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  Pakistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Pakistani military has played an influential role in mainstream politics throughout Pakistan's history, (Pakistan Poltics) with military presidents ruling from 1958–71, 1977–88 and from 1999 onwards.
The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayaki to modern forms fusing traditional and western music, such as the synchronisation of Qawwali and western music by the renowned Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Pakistani society is largely multilingual and predominantly Muslim, with high regard for traditional family values, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system due to the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Pakistan   (4973 words)

  
 Pakistan - Gurupedia
Pakistani political history is divided into alternating periods of military dictatorship and democratic civilian/parliamentary rule.
Although dominion status was ended in 1956 with the formation of a Constitution and a declaration of Pakistan as an Islamic Republic, the military took control in 1958 and held it for more than 10 years.
A large Pakistani diaspora exists, especially in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia as well as in the Scandinavian nations.
www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/pakistan.htm   (1951 words)

  
 Ind hands over LeT operative's confessions to Pak
The details of the statement made by the Pakistani national with alleged links to the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba was provided to Pakistani officials during the just-concluded first meeting of the ATM, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, K C Singh who led the Indian delegation, told reporters.
He said the photograph of the Pakistani national was identified by the survivors of the train blast including Rana Shaukat, the passenger from Pakistan who lost five of his children in the incident.
Pakistani officials were quoted as saying the photo suggested that the body was that of a suicide bomber, contradicting the Indian claim that the blasts were caused by a chain of remote-controlled bombs.
www.rediff.com /news/2007/mar/08terror.htm   (724 words)

  
 Many Held at Guantanamo Not Likely Terrorists - Empire? - Global Policy Forum
Dozens of the detainees are Afghan and Pakistani nationals described in classified intelligence reports as farmers, taxi drivers, cobblers and laborers.
One of the lists covers 49 Afghans and 10 Pakistanis who were being held at Kandahar Air Base until the Afghan facility was shut down in June, prompting their transfer to Guantanamo Bay, sources said.
Among the Pakistanis on the list was a 16-year-old who traveled to Afghanistan at the start of the war to help the Taliban, but quickly had second thoughts and was captured by the Northern Alliance while trying to flee.
www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/targets/2002/1223free.htm   (1948 words)

  
  Al-Ahram Weekly | INTERNATIONAL | Still nothing
A strongly autonomous area -- the Pakistani army entered the region for the first time ever after 11 September 2001 -- it is also deeply conservative, hence the suspicion by many analysts, as well as the Americans, that Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and other Al-Qa'eda leaders could be hiding there.
In January tribal elders were handed a list of Pakistanis suspected of sheltering foreign terrorists.
The news that it was solely conducted by Pakistanis was therefore greeted with relief.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/680/in5.htm   (1009 words)

  
 The Nation Plus
Pakistanis both government and the citizens say INS profiling is not justified.
Being a front ally in the US-led war on terror, Pakistanis say their inclusion in the list of countries being profiled is something that the Pakistanis do not deserve.
This is the first time that the Pakistani community is faced with a problem which directly affects its well being in the United States.
nation.com.pk /special/us-com/page24.htm   (816 words)

  
 ONLINE - International News Network
The Minister said that the list comprises the detail of the Pakistanis held abroad for illegal documents was compiled on January 20.
Raja Pervez Ashraf objected that the Pakistanis held in a ship in South Africa were not mentioned in the list.
He said the list comprising those Pakistanis held for illegal documents while the House would be informed about the Pakistanis detained in other cases soon.
www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=108604   (403 words)

  
 Pakistan
The official also recalled that in 2004 a large number of Pakistani nationals filed for asylum in Hong Kong, claiming to have been victims of torture but this claim was later proven false.
A Pakistani human smuggler and 53 irregular immigrants were arrested by Greek border guards along the Turkish border on 5 September.
The irregular migrants, including Kurds, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Iraqis and Palestinians, were found aboard a tractor trailer after having swum across the Evros river that separates Greece from Turkey.
www.smc.org.ph /amnews/amn070915/southasia/pakistan070915.htm   (523 words)

  
 Brookings Expert Holds Conference Call Previewing President Musharraf's Visit - Brookings Institution
The Pakistani politicians that I've talked to, especially the Shia's, are ecstatic over the the resecularization of Pakistan and the playing down of religious extremists and containment of religious terrorism.
Pakistanis have been asking countries around the world to intervene on Kashmir, to serve as a mediator on Kashmir.
The Pakistanis regard themselves as a modern Islamic state, as a state that has promised to be a beacon for the rest of the Islamic world, a secular Islamic state, one that has a liberal democracy functioning.
www.brookings.edu /events/2002/0212south-asia.aspx   (5363 words)

  
 e-mela.com | Home of Bangladesh
It was organised as the Kamrangirchar pilot project for preparing voter list with photograph and delivering the national ID card kicked off yesterday.
Meanwhile, work on the pilot project for preparing voter list with photograph and national ID card also started yesterday at Dania in Shyampur and Uttarkhan of the city.
Asked about registering the stranded Pakistanis in voter list, Shamsul Huda said the matter is under the jurisdiction of the law ministry.
www.e-mela.com /page.php?id=1409   (456 words)

  
 outlookindia.com | wired
The names of the six Pakistanis figure in a new list of specially designated nationals and other persons whose property was blocked worldwide released by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The list reveals names of a number of businesses in Pakistan and organisations suspected of financial transactions linked to terrorist activities, the daily 'The News' said.
The list aims at assisting the public in complying with various sanctions and programmes undertaken by the US government.
www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=73659   (662 words)

  
 Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
Saud Memon and Ibrahim Choto are the only Pakistanis on this list, and they will be left alone.
The truce between Islamabad and the Pakistani Taliban in Waziristan has been a bitter pill for Washington to swallow, although Pakistan's pledge to allow foreign troops based in Afghanistan hot pursuit into a limited area in Pakistan softens the blow a bit.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz recently visited Turkey and then Lebanon, where he announced that his country would not send any peacekeeping troops to the latter.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article14880.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Story: India Declines to Shift Unidentified Bodies to Pakistan: FO   
Meanwhile, an official spokesman added that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has personally intervened and directed the foreign ministry to supervise the burial and ensure that DNA identification of Pakistanis, if buried in India, are available to the relatives of the unfortunate victims of the tragic incident.
The Prime Minister has also directed all the departments dealing with the issue to extend all possible cooperation to the relatives of the deceased so that they are able to obtain DNA test results of their kins, the spokesman added.
And a report from Lahore says that bodies of another seven victims of train tragedy were received at Wagah on Friday morning and shifted to mortuary of Mayo Hospital for dispatch to their native towns.
www.pakistantimes.net /2007/02/24/top1.htm   (787 words)

  
 Pakistanis bear brunt of deportations, 29 Jul 03
Pakistanis have borne the brunt of new restrictive immigration legislation as of the 2,760 people deported by US authorities in 2002, as many as 961 or over 34 percent were Pakistanis.
In 2001, of the 1,264 deportation, 375 were Pakistanis, the highest number from any of the 24 Muslim countries whose nationals have been required to register with the immigration authorities and on whom the finger of suspicion has rested since the World Trade Centre attacks.
Both in 2001 and 2002, Pakistanis remained on top of the list of those deported.
www.notinourname.net /detentions/pakistanis-bear-brunt-jul03.htm   (581 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 693
A good number of Indians, stranded Pakistanis and Myanmar nationals and untraceable people were included in the Election Commission's much hyped draft voter list while many eligible Bangladeshi voters were left out.
Media reports have revealed that 100 Indian citizens in Kasba upazila of Comilla district and one lakh Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar were listed in the draft roll while over 4,000 stranded Pakistanis in Khulna and over 1,500 of them in Bogra were listed.
According to the constitution, a person is eligible as a voter if he is a citizen of Bangladesh, is not less than 18 years of age, does not stand declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind and is or is deemed by law to be a resident of that constituency.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/05/12/d60512012112.htm   (395 words)

  
 List of Pakistanis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Below is a list of such people who belong or relate in some way to this nation.
See for an alphabetical list of Pakistanis with categories.
A useful place to see a list that overlaps with this one is List of Urdu poets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Pakistanis   (829 words)

  
 Pakistanis in America
While none of those detainees was charged with terrorism, they spent an average of 80 days in jail before the FBI completed its investigation and many went weeks before being charged with immigration violations or seeing attorneys.
If this campaign against aliens continues and if the Pakistanis - both those who are already in the country and those who wish to come to the country in search for jobs and education - continue to be subjected to discriminatory treatment, there will be grievous damage done to the country's economy.
Migration from Pakistan and the treatment of Pakistanis living in the United States should be high on the list of topics for discussion with the American president.
www.yespakistan.com /ID/pakistanis.asp   (1830 words)

  
 Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (washingtonpost.com)
Below is the largest list of names made public thus far, encompassing: 367 men whose identities have appeared in media reports, on Arabic Web sites and in legal documents.
Seventy-three people on the list have been sent back to their home countries for further detention or for release.
Sixty-two names came from an official publication of the Yemeni Defense Ministry in January, and the names of 58 Pakistanis were published by a Pakistani newspaper in October 2002.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/nation/guantanamo_names.html   (349 words)

  
 Will Pak turn Hizbul chief over to India?
Srinagar: In the wake of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf''s speech, the question now being asked here by security officials and others is whether Pakistan will turn over the Hizbul Mujahideen chief to India.
Syed Salahuddin, an Indian national now living in Pakistan- administered Kashmir, is on the list of 20 terrorists and criminals that New Delhi has submitted to Islamabad for extradition.
Musharraf said in his seminal address to the nation Saturday that he would consider repatriation of non-Pakistanis in the list if substantial proof of their wrongdoing is furnished to Islamabad.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2002/kashmir20020114c.html   (410 words)

  
 Young Tycoons Top Forbes China Rich List - International Business Times -
The release of the 400-person Forbes China Rich List comes at a time when some of China's richest businesspeople are ensnared in scandals.
One quarter of those on this year's list are under age 40, reflecting the fact that most of China's fortunes have been made in the past decade as retail, Internet and real estate companies sprang up to serve a booming consumer market.
2 on the list was property developer Xu Rongnao, with a fortune of $2.1 billion, followed by Larry Yung, chairman of conglomerate Citic Pacific, with $2 billion.
www.ibtimes.com /articles/20061102/top-forbes-china-rich-list.htm   (637 words)

  
 Times of Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The list of ineligible Pakistanis includes three former chief ministers, two from Punjab and one from Balochistan.
Sources said the long list of 292 contains names of former provincial ministers, former senior officers of Central Board of Revenue, Wapda, Pakistan Railways, Pakistan Telecommunications Co Ltd, Pakistan Steel, and other provincial departments.
After the promulgation of NAB ordinance, this is the first time after the lapse of five years a comprehensive list, prepared on provincial basis has been sent to banks for implementation.
www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=8215   (380 words)

  
 Internet Book List :: Author Information: Talat Abbasi
The trans-cultural appeal of Abbasi's stories is attested to by their publication in numerous magazines, mostly in the United States but also in France and India and in college text-books in the U.S. Her stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service Short Story Programme, including a prize-winning story in their 2000 competition.
Bitter Gourd is a collection of seventeen stories which explore the worlds of Pakistanis in Karachi and its environs and of Pakistani immigrants in New York, covering each strata of society: privileged upper classes, poor relations, servants and also children of all classes who have internalized the values and anxieties of the adult world.
The stories speak of the entrapment of gendered roles, of class and culture as a force determining relations between masters and servants, husbands and wives and of the struggle for freedom from this entrapment, sometimes successful.
www.iblist.com /author10478.htm   (332 words)

  
 The Saturday Post
Sadiq is perhaps one of the best known faces of the Pakistani Mission, who has opened his heart to new ideas and people, and put his mind to garnering support for critical initiatives that have fueled a rapid integration and connectivity within the Pakistani American community.
My second responsibility is to coordinate the activities of all the Pakistani consulates in the United States, and the activities of all the wings within the Embassy.
The biggest dilemma for the second generation Pakistanis was their Pakistani identity which was so difficult for them to explain and accept and some times to be proud of.
www.thesaturdaypost.com /rendezvous_13_sadiq.htm   (3897 words)

  
 CNN.com - Full text of Musharraf interview - Jan. 23, 2004
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf spoke about terrorism, Kashmir, and the controversy over nuclear secrets in an exclusive interview with CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour on Friday.
Musharraf: Yes, these are the accusations which originated from Iran and they are naming individuals and that list includes Pakistanis and Europeans as well, but as far as Pakistanis are concerned, it is clear it was done by individuals for their own personal financial gain and as I said there is no official involvement yet.
It is a whole list of underworld elements involved.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/musharraf.transcript.cnna/index.html   (2285 words)

  
 The Hindu : Pak. to take up terrorism with Afghanistan
A high-power delegation of Pakistan is expected to visit Afghanistan shortly to discuss terrorism, smuggling and extradition of Pakistani criminals hiding in Afghanistan, said the Pakistan Interior Minister, Lt. Gen. (retd.) Moinuddin Haider, on Monday.
The Minister said that Islamabad had for the first time submitted to the Taliban Government a list of Pakistanis suspected to be getting training there.
Pakistan sought extradition of those alleged to be involved in acts of terrorism in Pakistan.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/07/26/stories/0326000n.htm   (215 words)

  
 PakAlert: Chief Justices of Pakistan (1949-Current)
For the last eight months Pakistanis are leading an effort to establish the rule of law in Pakistan.
It is about time that Pakistanis and Pak-Americans ask hard questions about the educational opportunities for the poor of Pakistan.
Here is a list of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (known as the Federal Court until 1960).
pakalert.net /articles/legal/cjlist.asp   (172 words)

  
 Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Pakistan Government --Response
Pakistanis who had gone there and are being repatriated now; first of all, what I can say off hand is, that they crossed the border without proper documents which in itself is an offence and now are re-entering the country.
You see, there are reports that some Pakistani nationals are among those who have been captured, or who have surrendered and laid down arms.
We have said that all those Pakistanis who return, first of all, you know, nobody can return with their weapons, number two, they will be apprehended and they will be tried under law.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/Pervez_Speech.htm   (12022 words)

  
 Pakistanis at Stanford (PAS) -- Mailing List
The purpose of the announce list is to allow the current PaS officer core to nform members of PaS-related activities and eventso, while keeping list traffic to a minimum.
On the other hand, the discussion lists serves to maintain a forum in which members of PAS can discuss issues related to Pakistan and relevant to the community, and engage in other open discussions.
All members are added to the pas-announce list, while pas-discussion membership is on a voluntary basis.
www.stanford.edu /group/pakistan/mailinglist.htm   (270 words)

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