KARACHI: Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Parvez Ashraf called on Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister House’s Saturday. The chief minister informed the federal minister about the water shortage in Sindh, power load …
… supportes of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda … parts of Punjab and Haryana Saturday evening as scores of Dera supporters protested against the registration of another murder case against their spiritual leader, Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh. “
It’’s not just that Shashi Tharoor is giving us English lessons. It’’s how he’’s giving English lessons.
With the news of “departure” playing big on channels back home, Tharoor questioned the interpretation. “An interlocutor is someone you speak to. If I speak to you, you are my interlocutor. I mentioned the Saudis as our interlocutors, i.e. the people we are here to speak to,” he tweeted.
I love that we live in an age where a story can end with the fact that someone important “tweeted” something and nobody bats an eyelid. Nobody except for me, I guess.
Anyway, I want to make three points about this. First, I actually like Twitter; it’’s grown on me a lot faster than Facebook ever did. It’’s great mainly because you get access to so many links it’’s not funny. Kudos, technology people. You finally came up with a website that actually makes our lives better/easier. It’’s been a barren run since the whole “web-based email thing” but you finally got one. Well done.
Second, more substantively, how desperate are the Indians feeling that they want to approach Saudi Arabia to rein in Pakistan? What’’s next, asking China to step in on their behalf? How did we get here? Everything from offering talks because they didn”t want the bus to leave for Afghanistan without them on it, to asking for the Saudis help smacks of “Hmm, we don”t have too many options here”-itis. The military/ISI must be feeling positively giddy right now, and if there’’s one thing we”ve learned, when they feel good about themselves is when we should start preparing for something enormously stupid and hubristic; a happy military/ISI is usually bad news for the rest of us.
Third, I”m sorry, Shashi Tharoor is one of those people I will never trust. Why? Because he’’s a South Asian who has an accent that makes him pronounce the word “power” like “par”, as in the golf term. Have you ever known a desi with that type of accent who you don”t hate? I didn”t think so.
A three day trade fair ‘Expo Pakistan 2010′ begins at Expo Center Karachi. Over 900 investors from 55 countries would be participating in the event. The event is being organized by Trade Development Authority. More than 400 stalls featuring …
India got their other goals through Prabhjot Singh and  Shivendra Singh. Sohail Abbas scored from a penalty-corner 11 minutes from time to reduce the margin for Pakistan. Sandeep Singh was named man of the match. England led 3-1 at the half-time.
KARACHI – The Sindh government on Friday notified the appointment of administrators in the Sindh province. The newly appointed administrators of 23 districts of the province will take oath on Monday. The DCOs will serve as administrators of their …
LAHORE, Feb 28: Chief of Awami Muslim League Sheigh Rashid Ahmed has announced that his party would boycott by-elections in NA-123 Lahore and PP-82 Jhang. Addressing a press conference he said, ‘the actual face of Punjab government has come into …
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ISLAMABAD: Notwithstanding the recent Indo-Pak foreign secretary-level meeting for which India took initiative, JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed has said Pakistan will have to “fight a war at all costs” if New Delhi is not prepared to hold talks. “India …
February 28, 2010: The Taliban has been forced to undergo a reorganization. For example, the the high command of the terrorist organization is the Quetta Shura (council), consisting of fifteen of the most senior leaders. But so far this year, seven …