Canadian citizens of Pakistani descent are beginning to wonder whether it’s worth it to marry people from back home. A friend of mine, Najma, recently expressed her displeasure at the Canadian immigration system pertaining to spousal sponsorship. As a Canadian citizen of Pakistani descent, she was faced with two options that would allow her husband to live with her in Canada. He could either obtain a visit visa, which would prevent him from working there, or he could wait up to a year for his immigration to come through.  Read more... (1064 words, 1 image, estimated 4:15 mins reading time)

Pakistan is rich in talent and among the list of Amazing Achievers at Pakfactor, here is a bright new edition. Rimsha Rana, a Pakistani student, studying in Virgina, USA has been awarded President’s Outstanding Academic Excellence Award for the year 2009. The award, signed by the US President Barak Obama and the US Secretary of Education, is honored to the students for their outstanding academic achievements. Student receives a certificate and is recognized during the school’s award ceremony and also at graduation.  Read more... (187 words, 0 images, estimated 45 secs reading time)

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The Pakistani military through its own channels has shared evidence with the U.S. military about Indian support for terrorism in Pakistan’s tribal belt and Swat.  Read more... (647 words, 1 image, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Written by Humayun Gauhar.  Read more... (1517 words, 0 images, estimated 6:04 mins reading time)

President Barack Obama will deliver a much-anticipated “speech to the Muslim world” today in Cairo during whirlwind overseas visit to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Europe seemingly reset relations with the Muslim world while in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 21 percent of Americans surveyed have a favorable view of Muslim countries. More than twice as many — 46 percent — have an unfavorable view.  Read more... (491 words, 2 images, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.

A refugee

Hillary Clinton enabled every American with a cellphone to help some two million Pakistanis driven from their homes in and around the Swat Valley in the battle against the Taliban. A quick text message from your personal phone sends in a $5 donation. This is in addition to the $100-million U.S. government aid package Clinton went to the White House to announce on Tuesday.  Read more... (141 words, 1 image, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Hillary Clinton

After a long period of 30 years finally American Government thought that their dealings with Islamabad were not so well. It seems that President Zardari had done some thing exceptional on his “International begging tour”. America was never like this before but the problem is that new interests could be developed by the course of time.  Read more... (415 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Barak Obama

Barack Obama has voiced confidence in the safety of the key regional country’s nuclear assets as Pakistani army is equipped to prevent extremists from taking over the nuclear weapons. “Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is safe,” he said in an interview with Newsweek magazine, released Saturday evening.  Read more... (282 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

Friend or Foe?

This is an extract from an article written by Rowan Scarborough, the author of “Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander;” and “Sabotage: America’s Enemies Within the CIA.”  Read more... (636 words, 1 image, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)