Narrative Watch
Resuming Hearings: SC constitutes six benches for 2011
The Supreme Court has issued its first list of cases of national level in 2011 while constituting six benches for resumption of hearings. A three member bench of the apex...
Law ministry sticks to its guns over $20 billion LNG deal
The law ministry has denounced the petroleum ministry’s preference for awarding a $20billion LNG contract to the transnational consortium GDF-Suez. Officials in the law ministry issued the second consecutive legal...
Compounding the misery: Relief efforts halted in AJK
With the first snowfall of the season in upper Neelum and Jhelum valleys, Rawalakot and Haveli districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, most of the humanitarian organisations have halted their...
Wrong end of the stick?
Since moving to England, well over two years ago, I continue to find it difficult to explain Pakistan to westerners. They know Pakistan as a volatile nuclear state reeling from...
Blasphemy backtrack
It takes only a miniscule drop of rain to send the government scuttling for cover. The threat by religious parties to protest any change in blasphemy laws has lead to...
Little that is new
Going by the majority of predictions made by our local pundits who analyse to death the political situation, on that front 2011 is destined to bring in much of a...
Boney M frontman found dead
Boney M’s frontman Bobby Farrell was found dead in his hotel room in St Petersburg on Thursday, the day after a performance in the city where the band rose to...
Blast damages oil tanker in Chaman, injures one
A blast badly damaged a Nato oil tanker in the bordering town of Chaman in Balochistan on Friday. Official sources said unidentified people had planted an explosive device on the...
