Washington: As the US prepares to pull out from Afghanistan, it has sought Pakistan’s support on “our shared interest in regional stability, including a secure and peaceful future for Afghanistan.” The issue came up when the new US Secretary of State John Kerry called Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday, the State Department spokesperson Victoria [...]
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a National Assembly session Monday afternoon, Geo News reported. The president summoned a session of the lower of Pakistan’s parliament on the advice of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Jan 21, a President House release said. The session, to be held at 4 p.m., will deliberate on the [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan wishes to have “friendly, cooperative and good neighbourly relations” with India as there are tremendous opportunities for the two countries to enhance cooperation for their mutual benefit, President Asif Ali Zardari has said. Zardari made the remarks at a special Diwali dinner he hosted at the presidency for visiting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish [...]
Tehran: India told Pakistan Thursday that expeditiously concluding the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai attack’s perpetrators would be the biggest sub-continental confidence building measure (CBM). Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveyed this message to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, on the sidelines of the two-day Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit here, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told [...]
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has promised to break up Punjab and create a new province of Janoobi (South) Punjab. The Associated Press of Pakistan quoted him as saying this to a delegation of his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists. “The creation of a Janoobi Punjab province will help provide the people of south Punjab [...]
New Delhi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari and slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has touched a chord in India’s youth, endearing himself to his admirers with his good looks, easy laughter, self-effacing manner and a down-to-earth body language. The 24-year-old has stirred hope of an able future leadership [...]
Gaurav Sharma Ajmer: When Syed Iqbal Kaptan helps Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari perform ‘ziyarat’ (prayer) at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the memories of his slain wife and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who had visited the shrine in 2005, will come back to him. “There will be something amiss this time as [...]
Mumbai: Ahead of Asif Ali Zardari’s pilgrimage to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today took a dig at the Pakistan President, wondering how could the prayers of those who have an “evil eye” on India could be answered. Thackeray sought to remind Zardari, who is at the centre of a [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Assembly on Monday evening passed a resolution supporting democracy in the country, which gave a breather to beleaguered Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani against whom the Supreme Court issued a contempt notice for not acting against President Asif Ali Zardari for corruption. The lower house of parliament passed the pro-democracy resolution moved by Awami National Party [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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