Pakistan sweep Australia 3-0 in T20 series
DUBAI: Top-ranked Pakistan put in another clinical performance to beat Australia by 33 runs in the third and final Twenty20 match and completed a 3-0 series sweep on Sunday. Australia finished their disappointing tour without a win as they also lost the Test series 1-0 after narrowly escaping with a draw in the first Test. […]
Ramesh Jaipal, Human Rights Activist in Pakistan
By Manu Shah HOUSTON: Five-year-old Ramesh Jaipal raced camels in the scorching deserts of Dubai. Losing his balance meant breaking a few bones or even death. Pitiful living conditions added to his troubles but it would be five years before he was rescued by the United Nations and reunited with his family. This child jockey, […]
Nawaz Sharif shifted to Pims hospital after health complications
Incarcerated former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a 10-year jail term after being convicted for owning assets beyond income in the Avenfield reference, was shifted from Adiala Jail to Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) after developing serious cardiac complications, DawnNewsTV reported on Sunday. TV footage showed a convoy of vehicles, including police vans, […]
Pak SC wants ex-PM Sharif’s trial in graft cases completed in a month
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Sunday directed an anti-corruption court to wind up within a month proceedings against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family. Three cases were launched against Sharif, 68, and his family members in September last year post his disqualification as the premier by the Supreme Court in July. The court had also set […]
Sabika Sheikh laid to rest in Karachi
KARACHI: The funeral prayers for Sabika Sheikh, a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student who was killed in a Texas school shooting last week, were offered at Karachi’s Hakeem Saeed Ground at 9am on Wednesday. Sheikh was among the 10 people gunned down at a high school in Santa Fe last Friday when a heavily armed student opened […]
India-bound gas pipeline TAPI breaks ground on Afghan section
SERBHETABAT, TURKMENISTAN: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Friday ceremonially broke ground on the Afghan section of an ambitious, multi-billion dollar gas pipeline expected to help ease energy deficits in South Asia. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov joined Pakistani premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and India’s minister of state for external affairs […]
Indian Americans slam Mika Singhs unforgivable comments
By Seema Hakhu Kachru HOUSTON, Aug 3 Singer Mika Singh, who urged his fans in Houston to join him in celebrating the independence days of India and “Apna pakistan”, has drawn criticism from Indian Americans for his “unforgivable” remarks. Singh, popular for his hip-hop dance tracks, is scheduled to perform in Houston on August 12, […]
India cannot unilaterally revoke Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said India cannot unilaterally revoke the Indus Waters Treaty as it is binding on both states and there is no exit clause in it. “The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is not time barred and was never intended to be time or event specific. It is binding on both India and Pakistan and has no exit provision,” […]
Peace in war-torn Afghanistan only via Kashmir, Pakistan tells US
WASHINGTON: For the first time, Pakistan has linked peace in war-torn Afghanistan to the resolution of the Kashmir issue, saying a solution to both is required for peace and they cannot be “compartmentalised”. “Road to peace in Kabul lies in Kashmir in the sense that when you talk of peace, you cannot compartmentalise peace, you can’t segregate […]
India and Pakistan: A tale of two economies
Ankit Mital Karachi is a brown city. It’s not just the arid landscape that dominates it. In part it is the male version of the ubiquitous national dress—salwar-kameez—worn in pastel shades. Mostly, it is the colour of the public and commercial architecture, betraying signs of an economic boom that was aborted by the early 1990s, […]
How a responsive politician can make a difference
An Indian village named Bhaluri majority of whose residents belong to migrant Hindu families displaced in 1971 from Amarkot, Pakistan. Just 35 miles inside the international border of India and Pakistan is now an example of will and grit, after being destroyed from fire the village rose like a phoenix with initiative of EX Irrigation […]
NSA used malware to spy on Pakistani civilian, military leadership: report
The United States’ clandestine National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly spied on top civil-military leadership in Pakistan using malware, The Intercept reported. Malware SECONDDATE allegedly built by the NSA was used by agency hackers to breach “targets in Pakistan’s National Telecommunications Corporation’s (NTC) VIP Division”, which contained documents pertaining to “the backbone of Pakistan’s Green Line communications network” […]
Amid war of words, India tells Pak it wants to discuss illegal occupation of PoK
On a day Pakistan accused India of crossing a “red line” by raising alleged rights abuses in Balochistan, New Delhi said it wanted to discuss the vacation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir under “illegal occupation” by Islamabad. The war of words heated up a day after India said it would take up Pakistan’s offer […]
Pakistan Government, Hafiz Saeed Provoke With Comments On Burhan Wani
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government and internationally-condemned terrorist Hafiz Saeed have made twin attempts to aggravate the tension in Kashmir, where more than 20 people have died and nearly 300 been injured in clashes after the death of terrorist Burhan Wani on Friday night. “The Prime Minister of Pakistan has expressed his deep shock at the killing […]
Pakistan’s nuclear programme has increased risk of conflict with India: US congressional report
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s “full spectrum deterrence” nuclear doctrine and increasing fissile production capability have increased the risk of a nuclear conflict with India, a congressional report has said amid Pakistan’s efforts to drum up support for its NSG membership bid. “Islamabad’s expansion of its nuclear arsenal, development of new types of nuclear weapons, and adoption of a doctrine called ‘full […]
India may make citizenship process for Pakistani Hindus easier
NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday announced that it proposes to simplify procedures for grant of Indian citizenship to minority Hindus from Pakistan. The proposal also envisages allowing “minority communities of Pakistan staying in India on a Long Term Visa” to buy property, open bank accounts and obtain permanent account number (PAN) and Aadhaar number, […]
New poverty line makes a third of Pakistanis poor
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government on Thursday announced that 60 million Pakistanis are living below the poverty line, posing a challenge for the ruling party. The number of poor increased owing to the adoption of a new methodology for measuring poverty which uses the 2013-14 survey data, said Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal. […]
Pakistan says talks with India suspended, hints won’t allow NIA visit
Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit said on Thursday the dialogue with India is suspended as there are no plans for the foreign secretaries to meet, while hinting that the NIA will not be given access to JeM chief Masood Azhar for the probe into the Pathankot attack. The assault on the Pathankot airbase, blamed on Pakistan-based […]
Pakistan clears team’s departure to India for World Twenty20
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday announced it would send its national cricket team to India for the World Twenty20 following security assurances from New Delhi after months of uncertainty. The interior minister “Chaudhry Nisar (Ali Khan) has given permission to Pakistan’s team to play in India,” Najam Sethi, a senior Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official, told […]
China’s Xi in Pakistan to unveil $46 bn investment plan
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Islamabad Monday to unveil a $46 billion investment plan that Pakistan hopes will end a chronic energy crisis and transform it into a regional economic hub. With the plan, known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing hopes to increase investment in Pakistan as part of its ambitions […]
