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NRO case: No to Zardari, Musharraf affidavits Listen ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over the affidavits submitted by former presidents Asif Ali Zardari and General (retd) Pervez Musharraf regarding their assets and directed them to provide within three weeks the 10-year record of assets and foreign and local bank accounts owned by them. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umer Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsen, resumed hearing into the petition filed by Feroz Shah Gilani, praying to order recovery of ‘huge amounts of public money’ misappropriated and wasted by them through unlawful means ‘already on record in different judgments of the Supreme Court and high court'. The petitioner had made former presidents Pervez Musharraf, Asif Ali Zardari and former attorney general Malik Qayyum as respondents. The petitioner had contended that Pervez Musharr...

World Bank ready to support reform agenda of new Pakistani govt Listen ISLAMABAD: The World Bank Wednesday said it was ready to support the reform plans of the new Pakistani government for stabilizing the economy and accelerating growth to end poverty and boost prosperity. The commitment was made by the World Bank’s newly appointed Vice President for the South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer, when he met the government and key counterparts to discuss Pakistan’s development priorities and reform agenda, according to a statement issued by the World Bank. “The visit gave me an opportunity to learn more about how we support millions of people in Pakistan, especially the youth, through investments in health, nutrition, education, skills and the digital economy,” Schafer said. During his two-day stay in Islamabad, Schafer met Finance Minister Asad Umar, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and Advisor, Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production, and Investment Razza...

What are the best recommended research topics on databases according to edge technologies and recent research trends? Acording to the  DBWorld  mailing list trends the hottest topic of research today is  Distributed Databases   (tera-scale and peta-scale):  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/ Also see  VLDB  conference program:  http://www.vldb2010.org/accept.htm  and  CIDR :  http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/p... Check out  Google Research   papers on  Distributed Systems  :  http://research.google.com/pubs/...  and  Information Retrieval  :  http://research.google.com/pubs/...  and  What are the most interesting Google Research papers? See  Microsoft (company) 's  recent publications in the field:  http://research.microsoft.com/en...  and the list of major conferences:  http://academic.research.microso... I highly recommend the research blog by...

Opposition split paves easy path for Arif Alvi By  Irfan Ghauri Published: August 28, 2018 SHARE   TWEET   EMAIL Monday noon was the deadline for submission of nominations and Ahsan and Fazl filed their separate nominations. PHOTO:FILE ISLAMABAD:  Efforts to regroup the opposition against the ruling coalition for the September 4 presidential elections, have failed as two candidates – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman – on Monday separately filed nominations from the opposition side to compete against PTI’s Dr Arif Alvi. Fazl made yet another failed attempt to woo the PPP to withdraw its candidate later in the evening. He met former president Asif Ali Zardari and requested him to withdraw PPP’s candidate, which the latter declined. Division in the opposition ranks would benefit the PTI, which could have faced tough competition had the opposition been united. Ah...

India and America Alert and Shock Due to Imran Khan بھارت عمران کی عقل و دانش سے پریشان ہے، کیرالہ میں طوفان کے متاثرین کی امداد کا اعلان کرکے عمران نے مودی کو آئوٹ کر دیا ہے۔ واہ رے عمران، تیری سفارتکاری ایک ہی جھٹکے میں امریکہ اور بھارت کو بتا دیا کہ اب ایک باغیرت حکمراں آچکا ہے آج کا کالم روزنامہ جنگ میں " صرف چھ ماہ"

Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa congratulated Prime Minister Imran Khan on assuming the top ministerial job during their meeting on Monday,  DawnNewsTV  reported. The PM and the army chief discussed the country's security situation in what was their first meeting since Khan become the 22nd premier of Pakistan. The two leaders vowed to maintain their efforts to ensure long-lasting peace and stability in the region. Khan had formally assumed the office of the country’s chief executive following an  impressive oath-taking ceremony  at President House on August 18, which was attended by a number of dignitaries, including senior PTI members, parliamentarians, services chiefs, diplomats and celebrities. In 2017,  Khan and Bajwa had held their first meeting  when the former congratulated the latter over his promotion and appointment. The congratulatory visit had taken place almost four months after the appointment of the army chief. ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that the absence of an international policy against the generation of blasphemous content is a "collective failure" on part of the Muslim countries. Addressing the Senate for the first time as prime minister, Imran Khan said his government will raise the matter before the United Nations (UN), adding: "However, I do not think that would do much." The Senate had passed a resolution to bring the UN's attention to the matter regarding the announcement by the leader of Dutch Freedom Party and Parliamentarian Geert Wilders to  hold a competition of blasphemous caricatures . The Foreign Office (FO) last week had called the charge d'affaires of the Netherlands to  record a protest against the announcement by Wilders . "Our government will raise the matter in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and ask the Muslim countries to come up with a collective policy that could then be brought up at international...