In a significant move, the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday asked the Acting President Chaudhry Amir Hussain to suspend his election campaign as long he was the acting head of the state. The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq, through an order issued here said that Amir Hussain might refrain from visiting […]
Pakistan People’s Party Condemns Brutalization of Workers
The following is an official letter from the Pakistan People’s Party to Ground Reporter Gul Hamad Farooqi, an active political journalist in the Chitral region of Pakistan. January 14, 2008 Dear Gul Hamad Farooqi, Pakistan Peoples Party is going through its worst phase of its existence. Our beloved leader Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was martyred by […]
Inauguration of the Corporate Governance Week 2008
The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) is organizing Corporate Governance Week 2008 from January 13- 17, 2008. The inauguration ceremony of the Corporate Governance Week 2008 was held on January 13, 2008 in the Grand Ball Room of the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel. Adviser for ministry of Finance and Planning Dr. A.B. Mirza Md. Azizul inaugurated Corporate […]
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) – The hidden agenda of
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) – The hidden agenda of GMO, as the term implies, is organism whose genetic has been modified by techniques of genetic engineering generally known as recombinant DNA technology. The application of GMO is rather diverse from animals to plants and fungi of all kinds. Its purpose too are varied, chief among […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
The defiant meet their fate
Taking a stringent and extreme action against the party dissidents adamant on contesting the coming elections in violation of the party decision of boycott, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) expelled all the four dissenters including two former MPAs from the party besides pondering over a suggestion to contact the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for preventing them […]