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The ‘old city’ of Lahore

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - By Apf - Jan. 22 () - Rapid and illegal growth is crowding out the “old city” of Lahore – the section of the eastern hub fortified by a wall during the Mughal era – while its unique carved wood balconies jutting on to brick-lined streets fall into disrepair.

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EU agrees extra 1.3 bln euro for nuclear fusion

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:27:19 -0800

Dawn - By Reuters - Dec. 02 - BRUSSELS: The European Union has agreed to pump an extra 1.3 billion euros over the next two years into an international project to develop nuclear fusion technology, the bloc’s executive said on Thursday. Most of the extra funding for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will come from cutting EU administrative spending and funding for [...]

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US preparing for post-Assad Syria: report

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:19:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - Sep. 20 - Members of Syrian opposition living in Turkey, wave their national and Turkish flags as they stage a protest against the Syrian regime outside the United Nations headquarters in Ankara on September 19, 2011. – AFP Photo WASHINGTON: The United States is i

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WikiLeaks – Our own truth

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Faisal Kapadia - May. 24 (Opinion) - On May 2, 2011, the US SEALs carried out the now nefarious mission to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without knowledge of our armed forces or government until what seems like the last moment. We as a nation woke up in an outrage. We were upset because our territorial sovereignty had been challenged, we [...]

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Cannes kicks off with hommage to Bertolucci

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 12 - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

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British boy wears skirt to school in protest

Wed, 11 May 2011 10:57:12 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 11 - LONDON: A 12-year-old British boy wore a knee-length skirt to school in protest against a school uniform policy banning boys from donning shorts during warm weather, according to a report Wednesday. Chris Whitehead also addressed more than 1,350 pupils at morning assembly wearing the black skirt, which boys are permitted to wear due to a [...]

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Minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti assassinated in Islamabad

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - Mar. 02 (News) - Gunmen shot and killed Pakistan’s government minister for religious minorities on Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani figure who had urged reforming harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.

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Fear and silence

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Mohsin Hamid - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - To understand what the persecution of Ahmadis achieves, we have to see how it works. Its first step is to say that Ahmadis are non-Muslims. And its second is to say that Ahmadis are not just non-Muslims, but apostates: non-Muslims who claim to be Muslims. These two steps are easy to take: any individual Pakistani citizen has the right to believe whatever they want about Ahmadis and their faith.

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Delta jet diverted in US by passenger bomb claim

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:16:12 -0700

Dawn - Apr. 28 - BOSTON: A Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta from Paris was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a passenger made threats about a bomb and was subdued by US air marshals before being taken into custody upon landing, authorities said. The male passenger, an

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Kyrgyzstan's deposed president flies to Kazakhstan

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:21:04 -0700

Dawn - Apr. 15 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev flew out from the sourthern city of Jalal-Abad in a military transport aircraft, witnesses said.

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Nepal's “living goddess” eyes banking career

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Apr. 07 (News) - Like her predecessors, the 15-year-old will retire upon reaching puberty but her education renders a different life for her now.

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Israeli intransigence

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:11:02 -0800

Dawn - Jan. 25 - While there is not much new in Sunday’s declaration by the Israeli prime minister that his country will retain — read annex — parts of the West Bank, what is striking is the categorical tone that was adopted. With America’s special envoy George

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India’s unhelpful attitude

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - By Tariq Fatemi - Jan. 14 (News Analysis) - India’s long tradition of democracy has given the country an image of a responsible and restrained nation. But this view is not shared by India’s neighbours, especially the smaller ones. The past 60 years have shown India’s tendency to throw its weight

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Al Qaeda in Yemen

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - Jan. 05 (Editorial) - Yemen, it appears, is the new Fata, an Al Qaeda base where wicked plans to destroy western civilisation and overthrow governments are being hatched. Or at least that is the gist of some of the more hyperbolic commentary since the Christmas Day attempted plane bombing in the US was linked to an Al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen. Does Yemen have an Al Qaeda presence? It certainly appears so. Air strikes on Dec 17 and Dec 24, allegedly carried out by the US, targeted suspected Al Qaeda militants there.

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President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - Dec. 17 (News Report) - President Asif Ali Zardari faced fresh calls to step down Thursday after the Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected the increasingly unpopular leader and several of his political allies from corruption charges. The decision late Wednesday sharpened political tensions in Pakistan just as the United States and its other Western allies want it to unite and fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants based along the Afghan border.

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Spate of attacks leaves 27 dead, 30 injured in Lahore

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Oct. 15 (News Report) - Teams of gunmen attacked three security sites on Thursday in Lahore, killing a total of 27 people and leaving at least 30 injured. One of the attacks, on the Elite Police Academy on Bedian Road, lasted into Thursday afternoon before security forces killed the five attackers and freed a family they were holding hostage, police said.

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Pakistani Army top brass examines Kerry Luger bill

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Iftikhar A. Khan - Oct. 08 (News Report) - The military-government differences on the conditions attached to an aid legislation approved by the US Congress, the so-called Kerry-Lugar bill, became more pronounced on Wednesday after the army’s top commanders, through a carefully drafted press statement, expressed their ‘serious concerns’ on some of the clauses of the bill that they believe would affect ‘national security’.

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Iran’s intentions

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Sep. 28 (Editorial) - IRAN’S disclosure about its upcoming uranium enrichment facility has expectedly upset the US and its western allies. As it is the two sides have been trading charges and counter-charges since 2003 when Iran’s nuclear programme came to light.

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Blackwater: Widening the rift

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Sana Saleem - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Conspiracy theories have always had high currency in our part of the world and ritual cynicism towards America is quite usual. Recent reports claiming the presence of CIA’s contractual army – Blackwater – in Pakistan have bolstered concerns within the Pakistani public about US involvement in this country’s affairs. It’s high time, though, that the government came clean with the public about the extent of US involvement in this country’s security affairs.

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Afghan polls may head to second round amid violence

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Aug. 22 (News Report) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top challenger said on Saturday he has reached out to several other candidates – but not the incumbent – in the days since the presidential election, and that a second round of voting was likely.

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Over a quarter of a million monitor Afghan vote

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Aug. 19 (News Report) - More than a quarter of a million election observers have fanned out across Afghanistan to monitor Thursday's landmark polls in a massive multinational operation to guard against fraud and violence.

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Separated at birth

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Mahir Ali - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - The probable decapitation of a leading faction of the Pakistani Taliban could be considered an auspicious augury in the run-up to the nation’s Independence Day, although the delay obtaining confirmation of Baitullah Mehsud’s demise also serves as a reminder that, notwithstanding their nomenclature, the tribal areas are not in any meaningful sense federally administered.

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TTP leader dead in succession fight?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Pazir Gul - Aug. 09 (News Report) - A key Taliban commander was killed in a struggle over succession to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud at a shura meeting in South Waziristan, government and security officials said on Saturday.

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Pakistani Taliban commander denies Baitullah dead

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Aug. 08 (News Report) - A fellow commander in the Pakistani Taliban insisted that Baitullah Mehsud, the movement's leader, was alive, the BBC reported on Saturday, rejecting government claims he had been eliminated in a US drone strike.

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Baitullah Mehsud dead, aide confirms

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Aug. 07 (News Report) - Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a US missile strike, a Taliban commander and aide to Mehsud said Friday.

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