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Posts Tagged ‘UK’

UK Visa for Pakistani Students, Job Seekers and Tourists

By Fatima Tassaduq • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Visas to United Kingdom for the Pakistanis are now issued from the Abu Dhabi. That’s a huge hassle and huge trouble for the Pakistanis. To add insult to injury, there is a huge delay in visa processing, and that generates extreme loss to many.
Thankfully, Lord Ahmed raised this issue in front of UK government: “How [...]



James Caan:The Pakistani Dragon

By Dil Nawaz • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Features

James Caan published his autobiography, The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to Dragons’ Den, in November, 2008.
The title received generally positive reviews and subsequently became a British bestseller. In early 2009 Caan released an cheaper paperback version of his book. This coincided with the relaunch of his new official website, which received rave [...]



Report:Social and Economic Issues Earthquake 2005

By Dil Nawaz • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: Features

On the morning of 8th October, 2005 an earthquake of an intensity of 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the whole country, specifically northern districts of NWFP, Federal Capital and Azad Kashmir. The devastation was also caused on the other side of the border in Kashmir valley. The most affected districts reportedly are Abbotabad, Mensehra, [...]



Iran’s Nuclear Program, Who is Enemy?

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Oct 6th, 2009 • Category: Features


Religious TV channels in UK and Europe

By Dil Nawaz • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The latest cultural trend is the sensational rise of televangelist channels in U.K, using tactics which can only be described as ‘emotional and religious blackmail’ and premium rate phone charges to raise funds from devotees, most of these are Nigerian Pentecostal ‘Witchdoctor’  (faith healer potions and exorcisms) TV channels operating from London. Generally the term [...]



No Whitewash from Washington and No Bliss from Biejing

By Shayan Khan • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Maybe Pakistani people feel too much forced to elect the PPP leaders in the elections and accept the election of Mr. Zardari as president of their country to clear out their force guilty that in their country both founding father of PPP and his daughter were assassinated, but the international community don’t get moved by [...]



Politics, Religion & Identity in British Pakistanis

By Dil Nawaz • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: Interviews, Worth A Second Look

Dil Nawaz talks to British Asian novelist Tariq Mehmood.
DN: What are the future plans for Kashmir Broadcasting Corporation?
TM: I will be restarting “The Point” talk show in the coming days for KBC.  I am developing a series of talk shows on question of religion and the state, from the view that the state has to [...]



Dawn News:global Pakistani channel?

By Dil Nawaz • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Viva  Hameed Haroon; Yes We Can!
Bradistan Calling
What have a Euro-Zone bureaucracy and the countries as diverse as Japan, India, UK, Russia, Iran, Germany, France, USA, Qatar and China, got in common? Are they part of an energy cartel or a group of twenty biggest economies? Highly unlikely: given the diversity of the list.
The question becomes [...]



UK Schools receive free copy of Muslim Science textbook

By Guest Blogger • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Misc

An educational foundation has announced plans to distribute free books to UK schools to highlight the scientific and cultural legacy of Muslim civilisation. 1001 Inventions is the brainchild of the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) – a network of academics dedicated to debunking the myth of the so-called “Dark Ages of Civilisation”.

Last month, [...]



Pakistan@62:The future is bright

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

For once I left my intellectual hat at home and donned the green flag to go on the street and celebrate with the Bradistan boyz and girlz, not that I consider myself a “flag waving nationalist”. My loyalties might be a bit shaky but I would never dream of waving a tricolour of Republic of [...]