Tag: Intervention

The Tethyan Copper Company (TCC), a joint venture of copper and gold mining companies, Chilean Antofagasta and Canadian Barrick Gold has approached the federal...

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, who faces ban of at least 15 matches and a fine of Rs 60 million for his outburst against...

KARACHI - Investors turned bearish following news that FBR is in the hunt of investors' details, from different brokerage houses, for computation of Capital Gains Tax (CGT), as retail investors had responded poorly to tax returns filling.
The KSE- 100 index shed 82 points to close at 11,653 levels, while 89 million shares were traded. Cement stocks came in for active covering after manufacturers increased prices by Rs 10 per bag. Cement prices in the north are currently hovering

SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday a plan to negotiate his resignation in the face of mass protests was a "belligerent intervention", apparently rejecting a Gulf Arab plan to end his 32-year rule.
Saleh, facing an unprecedented challenge from hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country, initially had accepted an offer by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to hold talks with the opposition.
But on Wednesday, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh

LONDON - A week into military strikes on Libya, foreign powers may be at the beginning of a long war with little agreement on whether they should be protecting civilians from Muammar Gaddafi or ousting the leader himself.
While British, French and US attacks have saved the opposition in Benghazi, Gaddafi remains in power in Tripoli and is still bombarding rebels in the western city of Misrata. Part of the issue, some analysts say, is that neither Libya's rulers nor the opposition

BAGHDAD - Iraq said on Monday it supported international intervention in Libya, but influential Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr condemned it and said Western states should avoid civilian casualties.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Iraq supported the UN Security Council resolution that authorised the intervention, and would back any action as long as it was authorised by the United Nations.
"The Iraqi government supports the international efforts to prevent any acts of

KARACHI - Veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar belongs to the generation who identified with John Lennon's give peace a chance. Back in 1969, Lennon stayed in bed to protest the Vietnam War. But Nayar is more of a doer, travelling even at the age of 87 to spread the word: all we are saying is give peace a chance.
Nayar is leading a delegation of Indian peace activists, who are focusing on increasing people-centric solutions for peace amid edgy relations between the governments

KARACHI - A former employee of Airblue has written a letter to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Board of Directors (BoD) member and Vice Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, seeking his immediate intervention in the case of CAA Flight Inspector Capt Shafqat Mehmood. Sources have informed Pakistan Today that Capt Mehmood managed to have the CAA Board of Inquiry (BoI) president replaced and the terms of reference (ToR) of the inquiry being conducted against him

KARACHI - Pakistan, with five percent of its population estimated to comprise thalassaemic minor patients, can make use of a simple and cost-effective blood test to prevent thalassaemia Major, haematologist Dr Tahir Shamsi said on Saturday.
"Gynaecologists can play a crucial role in the prevention of the genetic blood disorder that holds extremely debilitating impact on the patients, including early deaths of the sufferers," he said He advised obstetricians and gynaecologists to

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said French troops had no reason to get involved in "the internal affairs of Ivory Coast," where strongman Laurent Gbagbo is refusing to step down as president.
Sarkozy also repeated his support for Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of November's Ivorian presidential elections.
French Defence Minister Alain Juppe said earlier Tuesday that France's troops in Ivory Coast would not "take the initiative" to

ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast marked a fearful Christmas on Saturday after West African leaders threatened military action to force defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara.
The pair have been locked in a political stand-off for almost a month after both claimed to have won the November 28 presidential election, but mounting international pressure may have brought the crisis to a turning point.
Christmas was a sad milestone for Ivory Coast, where