One issue that stood out in Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir’s address to the 37th session of the Standing Committee of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Bhutan was the need to adopt a regional approach towards tackling water issues. Environment and climate change will be the focus of the 16th SAARC Summit, which is going to adopt a declaration titled ‘Green and Happy South Asia’. Climate change worldwide and the malign…
Posts published in “Day: April 27, 2010”
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 26: Former municipal committee chairman Mian Muhammad Rafiq Sarhandi has demanded of the federal government to lift curbs on second visit to India. A Pakistani has to wait for 18 months for next visit to India. In a press statement, he said hundreds of people belonging to the Indian town of Sarhand resided in the Toba district and wanted to attend the Urs of Hazrat Mujaddid Alif Sani and offer fateha…
SKARDU, April 25: Lawyers have criticised the government for not giving Baltistan division due representation in judiciary and other departments of Gilgit-Baltistan. They sought share of Baltistan in judiciary and all departments according to its population. Baltistan chief court bar association president Shaukat Ali advocate, in a statement here, said the people of Baltistan had been totally ignored in filling posts in the Supreme Appellate Court, Chief Court, special judges in banking, customs, anti-terrorism, anti-narcotics,…