In second day (December 28) of NRB conference, a seminar on ‘Informal sector and urban environmental management legacies in planning’ was held. At the seminar ATM Nurul Amin, professor of Urban Environmental Management at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, delivered a keynote speech. ASM Rashidul Hai, secretary to housing and public works ministry, […]
The promise of law
I needed to travel out of the country for a friendÕs wedding last week. My passport had run out of pages and I needed to apply for a new one. I deposited the enhanced fee for an urgent passport and was informed that even this expedited process could take four to five working days, which […]
Pakistan keeps her heritage of Assassination
December29, 2007 Pakistan keeps her heritage of Assassination. RAWALPINDI- PAKISTAN…——— Ms. Benazir Bhutto,54, the opposition leader and twice-serving prime minister of Pakistan was shot , according to differing sources, in the neck, as she was standing in the open sunroof of a car and waved to crowds Thursday evening. A suicide activist, riding on motorcycle […]
The Iyabo Obasanjo scandal
The dark tale involving Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, daughter of the immediate past president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, is quite disturbing. The senator is embroiled in a contract scandal that has the twin potential of stalling her rising political profile and advancing another justification – for many Nigerians – that the Obasanjo regime was a nest of […]
Uncertainties as Pakistan ends bloodiest year in history
Although the outgoing year, in its usual mixed bag way, threw up a number of good times and bad sides, for the Asian nation of Pakistan, 2007 was an exceptionally terrible year. Founded on August 14, 1947, the receding year marked Pakistan’s Diamond Jubilee, but instead of celebrations and projections of this nation’s strong sides […]
Death of a daughter
October 18, 2007 was the day Benazir was supposed to triumphantly return home to Pakistan after eight years in exile. On her way from the airport to the rally point suicide bombers attacked, killing about 140 people. She survived. Immediately her detractors started sending out the following: ÒBenazir Bhutto, she takes 18 hours to travel […]
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