Incidents of crime, in particular street crime, have increased this year as compared to 2015 in Lahore. Official data shows that incidents of extortion, car snatching and kidnapping have increased in the 11 months of 2016. There were 507 murders in the full year of 2015 while in 2016 there are already 502 incidents – hardly an improvement.The Punjab government has spent an exorbitant amount of money on the Turkish inspired ‘Dolphin force’ that has…
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MULTAN-About 40 percent colossal loss of water takes place in the century old watercourses because of their poor maintenance and aging across the Punjab province, an agriculture officer disclosed. The tertiary canal commanded irrigation system irrigates 37.46 million acres of land through about 58,000 watercourses in Punjab, said Naveed Asmat Kahloon, assistant director agricultural information while talking to The Nation. He said that this is resulting in severe shortage of irrigation supplies at the farm…
ISLAMABAD: If US president-elect Donald Trump fulfils the promise of visiting Pakistan he made during a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday, it will be first ever visit of a US president to Pakistan in its 70-year history during the tenure of a democratic government. The United States always remained more comfortable with the military dictators in Pakistan and all the five US presidents, who visited Pakistan, came here during the regimes…
ISLAMABAD: The US President-elect, Donald Trump, in his maiden contact with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif through a phone call on Wednesday showed exceptional warmth and showered praises generously on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan and its people and said he was ready to extend help in resolution of outstanding issues. He has informally accepted the invitation of visiting Pakistan. According to the Prime Minister’s House, Nawaz Sharif made a phone call to Donald Trump in…
Pakistan’s Press Information Bureau on Wednesday released a readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump. The readout is unusual in that it focuses almost entirely on Trump’s contributions to the conversation, and reproduces them in a voice that is unmistakably his. The readout is reproduced in full below: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA Donald Trump and felicitated him on his…
THE Pakistan Business Council has issued a call for a national consensus on economic matters which merit detailed attention from the political leadership. As the government celebrates its achievements on the economic front, more and more voices are pointing out that the real work on the economy needs to begin now. The PBC points out that neglect of the domestic industry must be addressed, and capacity building and reforms at the FBR are necessary for…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s internal and external debt and liabilities added during the last three and half years are almost equal to what the country had borrowed in almost 60 years of its independence i.e. from 1947 to 2007. State Bank statistics show a phenomenal rise in the country’s debt and liabilities during the last ten years. The State Bank figures relating to the total public debts and liabilities by end June 2013 were Rs 16,228 billion,…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Sherry Rehman on Tuesday voiced dismay over the country’s alarming debt accumulation under the current government and its refusal to hold itself accountable. The lawmaker said the democratic institutions could not work without transparency or economic prudence. Reports revealed that Pakistan’s total debt and liabilities had reached Rs22.5 trillion by the end of the last fiscal year. This figure showed a net increase of Rs2.6 trillion in…
LAHORE – A report of the Punjab Home Department referring some intelligence inputs in hilarious revelations has identified two killed Daesh commanders for organising the terror outfit in Pakistan. The report issued on December 24, 2015 identified Hafiz Saeed Khan and Maulana Abdul Rauf as the two Daesh commanders. However, facts said the two reportedly chief and deputy chief of the terror outfit were killed in different towns located near Afghan border. Official sources put…
The Afghan national security forces have eliminated all four terrorists and ended siege of a building near the Indian consulate after almost 25 hours of resistance. The provincial government media office said the operation was jointly conducted by the special forces of the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army under the supervision of acting governor Gen. Ata Mohammad Noor. Noor earlier said clearing operations near the Indian consulate is carefully being conducted in a…
Sceptical optimism: by Sitara Noor in Daily Times, January 07, 2016
The writer is a former visiting fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, California. For a country to dissuade an adversary from undertaking an action that the former considers undesirable, it has to first communicate to the adversary that the cost of any action might out-weigh the benefits. This communication must be backed by the capability to inflict that cost and the credibility or the political will to undertake that action if need arises.…