Will this blog be the last time I get to express myself?
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...
” This is the opening sentence of George Orwell’s 1984 and reading this again, I can’t help but smirk
Blogs
-
-
World‘Utterly false, complete fiction’: White House dismisses blog post alleging US behind Nord Stream explosions
The White House on Wednesday dismissed a blog post by a US investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind explosions of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as “utterly false and complete fiction”...
-
Pakistan‘COAS green-lighted NAB action in DHA Valley scam’
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif had green-lighted stern action against retired military officers and civilians involved in the Rs62 billion Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Valley scam around six months ago, sources in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have told Dawn...
NAB has recently started flexing its muscles against Bahria Town chief Malik Riaz, brothers of former army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani...
-
PakistanNAB asked to investigate Kayani’s involvement in DHA Valley scam
ISLAMABAD: This may be the first time since his retirement that the name of former chief of army staff (COAS) retired Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has surfaced in connection with a massive land scam...
A former official from the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), retired Lt Col Tariq Kamal, on February 22 asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to investigate whether Gen Kayani was involved in “irregularities/misappropriation”...
-
PakistanNAB arrests two retired military officers, civilian in Rs500m DHA Islamabad scam
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau, Rawalpindi has arrested two retired military officers and a civilian officer as the main accused in connection with the DHA Islamabad farmhouse project scam amounting to Rs500 million, said a press release issued by the accountability watchdog on Thursday...
Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal, who is the ex-administrator of DHA and Col (retd) Sabahat Qadeer Butt, ex-director project of DHA were...
-
ArchiveNaran Valley paralysed by heavy snowfall
MANSEHRA/PESHAWAR: A spell of heavy snowfall paralysed Naran Valley, one of the popular tourist spots in the country, on Sunday...
Over 1,000 tourists were stranded in the valley and long lines of cars and other vehicles were there on roads blocked by piles of snow...
-
ArchiveTackling climate change: How a valley in Pakistan is learning to live with flash floods
High temperature and heavy rain created havoc in the remote Chitral Valley in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayas mountain ranges this July...
The neighbouring Bagrot Valley was just as vulnerable, sitting in the path of numerous mountain streams and five glaciers, three of them hanging right over the valley...
-
ArchiveAnother symbol of resilience from Swat valley
He lost not only his arm but also 18 of his relatives as he along with other elders gathered in a mosque were attacked by militants in 2008 when militancy was at its peak in Swat valley...
Khursheed Alam left the valley as the militancy reached the point where the government had to launch an operation, Rah-i-Rast, against militants...
-
Pakistan22-year-old lieutenant martyred in attack on Rajgal valley border: ISPR
The 22-year-old lieutenant was martyred earlier today in a terrorist attack on the Pakistani post in Rajgal valley...
The Pakistan Army recently concluded Operation Khyber IV in the Rajgal valley and declared that the area was cleared off terrorists...
-
PakistanInsta's top 10: A trip from Kalash valley to Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Dawn...
com is now on Instagram and we are taking submissions from across the country -
ArchiveSilicon Valley has become a dream factory
Once, there was a gaping divide between southern and northern California — between Hollywood and Silicon Valley...
Silicon Valley is at one of those historic moments when a set of technologies start to work — and to work together — in unexpected ways...
-
PakistanSecurity forces claim major success in Tirah valley
LANDI KOTAL: Security forces took control on Tuesday of the entire Sipah and Akkakhel areas in Tirah valley after flushing out Lashkar-i-Islam activists from these areas...
Also read: Tirah valley operation intensifies, 23 soldiers killedThe forces also pressed their ground advance towards the TTP-controlled Kukikhel areas in the valley with fierce ground battles in Dwa Thoe and Zarmanza areas of Kukikhel, Garhai of Kamar Khel, Jabbar...
-
ArchiveFive militants killed in Tirah Valley
LANDIKOTAL: Five suspected militants were killed and three security personnel injured in a clash in Nari Baba area of Tirah Valley on Sunday...
-
ArchiveRajgal Valley’s 90pc area cleared of militants: military
LANDI KOTAL: Security forces have cleared almost 90 per cent area of the Rajgal Valley adjacent to Afghanistan’s troubled Nangarhar province and troops have taken effective control of important heights, says the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)...
Security forces had launched the operation on July 16 to clear 250 square kilometres of the Rajgal Valley of militants belonging to various groups, including militant Islamic State...
-
PakistanPakistani female entrepreneur selected for prestigious Blackbox Connect Silicon Valley event
A Pakistani female entrepreneur has been selected to represent her startup at Blackbox Connect this year, a two-week residential programme for startup founders across the globe being held at the accelerator in Silicon Valley...
More