The same old story, an ignorant villager from a remote area of Pakistan went to France illegaly and then married a beautiful French girl Peggy Collins and easily won the French citizenshp. Living off the earnings of Peggy, this Asfaq from Sharqpur area of Pakistan did nothing but to enjoy the life.
Then they had a [...]
Do you always wanted to know what the contemporary great minds read?
Well, as always, the Google has done that feat too, and now you can know and also read what the big shots in the journalism, foodies and tech are reading.
Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, Markos Moulitsas, Arianna Huffington and host of others are reading and [...]
Islamabad is one of the prettiest cities in the South Asia with its planned residential and commerical areas, smooth traffic, wide roads, parks, fooliage, Margalla hills looming in the background and an economy booming strictly under the control of government, and so confined to only the elite.
There are many fine and disparate places in Islamabad [...]
What career to choose, what to study, where to get admission, how to find job, how to proceed in the career, how to change gears during the job, how to look for better opportunities, and how to excel in one’s field are very alien concpets in the country of ours, and very very few people [...]
Indian TV channels have run song competitions with huge success. Their programs Voice of India and many others on channels like Star Plus, Sony and Zee have broken all the records and their quality is also very good and they are equally very popular in Pakistan.
Following their footprints, virtually every Pakistani private channel including Indus [...]
Operation ‘Rah-e-Rast’ against the militants in Malakand Division is continuing unabated, while in different areas of Shangla, Swat and Lower Dir curfew is in the relaxing mode. Security forces heavy guns are carrying on shelling overnight and in the daytime the militants’ hideouts in different areas of Lower Dir including the upper areas of Swat’s [...]
It was quite amusing to watch Humuyun Akhtar Khan, a rich son of a late general sitting with the beautiful Kashmala Tariq doing a press conference, perhaps his first serious press conference during his drawing room political career. He was hurling mud at the Chaudhry Brothers of Gujrat, who are hell bent at carrying on [...]
According to the Saudi laws, it is mandatory for the governments to provide Hajj Quota to the private tour operators, but it is not mandatory that the Hajj Qota be provided to the parliamentarians. Government has abolished the quota of the parliamentarians and over that many parliamentarians are going haywire and protesting vehemently, as it [...]
Kamala Das, note poet and writer in Malayalam and English who converted to Islam a decade ago passed away in Pune early Sunday, May 31. She was 75.
Kamala Suraiya, the name she adopted after conversion was suffering from diabetes and was recently hospitalised with pneumonia. Family sources said that the end came in a private [...]
Action Aid
Pakistan Humanitarian Relief, 1420 K Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 / 1-202-327-9924
(May 11, 2009) ActionAid is providing immediate relief in the form of food, water, medical supplies and sanitation facilities. We are assessing medium on long-term needs, such as helping families secure copies of their registration documents which many families left [...]
