by Fakhar Durrani in The News, May 24, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Former Director General (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani claims former military dictator Pervez Musharraf was obsessed with Kargil and it was a foolish operation. He claims Nawaz Sharif knew a very little about it and not the whole thing, but he had given the go-ahead, so he had to take political responsibility. The former DG ISI made startling revelations in his…
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by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, April 4th, 2018 WASHINGTON: The United Nations Security Council’s consolidated list of terrorist individuals and entities includes 139 entries from Pakistan. The list — updated and accessed on Tuesday — identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have been associated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out their operations, from Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri to known Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) activists. The first person…
by Mariana Baabar & Agencies in The News, March 30, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office says Pakistan and the United States have resolved to act against all militant groups that target Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan. In a statement Thursday, the Foreign Office said the understanding was reached during a meeting between visiting US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells and Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, foreign media reported. Wells was in town when an…
by Ashraf Malkham in The News, mar 19, 2019 ISLAMABAD: With the general elections looming and the federal budget on the anvil, the government is all set to knock at the doors of friendly countries to rattle up two to three billion US dollars to meet international obligations, The News learnt. Sources said that initially two friendly countries have been contacted and the response was optimistic. This will almost be the same arrangement as was…
By Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, March 14, 2018 ISLAMABAD: As Islamabad decides to cooperate with the global bodies, the Asian Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering will visit Pakistan next month to help the country develop an action plan to exit from the grey list of countries that are accused of financially aiding terrorism. The APG delegation will visit in the second week of April and brief senior government ministers and officials on…
by Zahid Gishkori in The News, March 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is still not ‘out of the woods’ after being listed on ‘terror financing watch list’ weeks ago. This time ‘alarm bells’ are ringing not with a ‘whimper but with a bang’ as the country drifts toward the US human trafficking watch list, which may trigger travel curbs and aid cut. The State Department has sought tough answers from Pakistani authorities to demonstrate the country’s…
by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, March 12th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The proscribed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) is likely to contest the upcoming general election on its own but in disguise by fielding candidates either as independent or as representatives of another registered party. Some ASWJ leaders belonging to Punjab believed that the group would form an electoral alliance with the largest religious party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl or JUI-Sami but their expectations shattered with the emerging political…
Report in Daily Times, March 5th 2018. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani passport has been ranked among the five worst passports for international travel, according to a new report. The Henley Passport Index published in February 2018 ranks Pakistan as the fourth worst passport in the world, placing it on 102nd position among 105 countries. Pakistani passport holders have visa-free access to only 30 countries. Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are the only countries that ranked below Pakistan…
report in Pakistan Today online, Mar 29, 2018 ISLAMABAD: He is crisscrossing Pakistan championing a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, forbidding militant violence inside the country. But the mere fact that Fazlur Rehman Khalil, veteran leader of an organisation designated as a terror group by the US, is free has experts questioning Pakistan’s willingness to fight extremism. Khalil, once a close friend of the late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, co-founded Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, a group accused…
by Nadir Guramani in Dawn, Feb 20, 2018 Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday threatened Defence Minister Dastagir with ‘contempt of parliament’ proceedings after the minister outright refused to provide details of the ‘unilateral decision’ to send Pakistani troops to Saudi Arabia for deployment. The chairman said he ‘rejected’ Dastagir’s briefing to the upper house after the minister said he could not divulge “operational details” of the deployment. “Why don’t we proceed against you and…
Pakistan has gone from water surplus to water-stressed
By JUNAID ZAHID in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2018. The writer is a researcher at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is a country facing depleting water resources mainly due to climate change and poor water resource management. Failure to estimate the actual water demand will hamper effective water management and overall socio-economic stability in Pakistan. Moreover, water resources (Indus River System) have potential to generate 59,000 megawatts of hydro energy in Pakistan.…