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Many Pakistanis Still Waiting for Aid
Saturday, September 04, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Ravi Nessman: - Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be....
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Pak Economy May Suffer Prolonged Damage
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Michael Georgy: - Floods have ravaged Pakistan's economy, the prime minister said on Wednesday, with massive job losses and soaring inflation expected to hurt a nation whose stability is vital to the U.S. war against militancy....
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UN Calls for Scaling up Assistance to Pak Flood Victims
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
LONDON:
Top United Nations officials today urged the international community to boost their support for Pakistan’s flood victims, especially for the health and well-being of women and children who make up 70 per cent of the nearly 18 million people affected by the disaster....
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Flood-Damaged Schools Lead to Education Worries
Thursday, August 26, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
Piles of debris including bricks, bits of wood, concrete and broken household goods are becoming visible throughout flood-ravaged Muzaffargarh District in the southern province of Punjab, as the floodwater begins to recede....
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Nature Raging With Unmatched Ferocity
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Maswood Alam Khan: - Torrential flooding in Pakistan causing unprecedented devastations within living memory, demonic wildfires in Russia, apocalyptic landslides in China, a massive ice island, the size of 48,000 football fields, mysteriously split from a glacial ice shelf in Greenland now marauding at large, flash floods in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, disasters in India due to heavy monsoons, natural disasters in many other countries around the world and the latest uncontrollable wildfire in Bolivia destroying millions of hectors of cultivable lands---all occurring during the last few weeks---are evoking in people's mind a chilling dread....
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At Pentagon, Muslims Pray Without Protests
Sunday, August 22, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Dan De Luce: - Without controversy or protests, Muslims kneel in prayer every day at a quiet Pentagon chapel, only steps away from where a hijacked airliner struck the building on September 11, 2001....
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In Iraq Troubles, an Exchange Eyes Growth
Friday, August 20, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
It's not exactly Wall Street: In rows of black chairs, elderly men sit chatting, casting the occasional glance at projection screens displaying the latest market movements on the Iraq Stock Exchange. Occasionally, one gets up and wanders to the back of the darkened room, by the glass divider behind which the brokers sit. There's no one screaming orders or waving a fistful of tickets....
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Pakistan Floods Fits Climate Trend
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Alister Doyle: - Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia's heatwave match predictions of extremes caused by global warming even though it is impossible to blame mankind for single severe weather events, scientists say....
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Pakistan Needs Billions to Recover From Floods
Sunday, August 08, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
BY Sebastain Abbot: - Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the U.N. said Sunday....
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Did Asif Zardari suffer from prostate cancer?
Saturday, August 07, 2010
ISLAMABAD:
By Dr Ghayur Ayub: - The other day, I was watching a well known TV talk-show whose guests were; the ex Director General IB, Col Iqbal Niazi along with a well-known columnist and an anchor person of another talk show. They were discussing Mr Zardari’s incarceration in the late 1990s, and how he was purportedly maltreated. I cannot comment about the physical torture AZ was allegedly exposed to or how an alleged attempt was made to assassinate him. But I found obvious twisting of the facts when it came to his medical condition. If I had their contact numbers, I would have called the show to set the record straight because I was privy to certain information on the matter....
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