QUETTA: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Senator Haji Lashkari Raisani on Monday said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had been sabotaging efforts to restore peace in Balochistan, Express 24/7 reported.
Speaking to the media in Quetta, Raisani said that the interior minister...
Pakistans nominal per capita income rose 16.9 percent to $1,254 in 2010-11 from $1,073 in 2009-2010, according to the Economic Survey of Pakistan. Using the IMF's purchasing power parity exchange rate of Rs. 34 to a US dollar (versus official exchange rate of Rs. 85 to a US dollar), Pakistan's...
April 20, 2011
By Majeed Babar, Charles Recknagel
What does it take for a Pashtun tribe in Pakistan to rise up against an extremist militia? The case of the Zakhakhel tribe in the Khyber Tribal Agency may provide an answer.
This month, the tribe came to blows with the fundamentalist...