TRIBUNE 05-06-2011
Pakistan
Sindh
End of stalemate?: Cash infusion for govt doctors In Rs2.9b package stipends increased by 50% for most categories.
Punjab
Medical education: Public colleges, students fume over entry test change Say PMDC’s decision to end pass/fail in tests will lower standards.
Balochistan
Kharotabad firing incident: ‘Foreigners had little else except shampoo bottles’ Bab driver said he avoided the first check post to save his passengers from harassment at the hands of the police.
KP & FATA
Five dead in Peshawar bazaar explosion Five people were killed and three critically injured when an explosion took place in the Matangi bazaar in Peshawar.
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AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE ILYAS KASHMIRI KILLED: HARKATUL JIHAD AL ISLAMI CONFIRMS 11:28 PST
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Strike two: Ilyas Kashmiri dead – again
Headed the organisation blamed for PNS Mehran and GHQ attacks; group confirms death, vows revenge.
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Extra Rs150b sanctioned above defence budget
Total defence and security allocation comes to around Rs645 billion, a finance ministry official says.
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Five dead in Peshawar bazaar explosion
Five people were killed and three critically injured when an explosion took place in the Matangi bazaar in Peshawar.
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Pakistan
Sindh
End of stalemate?: Cash infusion for govt doctors In Rs2.9b package stipends increased by 50% for most categories.
Punjab
Medical education: Public colleges, students fume over entry test change Say PMDC’s decision to end pass/fail in tests will lower standards.
Balochistan
Kharotabad firing incident: ‘Foreigners had little else except shampoo bottles’ Bab driver said he avoided the first check post to save his passengers from harassment at the hands of the police.
KP & FATA
Five dead in Peshawar bazaar explosion Five people were killed and three critically injured when an explosion took place in the Matangi bazaar in Peshawar.
Opinion
What about those who beg to differ?
Pakistan is at a juncture with a poorly done political vision versus a national security vision of the country.
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Contributors
State, identity and foreign policy
Flexible foreign policy favours a normal state. But if you have ideology driving policy, then ‘fixity’ becomes a flaw.
A budget for all parties
Near an election, the budget is not to be judged by the realism of its projections, but by the size of subsidies.
And then there was no one left to speak out for me
While soldiers honour each other in death and captivity, the poor journalist is degraded and abused by his killers.
Facing the environment challenges before us
The disproportionate importance environmental issues get, one wonders the relative importance it gets in the budget.
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