Salahuddin Khisraw Along the rippling Shandur Lake, people wake up in the tented city in cold atmosphere and wait for the most exhilarating match of the year. Polo is not just a game; rather it is a passion and craze of the mountain dwellers. Shandur is the highest polo ground of the world located at […]
The long-awaited 3G and 4G Spectrum Auction commenced and closed yesterday, after eight rounds of bidding as a result of which, the Government of Pakistan has managed to successfully raise $1.1 billion. Out of the four telecom providers competing in this auction, Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone managed to secure 3G licences, where as Zong owned
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“THE chief rarely expresses his personal opinion,” I vividly recall Gen Jahangir Karamat telling me over the telephone a few hours after he left his job as the chief of army staff all those years ago. My question to him was whether his proposal to set up a ‘national security council’ was a personal opinion
By Nasira Jabeen Though contradictory to common sense, it is true and, in fact, a paradox: ‘The child is father of the man’. The traits and habits predominant in children often foreshadow their later days except in cases where the reverse happens and promising childhood entails disappointing manhood. The truth of the statement will evidently
By Muhammad Jalaluddin Shamil “The queen of my dreams, the beauty of my village and the betrayer of my innocent feelings has ruined my life and continuously ruining her own by affiliating herself with an abominable time-passer boy, who is neither sincere with her nor can protect her in face of any calamity. What shall
