Tag: Failed

Nawaz’s politics has failed miserably: Riaz

Nawaz Sharif's bid to topple the elected government through a grand alliance has fizzled out and he will have to face defeat in the...

Govt has failed, call in the army

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s condolence visit to the family of the late famous lyricist Khawaja Pervaiz at Gawalmandi in Lahore on...

Women crisis centres failed to spend 2009-10 funds

Women crisis centres all over the country not only failed to utilise the allocated budget in the financial year 2009-10 despite an alarming increase...

Pakistan rejects US reports on failed raids at IED factories

The Pakistani Army on Friday rejected as baseless reports in the US media that elements in Pakistan’s security apparatus had tipped off terrorists in...

Govt has failed to curb terrorism, says SIC chief

HAFIZABABD - Sunni Ittehad Council Pakistan central chief Sahibzada Fazal Karim MNA has said the government has failed to curb terrorism.
Addressing the Sunni Ittehad Council workers at Jaamia Masjid Al-Farooq Hafizabad the other day, he said the rulers were playing in the hands of Americans and their policies had been completely failed.
Under a planned international conspiracy, the Islamic identity was being tarnished, but those who gave sacrifices for establishing Pakistan

Efforts to unite PML factions failed, says Shujaat

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President and former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday admitted that efforts for the unification of all factions of the Pakistan Muslim League could not succeed.
Talking to reporters after meeting with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman at the latter's residence, Shujaat said that his party was in contact with all the political parties on national issues. He criticized the performance of the

FIA failed to prove allegations against Moonis, claims defence lawyer

LAHORE - The FIA has failure in implicating my client in the NICL land deal, Moonis Elahis' defence lawyer said. He said the FIA is concocting stories to malign Elahi's reputation. Commenting on the 14 days physical remand, he said the FIA had used all methods in the book but were unable to come up with evidence against Moonis Elahi. He said that this was undeniable proof of Moonis Elahi's innocence.
Moonis Elahi's defence lawyer said that it was now evident to all that the

Failed suicide attack kills child, wounds five in Darra Adam Khel

PESHAWAR - A suicide bomber killed a child and wounded five other people after he was identified and shot at in a northwestern Pakistan market on Friday, officials said.
A would-be suicide bomber was identified as he tried to enter the crowded market in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal town near Peshawar, they said.
Tribesmen tried to seize him but he blew himself up when he was shot at, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding five people, a senior administrative official said.

Successive govts failed to curb violence against children: SPARC

ISLAMABAD - Because of successive governments' failure in introducing any national policy on child protection coupled with ineffective laws safeguarding children's interests, violence against children in Pakistan has increased manifold with 5,120 reported cases during last year alone.
During a one-day orientation workshop here on Tuesday experts stressed the need to approve pending child protection laws and enforce implementation of the existing ones.
The workshop was

Pakistan is not a failed state: Prof Lieven

LAHORE - The impression in the West about Pakistan being a failed state needs to be dispelled as it is a much more resilient state than is usually believed and the wave of extremism cannot destroy it, Professor Anatol Lieven from the Department of War Studies at the King's College London opined.
Lieven, who is currently on a visit to Pakistan, has had decades of experience in Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US. In addition to having had a BA and a doctorate from Cambridge

NA body says law enforcers have failed to deliver

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Friday criticised the law-enforcing agencies, especially police, over their complete failure to maintain law and order situation. "They are even involved in torture, substandard prosecution and registration of false cases," it further observed.
The committee held a meeting at the Parliament House with Riaz Fatyana in the chair.
Committee members Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Fauzia Habib, Dr Mehreen Bhutto, Dr

‘Talks on EU tariff cuts for Pakistan have failed’

BRUSSELS - Europe's top trade negotiator called for greater commercial ties with North African states making the transition to democracy, saying he will unveil new proposals to achieve this next week. But Karel De Gucht said he will not seek unilateral trade concessions or cuts to import tariffs such as those the European Union granted its war-ravaged Balkan neighbours in the 1990s.
He cited that the unsuccessful EU attempt to grant temporary duty-free access to imports from

SHERSHAH CARNAGE CASE – Witness files petition against suspects he had...

KARACHI - In a dramatic development in the Shershah carnage case on Monday, a witness filed a constitutional petition for arresting and prosecuting nine men who were released a month ago after he had failed to identify them before the court.
Anti-Terrorism Court Administrator Judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had acquitted the nine suspects - Ejaz, Iqbal, Muhammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar and Abid - on January 26 because the complainant had

641 women failed driving test last year

LAHORE - Around 641 women out of 2,670 failed in initial driving license tests while the City Traffic Police issued licenses to 2,029 women in 2010. Traffic police spokesman said that a large number of women had applied for obtaining driving licenses but during initial tests conducted at the Thokar Niaz Baig Centre under supervision of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ali Iftikhar Jaffry, only 2,029 women succeeded. He said that the traffic police have chalked out a comprehensive

Balochistan govt failed to protect minorities: Burney

QUETTA - Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has said that hundreds of Punjabi-speaking families, Muslims from Shia sect and Hindu families in Balochistan province were planning to migrate to safer areas fearing persecution. He said these people are fearful of extremists and fundamentalists who kidnap minority people for ransom or in some cases just brutally murder them. He was talking to journalists here on

Lebanon: a failed state poised for violence

The Guardian - Once again, Lebanon is on the brink of major social and political upheaval. Rumours of an impending armed clash between Hezbollah and the pro-western governing coalition have spread like wildfire among the Lebanese people, who are hoarding food and arms in anticipation of the worst.
On the surface of it, the current crisis revolves around a United Nations tribunal set up to investigate the 2005 assassination of prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. An indictment

Failed PU students protest against examination system

LAHORE - A handful of failed PU Law College students held a protest on Thursday demanding that aggregate passing marks be decreased from existing 45 percent to 40 percent in addition to introduction of carry-on system in the LLB examinations.
PU Law College Incharge Samee Uzair Khan said that protester's demands fall within ambit of the Board of Studies in Law and the board had rejected both demands in its previous meeting terming them detrimental to standards of legal