Source: Daily Times
A permanent forum known as Friends of Pakistan was launched in New York on Friday with the mission to help Pakistan out of its economic crisis. It has been estimated that Pakistan would need around $15 billion to prevent its economy from collapsing. The Forum’s first substantive session, hopefully meaning actual execution of […]

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Source: Reuters
By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former detainees are preparing to sue the British government and intelligence services for alleged complicity in abuse of terrorism suspects by the United States and Pakistan.
The cases, if they reach court, would be among the first anywhere to examine alleged wrongdoing by spy agencies in […]

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Source: Episcopal Church
Pakistan-born Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is receiving special police protection after writing an article in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper during January in which he asserted that parts of Britain had become “no-go” areas for non-Muslims.
Police are investigating phone calls threatening Nazir-Ali that he would be “sorted out” and would “not live long” if […]

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Source: The News International
Op-Ed by Anjum Niaz
Hair blow dried with a hint of a mid-parting and temples conveniently left white to create that academic look, the Pakistani president took his road show to Europe. He did a minuet with Condi Rice. The setting at Davos was sufficiently strategic with a mini Pakistani flag sitting […]

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Sources: The Telegraph & News.com.au

His hair is greyer and his features are more rounded but Dr Hasnat Khan’s affection for Diana, Princess of Wales, remains undiminished by the passing of more than a decade.
The heart surgeon the late Princess described as “Mr Wonderful” is sitting on a sea-green sofa at his home in Pakistan.
Dressed in […]

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