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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, September 7 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has been in Pakistan today, highlighting the suffering of millions of flood victims and the need for continuing aid for the displaced. Jolie is travelling as the personal envoy of UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. On Tuesday she visited Mohib [Continue]
According to information just received, KB Feeder has been breached and flood water is moving fast to Chatto Chand about 10 kilometres east of Thatta city, the United Nations said late Friday. “National highway has been flooded. There is another breach at KB Feeder and flood is heading to Thatta,” UN humanitarian affairs office [Continue]
An elderly man on Saturday hurled his shoes at Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at a public meeting in British city of Birmingham, local television channels reported in their breaking news. There have been anger in Pakistan over Zardari’s visit to France and Britain in the wake of massive floods that have killed about 1,600 [Continue]
After the bilateral Strategic Dialogue meeting in Islamabad on July 19, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced several government-to-government partnerships with Pakistan that will strengthen cooperation in new information technologies, enhance mutual understanding between our diplomats and support the preservation of Pakistan’s [Continue]
What are those notorious Swiss cases which the Supreme Court has asked the government to reopen in its judgment against NRO? The decision of the Swiss judge who found Bhutto and Zardari guilty of corruption and receiving kickbacks in SGS Cotecna casae can be seen here. Late Benazir Bhutto, the two-time prime minister of Pakistan [Continue]
The core group of PPP on Saturday accepting the UN Report recommended to the Prime Minister to take appropriate legal actions in the light of the UN Inquiry Commission report on assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. The UN report released on April 15, inter alia, calls upon the competent authorities in Pakistan to make a [Continue]
I was really saddened after hearing the news about the death of eight children after a train smashed into a school van at an ungated railtrack crossing in the town of Mian Channu on Wednesday morning. Every year such accidents kill many people in Pakistan at the ungated railway crossings. For how long we would [Continue]
Political clashes between the activists of coaliton partners Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have claimed nearly 50 lives in Pakistan’s largest city and its financial nerve centre Karachi in past few days, bringing the coalition to the brinks. Interior minister Rehman Malik made a usual vague statement saying [Continue]
President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, has started talking about a conspiracy to dislodge him through a smear campaign by “non-state actors” aka fiercely independent media. He has not though named the entities hatching the conspiracy against him. [Continue]
US President Barack Obama Tuesday night telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari, a few hours before the launch of the new Afghan policy by the U.S. administration. President Barack Obama mentioned the broad outlines of the U.S. Afghan policy. President Asif Ali Zardari was among the five world leaders called by President Barack Obama on the [Continue]
