Saturday, April 11, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Shahid Malik, the UK’s first Muslim politician to be inducted into the cabinet two yeas ago, has now been promoted as Home Office minister in addition to his current role as justice minister. A formal notification from ...

Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: True that Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif have been disqualified by a controversial Supreme Court decision but there are possibilities that the script for their political elimination was written outside Pakistan. And ...

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: London has emerged as a leading world centre for Islamic finance in the last few years and despite the financial crunch provides an example how Islamic banking can provide a safer alternative to conventional financial ...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Taking a leaf from the fast-changing US foreign policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the UK has also appointed a special envoy for the two countries that are being described in Western diplomatic circles as the major cause ...

Saturday, February 07, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has written to the Pakistani justice minister and had demanded swift action against a former anti-terrorism judge accused of multiple crimes to defraud a British Pakistani of his land worth millions of ...

Sunday, February 01, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said his party would follow the model of parliamentary politics of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) rather than playing a second fiddle to either the ...

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Words pregnant with hope and promises of monetary support from the government and the opposition politicians are next to nothing for the British businesses as fears of bleaker times ahead are looming large over the country’s ...

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Elite Western defence experts believe that the US-led military intervention is faltering in Afghanistan and can collapse unless a robust diplomatic strategy, involving tribal outreach and a more coordinated international ...

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Democracy in Pakistan remains fragile and if the two leading political parties failed to come to terms with the realities of politics in the country and the region, situation can change for the worse. This was the observation ...

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: India and Pakistan may slowly move on to tackle problems that their governments feel are the most important to be taken care of, but hardline Taliban elements are telling the international media that the west or its allies in ...