Taliban show no let up despite 8,000 Pakistani soldiers in tribal areas

" Taliban hostilities in Pakistan show no sign of abating despite the deployment of 8,000 troops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the army’s claim of killing 1,000 Taliban. Officials say that a constant supply of fresh fighters from inside Pakistan and...

Pakistani students suffer as visa centres shut down

" Pakistani students interested in obtaining their higher education from various universities of the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are not able to go abroad even after they have been granted admission, because the visa centres have been shuttered. Students...

Pakistan needs $10bn to avert meltdown

" Pakistan immediately needs at least $10 billion to deal with the current economic crisis, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir has said. Bashir, who participated in the inaugural meeting of the Friends of Pakistan group, told a group of Pakistani journalists Friday night here...

Remittances from non-resident Pakistanis set to hit $7bn mark

" The inflow of remittances into Pakistan from non-resident Pakistanis in 2008-09 is set to surpass the mark of $7 billion for the first time in the country’s history. In FY [fiscal year] 2008 the inflow of remittances amounted to 6.45 billion dollars while the finance...

Opposition-controlled accountability body to dig up the dirt on Musharraf

"The influential Public Accounts Committee of the Pakistani parliament is now officially to be controlled by the opposition and headed by Nisar Ali, a close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and is likely to start with gusto by digging up the dirt on former...

Pakistan agrees to get counterinsurgency training from US

" A long-delayed plan to receive dozens of United States military advisers to Pakistan to train the army in counter-insurgency can begin in a matter of weeks under a new agreement on a training base, official sources here said Saturday. The sources said that military and...

Pakistan Cricketers Appeal to ICC After Australian Snub

The Pakistani Cricket Board is asking the International Cricket Council to change how national cricket teams plan their international tours. The request is a result of the Australian cricket team choosing to visit India, which recently suffered through a series of bomb...

Pakistan shutds down Asia's biggest salt mine

The Punjab Mineral Department in Pakistan has ordered shut the biggest salt mine of Asia located in the centre of the Salt Range in the northeast of the country, terming it dangerous. The order was passed during a visit of the Rawalpindi Mines Inspector Dilshad Baloch to the...

27 Pakistanis participated in ‘Big Bang’ experiment

"Twenty-seven Pakistani scientists and engineers participated in ‘Big Bang’ experiment proving their excellence in this complex field.Briefing mediamen on Tuesday about the role of National Center of Physics (NCP) in the ‘Big Bang’ experiments being performed at CERN...

9/11 anniversary: Pakistan has a new breed of Taliban

After the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, the US made Pakistan to jump into Washington's so-called war on terror but Islamabad could neither satisfy its bullying ally despite suffering huge losses nor could maintain order on its own soil, with the situation reaching...

Power prices in Pakistan go up by whopping 40pc

An unprecedented hike in prices of electricity by 40 per cent went into effect in Pakistan on Wednesday jolting a country of 160 million people already reeling under the highest inflation in the country’s history. www.maverickpakistanis.com