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Earlier this week, The National, a news paper from Abu Dhabi published a story about Abu Dhabi Groups plans to sell controlling stakes of Warid Telecom to any potential buyer. Below are the excerpts from the news item.
“Every operator in Pakistan is looking for consolidation,” said Bashir Tahir, the chief executive of the […]

Hard to believe but it’s true.

Finian Cunningham

Here is a shocking statistic that you won’t hear in most western news media: over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action in either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. These are official figures from the US Department […]

By: Adil Najam, Originally writtan At All Things Pakistan
The murder of 12-year old child Shazia, working as a housemaid in the house of one Chaudhry Naeem (a former president of the Lahore Bar Association) has been widely reported and strongly condemned by all (including Chief Minister Punjab and the President of Pakistan). It is, […]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is doing great in its 668 Campaign to wipe-off illegal SIMs, but what about the illegal mobile handsets? When I say illegal cell phones, it means cell phones without a valid IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity usually China made.
The operators in India have reportedly blocked 25 million such handsets on orders of […]

Geo reportedly carried a news item along the same lines showing picture after picture where the Presidency had apparently removed all pictures of Quaid-e-Azam
Having a close look at the picture you see four portraits namely Asif Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and followed by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, nowhere do we see the portraits of the […]

.Everything that can go wrong is going wrong with my life right now and I honestly do not notice/read/watch much these days except for what’s going on around me, but there is one news item that kinda caught my eye. The Taliban in Orakzai Agency have razed 11 houses belonging to the local Sikh community […]

Last night I was sitting at my computer when the power supply suddenly stopped at 9 pm. It removed the last doubts from my mind that I had about a news item that I recently read about returning of the load shedding in our lives again. Power supply was resumed in an hour. The next […]

I was totally taken aback by this story. I usually try to dig out something new, unique, cutting edge to write about. I would especially be excited if that new, unique and cutting edge news item hailed from Pakistan. Well it doesn’t get much more unique and new, cutting edge even, well in the 16th […]

Urrrrgh..
OK I know you are founded by ‘Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’…
alright that you are Pakistan’s premier English daily…
fine that you are most quoted journalist voice of country in foreign media…
true that your news are always trustworthy and based on facts and not rumors (unlike Geo, Jang, Express etc.)
not doubt about we all (thousands, may […]

Adil Najam
According to a news item in The News, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is going to implement a ban on growing beards - except for French beards - on all male cabin crew:
In a recent notification, PIA administration has announced to have reviewed its policy regarding beards, and said now male cabin crew could not […]

KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has strongly rebutted a report in a section of the press whereby he was attributed to have said that the decision for removal of barriers in Karachi will not be withdrawn at any cost.
Clarifying the report, Home Minister said that it had been decided in the Sindh Cabinet […]

I’m undecided as to whether the Pakistani legal system, in its entirety, is a bit like a monkey in a suit. Or like W, looking ridiculous in his Vietnamese Ao Dai. Or like Wasi Zafar, pretending to be a Law Minister. In each instance, you have an already strange creature made to wear something […]

Netsol might be a good stock to buy at its current price of $1.72. Look for it going back up to above $2… Earnings are up, and so is net profit. Netsol’s net profit is about 45% now, up from 38% last year. By any yardstick, thats also a fairly good number. 
Another interesting thing Netsol […]

A Sacking and A Coup
By Owen Bennet Jones
Wednesday, 20 October, 1999, 11:17 GMT
Islamabad, Pakistan - I was standing outside the television headquarters when the troops arrived. At first the soldiers asked to be allowed in, but officials on the other side of a high iron gate had their orders.
“No,” they said, “you can’t come […]