Source: AFP
Pakistan’s top nuclear authority Saturday rejected claims by disgraced atomic scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that the army and President Pervez Musharraf sent centrifuges to North Korea in 2000.
Lieutenant General Khalid Kidwai, head of the Strategic Planning Division (SPD), told a select group of reporters there was “enough evidence” about the proliferation network that Khan […]

I just read this amazing news in Daily DAWN and would like to share with you all.
The leading Urologist of Chandka Medical College and Teaching Hospital Larkana Dr. Malak Hussain Jalbani has performed renal surgery of 50 years old patient Wazir s/o Arbab Ali Jagirani resident of Naaro District Khairpur Mirus Sindh and removed heaviest kidney […]

Source: Teeth Meastro
Guest Post by Zubair Ahmed
After reading Mr. Shakir Husain’s “Our Heroes” published in The News on 11th June 2008, I immediately dismissed one of my own hypotheses that said: ‘only’ senior military officers, given a chance to speak on high technology; reveal an uncanny ability to churn out opinionated nonsense.
Mr. Shakir fears “Essentially […]

Source: State of telecom Industry in Pakistan

I heard about this at TGP and followed a chain of obscure links to get to the pdf version of the Mobile Banking (including Money Transfers and Remittances) policy directive issued by Mr. Baqai, member (telecom). The five page document defines the main concepts and lays down the […]

With sheer anger, I report that this blog is blocked for access in Pakistan since 3 PM, Saturday, May 31st, 2008. A few minutes later, I noticed FASTRising blog blocked as well while other blogs seemed to work. It was late in the night that I was informed about the blockage of the complete blogspot […]

Source: Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment — a route to making a nuclear weapon — to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book by a journalist who knew the […]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
by Declan Walsh

FOR four years Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, has lived in the shadows, confined to his home in Islamabad since a tearful televised confession in which he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
The 76-year-old scientist has now returned to the spotlight, claiming […]

Source: PK Politics

The News reported that a special wide-bodied Air Bus A-310 plane has arrived here at the Chaklala base. It will take special passengers to a close neighboring country. Packing at an important house in Rawalpindi is in full swing as the modalities have also been finalized for the exit of the significant family.
Special […]

Almost an year back, following the links on the Google search results for ‘Baluchistan Geography’ I happened to visit a blog titled Gedrosia. The content at the blog came as a surprise to me and I dropped an email to the blog-owner. Today, I feel myself in a better position to understand his feelings, being […]

Source: Teeth Maestro
Last week, while the country was besieged with crippling food and energy shortages, the government authorised the Ministry of Agriculture to finalize a deal with Monsanto for the introduction of BT cotton. BT cotton’s global record, failures and dangers were not adequately publicised in the media. There has been no public debate to […]

Source: Arab News
On the day of our departure for Jeddah, with our bags packed and goodbyes dispensed with, our group found itself together at the coffee shop of the hotel. There each one of us talked about whether this trip had changed our opinions of Pakistan and its people.
This is a country of about 160 […]

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming […]

A comment left on a popular blog may be viewed by a few hundred people in one day. Multiply that by the lifespan of the blog and you’ll see that a simple comment may say a lot about you. Every blog comment is usually permanent. It’s not just a hyperlink but a long-term representation of […]

Source: Daily Times
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first telecommunication congress, TeleCON’2008, gets underway in Karachi from Tuesday (today) with arrangements complete to host the country’s premier telecommunication event in a befitting manner. Industry leaders from all over the country have arrived in the city to participate in the 2-day forum.
The congress is designed to discuss the emergence and […]

Source: AFP
Pakistan will purchase equipment from China to fight terrorist activity, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said.
China is one of the closest allies and largest arms supplier of Pakistan, which has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings in which more than 1,000 people have died in the past year.
“Pakistan has expressed the desire […]

Source: Dawn
ISLAMABAD, April 4: China will start manufacturing the first F-22P frigate for Pakistan Navy next week, official sources told Dawn on Friday.
According to the original schedule, the frigate called PNS Zulfiqar was to be delivered by the middle of this year.
The project will be launched at the Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai on April 7.
Three […]

Source : msnbc
3 soldiers killed, 2 injured during simulations to show off arsenal
POKHARAN, India - The Thar desert boomed with artillery guns as tanks kicked up dust and fighter aircraft flew on bombing runs.
It may have looked like war, but it was actually an elaborate simulation to demonstrate to international observers that India has become […]

The Pakistan federal govt has chalked up plans to facilitate the Information Technology sector with an objective of achieving $5 billion target of software exports till the 2010-2011 time period. According to TEVTA, Tech Education and Vocational Training Authority, the current level of software exports of the country was about $50 million dollars annually.
At present […]

Pakistan’s telecoms regulator has lifted the restrictions it imposed on video-sharing website YouTube. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has told internet service providers (ISPs) to restore access to the site, according to a spokeswoman.
Google, the owner of YouTube, confirmed service had been restored in Pakistan.
The attempt to block the site, reportedly because […]

The PTA has ordered all ISP’s to block YouTube because of “objectionable content”!! Here is an e-mail that a MicroNet customer got from the ISP:
Dear Valued Customer: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk) has directed all ISPs of the country to block access to www.youtube.com web site for containing blasphemous web content/movies. The […]

by Jasmine Rafique
If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.
In a proposal by two scientists, vehicle emissions would no longer contribute […]

Source: AFP
NEW DELHI - India, which recently staged its first military exercises with China, is ready to carry out naval manoeuvres with arch-rival Pakistan, the navy chief has said.
Admiral Sureesh Mehta made the offer late Thursday on the sidelines of the inaugural Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) in New Delhi.
“It would have followed as a […]

Source:United Press International
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Wednesday announced the test firing of a short-range, nuclear-capable Ghaznavi-Hatf III ballistic missile.
The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said the test was conducted by the strategic missile group of the Pakistani army’s Strategic Force Command at the end of annual field training exercises. It was the third missile test […]

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The JF-17 is a fighter jet co-developed by the Pakistani Air force and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China as a replacement to both nations aging fleet of MIG-21 derivatives and PAF’s Mirage III and V. The project was started in early 1990s and the project was awarded to Chengdu Aircraft Industry […]