Over 125 participants of a procession led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto upon her return to the country lost their lives on Thursday night after two powerful blasts rocked the slow-moving motorcade edging its way past the Karsaz bridge, on Sharea Faisal. At least 100 people were injured in the explosions. Former FIA chief […]
Internet’s Impact On Political Campaigning
For most of the people who inhabit this green earth, the internet is pretty much our life blood of information. Whether we’re downloading music, playing computer games, reading the news, watching the news, chatting, and what not, all of this can be done on the internet. We now live in the digital age where hi-speed […]
MDC gets its politics right
It’s a question still vexing a lot of people’s minds. Did the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sell-out when it voted with the ruling party on Constitutional Amendment Number 18 which will usher harmonised presidential, parliamentary and local government elections? MDC allies said it had sold out and were threatening to withdraw their […]
Mugabe keeps everyone guessing
Zimbabwe’s crucial elections are just six months away but President Robert Mugabe is keeping everyone, including his own lieutenants, guessing. No one knows exactly when the elections will be held. But more importantly who will be contesting especially from his own party Mugabe has been endorsed as the party’s presidential candidate and only God […]
The impact that Princess Diana left on the world 10 years later
Diana, Princess of Wales was someone the entire world looked at and had their eyes on since she emerged on the scene when she was the shy 19 year old as Lady Diana Spencer, but upon her July 1981 marriage to Prince Charles she came away with the title(s) HRH, The Princess of Wales, Countess […]
Twin blasts in Rawalpindi kills 31, injures 70
Saeed Minhas writes from Islamabad: A chilling response to Musharraf’s on going military operation in tribal areas was given by the Islamic militants on Tuesday morning as they blew off two powerful bombs in the heart of army controlled Rawalpindi cantonment area killing 31 people and injuring over 80 people, 30 of them critically. Twenty […]