ISLAMABAD: Jamshed Dasti, an independent member of the National Assembly from Muzaffargarh who is fond of keeping himself in the limelight through controversial statements, submitted an application to the Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday for enlistment of his party with the name of the Pakistan Awami Raaj. Mr Dasti, who had acquired prominence in a fake degree case during the previous PPP government, has requested the ECP to allocate ‘Jharroo’ (broom) as the election…
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LONDON: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman met Asif Ali Zardari, former president of Pakistan and co-chair of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for several hours and discussed Pakistan’s volatile political situation, credible sources have confirmed. The meeting was one-on-one and no one else from either sides was allowed in the meeting, credible sources within the PPP and JUI-UK have told this correspondent. The meeting took place in an apartment on Park Lane where Asif…
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday dug out a mega scam of the Federal Employees Benevolent Fund and Group Insurance Fund of investing of Rs2.76 billion in private entities and lost all the investment made in the sectors of fertilizer, telecom, CNG stations and textiles. The Public Accounts Committee took a serious note of loss of investments from a fund which was kept for the pensions of the government servants, widows and their…
SINGAPORE — When President Obama announced Monday that he was ending a half-century-long arms embargo against Vietnam, it was another milestone in his long-running ambition to recast America’s role in Asia — a “pivot” as he once called it, designed to realign America’s foreign policy so it can reap the benefits of Asia’s economic and strategic future. Yet as Mr. Obama’s time in office comes to an end, Asian nations are deeply skeptical about how…
At least three people were killed and seven others were wounded in an explosion in Kabul province earlier today. The incident took place in the vicinity of Paghman district, a security official said. There are no reports regarding the type of the explosion so far and no group has claimed responsibility behind the incident yet.http://www.khaama.com/3-dead-7-wounded-in-kabul-explosion-01061
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Afghan authorities have closed the Angoor Adda border crossing in South Waziristan hours after it was handed over to them, it emerged on Tuesday. The neighbouring country also claimed about 10km inside Pakistan as its territory and demanded its control, officials and sources said. The border closure has caused great inconvenience to thousands of people, including women and children, who have found themselves stranded in the scorching heat amid hundreds of truck…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently embarked on a two-day sojourn to Iran, his first since taking the office, and four months after the lifting of international sanctions on Iran. One of the more important international trips of Indian Premier, the visit was closely followed by the regional players as a number of of strategically important agreements were expected to be signed. The focal point of the visit was the Chabahar port, situated at a…
India, Afghanistan and Iran signed a three-way deal on Monday, worth up to $500 million, to be invested in the Chabahar Port, close to the border of Pakistan. The battle for military and trade supremacy in the region continues to take place, however, with this deal, Iran’s neutrality in this quest becomes questionable.Chabahar is to India what Gwadar is to China, and influencing regional trade remains a key source of competition between the two countries.…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was spot on – about the three-way transit accord between Iran, India and Afghanistan – that it “was not merely an economic document but a political and regional one”. He was slightly more politically correct, though, when he said this initiative was not “against any country”, only for peace and stability in the region. Now, given enough time, money and goodwill, the North South Transport Corridor would provide linkages to the…
Pakistan has an unfortunate propensity to miss opportunities, principally because of indifferent, strained or downright hostile relations with its contiguous neighbours and other countries in the region. This has persisted for decades and is only slowly beginning to change, but countries that are willing and able to capitalise on emerging opportunities are beginning to make the agreements that will underpin future development and wealth creation. On May 23, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Afghan President Ashraf…
BEIJING—The death here of a 29-year-old man in police custody—a new father and graduate of a prestigious Chinese university—has exposed increasing anxieties in the country’s growing middle class, already shaken by a decelerating economy and a disparate series of high-profile incidents threatening their sense of stability. Other wide-ranging targets of recent social-media attention include a violent string of attacks on doctors by embittered patients and their families, a demand that apartment owners in eastern China…