Ground breaking of Punjab's first Coal Power Plant

PM performs ground breaking of Punjab's first coal power plant Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. — File photo ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday performed the ground breaking of Punjab's first coal-fired power plant that will generate 1320 MW and help the country meet its chronic energy shortage. The project comprising two units of 660 MW each will be operational in two years time and start adding electricity...

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Peace Talks in Peshawar

N. Waziristan Taliban revoke peace accord; tell locals to leave PESHAWAR: The North Waziristan Taliban led by Hafiz Gul Bahadar have formally revoked the peace accord with the Pakistani government, a pamphlet distributed by the group in the tribal region said. The faction, as the pamphlet sent to media by Bahadur's spokesman Ahmadullah Ahmadi said, is now preparing to fight against what it said was the security...

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37 Prisoners released by India over Peace Talks

India releases 37 Pakistani prisoners Released Pakistani fishermen prisoners wait to cross the border to Pakistan at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post on May 30, 2014. — Photo by AFP ISLAMABAD: India on Friday released 37 Pakistani prisoners — five of them civil and the remaining 32 fishermen — and handed them over to Pakistani authorities at the Wagah border, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam told Dawn. However,...

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Routine consultations with India.

As follow up to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to India, Pakistan's High Commissioner to the neighbouring country, Abdul Basit, has been called to Islamabad for consultations. On the agenda is finalising the date and a range of issues for the foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries. Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam confirmed Basit’s summon to Islamabad for "routine consultations". The decision...

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Birth of Pakistan, declared as a proud event in world history

Pakistan was carved out from the rest of India in August 1947. It was made up of the region’s Muslim-majority areas on the west and east sides of colonial India. The creation of Pakistan had been the work of lawyer and politician, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and his All India Muslim League. Jinnah and his party’s ideologues had argued for a separate Muslim nation-state. They emphasised that the Muslims of South Asia were a different cultural entity...

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