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Posts Tagged ‘Nepal’

Price India is Paying for Tension

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

All the cities and major towns of India are seeing the multitudes of checkposts on entry and exit points. Bus stations, railway station and the airports are guarded heavily. Cineams, shopping malls and the parks have been turned into some sort of fortresses. Government offices and the officials are guarded by heavy contingent of police [...]



Who is Ajmal Kasab or Ajmal Kasai ???

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A Pakistani lawyer C M Farooque claimed that many people, including Ajmal Kasab, were arrested before 2006 from Kathmandu by the Indian agencies with the help of Nepalese forces.
He said Ajmal Kasab went to the Napalese capital on a business tour. His application regarding his arrest was lying pending in the Nepalese Supreme Court in [...]



A Billion Dollar Liability

By Farid Masood • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When an asset becomes liability then it should be written off. President Musharraf took over on October 19, 1999. General public didn’t went against him and welcome his quo even he became in power by over-throwing an elected government.
Time passed so quickly till 9/11 of 2001. He bowed down his head after a telephonic call [...]



Pakistan Elections - 2008: Need For A Positive Approach

By The Pakistani Spectator • Feb 15th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Worth A Second Look

By Swaraaj Chauhan
The national elections generate special excitement in any country…and Pakistan is no exception. Next week the Pakistanis would be lining up the polling booths to decide the future leaders of their country. It is expected that a large number of people would turn up to exercise their power to cast their precious vote. [...]



Benazir Bhutto was keen to learn Vipassana

By Amna Gilani • Jan 19th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

In the summer of 1994, Roop Jyoti, who helps run Vipassana Centers in Nepal and is a former minister of state for finance, received a call from the Nepal Home Ministry in Kathmandu.
The message said that the Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was on an official visit to Nepal then, [...]