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Thousands of people gathered at the Jinnah Park in Karachi to express their support against terrorism on Sunday July 6, 2014. They showed solidarity for the Pakistan armed forces engaged in the operation against terrorists in the North Waziristan region. When the Mutahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain saluted the Pakistan army, everyone in […]
Handcuffed by an obstructionist Congress, and within three years of the end of his second and final term, President Barack Obama tested a new way of governing. The possibilities of adopting draft laws, as was health care reform in 2010, are minimal. The alternative is for the president to rule by decree. Calls executive orders […]
The Silk Road. A land of opportunity. A territory rich in natural resources. These stereotypes of Chinese citizens on the Chinese border province of Xinjiang, mainly inhabited by ethnic Uighurs, came on top of a very different image on July 5, 2009: that of violence. Today, Xinjiang fulfills the fifth anniversary of the worst riots […]
Israeli police have arrested six suspects in the murder of the young Palestinian Jadair Abu Mohamed, whose charred body was found on Wednesday morning in West Jerusalem. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, arrests point to right-wing Jewish groups. The 16 year old boy died, according to newspaper, in revenge for the murders of three […]
Federal Board of Revenue has levied sales tax of Rs300 to Rs1000 on mobile phone sets. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has opposed imposing the sales tax on mobile phone sets. Federal Board of Revenue has also imposed Rs250 on the sale of each SIM card. Federal Board of Revenue imposed the new sales tax on the […]
Justice Nasirul Mulk took oath as the new Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan on Sunday July 6m 2014 during a ceremony in the President House in Islamabad. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and judges of Supreme Court were also present at the oath taking ceremony. President of Pakistan, Mamoon Hussain, administered the oath to […]
Preliminary autopsy results to Palestinian minor Mohamed Abu Jadair, murdered this week in Jerusalem, suggests that the 16 year old was burned alive, Palestinian Attorney General, Mohamed al Awewy, told the official news agency Wafa. The prosecutor argued that forensics found traces of soot and smoke in the throat and lungs of teenager, which means […]
Petra Kvitova has defeated Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets 6-3, 6-0 in the Wimbledon ladies singles final to win her second Wimbledon title. Czech star Kvitova was flawless on the court and had no trouble in securing her grand slam title in under one hour. Eugenie Bourchard was unable to respond to the powerful shots […]
Five men were killed Thursday in Cairo in an explosion and clashes with police on the first anniversary of the coup that deposed Islamist State president Mohamed Morsi. Despite being severely repressed, sympathizers of the Muslim Brotherhood still have enough energy left to challenge the Egyptian authorities. Thousands have taken to the streets in cities […]
Egypt is in negotiations for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. In the morning, international service of the BBC television reported that Palestinian in Gaza are about to stop their attacks on Israel. Egypt, however, deny that any specific agreement has been reached yet. The Israeli government declined comment on the statements of Hamas, but […]
The president of the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday asked the autonomous parliament in Erbil to start working on the organization of a referendum on independence. “I ask your help to fix the date of a referendum on independence,” Massoud Barzani told lawmakers in a closed session, according to the Kurdish online newspaper […]
The UK plans designed to train and equip 100,000 Syrian rebels in order to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, according to the BBC revealed today. The initiative was rejected by Prime Minister David Cameron, the National Security Council and several senior U.S. officials as “too risky”. The plan was introduced two years ago by the then […]
