Karachi, Oct 10: Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, has suggested the formation of a joint border force of Pakistani and NATO forces, under the command of Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani to increase co-ordination to curb terrorist activities along the Pak-Afghan border.

"General Kiyani should be given the supreme command of this border force. It will help end the misunderstanding and tension between the NATO and Pakistani forces, improve co-ordination between the two forces on action against terrorists and can save lives of many innocent people in the Tribal Areas of our country," he said.

Karachi - The Pakistani rupee on Wednesday again fell to a record low against the US dollar to close at 80.30 amid a severe foreign exchange shortage and concerns of default on foreign debt repayments.

The rupee closed at 80.10-30 in the open market against the dollar compared with 79.30-60 on Tuesday despite the fact that the central State Bank of Pakistan intervened to improve liquidity.

Karachi, Oct. 4: Pakistan’s commercial capital – Karachi – has become a city with weird and unique names. Each name, however, has a history behind it.

According to the Daily Times, the names have a history going back 60 to 70 years, and the the arrival of people from Khyber (NWFP) to Khuzdar (Balochistan) and Chitral (Northern Areas) to Cholistan (Punjab) and Mansehra to Turbat is being seen as a factor in this development.

The city has a colony going by the name of “Khamosh” or “Silent”, but the irony is that the colony is far from silent.

Karachi - Pakistan's main Karachi bourse on Tuesday remained unscathed despite Wall Street reverberations across Asia, thanks to restrictions imposed on the market for the last two months due to the unstable domestic political and economic conditions.

The benchmark KSE-100 Index on Tuesday was flat on historically low volume, with trading in just 175,000 shares.

Stock market officials last week imposed fresh curbs, including banning short-selling in all shares, amid prolonged economic woes and Moody's downgrading of the country's credit rating.

Karachi, Sept 30 : MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) chief Altaf Hussain has said that the Taliban was spreading its tentacles in two major areas of Karachi - Sultanabad and Pukhtoonabad.

He said that all possible efforts should be made to protect Karachi from Talibanisation. He said it could be done by rejecting the Taliban’s Shariat

“We will not allow the imposition of the Taliban’s Shariat in Karachi and will take all possible action to defend our city in accordance with Islamic Shariat,” the Daily Times quoted Hussain as saying while addressing an Iftar party at his party office in London last evening.