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News for Thursday, 1 Jan 1970

Foreign policy and security

What a top military official told a group of media persons underlines some of the paradigm issues faced by the government and army in their interaction with the US, Afghanistan...

Hiked interest rate

Dont expect any hurrahs from the banking community on the State Banks latest interest rate hike. And dont expect the central bank to care what the bankers say. It has...

Pakistan’s competing visions

The latest controversy about the blasphemy law raises, once again, the issue of the nature and direction of Pakistani society. Islamic political parties, militant groups and their sympathisers have threatened...

WikiLeaks’ whistleblowing

A year ago if you had asked someone about the Sunshine Press you would have received a blank stare in response. Indeed, few were aware of the publisher of WikiLeaks...

State of war

The Americans have now officially surpassed the Russian presence in Afghanistan. In June, they surpassed their own presence in Vietnam, officially making the Afghanistan/Pakistan war the longest war in American...

WikiLeaks exposes dual standards

It is shocking to know that the King of Saudi Arabia, who is the custodian of Muslims Holiest Mosques and is expected to lead the Umma and to promote unity...

Permanent rejection

Drone attacks on targets in the tribal areas in Pakistan, as a vital part of the Obama administrations strategy to dismantle militant hideouts and strongholds, have already been accelerated to...

Terror in Pakistan

According to the interior ministrys National Crisis Management Cell, officials reported that a total of 1,906 terror attacks had taken place in Pakistan.

These resulted in 1,835 deaths and...

Loud music

These days if one has the misfortune to attend a marriage or Mehndi function, he has to hear loud music that is painful to ears. The musical bands with their...

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