Thursday, June 13, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier intelligence agency of the country, was given Rs600 million to accomplish one ‘special assignment’ on the directive of the Prime Minister. This sum was released to the ...

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party’s government was so kind to the Mutawalli (caretaker) of Rouza-e-Rasool (SAW) that a sum of Rs9.6 million from the tax payers’ money was handed over to him, budget documents reveal. Not only ...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The Governor Punjab did not promulgate the proposed Punjab Freedom of Information Ordinance 2013 though caretaker CM Najam Sethi wanted him to do it. The governor has left it for the new elected government to consider. ...

Monday, May 20, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: While the caretakers are busy making hay in sunshine, one of the key ministers of the interim set-up, Ahmer Bilal Soofi, has cautioned the caretaker government not to trespass its mandate by making long term deals, ...

Thursday, May 16, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Database and Registration Authority says that Nadra is ready to help out the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on verification of thumb impressions of voters in the constituencies where the political ...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Majority of the candidates of PML-N for National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan have lost their security deposits because they have failed to obtain the required number of votes. However, ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Only once in the 66-year national history, the voter turnout in general elections had crossed 60 percent and this high turnout resulted in the unexpected victory of a new political party, whose candidates were not known ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Usman Manzoor
Islamabad May 11 polls are rightly being dubbed as ‘youth elections’ as according to National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) more than 48 percent of the voters are below the age of 35, of whom majority lives in rural ...

Friday, May 10, 2013
Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: The May 11 polls are rightly being dubbed as ‘youth elections’ as according to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), more than 48 percent of voters are below the age of 35, of whom the majority lives in ...

Thursday, May 09, 2013
Usman Manzoor & Khalid Mustafa
ISLAMABAD: The caretakers are showing their ‘might’ by sending the defiant heads of state-owned enterprises who have refused to bow before the illegal orders of their ministers. The latest case is that of Oil and Gas Development ...