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INDIA agreeing to export petrol, gas and diesel to Pakistan to meet the fast rising energy demand in the neighbouring country is a significant development from various angles. New Delhi’s decision comes soon after Islamabad agreed in principle to accord India the long-awaited Most Favoured Nation status and Pakistan allowing a large number of products that can be procured from India. [...]
China’s leadership is caught in turmoil which it would have greatly preferred to keep under wraps. The high-level succession later this year was to be smooth and rule-based — the latter for the first time. Instead, internecine conflicts have come out in the open in the most embarrassing way. A senior regional official – the police chief of Chongqing province, [...]
India’s argument, of course, was a simple one: Prabhakaran had masterminded the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and could not be allowed to escape. Over the decades in Sri Lanka, the LTTE had killed scores of moderate Tamil politicians, those who had dared to disagree. Now Prabhakaran had to suffer the consequences. India’s dramatic behind-the-scenes intervention in 2009 [...]
China’s social and economic reforms have brought new opportunities to the country, a top official said Sunday. “The deeper the reform proceeds, the more difficulties and resistance we might encounter, and the more specific and complex issues might arise,” said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the fifth session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC). “But generally speaking, opportunities outweigh challenges,” [...]
- Think Rabindranath Tagore. Think Rabrindra Sangeet. And you inevitably think Shama Rahman. As the year of celebrating Tagore continues, this Bangladeshi singer, who has a deep understanding of Tagore’s lyrics and tunes, has paid a rich tribute to the master writer, poet, composer and artist. In collaboration with UNESCO, Rahman has produced a nine-CD album – five audio albums [...]
A group of doctors has returned to India after two successful liver transplants in Lahore, with “lots of love and lots of goodwill” from Pakistan. A seven-member team led by Subhash Gupta of Apollo Hospital here along with Pakistani doctors conducted the lengthy surgeries in Lahore’s Shaikh Zaid Hospital — the equivalent of Delhi’s AIIMS — Feb 9 and 10. [...]
China and Korea have outstripped India in steel production over the decades, although all of them began on nearly the same footing. If India has to close the gap, it has to address the core issue of competitive productivity. The country’s steel plants have to rise to the occasion I have very fond memories of a great patriot and politician [...]
(IANS) Providing a boost to their bilateral defence relations, India and Oman Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding for military cooperation for a five-year period. The documents were signed here between Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Sultanate of Oman’s Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Hareb Al-Busaidi here during the latter’s three-day visit that concludes Thursday. With [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) A woman kept a coal stove burning in her room in this Pakistani capital, causing noxious fumes to claim her as well as her three children’s lives. A fourth child, 10-year-old Shoaib Hassan, survived as he woke up gasping for breath. He moved out of the room and into the balcony, an act that saved his [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) The last thing that Pakistan needs at this critical juncture is institutional infighting, said a Pakistani daily as it reminded the military that ‘its definition of national security led to the loss of half the country in 1971 (and) led to a disaster called Kargil’. An editorial in the News International said that Prime Minister Yousuf [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his younger daughter Aseefa Bhutto will pick up the flag of her slain mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Addressing a huge gathering at Benazir’s mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh on her fourth death anniversary Tuesday, Zardari said Aseefa will be the flag bearer of the party and [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) The investigation into the December 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was almost complete, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Gilani said Tuesday at Benazir Bhutto’s mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh that the investigation into her assassination was almost complete and its details would be revealed in due course of time. ‘I don’t want [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday denied a possibility of clash among the state institutions in Pakistan if they all worked within the ambit of the constitution. Parliament is supreme and will take decisions on all issues of national importance, said Gilani during a brief interaction with reporters as he visited former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s [...]
Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) Heavy artillery should be removed from the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has suggested to India during the two-day talks being held in Islamabad on conventional and nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs), a media report said Tuesday. After a gap of four years, Pakistan and India Monday held talks on conventional CBMs, [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Why are Pakistan’s current rulers, given their affinity to Benazir Bhutto, ‘quite so reluctant to uncover the truth’ about her assassination, asked a Pakistani daily, noting, ‘The uncertainty that persists is unsettling’. The former prime minister was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, after a Pakistan Peoples Party rally in Rawalpindi, just two weeks before the scheduled parliamentary [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) China Monday reiterated its firm support to Pakistan’s endeavour to uphold its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The assurance came during the three-day visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s representative Dai Bingguo, said China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Liu Jian. Dai Bingguo is an expert on South Asian affairs and his visit took place as a tussle [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday met Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan who had cried while announcing that she was quitting. The prime minister had turned down her resignation. A tearful Awan had announced her resignation during a televised cabinet meeting Sunday morning, saying: ‘I endorse your leadership (but) I think I am not competent enough [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and the country’s spy head General Shuja Pasha are not being removed, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in an attempt to scotch rumours that they were being sacked. Gilani Monday rejected as ‘absurd’ the impression and rumours that the government had any intention to remove General Kayani or [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal and Interior Minister Rehman Malik have discussed matters relating to Mumbai attack and the visit of a judicial commission to India. The meeting took place Monday, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. India Nov 5 welcomed Pakistan’s decision to send the judicial commission. Pakistan’s High Commissioner Shahid Malik had met [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Two brothers died while a third fell sick while repairing a sewer pipeline in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Two brothers died of suffocation Monday while repairing the sewer pipeline in Allama Iqbal colony in Gujranwala city, reported Online. The third brother jumped into help them. But, he was rescued.
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