Islamabad

My parents weren't terribly strict, but they often worried about me making mistakes, not because I was irresponsible or untrustworthy, but simply because I was the only child. I remember when I was 17 years old and there was this domestic trip to Islamabad for 5 days and also an international trip to Italy for the same time period. My parents weren’t sure about it and some part of me was disappointed. However, they surprised me with the Dubai trip. It was the best trip I could ever ask for.…

It was due to the threat of India that led Pakistani leaders to take military assistance from US army. Since the inception of Pakistan, the economic and political ties observed between the two countries. Also in 1950, instead Liaqat Ali Khan would visit Moscow is turned down and choose to visit the United States. Since then Pakistan has played the role of a close ally of the US. The military assistance of about $508 million given to Pakistan by the US. Pakistani military at this time was…

Iqbal) 5) HEC’s Rankings (Usman Khawaja) Selected article: “Baloch culture day celebrated (by: Saleem Shahid)” 2nd March is the cultural day of Baluchistan which is celebrated every year in federal Islamabad and all over Baluchistan. Balochi literature is the best way to understand the culture, tradition and thinking of Baloch people. On this day, Baloch people organize festivals. They want to represent their culture on that day. The culture and…

warm and temperate climates of world (Kole, 2011). Natural population are highly tolerant toward soil salinity (Pessarakli, 2007). Cynodon dactylon appeared as most dominant specie with RF of 47.5% followed by Cannabis sativa with RF of 17.9% in Islamabad as stated…

history: “We have a very special history too. Today Swat is part of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KPK, as many Pakistanis call it, but Swat used to be separate from the rest of Pakistan….We were only a hundred miles from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad”. (16). By briefly explaining the history and location of Swat, Malala gives it a familiar feeling that is relevant to the book and its meaning to the…

These are dark days for international jihadists. In Syria, Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants are being chased out of their long-held strongholds either by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad or the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by Russian and American airpower respectively. Pro-government militias in cooperation with national armies also have them on the run in Libya, Yemen and Iraq. As IS’s grand facade of a “caliphate” crumbles and it devolves into an improvised…

I am currently in the U.S.A., the Eastern side of Michigan. It is my second day in America, and my first day of 7th grade in a different country. I see faces, faces with many colors. Faces with many backgrounds. Faces with many emotions. I look at a woman–with blond hair and very tall stature–approaching me. While her hand is hovering in the air, the woman smiles at me as she says, “Hi,” which is one of the few words I can understand. I nervously try to interpret information around me, but as I…

The leader of Afghan Taliban Mullah Mansour is targeted on 21 May 2016 by the US drones in Pakistan. Since 9/11 attacks, this is the first time that the US has succeeded to target the highest ranking Taliban. It came as a surprise during the peak of peace talks and fighting season in Afghanistan. What are the consequences of the death of this very key and controversial Taliban leader? Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour, known as Mullah Mansour was one of the strongest and cruel leaders of the…

Security briefing paper on Pakistan Introduction: Having lost the last vestiges of its secular inspiration in the bloody marshes of Bangladesh in 1971, the country the world knows as Pakistan is at present under siege from a motley armada of militant groups, trying to establish an Islamist utopia . The situation is made worse by the schizophrenic state of the country’s counter-terrorism approach, with differential treatments meted out to Afghan Taliban and Laskhkar-e- Taiba ( groups…

from the Pathans with musical concerts. Most of the tribal people participate in the concerts wearing colorful costumes. During Eid all the tribesmen get together around the shrine of Baba Kharwari which is in Ziarat Valley. This is where marksmanship and wrestling competition are held at. There are a large number of people who visit here regularly with offering of sacrifices in memory of the saint. The Quaid-I-Azam was where Ali Jinnah 's lived in Ziarat Valley, during his last days of illness…