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IMF Announces Staff Level Agreement with Pakistan on US$7.6 Billion Loan

By on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Press Release No. 08/285November 15, 2008 Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement on Pakistan today: "IMF staff and the Pakistani authorities have reached an agreement in principle on the key elements of an economic program to be supported by an SDR 5.17 billion (about US$7.6 billion) [...]

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India Signed a Defence Agreement with Qatar

By on Monday, November 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Qatar now a days. He met with Amir of Qatar Shaikh Hamad bin Khanlifa Al Thani in Doha today. They discussed bilateral relations and ways to enhance cooperation among the two countires. During this visit Indian and Qatari defense ministers signed a defence cooperation deal which an Indian [...]

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Pakistan’s Current Reserve of Foreign Exchange

By on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are dwindling by the day while Pakistan is struggling to get some cash from outside lenders. So far has not been able to get any cash. Saudi Arabia has offered some help in the form of deferred payment for oil imports. In the mean time foreign exchange reserves are depleting very [...]

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A Girl is Mauled by Dogs and Later Killed on the Pretext of an Honour Killing

By on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | No Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-274-2008 October 26, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission In May of this year a Jirga, an illegal tribal court, was held against a girl of 17 years in which she was declared as Kari (having had an illicit relationship with someone). This was done, according to the tribal [...]

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Highest Security For Former President Pervez Musharraf

By on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Interior Ministry has issued very strict instructions to heads of all the security agencies in Pakistan including home secretaries, frontier corps, rangers and inspector generals of all the provinces to provide foolproof security to former President Pervez Musharraf. According to the notification issued by the Ministry, it is mandatory to provide optimum security to the [...]

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Pakistani Troops Fire Across Line of Control

By on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Press Trust of India has reported that on October 27, 2008 Pakistani troops fired rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at Indian posts along Line of Control in Kashmir state. According to this news 10 shells were fired in a half-hour period in the Poonch District. No casualties were reported. Pakistan has not reported or commented on [...]

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Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari and Iftikhar Chaudary – Head-On Collision?

By on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Are they going to have a head-on collision. It seems so. Let us see what are their problems and how possibly they are going to tackle. Nawaz Sharif During the previous elections Nawaz Sharif had made very inflamed speeches against Pervez Musharraf. One of the issues he raised against Pervez Musharraf was removal of Iftikhar [...]

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Re-Appoinment of Sind High Court Judges

By on Friday, August 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Newspapers and TV channels reported in the last couple of days about the reinstatement of eight Sindh High Court judges as a "surprise move by President Pervez Musharraf". This initiative was not taken by the president. The PPP took the initiative and Prime Minister after consultations with Law Ministry sent the summary to President to [...]

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Governing Coalition Parties Charged Presdient Musharraf

By on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) and Asif Zardari (PPP) along with their coalition partners in the government formally charged President Prevez Musharraf on three counts using Article 47 of the constitution of Pakistan. They want to remove the president by impeachment. The three charges they have mentioned in the press conference are as follows; President has not [...]

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