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With numerous highs and lows for Pakistan, the year 2014 has passed. But, the wounds it has left on our hearts with Peshawar massacre won’t heal soon. The dark clouds of terrorism have been hovering over our heads for more than 13 years now. Terrorists have been on a killing spree but no serious efforts by our political leadership to …

Applications are invited from outstanding Pakistani nationals for the award of PhD scholarships, jointly funded by HEC and Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (CCT) for University of Cambridge, UK.  The scholarships will be awarded for academic session starting Fall 2014.

The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellowship Programme 2015/16

Rumors of regrouping of optional subjects by FPSC leave many CSS aspirants in the lurch, place professional degree holders at significant disadvantage Academics say ‘illogical’ new grouping will be futile in bringing better candidates to fore

Since this time a year ago, we’ve seen a number of popular releases that have changed the dynamic of the tech world. All we have been using in 2013 seems out of date now. What have we got to look forward to during 2014? Here are the top 10 things to watch out for in the new year.

Perhaps, Islamic banks can teach its western counterparts some basic principles very much linked to common sense which could enhance their financial stability three years after the credit crisis.

“I will give my life but I won’t bow to terrorists.” The lion of Karachi police and Pakistan’s toughest cop, as termed by ‘Reuters’, SSP CID, Chaudhry Aslam at last ran out of luck. This valiant, dutiful officer embraced martyrdom in a powerful bomb blast — the responsibility of which has been claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Mohamand Agency — …

Many of the long-held tenets of the energy sector are being rewritten. Major importers are becoming exporters, while countries long-defined as major energy exporters are also becoming leading centres of global demand growth.

The report was not acceptable to Muslims and both the Muslim members of the Committee, Syed Ali Imam and Shoaib Qureshi, refused to sign it. Syed Ali Imam could not attend the meetings of the Committee due to bad health. Introduction The wave of communal harmony between the Muslims and the Hindus in India, created in the early 1920’s by …

According to the Islamic Shariah, an Islamic State cannot impose any taxes upon its Muslim citizens, besides Zakat. As far as the non-Muslims living in an Islamic state are concerned, they become citizens of an Islamic state through an agreement between them and the Islamic state. Taxes upon these non-Muslims shall be governed by the agreement that was mutually agreed …