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Pak is a country in slow meltdown: Vanda

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is a country which is in a slow meltdown, an eminent American expert has told lawmakers, a development which she argued would be extraordinarily bad for the region and for the United States.

 

“It’s a country in a meltdown, or slow meltdown, if you would, like crumbling. And of course the consequences of a more fundamental crumbling in Pakistan beyond FATA but in Punjab would be extraordinarily bad for the region and for the United States,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the prestigious Brookings Institute yesterday.Read More »Pak is a country in slow meltdown: Vanda

THE DRONES IN REWARD

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER According to media reports, the new ISI chief, General Zaheer-ul-Islam would be there in Washingtonon 2nd of this August to hold talks with CIA Director David Petraeus on counter-terror cooperation and intelligence… Read More »THE DRONES IN REWARD

UMAR CHEEMA RECONCILE PLEASE

By Muhammad Javed

Umar Cheema is not merely a senior but also a serious investigative journalist. That is why according to anchor Khalid Butt, his “Qeema” was made.  On the issue of dual nationality last week he wrote an article, the reference and contents of which became hot topic and base of many sane voices in more than a dozen talk shows.  In his said  article showing  figures and ratios he apprised the nation to the anger of PPP that it was the poor Pakistanis working in the Middle East holding only  Pakistani passports sending more money compared to their earnings the rich Pakistanis holding dual nationality from Europe contribute through their remittances.  This had to be relied because same day simultaneously an international report also appeared as how the remittances were playing its role in the development and sustainability of many countries.  In case of Pakistan the ratio and figures shown in this international report were taken from the World Bank data.

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KARACHI: PTA restricts SIM purchase limit up to 5 per CNIC

 By Muhammad Yasir (Daily Times report)

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has revised the limit for purchase of SIMs from 50 to five for one individual in its amended Subscribers Antecedents Verification Regulations.

According to the new rule issued on Tuesday, an individual can get subscription of five SIMs – prepaid or postpaid—on one Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) from different or one cellular phone companies.
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