Pakistan Politics

170 Million Pakistanis are paying the price for luxuries of a small percentage of elite. Just take the example of electricity crisis that has resulted in load shedding of 18-20 hours in many areas of Pakistan. Our industry and more specifically small scale industry has suffered a lot due to this load shedding adding more to the ever declining exports. And less exports and more imports (more imports of electricity generators and oil) has helped to increase this difference even greater.

More and more unemployment resulting in poverty and proportionally deterioration of law and or…

Poll: Who killed Benazir?

A United Nations inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto has formally began.

It is headed by Chile’s ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Munoz, and includes a former Indonesian attorney general and a former senior Irish police officer.
The inquiry will last six months and investigate the “facts and circumstances” of Ms Bhutto’s death.

She was killed in December 2007 as she left a rally of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) supporters in Rawalpindi.

Link to BBC Article

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Shaheen Sehbai reported in The News that At least 11 big and small, known and unknown, lobbying companies have been hired by Pakistan and state-owned Pakistani organisations in the US, paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, some of them having mysterious names and almost dubious credentials.

Although lobbying is a legal profession in Washington, the way it is conducted has earned it the nickname of “officially certified corruption” and what the Pakistan government, Pakistan Embassy and Pakistani organisations are doing may come close to this unofficial d…

Poll: Do politicians and generals facilitate foreign meddling into Pakistan’s internal affairs?

The National Judicial Policy-2009 [0.3 MB PDF] has started showing remarkable results in merely two weeks time and superior and subordinate judiciary has disposed off 232,091 (0.232 million) cases after implementation of policy from June 01st to June 12th, it is learnt.

Following the tremendous precedent set by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to voluntary extend working hours in his bench, other judges of the apex court, judges of the hi…

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Pakistan won the ICC World Twenty20 in an exciting finish at a noisy Lord’s when Sri Lanka’s total of 138-6 was overhauled with 10 balls remaining.

Shahid Afridi, man of the match in the semi-final, was again the hero, hitting 54 not out from 40 balls to steer Pakistan to an eight-wicket win.

Sri Lanka’s star batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan fell in the first over and they were soon 2-2 after choosing to bat.

Kumar Sangakkara’s 64 gave them hope but Pakistan paced their chase well.
Sri Lanka had progressed through the tournament…

Shahid Afridi put in a stirring all-round performance as Pakistan toppled tournament favourites South Africa in the first World Twenty20 semi-final.

Afridi blitzed 51 off 34 balls and then removed batsmen Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers in his first two overs to pick up terrific figures of 2-16. And although Pakistan’s 149-4 did not look enough, South Africa eventually finished seven runs adrift on 142-5.

Jacques Kallis hit a valiant 64 off 54 balls but there was scant support. After the agonies of their failed World Cup campaigns in the 50-over format in 1999, 2003 and…

by Masood Sharif Khan Khattak

Pakistan’s acquisition of military nuclear technology was a gigantic step in the right direction whereas the failure to develop nuclear power generation simultaneously was an equally gigantic neglect. Especially so when the base for this had been laid as far back as 1971 when KANUPP was made operational. Thereafter, efforts at developing nuclear power generation ought to have moved parallel to the military-oriented nuclear programme, but this did not happen. Chashma Unit 1 got operational in 2000 and Chashma 2 will get on the national ele…

Following is the text of budget speech of Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar in the National Assembly here on Saturday:

I rise to present the Budget for the Fiscal Year 2009-10.

Madam Speaker!

1. I have the honor to be the first woman in the history of Pakistan to present a budget before the august House. It is indeed the privilege of the Pakistan People’s Party to have given the country its first woman Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Shaheed. The People’s Party also has the singular honour of nominating the first woman speaker of the National Assembly in…

At least four people including Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi were martyred and several others injured in a suicide blast at Jamia Naeemia situated in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore, Geo News reported Friday.

The blast occurred after the Friday prayers when the people were making their way out of the mosque after offering the Friday prayers.

Jamia Naeemia principal Dr Sarfraz Naeemi was present at his office at the Jamia Naeemia at the time of blast, the eyewitnesses said.

The blast was so powerful that the outer walls of the Jamia Naeemia Masjid collapsed. The nearby buildi…