Pakistan is currently amongst the most water-stressed nations of the world. In this context, the construction of small storage dams – like the Dadhocha dam being built by FWO in Rawalpindi - can play a key role in improving water supplies to towns and agriculture. It is estimated that the country offers sites for around 750 small dams.
Author and retired naval officer discusses the intricacies of the India- Pakistan partition, which was not only hugely mismanaged by the British but also deliberately pushed as such by Indian politicians;
blatantly stacked against Pakistan, in the hope the country would collapse.
A much needed positive step from Pakistani Govt of PM Imran Khan making it possible for Afghan refugees and other unregistered communities to open bank accounts and do all sorts of businesses inside a documented economy.
Chinese Government and even the companies themselves have reportedly rejected the request by Pakistan's government to review the rate-of-return on the power projects set up under CPEC. The projects are 25 per cent more expensive than the average IPP contracts signed.
The Minister said that the government would utilize the package given by the IMF in the productive sectors, so that the process of sustainable development could continue in the country.
Farah Adeed, a doctoral candidate at San Diego University, California, reviews Mustafa Akyol's intriguing book, "Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance" and also examines the Muslim intellectual debate between Asharites and Mutazilites
Peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban negotiators started last year in the Qatari capital of Doha, but have not made any substantive progress.
In an usually strong tone, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs assert that China and Pakistan will work together to hold accountable terrorists of Dasu and bring them to justice - it is believed that RAW and NDS were behind this terror attack on Chinese engineers.
BES also said that Huawei never paid for some of its software, and that Huawei is misusing its trade secrets in similar “Safe City" projects in Pakistan and around the world.