Archive for: July, 2014

Israel resumes Gaza offensive after several hours of break

israel shelling on gaza

Israel resumed Tuesday the air offensive against the Gaza Strip  six hours after accepting unilaterally the ceasefire proposal presented Monday night by Egypt. The Israeli security cabinet, which met earlier in the day, had voted in favor of accepting the draft that proposes a reduction process of hostilities starting at 9am, which would lead to […]

Female cricketer Haleema Rafiq commits suicide

haleema rafique died

Female cricketer Haleema Rafiq committed suicide in Multan after receiving court summon to pay Rs 20 million in damage claim by Maulvi Sultan Ahmed of Multan Cricket Club. Haleema along with four other female cricketers had accused the MCC management for sexual harassment which were declared unfounded by a two member investigation committee. The 17 […]

Nawaz government is heading toward failure – Zardari

Asif ali zardari

Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has strongly criticized Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the issue of verification of votes, interfering in provincial matters and neglecting the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a statement on Tuesday July 15, 2015. The former president said in a statement issued from Lahore, Pakistan People’s Party had accepted […]

Umar Akmal sues traffic warden for humiliating ‘national hero’

Umar-Akmal

Umar Akmal has filed a suit against Lahore traffic police warden on Tuesday July 15, 2014 for humiliating ‘national hero’ by trying to arrest him for violation of traffic rules. Pakistani cricketer also claimed that police used its influence to get written apology from his father while he was abroad. Umar Akmal lodged the application […]

Imran Khan demands audit of complete electoral process

Imran Khan demands audit of entire elections 2013

Imran Khan has finally demanded the audit of entire electoral process and reaffirmed that his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will stage Azadi march on August 14 in Islamabad as planned for “real freedom”. PTI chief was addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday July 15, 2014 along with other party leaders. Imran Khan said […]

Libyan factions are fighting for control of Tripoli airport

libya airport closed after clashes

An alliance of Islamist militias tried Sunday to take Tripoli airport form Zintan militia who control facilities. The attack has left groups of passengers trapped in the terminal of the airport at the Libyan capital early in the morning. After several flights suspended, the International Airport has decided to close the facility over the next […]

Pakistan must quit international coalition on terror for peace in country – Fazl

fazl ur rehman

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that Pakistan must distance itself from the international coalition against terrorism to establish peace in the country while talking to reporters in Multan on Monday. He said that government was not serious in peace talks with Taliban otherwise there could have been a different outcome. He […]

Friendly fire – biggest risk of bioterrorism

bioterrorism

Having clarified the obvious – that zero risk does not exist and that humans make mistakes, let us analyze two relevant questions about the Biosecurity incident in Atlanta. The first is that the errors can not be eradicated, but must be minimized, and it seems that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have […]

Shortage of innovation slows export pace in Latin America

lack of innovation in Latin America

Latin American leads global entrepreneurship among the emerging economies, but are slowing down due to lack of  innovation. A deadly equation which neither multinationals are not spared, and penalizes the growth of the region and exports. Examples abound. Chinese multinationals investing in R & D 34 times more than Latin American transnational manufacturing, except for […]

Corruption destroys Sarkozy’s political comeback dream

Sarkozy

The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the main opposition party in France, is going through an unprecedented crisis that threatens its very survival twelve years after it foundation.  Outrageous new data on the alleged involvement of  Nicolas Sarkozy in corruption has made it worse for UMP survival.  Phone recordings of the former leader of […]

Militias impose terror in Iraq

iraq-violence

Abubaker Asij, a 42 year old lawyer, a graduate of the University of Baghdad, was arrested by the intelligence services of Saddam Hussein in 1997. Suffered torture and spent a long sentence in a slum of more than two meters long and one meter wide. They wanted to execute him, but the amnesty of 2002 […]

70,000 civilians leave Donetsk in a weekend

civilians flee donetsk

The fear of a coming Ukrainian Army offensive is causing a real exodus in Donetsk, a stronghold of the pro-Russian rebels, whose inhabitants leave the city by thousands. This flight coincides with the worst fighting that has caused 30 deaths among the Ukrainian rows in the past 48 hours, 19 in a mortar attack made […]

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