SINGAPORE: Oil prices eased in Asia on Friday as poor housing and employment data from the United States sparked c
May 162013
May 142013
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman, has resigned from her post on Tuesday, local media reported.
Sherry Rehman sent her resignation to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso.
Serving Pakistan Peoples Party for a long time, Rehman was elected to the National Assembly in 2002 on a reserved seat for women. She again returned in 2008 as MNA on women’s reserved seats. As PPP and its allies formed a government at the centre, Rehman was appointed federal minister for information and broadcasting the same year. However, she resigned from the position in 2009.
Rehman was eventually appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States after her predecessor Husain Haqqani resigned over the memo scandal. This year, she was awarded with Nishan-i-Imtiaz, the highest honour given to any civilian, for her performance as ambassador at a time when US-Pakistan relations were passing through a very difficult phase.
May 132013
Pakistan’s Ambassador to United States, Sherry Reham, has resigned from her post on Tuesday.
May 132013
The State Department Monday said Secretary of State John Kerry has called Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif to congratulate him on a strong showing in Saturday’s nationwide polls.
According to spokesperson Jennifer Psaki, Secretary Kerry called Nawaz on Monday afternoon and told the former prime minister he (Kerry) “looks forward to working with the government as the government is formed in Pakistan”.
“We respect the choice of Pakistani people and the United States looks forward to engaging with the next democratically elected government, when it is formed in the coming weeks,” the spokesperson said at the daily briefing.
The United States, she said has been encouraged by Pakistanis’ much larger participation in elections.
May 052013
Pakistan’s tribal belt may have been dubbed the world’s most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic tribesmen are defying the Taliban to vote for change at next week’s polls. More than 60 people have been killed in militant …
Apr 302013
WASHINGTON: United States of America has condemned terrorist attacks on politicians and their supporters during May 11 election campaigns, Geo News reported.
Addressing a press conference here, Spokesperson for State Department said ‘US supports freely participation of Pakistani people in election process. They have right to participate in polls in peaceful and democratic manner’.
The spokesperson said the US awaits free, fair and timely elections in Pakistan.
Apr 282013
SINGAPORE: Oil was down in Asia on Monday as weak economic data from the United States sparked concerns over a sof
Apr 242013
LOS ANGELES:
After battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it’s back-to-basics for Iron Man in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring the hottie we all love — Robert Downey Jr.
Iron Man 3, which opens in most of the world this Friday and on May 3 in the United States, has Downey reprising his role of superhero industrialist Tony Stark from the first two films as well as last summer’s The Avengers.
Collectively, the three films have made about $2.7 billion at the global box office in the past five years.
Iron Man 3, which continues Stark’s storyline from both sets of Marvel franchises, centres around the evil extremist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hell-bent on destroying the United States.
When The Mandarin destroys Stark’s personal world as well as his superhero suit, Stark must begin from scratch, rebuilding his suit, freeing the woman he loves and saving the country from destruction.
Bombs go off in crowds of people and buildings are destroyed in the film that the cast says reflects real-life threats.
“We do live in an unsafe world, that’s the truth,” Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Downey’s love interest Pepper Potts, told reporters at a news conference this week.
“I don’t think there is anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can’t lie to our children and pretend the world is perfect.”
Marvel’s first self-financed film, 2008’s Iron Man, became a global phenomenon, transformed Downey into a superstar and set off a chain of action movies that spawned other franchises, culminating in last year’s crossover film, The Avengers.
Paltrow said all three films work because of the similarities between the off-screen Downey and his brash-but-vulnerable Stark, and also owing to the actor’s persistence.
“One particular strength of Robert’s that we don’t see on screen is the fact that he’s always asking, ‘What is the big picture here? How can we make it feel real?’” Paltrow said.
“I think that’s why the movies keep working. They’re not a weaker carbon copy of the one before.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2013.
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Apr 152013
ISLAMABAD:
Despite increasing pressure from the United States, Iranian Consul General Hassan Darvishvand has said that the long awaited Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is to be completed “at all costs” by the end of 2014.
Darvishvand said that 110 million cubic feet of gas will be available to Pakistan per day under the project. This, he added, would solve much of the gas shortage in the energy-starved country, The Meher News Agency quoted. He said the pipeline, originating from Iran’s Faras province, would extend over a distance of 1,100 kilometres (km) within Iran, adding that a mere 100 km worth of work is left on the Iranian side of the project.
He said 780 km of pipeline will be laid within Pakistan and construction work began a month ago. The cost of the project in Pakistan was around $1.5 billion, out of which $500 million will be provided by Iran, while the rest of the cost will be met by the host country, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 16th, 2013.
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Apr 092013
Hours earlier, Davis had been navigating dense traffic in Lahore, his thick frame wedged into the driver’s seat of a white Honda Civic. A city once ruled by Mughals, Sikhs and the British, Lahore is Pakistan’s cultural and intellect…