Attribute it to his relentless hard work spanning over half a century or call it a result of the privatisation policy that ultimately proved favourable to his group of companies, the fact remains that Mian Mansha is undoubtedly the face of corporate Pakistan today — an icon of the rising private sector of the country whose counsel government officials feel obliged, and perhaps even privileged, to seek. Thus, it was least surprising to see nearly all big shots of the country’s financial services industry
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------------------------------------------------- History of Media in Pakistan By Bilal Naseer Khanzada • Mar 15th, 2011 • Category: Politics • 6 Comments When we talk about media, we must know its history. Media history is based on PRINT media or we can say that it is the oldest media of mass communication. Greater masses can abstract the information after its emergence. They allow reader to control exposure. In the beginning (1947), Pakistan started a weak press with very little rules and regulations
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Pakistan election violence forces candidates behind high walls Dozens killed in attack on political rally in Pakistan Mon, May 6 2013 [pic][pic] [pic] By Katharine Houreld PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Mon May 6, 2013 7:24pm EDT (Reuters) - Mian Hussain is fighting for his political life from a deserted party headquarters, where two telephones sit silently beside him and the footsteps of a tea boy echo down the corridor. One of Pakistan's most high-profile anti-Taliban politicians, Hussain hasn't been
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Provincial Economic Development: Performance, Challenges, and the Way Forward Khalid Ikram* 1. Introduction Analyses of economic development in Pakistan have traditionally followed a “top-down” approach. They examine the behavior of macroeconomic indicators for the country as a whole, referring only in a general, even cursory, manner to the trajectories of each province, and even more summarily to the policy issues, constraints, and opportunities that confront the different provinces. The implicit
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Introduction Khaled Hosseini (born march 4, 1965) is an Afghan –born American novelist and physician. After graduating college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likens to "an arranged marriage" for him. Hosseini is a relatively new author. He has published three novels in ten years. His first novel The Kite Runner is considered as first novel written in English by Afghan writer. Hosseini's works reflect a wide range of important current events and contemporary issues
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remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father. The assassination attempt sparked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle wrote
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but he cannot do anything about it, he must just accept the fact that he is not American, but only a lowly worker with green card. He has been a taxi driver for eight years; it is only at this way he can give economically support to his family. In Pakistan he was a respected man who has owned a spare-parts shop. Riaz seems to be religious because he listens to the Holy Quran on the radio. He seems also to have hold on to his tradition. He criticizes the Pakistani boy’s behavior because it is not that
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Introduction: Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan – America physician. He is the Afghan writer who wrote his novel in English in which he conveyed a message about Afghanistan before the world. Khaled Hosseini in his novel magnificently depicts of the social, economic, religious, and political aspects of the Afghanistan. He shows us how are the morality and honesty degraded by politically, socially, economically, and sexually in Afghanistan that can alert any conscious citizen in the world against immorality
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the women, the restriction the forced on the women, and health issues that where caused by the Taliban regime. Taliban is a Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan. They developed their extremist interpretation of Islam in the refugre camps of Pakistan during the war in 1979-1989. The Taliban fought against the Mujahedeen for control of the country. With this victory they came back to the heart of Afghanistan which is know as Kabul the capital of the country. On September 27, 1996 the take over
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on Afghanistan involves the improvement of the nation’s security and infrastructure, yet this policy is in fact generating more destabilization in the region, particularly because of the US’s continuous support of the government of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The United States current policy on Afghanistan deals with preventing the Taliban from taking control of the government once again, ending Al-Qaeda leadership and infrastructure, eradicating narcotics production and helping in the securitization
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