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    • Cease all military ops in Balochistan May 26, 2012
      ISLAMABAD – A declaration by a national moot on Balochistan Saturday expressed grave concern over the presence of Frontier Constabulary in Balochistan, saying that multiple intelligence agencies have not brought peace in the province. Instead, blood is being split every single day. Speakers at this SCBA organised conference on ‘Balochistan Issue […]
      Terence J Sigamony
    • Now, Gilani won’t appeal his conviction: Aitzaz May 26, 2012
      MIAN DAWOOD LAHORE – The PPP has decided not to appeal Yousuf Raza Gilani’s conviction, believing it could be harmful for the prime minister, leader of party’s present team of juristic jugglers revealed Saturday. In his latest jural stunt, Aitzaz Ahsan, who – after Babar Awan’s demotion as chief legal aide to President Zardari a […]
    • Long march champions have no mandate: Gilani May 26, 2012
      NAROWAL – Criticising the PML-N’s protest movement, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday that right time for holding a long march was Musharraf’s era when judges were jailed and media was facing curbs and it was too late to make such a move now. Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating a Sui gas project for the people of Na […]
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    • Shahbaz repeats long march talk May 26, 2012
      KASUR - Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said unbridled corruption in the country was responsible for loadshedding, poverty and massive unemployment in the country; therefore, people should extend full support to his party in the proposed long march towards Islamabad against the corrupt Pakistan People's Party (PPP) rulers. Shahba […]
      Abbas Soz
    • Ex-general Imtiaz Hussain commits suicide May 26, 2012
      RAWALPINDI - In a shocking incident, a retired lieutenant-general of Pakistan Army committed suicide by shooting himself with a 9mm pistol at his home in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase-I on Saturday. Police moved the body of Lt-Gen (re) Imtiaz Hussain, 70, to the DHQ Hospital for post-mortem and later handed over to the heirs for burial. Area SHO […]
      Israr Ahmad
    • India rejects Siachen demilitarisation May 26, 2012
      NEW DELHI - Indian Chief of the Army staff Gen VK Singh has said that General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's remarks on Siachen's demilitarisation could not be taken seriously. Last month, Kayani had told media that both Pakistan and India should talk about pulling out troops from the region and spend more on the development and prosperity of their people. […]
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    • 4 killed in another Waziristan drone hit May 26, 2012
      PESHAWAR - An unmanned US spy plane killed at least four people when it fired two missiles on a compound near a bakery in Miranshah Bazaar here on early Saturday. Sources said the compound was adjacent to a bakery where some people had taken refuge. The predator drone fired two missiles at the compound and bakery near Miranshah Bazar in North Waziristan. The […]
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    • Teacher, nephew shot dead on way to school May 26, 2012
      QUETTA - Unidentified gunmen killed a teacher and his nephew and wounded another four, including two daughters, in Kharan, some 40km south of Quetta, on Saturday morning. Police said private school principal Muzafar Jamali along with his three children and two nephews was on way to the school when armed men fired shots at his vehicle, killing his 11-year-old […]
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    • PPP fields team to pacify wrath of nationalists May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - Following the deadly assault on a rally of the nationalist parties in the city this week, a team of MNAs from the ruling PPP has rolled up its sleeves to evolve a strategy to calm down the wrath of the nationalist leaders over the controversial demand for a separate province for the Muhajir community. Constituted by the embattled premier, Yousuf Ra […]
      Ramzan Chandio
    • Grenade attack on restaurant kills one, injures 13 others May 26, 2012
      KARACHI – A man was killed and 13 others wounded in a grenade attack on a restaurant in Jamshed Quarters area in the wee hours of Saturday. According to SHO Khushnood, unidentified armed men came outside the restaurant at around 2:30am and resorted to indiscriminate aerial firing before throwing a hand grenade. DSP Qaiser Ali dispelled the concerns tha […]
      Our Staff Reporter
    • MQM condemns assault May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement Chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday condemned the grenade attack on a restaurant on Jamshed Road. He said that terrorists were openly demanding extortion money from shopkeepers in Karachi and were attacking business centres and shops with hand grenades if their demands were not met. He said it was a matter of disbelief and grea […]
      Our Staff Reporter
    • Minister for concerted efforts to eradicate polio May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - As many as 16 cases of polio have come to the fore in the year 2012 and two of them in the province of Sindh, said Sindh Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed while presiding over a meeting to review the polio-eradication campaign on Saturday. The minister said that of the two cases in Sindh, one was from Mirpurkhas and the other from Hyderabad. He […]
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    • KTI warns against protests if petroleum prices raised May 26, 2012
      KARACHI – Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) has threatened to stage country wide protest if government increased the prices of petroleum products, here on Saturday. KTI also expressed serious concern over anticipated increase in petroleum prices in the next budget of 2012-13. In a joint statement, KTI President Irshad Hussain Bukhari, General Secretary S […]
      Our Staff Reporter
    • Supply line reopening to incite Salala-like attacks: DPC May 26, 2012
      KARACHI – Difa-e-Pakistan Council leaders on Saturday said they would bitterly resist the resumption of NATO supplies. Addressing a press conference after a DPC meeting, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hassan said that the restoration of the NATO supply line supply would lead to repetition of Salala attack-like incidents. He said the reinstatement of the […]
      Nisar Mehdi
    • Three criminals held with ammunition May 26, 2012
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    • Shopkeeper gunned down May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - Mohammad Asif 26, son of Tahir was gunned down in an act of target killing in Block 13-D-2 within jurisdiction of Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station. DSP Pervez Iqbal Bhatti said that the deceased had a general store, the incident took place when two armed men riding a motorcycle came to his store and shot him. He was shot twice and the culprits escape […]
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    • KU declares BDS result May 26, 2012
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    • Rs150 billion uplift budget proposed for 2012-13 May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - The Sindh government has proposed Rs150 billion provincial development budget for financial year 2012-13. However, a proposal of over Rs20 billion development budget for districts and foreign-funded development projects would be the part of the budget. This was proposed in a meeting held at the Chief Minister’s House on Saturday. CM Syed Qaim […]
      Our Staff Reporter
    • Transporters protest killing of passengers May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - Transport associations have jointly staged protest against the killing of eight passengers in Nawabshah District According to the details, various transport associations blocked the main roads of the city and have given a week’s time to the authorities to arrest the assailants involved in the killing. The Sindh Air Condition Bus Owners Associ […]
      Our Staff Reporter
    • IGP for early arrest of bus attackers May 26, 2012
      KARACHI - Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Shah Saturday inspected the crime scene where a Kohat bound passenger coach came under armed attack on National Highway near Qazi Ahmed, Benazirabad District. The IGP called for detailed investigation report about the incident from Deputy Inspector Generals (DIGs) of Hyderabad and Sukkur, who […]
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Kashmir- A Victim to Hypocrisy

On the fateful day of October 27, 1947, Indian troops landed in Srinagar and forcefully started occupying the state. The whole operation was premeditated and launched with the tacit approval of British Raj. There are evidences that Maharaja Hari Singh, Ruler of Kashmir was forced to sign a post dated document of “accession to India”, [...]

Conspiracy of Equating Militancy and Islam

It is quite fashionable to use the term “Islamic Militants” even by local print media to identify “Muslims” who perpetrate acts of terror in the country and around the world. Of course,people responsible for such acts need to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, but, heedless use of the expression “Islamic Militants” has far [...]

Manmohan Singh’s sojourn to USA

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a visit to USA from 23 November onwards to hold wide ranging talks of mutual interest. The visit assumes significance since it is the first visit of any head of state to USA on the request of Obama Administration. The latter’s endeavor would be to give a [...]

Indian PM Visit to US & Pakistan

Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection, New Delhi has raised numbers of issues to malign China, Pakistan, and its intelligence Agencies in her domestic communal conflicts.Indian started pretending them as a great victim of terrorism just to divert [...]

Behind The Blind Goggles

Are Hindu Extremist groups emerging out of control or state “Aasheerbad” & agencies support is the right answer to the mass massacres ofIndian Muslims, Sikhs and Christians in so called secular society of India? The million Dollar question is replied by recently revealed ,a unique story of its kind—triangle comprising of Col Prohat, extremist character [...]

Dancing at the Crossroads

Intolerance becoming naked in so called Secular India Shiv Sina one of the many Hindu extremist groups is active these days on the roads of those cities of India where not only fashion elites but powerful representatives of all segments of society are residing. Media has reported activities of extremist group followers very clearly showing [...]

China Considers Kashmir a Separate Entity

Kashmir is a disputed territory representing core political conflict between India and Pakistan. The people of Kashmir are suffering in the hands of Indian illegal occupation and their oppressive rule. Pakistan keeps on voicing her concerns to persuade India to resolve the Kashmir issue as per the will of the Kashmiri people and in accordance [...]

Why Indian neighbors are attracted to foster closer ties with China

Myths are galore about Indian subjectivity, arrogance mixed with prejudices and wicked mischief which actually reflect Indian imperialist ambitions and hegemonic designs. India cunningly politicizes the issues to fit in her schemes to draw advantage through clever manipulation of events using propaganda as an instrument of her state policy. In her efforts to become a [...]

Obama to Chain Asian Watchdog (India)

India today is trying to blindly follow the policies of her military Guru Chankiya, where she is frantically driving for fulfillment of her eventual trance of Greater India and emergence of a sole regional power of South East Asia. India has long-standing policies and strategies to make and keep Pakistan as a lame duck and [...]

Vande Mataram – An Enduring Legacy of Vitriolic Hate

All national songs are meant to rally and unite nations, but one keeps wondering as to what is embodied in Vande Mataram, the Indian national song that has become such an unceasing source of friction and acrimony between the Hindus and the remaining communities in India, particularly once its title means; Salute to the Mother? [...]

Manmohan Singh visits USA

USA is losing its War on Terror in Afghanistan; now it is the talk of the town that. Different analysts are suggesting to the US authorities to think of the ways of getting out of the blazing hell of Afghanistan. It is also in the air that the Taliban would never let the Americans go [...]

Terrorism Against Journalism

Throughout the world, every nation has to spend a lot of its financial resources on the formation and the development of the security forces; and in return these forces are expected to provide safety and security to the nation. The situation becomes very painful when the security forces become a pain in the neck for [...]

Do you think that India is really interested in peace process with Pakistan?

MTT had launched a poll to know about what people have an opinion about Indian offers of peace talks with Pakistan. The poll had a very simple question as mentioned below and people are given three choices. Article source: http://www.markthetruth.com/current-affairs/205-do-you-think-that-india-is-really-interested-in-peace-process-with-pakistan.html

Indo-US Mutual Deceptions

Indo-US relationship which has strengthened rapidly after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union is, in fact, based upon mutual self-deceptions. Overtly, both the powers are taking steps to further stabilise their ties, but covertly they are fulfilling their self-interests at the cost of each other. In these terms, while acting upon the ‘shrewd strategies’ [...]

Maa Tujhe Salaam – Vande Matram Controversy to the fore again

Jamiat-Ulema-eHind on 2nd Nov 2009 passed a resolution asking Muslims not to recite Vande Mataram on the ground that some verses of the national song are against the tenets of Islam. Similar fatwa was also passed by Darul Ulum Deoband three years ago, when the controversy had begun afresh. Incidentally the same organizations have also [...]

India Blames China for Maoist Uprising

Instead of addressing the root causes of the Maoist uprising, Indian government has started a blame game against China, alleging for supplying arms to these insurgents. Recently, Home Secretary of the Indian Union, G.K. Pillai accused that China was a big supplier of small arms to the Maoiststhe Chinese are big smugglers. Article Source: http://www.markthetruth.com/china/202-india-blames-china-for-maoist-uprising.html

A death-knell for Bangladesh

Sylhet, the beautiful paradise of Bangladesh, is going to turn into a vast barren wasteland very soon. Located on the banks of the winding pair of rivers Surma River and Jaintia and surrounded by Khasi and Tripura hills, this city is situated in the north-eastern region ofBangladesh. The Sylhet region is well known for its [...]

Seymour Hersh’s Nuggets of Naiveté

The angry reaction in Pakistan to Seymour Hershs article in the New Yorker, once viewed in the context of its ludicrous contents, seems justifiable. The long winded report (7000 words approx) is based on unnamed sources, its contents stand repudiated bygovernment officials in Pakistan and US and the hypotheses it outlines dont even pass muster [...]

What is cooking up in Congo?

About 4,500 Indian troops are presently posted in Congo under the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. In the past Indian Army personnel were involved in activities like gold smuggling, sexual abuse and other acts of misconduct, which prompted the Congolese government to write to the UN to stop sending replacements of Indian troops. Indian peacekeepers [...]

India’s struggle to get Non-permanent seat in the UNSC

Political statements coming from the office of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are not very encouraging. Analysts have started a renewed debate on the future of Jammu & Kashmir state and seriously ponder if Kashmir is not an issue at all and mere related to Kashmiris grievance regarding governance and development. In fact India wants [...]

Military Operation against Maoists is no solution

Never in the history of India, New Delhi linked the left wing Maoist movement with Pakistan. But in a recent conspiracy of Indian Intelligence agencies various resistance groups to Indian rule are being linked with Pakistan. The sole aim of this strategically acrobatic move is to malign Pakistan internationally. In this context, in a recent [...]

India’s Hidden Face in World Narcotics Trade

India is the largest poppy cultivating country but it is generally taken for granted that the cultivation is for medicinal purposes. Indian farmers are granted licences to cultivate opium, which is supposed to be purchased by the government-run medical laboratories for manufacturing medicines. However, only a small quantity is sold to the government while a [...]

Invading the Secular Space

Satya Sai Baba of Puthaparthi in his recent tour of Mumbai (Nov. 2009) was invited by the Maharashtra Chief Minister designate, Ashok Chavan to his official residence, Varsha, for blessing the house and for the associated puja (invocation). When criticsed for inviting the Holy Guru to his official residence he said that since he is [...]

Campaign against Pak Nukes

Barack Hussein Obama in June, 2009 while visiting Cairo revealed, I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. [...]

Composite Dialogue Process and the Indian Flip-Flops

India remains a diehard proponent of bilateral interaction for addressing intractable issues afflicting Indo-Pak relations; particularly the festering issue of Kashmir. This strategy of stonewalling, however, is fast becoming irrelevant due to the US led intervention in Afghanistan and the fight against extremism in FATA being conducted in the backdrop of a prominent Indian foot [...]

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