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National Oct 14: A Corps Commanders conference was held at the GHQ in Rawalpindi. Highlights The conference was attended by all corps commanders and principal staff officers. COAS Gen Raheel Sharif called for sustained efforts to defeat all hostile attempts to reverse the gains of Operation Zarb-i-Azb. He emphasised the need for effectively addressing the challenges to internal security. He …

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi The issue of the membership of non-NPT signatory states in the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group has been hanging fire since the last annual plenary of the cartel in Seoul in June this year. Since both India and Pakistan had applied for membership earlier in May, the plenary reportedly considered the matter but reached no conclusion as some …

By M Ziauddin By early 2000 Pakistan had become perhaps the most sanctioned country after Libya. In October 1990 the US had imposed sanctions against Pakistan under the Pressler Amendment for having crossed the nuclear red-line.  Next, new sanctions were imposed under Glenn and Symington amendments in May 1998 when we tested our basement bombs. The October 12 military take-over …

By: A.G. Noorani The writer is an author and lawyer based in Mumbai. “The upstream users of an international river are no longer entitled to the unrestricted use of (the waters) of such a river, and are bound, when taking decisions concerning its use, to take reasonable account of the interests of other users in downstream areas.” On Sept 25, …

National Oct 13: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani dismissed a reference filed by a lawyer, Moulvi Iqbal Haider, seeking disqualification of eight MQM senators. Oct 13: The Supreme Court adjourned a hearing on an appeal filed by Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, after Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman recused himself from the bench. 10 things you need to know …

Former captains hail team’s journey for the last 64 years By: K.R. Nayar Dubai: It has been a fascinating journey for Pakistan, who are playing their 400th Test match that started in Dubai on Thursday, after playing their first Test in the same month 64 years ago (from October 16 to 18, 1952) at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New …

By Aijaz Zaka Syed The writer is a Middle East based columnist. For those of us who generally admire President Obama as a man of principle, it is wrenching to watch his paralysis. As I see it, Syria has been his worst mistake, a huge blot on his legacy, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.      Kristof comes from …

Ahead of the upcoming Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, Pakistan will be paying particularly keen attention to exchanges between its two neighbours, China and India. The two countries have always shared an uneasy relationship as they vie for regional supremacy – something Pakistan has tried to take advantage of by developing a close alliance with China …

By Syed Mohammad Ali Why rich countries give aid to the developing world is a contested topic, concerning which it is not hard to find an extreme divergence of opinion. On one side, aid is considered no more than a ‘carrot’ dangled by powerful countries to entice the developing world to do their bidding. On the other hand, rich countries …

Editorial — Daily Dawn THE ‘good’ news is that there are a few countries worse off than us when it comes to the proportion of population that experiences hunger on a daily basis. But, needless to say, that is hardly much consolation. The newly released Global Hunger Index, the rather anodyne-sounding measure that ranks countries based on four criteria related to …