IT’S May 1998 and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulates wildly cheering citizens as the Chagai mountain trembles and goes white from multiple nuclear explosions. He declares that Pakistan is now safe and sound forever. Bomb makers become national heroes. Schoolchildren are handed free badges with...

AN election tribunal of the Lahore High Court while hearing a fresh petition as an objection case against the acceptance of nomination papers of PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif from NA-123, Lahore, issued conditional notices to respondents. The petition filed by Noor Elahi, an independent candidate from...

  Background Pakistan in many senses is an example of how absence of sincere leadership and solid vision results in loss of identity and direction for the nation. Once the direction is lost, outcome is the very purpose for that nation’s existence being lost. Quick glance at the history of Indo-Pak...

Dr. Abdul Qadeer’s Interview to BBC URDU Please Click Here to Listen

Zardari threatens lawyers that he ang govt is ready to face any movement by the law community.

On June 1, 2008 there will be two new Daylight Saving Time changes that go into effect.  Pakistan and Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving time.  The governments of the two nations recently announced the change as part of their energy savings plans.  Although the changes go into effect on the...

The Nation 28-May-08 Former anti-terror czar Clarke: Staying in Iraq ‘helps Al-Qaeda’ Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq “helps Al-Qaeda” and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke...