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Swastika: Nazi’s mentality exists in Pakistan Click from Islamabad Photo by Aurangzeb Zalmay  

The supremacy of civil government over military was the rule of British monarchs. At time of independence, Pakistan also inherited the rules from British but did not retain it. Political leaders including Quaid-e-Azam emphasized the supremacy of constitution over civil authority and military .Both are subjected to constitution but not vice versa. In early days the military was limited to ...

BY WAKEEL KHAN | “Nowruz” is actually a Bronze Age, pre-Zoroastrian, proto-Iranian festival. In the beginning of the Iron Age, owing to a huge socio-economic change with the onset of Iron technology, Zoroastrianism emerged during 9th-7th centuries B.C. in East Iranian pastoral tribes, living along the rivers of Hilmand and Hari Rud (Tedzhen). Zoroastrianism was only a philosophical advancement on the ...

د نوروز منت په باغ دی، په صحرا هم نوراني یې شي له فیضه هغه، دا هم چې په باغ کښې رنګا رنګ ګلونه وا شي غنیمت ده د ګلونو تماشا هم د ګلونو هار په غاړه د دلبرو شرموي لال و یاقوت، لولو، لالا هم په هر ګل باندې ټټر مږي بلبلې بیا له شوقه په هوا کاندي نوا ...

Located in Saidpur, the restaurant seasons its dishes with just salt, which brings out the flavour unique to Namak Mandi | BY SANAM ZEB   Customers can see mutton tikkas grilling on an open spit and chicken tossed with fresh tomatoes in block woks over smouldering charcoal – Photo by Khurram Amin ISLAMABAD: By flavouring their grilled meat and most karhai ...

BEJI Caïd Essebsi, 89, was elected president of Tunisia in 2014 after running for the secular Nidaa Tounes party. Previously, he served as prime minister in 2011 and as foreign minister from 1981 to 1986. He sat down with The Washington Post at his presidential palace a few days before the country’s Independence Day, which it marked on Sunday, to ...

NAYPYITAW: Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will steer the incoming government of her National League for Democracy (NLD), staying on as party head, and is unlikely to take a formal position in the government, the party said on Sunday. Myanmar’s parliament last week elected Htin Kyaw, a close friend and confidant of the Nobel peace prize laureate, as ...

HAVANA: Stepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba on Sunday, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America’s former adversary. “This is a historic visit and a historic opportunity,” Obama said as he greeted staff of the new US Embassy in Havana. Air Force One touched down ...

AFGHANISTAN: The deputy house speaker of the Lower House of the Parliament, Wolesi Jirga, Zahir Qadir voiced concerns regarding cross-border incursions by the Pakistani military, saying such violations harms the national sovereignty of Afghanistan. Speaking during a press conference in Kabul, Qadir also noted other provocative moves by the Pakistani military, including establishment of military installations inside the Afghan soil. ...

ISLAMABAD: Mobile Services in Islamabad and Rawalpindi will be suspended partially from Monday to Wednesday, between 5 am to 3 pm or around. Mobile phone companies has confirmed that services will be blocked in selected areas of Islamabad and Rawalpindi due to 23rd March rehearsal parade by the armed forces of Pakistan. They said that PTA has issued orders for service closure. ...