Dawn
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The Dawn Group of Newspapers is Pakistan's second largest newspaper group. It is published by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL). PHPL is a subsidiary of the Dawn Media Group. The group has an array of publications, as it tries to cater to the needs of both the financial and consumer bases. Although it has faced tough competition from the Jang Group since its creation, it has still managed to remain popular. The group is headed by the Pakistani media mogul Hameed Haroon, its current CEO. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Blackwater: Widening the rift
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 ...Posted by Sana Saleem -
The Taliban and music
In her latest book, The Case for God, Karen Armstrong describes music as ‘the limit of reason.’ She finds it inseparable from religious expression when religion is at ...via NewsRack -
In the name of religion
This month we will be commemorating for the 62nd year running the carnage which engulfed the subcontinent in the name of religion — violence in the name of religion refuses ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Negligence or complicity?
(Blog Post) The lesson is clear; the blasphemy law not only violates fundamental principles of justice, it distorts law into an instrument of sectarian witch-hunts and also of collective ...Posted by Sana Saleem -
Today, I too am a minority
(Blog Post) why is the Pakistani media referring to the recent attack by Muslims on the Christian community in the Gojra area as ‘communal riots?’ They were not riots, but an attack. ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Pakistani Christians shut schools to mourn Gojra killings
Pakistani Christians have closed their schools and colleges across the country for three days starting Monday to mourn and protest the killings of seven of their religious ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Supreme Court strikes down Nov 3 emergency
In what has been billed as a verdict that may change the course of the country’s political and judicial history, the Supreme Court on Friday denounced successive military ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Funds for the Taliban
US special envoy Richard Holbrooke’s statement in Brussels that the Taliban receive more money from their sympathisers in the Gulf countries than they obtain from the ...Posted by Jane C Wylen -
‘US wants IDPs settled before action in Waziristan’
Although Mr Holbrooke said it could be beneficial to have simultaneous offensives -- the US Marines on the Afghan side and the Pakistani army in Fata -- the greater concern is ...via NewsRack -
Swat — it’s too early to declare victory
Police and civilian administration personnel have started returning to their posts and electricity supply has been restored. The life is slowly returning to normal in the ...via NewsRack
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Spate of attacks leaves 27 dead, 30 injured in Lahore
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Pakistani Army top brass examines Kerry Luger bill
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 ...via NewsRack -
Iran’s intentions
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Afghan polls may head to second round amid violence
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Over a quarter of a million monitor Afghan vote
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Separated at birth
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
TTP leader dead in succession fight?
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 ...Posted by Roger Templeton -
Pakistani Taliban commander denies Baitullah dead
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 ...via NewsRack -
Baitullah Mehsud dead, aide confirms
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 ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The ‘green revolution’
the vast majority of our people still get their news from the radio and the television, as well as by word of mouth. There’s a mobile phone revolution underway in Pakistan ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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