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News for Thursday, 2 Feb 2012

UN overhauls Afghan refugee strategy

The UN refugee agency is overhauling its strategy to help Afghans returning to the war-torn country in a bid to stop them becoming destitute, and to focus on sustainable reintegration. UNHCR...

World must help Pakistan repatriate Afghan refugees: PM

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday asked the international community to help in the honourable repatriation of Afghan refugees. Talking to Antonio Guterres, UN high commissioner for Afghan refugees,...

I went to SC before, I’ll go again: PM

Asking all state institutions to work within their constitutional limits, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announced on Thursday that he would appear in the Supreme Court on February 13 to...

Nisar accuses govt of taking ‘Jagga Tax’

National Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, on Thursday, criticising the imposition of petroleum levy, said the government should clarify if the levy was anything else than a 'Jagga...

PM in the dock

Contempt of court

Yousaf Raza Gilani is the fourth PM of Pakistan to be in the dock facing contempt charges. It is an irony that...

Aiding the Taliban

That accusation again

Old wine in an even older bottle. That was the foreign minister’s assessment of the new reports in the western media about...

Power plays

More is less

The government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is enjoying power. This cannot be said for the people whom he governs.

M&M: the misguided missiles!

Pakistan is better off without Mansoor & Musharraf

This is not a tale of two cities, of two ideas, or even of two friends. Instead...

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