Yemen president says ready to quit within days
SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the face of more than eight months of street protests demanding his ouster, said on Saturday he is now ready to step down within days.
“I don’t want power and I will give it up in the coming days,” the veteran president said in a televised speech during which he launched a tirade against his opponents.
Kabul demands more US pressure on Pakistan
KABUL: The Kabul government on Saturday demanded that Washington increase pressure on Pakistan to act against insurgents using its soil to attack Afghanistan, saying Afghans were running out of patience.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with US regional envoy, Marc Grossman, in Kabul just days after President Barack Obama warned Pakistan there were “some connections” between its intelligence services and extremists.
Seven more die of dengue in Lahore
LAHORE: Another seven people including five women died of dengue fever in different hospitals on Saturday, raising the death toll to 205 in the city.
Dengue cases are on the rise and patients with high fever flocked to hospitals in the provincial metropolis.
Today, 60-year-old Mukhtaran Bibi of Baghbanpura, Mrs Iqbal (61) of Temple Road and Arooj of Dharampura lost their battle against dengue at Services Hospital while under treatment Rabia (24) of Kot Khawaja Saeed, Aliza (7) and Saeed of Bahawalpur died at Mayo Hospital.
Opinions / Editorials
Ideology and intolerance
MOHAMMAD Ali Jinnah visualised the state of Pakistan as “a homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent”.
Sadly, he did not specify precisely which sect of Muslims he had in mind. Although a Shia himself, he did not have a sectarian bone in his body.
Indeed, he was secular to the core, and this was the philosophy he bequeathed to the state he had created virtually single-handedly. This was a bequest we tore up even before he was laid to rest.
So as we witness the ongoing massacre of Hazara Shias (Read more)
LIKE the rest of the world, I’ve had the dubious pleasure of watching the long-running US-Pakistan soap opera/relationship plunge to new lows over recent weeks.
True, it made good headlines and certainly the cast of characters is interestingly colourful. Tough, gun-toting generals, shifty security officials, ruthless terrorists and — a new addition — a beautiful and classy woman, crowded on to an already very full stage, jostling for attention. (Read more)
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