Pakistan cricket team captain Younus Khan has confidently predicted victory for his resurgent team after they defeated favourites South Africa by seven runs in a nail-biting semi-final. All-rounder Shahid Afridi played a crucial role in the Pakistan’s victory by scoring 56 runs and taking 2-16 with his leg-spinners.
Jubliant Younus Khan said:
One more game and this World Cup is ours. In the big games we do well and now I think we will win this. We can take our chances and we can win the World Cup.
We are slow starters, we …

Celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has donated $1,000,000  to a United Nation’s refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between pakistani army and Taliban militants. Angelina Jolie has visited Pakistan three times to witness United Nations relief operations since becoming a ‘goodwill ambassador’ for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2001.
Most Pakistanis forced from their homes are living in government buildings or with host families, but more than 260,000 of them are in camps run by UNHCR.

The rapid growth of technical expertise in Pakistan is surprising for many. Most of the world sees Pakistan only through news media which shows mostly violance in the Country. However, consider this snippet from the BusinessWeek by Rachael King published on June 4 2009.
Pakistan has become the 20th most attractive outsourcing destination,  according to consulting management firm A.T. Kearney. Even as concerns increase about Pakistan’s stability and the growing displaced population due to ongoing military operations with the Taliban, the country made a significant jump on A.T. Kearney’s 2009 Global …

A little girl from Swat with some naan bread who has been forced to leave her home and move to a safer place in Pakistan due to Armed operation against Taliban.

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization mentioned in his artilce “The Destabilization of Pakistan” mentioned how the plans have been made to destablize Pakistan. Now, Professor Gary Leupp has articluated that how the war on terror is resulting in destablization of Pakistan. Here are some excerpt from his article.
So far the principle result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following the events of 9-11 has been the destabilization of Pakistan. That breakdown is peaking with the events …

According to NYT, Pakistan has accelerated developping its nuclear arsenal. Members of the Cogress were told about the Pakistani nuclear arsenal in confidential briefings. If it is appearing in the newspaper headline, then it cannot be confidential or one of the Members attending confidential briefings could not keep it confidential. Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff when asked whether he had seen evidence of an increase in the size of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal replied quickly, “yes”.
NYT has also quated Bruce Riedel, the Brookings Institution scholar who …

By Riaz Haq
Amidst major counterinsurgency operations in and around Swat Valley and growing refugee crisis, there are signs of optimism by investors and bond holders in Pakistan’s economy. The KSE-100, Karachi’s stock index, is up 27 percent this year, compared with a 12 percent gain in MSCI’s emerging-market stock index of 26 emerging economies, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. The Pakistani rupee, which declined 22 …

Pakistan’s drive to overcome its chronic energy shortages received a boost when France expressed willingness to transfer civilian nuclear technology to the South Asian country to meet its energy requirements. This was decided during the talks between the visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy here Friday. Briefing media about the meeting, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the negotiations regarding the transfer of civil nuclear technology will be held in July this year and a new framework agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is …

Will Pakistani government and army be able to win heards of minds of people in northern areas of Pakistan?

“Women to Reclaim Public Space” Women’s Action Forum held a program of defiance and resistance at Karachi-Pakistan Press Club on 8th May 2009. Arundhati Roy was the closing speaker.
Taliban boy’s interview who asked the interviewer that government can ban the plastic shopping bags by making law then why can’t government of Pakistan ban women to not to come out of the houses? The point is that the plastic bag was made in a factory but so was the boy. He was made in a factory that is producing this kind …