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NFC chip: Pakistan has exposed the drama of Samsung: The danger is that the semi-Hakim, the semi-mixed threat is believed by the common people on the tips outlined your life, faith and property can be deadly.      A video on the Internet has a viral, which left many people in Pakistan and other countries too, especially smart phones, smart phones, Samsung has junk.   The video, titled " Pakistan has exposed the drama of Samsung ", two men regularly uncover a secret Abbreviated showed how determined the people are getting personal video sharing on the Internet. There are, perhaps, he would have no such upload.   Reported that things are a scam, if it was not intentionally extreme degree is foolish. The chip in the chip detective was actually hy.ayn NFC chip NFC (Near Field Communication) makes data exchange between two devices. This data, which is very scarce,   Device very close distance of a few centimeters, and is between.   This...

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf said at the beginning of the change from Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral, and then change will be occur in the whole country, people of the CHITRAL should vote to the APML. In Islamabad, Ex-General Musharaf said in a speech Sunday, those who do wrong, they do promise nothing after the elections are missing for five years. He said his time he presided over a number of times in Gilgit and Chitral district of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral back to visit many rental development work. Pervaz Musharaf said the in his time he visited many time to Gilgit-baltistan and Chitral and raise more projects there and many improvements there, but he argue that those projects which he has introduced/started but could not completed so far. The former President said that every Pakistani do play its ro...

In India terrorist mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi asking Pakistan to hand over the US and the UK, in the context of the neighboring country on Tuesday on the good sense must prevail and that terrorism must be serious. "Pakistan. It is necessary to get serious on the issue of terrorism Pakistan should understand this and good sense must prevail against it," the home minister Kiran Rijijutold reporters. were answered. "This is a very good thing. The US and UK then we must get serious on the issue of terrorism understand that," said cord. Islamabad High Court bail yesterday, according to the statement of the case, the prosecution "write the extradition of both countries were India," he said. Pakistan government's detention extended for another month, according to the statement after the public until February 18 (MPO) will remain in prison. Lakhvi and six others - Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmedand...

New Delhi: Indian General Army chief Dalbir Singh said Tuesday that Pakistan was supporting a proxy war against India in Jammu and Kashmir and security challenges were growing due to the "active frontier". At the annual press conference before the Day of the Army, General Dalbir Singh said the Chinese border was peaceful and measures of confidence-building have been effective. He said the recent attacks in Jammu and Kashmir showed that terrorist camps in Pakistan were intact. "Pakistan is supporting a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir despite suffering casualties within their country. Recent terrorist strikes reflect their despair. It also indicates that the infrastructure or camps [terrorist] across the border are intact" said. He said ceasefire violations by Pakistan have moved towards the international border (IB) in Jammu region from the Line of Control (LOC). "The grid counterinsurgency is very strong in the LoC. Now the focus [has] shifted...

Special Report: In the Noble Prize distribution where Malala was rewarded with that prize one of my very close friend who is a journalist by profession was also there.  I am not giving his name because he has my words that I would not tell his name.  Yesterday night he was on skype with me and we were discussing some personal issue.  We were laughing on some point when he told the whole story of that noble prize distribution with a laughter.  He said for the last one week I am with Malala.   When I arrived at the Norway Reninge Heliport, Malala and his father come to welcome me out there.  When we were on our way I felt there is very little conversation is going on between Malala and his father and even they were not showing any gesture to each other.  Malala liked to sit on the back seat of the car besides sitting with his father with this Ipad and she started reading the speech which she had to deliver on that ceremony.  I was tal...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army’s jets and ground forces killed 24 militants as part of ongoing operations in the country’s troubled tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, the military and a government official said Tuesday. Seventeen local and foreign “terrorists” were killed in airstrikes on Tuesday in the North Waziristan tribal region, where the military has been carrying out a major operation since June, a military statement said. It provided no details and the identity of the slain militants was not known. The airstrikes were launched hours after more than 50 militants attacked a military checkpoint in the Khyber tribal region, triggering a shootout late Monday in which seven militants were killed, said Iqbal Khan, a government official. The assailants fled when the troops returned fire, he said, adding that security forces were searching the area to trace and arrest the attackers. North Waziristan and Khyber tribal regions are closed to journalists and there is no way to indep...

Pakistan and its Democracy:  The annual meeting of All India Muslim League for the year 1930 was organized at a big Haveli in Allahabad. When the official proceedings of the meeting began, there were less than 75 people in the enclosure, causing panic among the ranks of party officials. According to the party laws, the minimum requirement for meeting quorum at an annual meeting had to be at least 75 people. As a last resort, a famous Urdu poet was tasked with reciting one of his long poems until new members could be recruited by the officials—a process that took two hours. Finally, the official meeting commenced and the Presidential address was read by a Punjabi poet and politicians. The presidential address contained six references to democracy and all of those arguments were against the democratic system of governance. That particular address has been quoted ad nauseum by right-wing commentators and writers of Pakistan’s textbooks—very often the same people—as the first t...

PESHAWAR:  We may have been cheering about the  performance  of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan at the Nobel Prize Ceremony but now the Pashto music legend Sardar Ali Takkar has also given us a reason to own the ceremony. Takkar, who hails from the same province as Malala Yousafzai will be performing  Ta Bibi Sheerina Ye  on the first day of the ceremony, a song which he made as a tribute to Malala’s bravery after she was attacked by the Taliban. On the second day, Takkar will perform the famous poem by Ghani Khan,  A zama watan , in which Ghani Khan expressed his love for the country. “This is the moment of pride and honour that a Pakistani and a Pashtun singer will perform at the Nobel Prize award ceremony,” Takkar told  The Express Tribune . “I will be performing Pashto songs for all the Pakistani girls, the language does not matter because the message is to get well educated and be a part of a larger movement towards peace,” said Takkar. Takka...

ISLAMABAD: Dr Vaqar Ahmed, the Deputy Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, has stressed the need for normalizing trade relations between Pakistan and India to benefit both the local manufacturers and consumers besides technology transfer and greater export surplus. He was speaking at a two-day regional consultation on `Deepening Economic Cooperation in South Asia: Expectations from the 18th SAARC Summit' organized by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) in cooperation with SDPI in Kathmandu. The programme was organized as a side-event to the 18th SAARC Summit to provide useful recommendations to deepen economic cooperation in South Asia. "The Government of Pakistan must take a lead in expediting SAARC-level pending agreements on transport, energy, connectivity and dispute resolution," Dr Vaqar said, adding that the current free trade agreements in the region should be revised to include invest...

KARACHI: Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association’s (PBSA) Alamgir Sheikh has said that European countries are reluctant to travel to Pakistan for next year’s World Championship. PBSA is expected to host the championship, which includes 6-Red, ladies event, team championship, in August 2015 and Sheikh said that the association is working on getting rid of the feeling of fear among the delegates. Sheikh is currently in India for the ongoing IBSF World Championship and is expecting a positive outcome after the executive meeting of snooker’s world body. “My main purpose for traveling to India is to try and get the finalised dates for the World Championships,” Sheikh told  The Express Tribune . “The month of August is final so the dates are the only issue. In addition, there are some reservations among the European countries regarding traveling to Pakistan next year as per their travel advisory. However, I’ve spoken on a one-to-one basis with various delegates as we ...

WASHINGTON - Nuclear and missile arms race between India and Pakistan is showing no sign of abating even though atomic arsenals are shrinking in the rest of the world, a New American think-tank report “Although both States claim to seek only a credible minimum deterrent, regional dynamics have driven them to pursue a range of nuclear and missile capabilities.” according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report, entitled “Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age”.   “While Pakistan is focused predominantly on the threat posed by India, it is reportedly also concerned by the potential for the United States to launch a military operation to seize or disarm Pakistani nuclear weapons,” the report says.   “This concern is based in part on reported contingency planning by the US military to prevent Pakistani nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists. Pakistan’s sensitivity to such a disarming operation was heightened by the 2011 Abbottabad raid t...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday conducted successful test-launch of Intermediate Range Shaheen-1A (Hatf-IV) Ballistic missile which is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 900 kilometres. The launch was aimed at revalidating various design and technical parameters of the weapon system. According to ISPR, Shaheen-1A with its highly accurate and indigenously-developed guidance system is one of the most accurate missile systems. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah, who witnessed the launch, congratulated the scientists and engineers for their dedication, professionalism and commitment towards achieving Pakistan’s Full Spectrum Credible Minimum Deterrence Capability. He reiterated Pakistan’s desire for peaceful co-existence in the region. The naval chief appreciated the professional attributes of all concerned towards accomplishment of the sacred mission. He showed his full confidence in armed forces’ capability to safeguard security of the m...

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz blamed on Saturday India for wanting to resolve the Kashmir dispute in its own way, which he said Pakistan would not allow. “India wants to resolve the Kashmir dispute in its own way and Pakistan will not allow this Indian attempt to succeed,” he said while speaking to reporters in Islamabad. The adviser added that Pakistan is responding to Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and working boundary in a befitting manner, adding that the Pakistan’s desire for peace should not be mistaken as its weakness. The adviser on foreign affairs said Pakistan has been highlighting human rights violations by the Indian forces in Indian Kashmir where India has deployed 700,000 troops to suppress Kashmiris. Referring to India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement disapproving of Pakistan’s recent move of approaching the UN to ‘internationalise the Kashmir issue’ and seeking the world ...

KARACHI: A recent research by the   Bureau of Investigative Journalism   found that only 12% of drone victims in Pakistan have been identified as militants. Moreover, the research also stated that fewer than 4% of the people killed have been identified as members of al Qaeda.   The research contradicts US Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim last year that only “confirmed terrorist targets at the highest level” were fired at. The number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has hit 400 between June 2004 and October 2013. Of the 2,370 people killed in these strikes, 704 have been identified, of which only 295 were reported to be members of some kind of armed group. More than a third of them were not designated a rank, and almost 30% are not even linked to a specific group. The Bureau has a project titled Naming the Dead, which has gathered the names and details of people killed by CIA drones in Pakistan since June 2004. According to Mustafa Qadri, a Pakis...