THE NEWS NEWSPAPER 31 May 2011
NEWS
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said Sunday that an independent ...
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that Pakistan was passing through ...
BELFAST: Pakistan completed a 2-0 one-day international series win over Ireland in ... 
SANAA: Forces loyal to Yemen's embattled president killed 30 protesters as they crushed a sit-in demonstration in ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has planned to set real GDP growth target at 4.2 percent, which seems a great challence in ...
MUMBAI: A glut of Bollywood sequels are due out in the coming months, prompting ... _________
EDITORIAL
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The visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week may well have been the turning point that it was described as. A number of things appear to be happening in quick succession. The CIA has had a sniff around the Osama bin Laden compound ...
The tragic sight of the bodies of small children wrapped in blood-stained sheets brings home the full horror of the war being fought in Afghanistan. The incident which took place in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan is one of the worst ...
Even as we approach the one-year mark after the floods of 2010, and begin to think about the next monsoon season which now lies just over a month away, it is easy to forget that recovery from that disaster is not yet complete. There are many who ...
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Opinion
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Ameer Bhutto The present situation in Pakistan has gone beyond tolerance. There is only decay and decomposition all around us and the sinews and tendons that bind states and nations together are being consumed by the rot from within. This country is sliding ...
Dr Ashfaque H Khan For three consecutive years Pakistan’s economy has been experiencing low economic growth and high double-digit inflation – a phenomenon known as stagflation (stagnation plus inflation). Economic growth has slowed to an average of 2.6 percent and ... |
| Munir Ahmed Baloch The United States’ unilateral actions in Pakistan are in total disregard of this country’s sovereignty, as well as of international norms. American duplicity in its relations with Pakistan is a matter of history. The US arms embargo in the 1965 ... |
| Zubair Torwali It would not be naïve to write about the plight of a neglected people even as there is no dearth of national fiascos facing us. Other issues are significant enough to engage us but I found equally, if not more, shocking what I discovered when I ... |
| Dr Muhammad Yaqub The writer is a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan A new beginning can be made in budget formulation by breaking with a past of fake statistics and window dressing. It would be much better to take the public into confidence about the ... |
| Rizwan Asghar A famous saying goes “man is a threat to mankind”. In various epochs of history, man’s savage, brutal, and selfish nature has inflicted unspeakable damage upon humanity. Even modern civilisation has failed in its efforts to rein in his unbridled ... |
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