UN News Centre | On Pakistan visit, UN relief official urges spending on resilience to speed up ... UN News Centre 19 November 2012 – A United Nations relief official today called on Pakistan and its partners to increase investment in resilience measures that will allow the country to recover from natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, which have ... UN Calls For Urgent Aid to Pakistan UN needs $97m for Pakistan flood victims |
The Express Tribune | Pakistan may have to wait for Iranian loan for IP project The Express Tribune Pakistan and Iran may not be able to seal a final deal for a loan worth $250 million during the upcoming visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Development-8 Summit due to a delay in the finalisation of the draft agreement. The loan was ... Iran to export electricity to Pakistan and India Bukhari for enhancing Pakistan, Iran ties Bukhari for enhancing relations through exchange of parliamentary delegations |
The Guardian | Pakistan faces violence in a supposed time of peace The Guardian The scale of the event makes getting around in Pakistan's major cities on the ninth and 10th of Muharram a challenge. But in recent years, the lockdown has been intensified by the high risk of terrorist attacks by Sunni militant groups. Last year's ... Deadly bomb blast hits Pakistan Bomb targeting Shiite Muslims kills 2 Karachi, in Pakistan's largest city Gunmen kill Shia Muslim of Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan |
Osun Defender | Pakistan: A Foreign Policy in Transition? World Politics Review In a speech at the Asia Society in New York this September, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar laid out a foreign policy agenda that she described as Pakistan's “regional pivot” within Asia. Khar explained that Pakistan would now pay more ... No Bangladeshi demand for apology from Pakistan: Khar Pakistan's image will get boost from D-8 Summit: Khar Jonathan arrives in Pakistan as D-8 summit begins |
Mediaite | President Obama Gives Pakistan And Yemen Permission To Attack United States? Mediaite or justify the double standard by noting that our bombings of Pakistan and Yemen are for targeted killing of militants effectively at war with the United States. If that's how you see it, then fair enough. But one could easily say that Yemen would not ... |
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty | Female suicide bomber in Pakistan attacks prominent Islamist politician Fox News PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A government official says a female suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of the country's largest Islamist party. Shamsur Rehman Khan says Qazi Husain Ahmad, the ... Former Leader Of Pakistan's Largest Islamic Party Escapes Suicide Attack Female suicide bomber targets Islamist politician in Pakistan Woman suicide bomber targets Pakistan politician |
Times of India | India asks Pakistan to defer interior minister Rehman Malik's visit Times of India NEW DELHI: Operationalisation of the landmark Indo-Pak visa agreement will be delayed as India has asked Pakistan to postpone interior minister Rehman Malik's proposed visit here on November 22-23. "The dates proposed by the Pakistani side are not ... Pakistan State Oil seeks 450000 T gasoline, jet fuel No sectarian friction in Pakistan, believes Malik Rehman Malik and his motorcycle ban |
The Express Tribune | Former warriors urge Indian-Pakistan peace The Express Tribune “Let us get rid of the historical baggage that separates the people of our two countries so we can bridge the communication gap and get over the trust deficit between India and Pakistan,” said Lt Gen (retired) Moti Dar, former vice chief of the Indian ... IPSI members discuss ways to improve Pak-India relations |
Pakistan Security Brief - November 19, 2012 Critical Threats Project According to official sources interviewed by the Express Tribune, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United States have finalized a list of nearly two dozen Taliban negotiators to delist from the United Nations sanctions list. This is a move meant to ... |
Water storage efforts reverse migration in Pakistan Reuters AlertNet GHOOL, Pakistan (AlertNet) – A year ago, Aslam Bibi and her family left their village and moved to a nearby town, desperate to find a way to eke out a living in the face of failing rainfall that made subsistence impossible. But after a few months, Bibi ... |