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The national pre-planned vigilance is indispensable for combating with all risks like natural calamity or terrorist attack. National security planning may comprise all types of anticipation, reaction, safety and resurgence efforts, preparing and supporting all national domestic risky tasks. The National Planning Scenarios are wide-ranging efforts to trim down the threats...
Book Review: Changing Perceptions, Altered Reality
Changing Perceptions, Altered Reality:
Pakistan’s Economy under Musharraf 1999-2006
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shahid Javed Burki was educated at St. Mary’s Academy, Rawalpindi; Government College, Lahore; Christ Church, University of Oxford; Kennedy School and Department of Economics, Harvard University; and Harvard Business School. He joined the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1960 and received...
Iran Starts Cyber Crime Unit
Iran Starts Cyber Crime Unit
Iran on Sunday publicly started its cyber police unit to tackle with Internet crimes and counteract societal networks that extend “espionage and riots,” police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam explained.
The country’s first web supervisory body team was now ready in the capital, Tehran, while police stations all over the country would have their cyber...
Pakistan Inqilab Council (PIC) – Pakistan Revolution Movement (PRM) – Questions
Pakistan Inqilab Council (PIC) - Pakistan Revolution Movement (PRM) - Questions:
Dear Friends:
Kindly carefully READ the following five (5) statements of the Marxist
Voice (a Pakistani revolutionary group based in Pakistan) and the
World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) based in the USA.
QUESTION 1. Which points of the Marxist Voice (MV) and the WSWS.org 5
statements should be endorsed by the Pakistan...
A Tribute to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadiri al-Ghazi
The first and foremost factor of Imān is respect for the RasūlAllah şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam. Salāh or any form of ‘ibādah is useless without reverence for the Beloved Rasūl şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam. There are many ‘Abd-Allah’s in this world, but the true and sincere ‘Abd-Allah is he, who is ‘Abd-e-Mustafa [servant of the Beloved Prophet şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam]....
Wikileaks’ Creator Assange Released On Bail
Wikileaks’ Creator Assange Released On Bail
WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, detained in Britain on Swedish charges of sex offenses, was released on bail by a British court on Tuesday.
Judge Howard Riddle approved him bail with conditions until another trial on Jan. 11.
The 39-year-old Australian, whose website has aggravated US wrath by bringing out some of a trove of 250,000 confidential...
Altaf Gives Direction To Get Ready For Likely Elections
Altaf Gives Direction To Get Ready For Likely Elections
The joint emergency convention of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) Rabita Committee in London and Pakistan has been summoned on Wednesday.
Altaf Hussain, MQM chief guided the Rabita Committee for preparation of possible election in the wake of shifting political scenario.
According to the reliable sources, the convention would talk about different...
Ruggiero Appointed As Acting Af-Pak Envoy After Demise Of Holbrooke
Ruggiero Appointed As Acting Af-Pak Envoy After Demise Of Holbrooke
Career civil servant Frank Ruggiero has appointed after demise of his late chief Richard Holbrooke as the acting particular envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the State Department declared.
Ruggiero attended US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a National Security Council convention Tuesday at the White House that to take the...
JUI-F renounces in dissent of Swati’s dismissal
JUI-F renounces in dissent of Swati’s dismissal
chief Fazl ur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) declared to renounce partnership government in disapproval of firing his minister Azam Swati without discussing with the party.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman pronounced the verdict after helding an emergency conference of Majlis-e-Shura, managed to appraise the condition came into sight after the prime...
Hamid Kazmi And Azam Swati Fired
Hamid Kazmi And Azam Swati Fired
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister has fired Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Azam Swati from their cases following a clash relating hajj scam and a outburst between the two ministers.
It should be cited here that Azam Khan Swati, Federal Minister for Science and Technology pointed allegations concerning depressing fraud against Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Federal Minister for Religious...
Holbrooke, US Ambassador Passes Away At 69
Holbrooke, US Ambassador Passes Away At 69
US envoy, Richard Holbrooke, 69, the US special ambassador for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has passed away during surgical operation of a torn aorta, US media issued official details of his death.
Mr. Holbrooke was born on April 24, 1941 in New York. President Barack Obama had given briefing to the members of Holbrooke’s family at a ambassadorial holiday...
Ahmadinejad Dismises Mottaki, Foreign Minister
Ahmadinejad Dismises Mottaki, Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iranian President has dismissed Manouchehr Mottaki, Foreign Minister the spokesperson of IRNA news agency reported on Monday, without giving reasons.
“I thank you and appreciate the work and the services you have rendered during your tenure in the foreign ministry,” Ahmadinejad’s remarks were referred as saying in the...
Fight against drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia
Fight against drug trafficking
in Saudi Arabia
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CJ articulate discontentment at Hajj scandal
CJ articulate discontentment at Hajj scandal
The Supreme Court (SC) ordered to carry out an investigation in hajj scam case by arresting all and sundry drawn in including Secretary Religious Affairs.
Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice take notice of a suo motu case concerning the supposed fraud in hajj preparations.
The CJ Chaudhry commented, ‘We let ourselves fall...
Obama’s robot wars endanger us all
Obama’s robot wars endanger us all
Imagine if, an hour from now, a robot-plane swooped over your house and blasted it to pieces. The plane has no pilot. It is controlled with a joystick from 7,000 miles away, sent by the Pakistani military to kill you. It blows up all the houses in your street, and so barbecues your family and your neighbours until there is nothing left to bury but a few charred...
Indian state terrorism against Muslims in Kashmir
Indian state terrorism against Muslims in Kashmir
The 8 year old innocent was killed by Indians during current protests. I haven’t heard any NGO protesting working for childhood protection. Have you?
Baramulla Kashmir | PEOPLE CARRY THE BODY OF NINE-YEAR-OLD TARIQ AHMAD
Can you imagine these kids can be involved in terrorism?
Would...
WikiLeaks discloses it is under new cyber attack
WikiLeaks discloses it is under new cyber attack
WikiLeaks supposed in a recent Twitter note that it was under a new cyber attack after a correlated event at the weekend just before the website started to make public top secret US ambassadorial cables.
“We are currently under another DDoS attack,” WikiLeaks revealed on its official Twitter feed.
DDoS denotes distributed denial of service....