome fanatical tribal loyalties and unite in the fight against U.S. troopsThe message of his new...
SIRNAK, (Turkey), Oct 23 (agencies): Turkey's foreign minister flew to Baghdad Tuesday to pressure top Iraqi officials to crackdown on Kurdish rebels who ambushed and killed 12 Turkish soldiers two days beforeMeanwhile, Turkey's buildup of troops along its border with...
RIYADH, Oct 23: US First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia Tuesday on the second leg of a Middle East tour aimed at promoting awareness of breast cancer, a leading cause of death among women. Bush, who flew in...
TEHRAN, Oct 23 (Agencies): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained greater short-term power with the resignation of Iran's top nuclear negotiator, but the departure appears to have further damaged the president's standing among many conservatives in the Islamic republic....
BAGHDAD, Oct 23 (agencies): U.S. helicopters opened fire on a group of men observed planting roadside bombs north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 11 Iraqis, including at least six civilians, the military said. he suspected militants ran into a nearby...
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