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Metroblogging Lahore (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Chief Justice Speech in Lahore Bar

Pakistan Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday

FREE – Speech of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry in Lahore Bar event (07 Nov 2009).

From Lahore to Copenhagen

The Westerner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Last Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Pakistan telling the Pakistanis to burn more coal. Today, President Barack Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House to assure her that the US will stand with the European Union on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide. The juxtaposition of those two events provides a window into the essential conflict at the heart of any...

Research/Training Officer ( NIM SC)

BrightSpyre Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Research/Training Officer ( NIM SC) (UNDP - Gender Based Governance Systems) - Lahore Background: The Gender Based Governance Systems project builds upon the lessons learnt from the Women’s Political School (WPS) and the Gender Mainstreaming through Planning and Development (GMP&.... [more]

'In loss' PCB approves 1.45 billion rupees budget for 2009-10

Sify (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) governing board has approved a budget of 1.45 billion rupees for the year 2009-10.The budget, which was delayed by five months, was approved in a

US cricket association keen on hosting Indo-Pak one-day games

Sify (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Lahore: Welcoming Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's suggestions of hosting India, Pakistan one-day matches in the US, the United States Cricket Association (USACA) has said

What turned Pakistan upside down

publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Dear Editor: In a recent article in the prestigious Foreign Policy, renowned British author Karen Armstrong strongly argues against the view that religion is inherently 'violent'. According to her, it is not God or religion that breeds violence but human beings in whose nature violence is 'inherent'. Regardless of how modern the tools, she maintains, religious wars always begin as political ones and...

Seymour M. Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?

The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most brazen strike, ten gunmen . . .

One more hearing but little progress in the 26/11 case

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

Defence lawyers seek copies of statements listed by prosecution

Newsweek: Pakistan artists work with violence

MSNBC.com: South and Central Asia (Free subscription) | yesterday

The country's artists offer a glimpse into the international mindset of a new generation born from a sophisticated old culture, amid violence and tenuous political leadership.

Gilani insists on resumption of Indo-Pak composite dialogue

rediff News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday made a strong pitch for the resumption of the Indo-Pak composite dialogue, saying Pakistan wants good relations with its neighbours "on the basis of equality".

Pakistan – Local police manhandle and detain journalist – IFEX

Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

PPF/IFEX) – Umer Aslam, a reporter for the Lahore-based private TV channel City-42, was arrested and manhandled by police when he went to cover a student protest demonstration in Lahore on 5 November 2009. Aslam told PPF that when he reached the Government M.A.O College, the policemen standing there stopped him from going into the college. [...]

Umar Saif tells his story

In the Line of Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Dr Umar Saif, who prefers to be called a Researcher, but is better known to us as a serial entrepreneur and mentor of young companies, was in what he termed the graveyard shift. Well the hall of people were certainly not behaving as if they were part of such a shift and Umar wasn’t either. He [...]

America's new crusader castles

Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

America's new crusader castles Across the Middle East, the US is building heavily fortified embassies which cut off diplomats and create hostilities Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 October 2009 16.09 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/29/us-embassies-crusader-castles After the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration...

Communists and left unite in Pakistan - Daily Morning Star LONDON

NaiTazi.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/82565 Communist and Left Unite in Pakistan Thursday 29 October 2009 By: Pervez Fateh Important steps are being taken towards left and communist unity in Pakistan. At a meeting in Lahore on October 17, after a year’s discussions, three major parties agreed to merge into a single party on the basis of ideological and political...