ncreasing unemployment : 0.77 million Pakistanis fly overseas for jobs in 2015 on December 28, 2015SLAMABAD: The Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BoEOE), up until October 2015, registered 6,226 engineers, 1,925 doctors, 999 teachers, 3,859 accountants, 1,194 designers, 683 stenographers, 25,770 agriculturalists, 9,117 clerks, 50,992 masons, 30,309 carpenters, 28,508 electricians, 280,657 labourers, 114,534 drivers for overseas employment. The employment trends in 2015, up until October, forced 773,869 locals […]
After Attock on August 19, 2015While Shadi Khan village, along with the rest of the country, mourns Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada, the suicide strike that killed him in what many may have considered a peaceful and secure area of Punjab has focused minds finally on the fact that the terrorists are no respecters of our pre-conceived notions about them. Southern […]
Syrias endless war on August 18, 2015Airstrikes by the Syrian government on a market in Douma, in retaliation for attacks on government posts by an insurgent group (Jaesh-ul-Islam) have led to 112 casualties so far. Although the strikes were meant to target the Jaesh-ul-Islam headquarters, most of the people killed or wounded were civilians, making this one of the bloodiest attacks […]
MQM resigns from assemblies, Senate on August 13, 2015ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) lawmakers simultaneously submitted their resignations in the National Assembly, Senate and the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday, citing reservations over the Rangers-led operation in Karachi. MQM lawmaker Farooq Sattar while addressing the Lower House said that his party was the fourth largest in the NA, third largest in Senate and […]