Archive for: August, 2014

Shaharyar Khan appointed new PCB Chairman

Shahryar Khan

Shaharyar Khan has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday August 18, 2014 after the resignation of Najam Sethi as the head of the cricket board. Pakistan Cricket Boar said in a statement on Monday,  “It is notified that Mr. Shaharyar M. Khan, the sole candidate for the […]

Pakistan cricket team slips to 6th position in ICC ranking

second cricket test Pakistan-SL

Pakistan cricket team had lost its third position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) test ranking and slipped to sixth position after defeat in the second text match against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Monday August 18, 2014. Pakistani team lost the match by 105 runs. Pakistani test players Sarfraz Ahmad and Wahab Riaz resumed […]

Lahore High Court dismissed tax notices to Minhajul Quran

Lahore High Court

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) was restrained by the Justice Amir Mahmood of Lahore High Court this Monday August 18, 2014 to send any notices to Minhajul Quran Secretariat for payment of income tax. Justice Amir Mahmood rejected the notices received from FBR to pay Rs350 millions in income tax in a ruling on a […]

PTI minister threatens to shut down electricity to Punjab

Mushtaq Ghani

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) minister in the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP), Mushtaq Ghani, this Monday August 18, 2014 has threatened if Federal government disconnected the electricity supply to KP for non payment of electricity bills, the provincial government will shut down the supply to Punjab from Terbela Dam. PTI minister said that civil disobedience will not be […]

Pakistan SC asks government to deal with political crisis

Supreme-Court of pakistan

Supreme Court of Pakistan had ruled that it is the responsibility of the government to handle the situation arising  from the sit-ins of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Monday August 18, 2014 in Islamabad. Five member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk and including Justice Jawwad S. […]

Leader of Turkey’s Kurds announces final stretch of conflict

turkey visa rules relaxed

“This war that has lasted 30 years is through an important democratic negotiation, the phase that leads to an end.” Who speaks so hope is the leader of the militia of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK, Kurdish), Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned since 1999 and sentenced to life itself. ” On the occasion of the 30th […]

Turkey in the spotlight of German espionage

turkey and germany

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was ordered by the German government to systematically spy on Turkey, a NATO member and, therefore, a strategic ally of Germany. The order was included in the so-called ” profile by the federal government (APB) “, which is updated every four years and is in force since 2009. The […]

Israel, Palestinians skeptical to resume negotiations

day of anger west bank palestine

Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian factions are returning this morning their meeting in Cairo to reach an agreement to bring calm, either indefinitely or for a long time, on both sides of the Gaza border. After that on the night of Wednesday to Thursday were agreed five days of truce  that ends 23.59 Monday  […]

Black city agitation against white police

Michael Brown death

“I do not feel represented,” he repeated like a mantra Thursday Etoya Dickerson, a black twenties protesting against the police station of Ferguson’s death on Saturday of a young African American by shooting of a policeman. Dickerson’s words and those of other residents of this poor town outside St. Louis (Missouri), in the Midwestern United […]

Dutch man returns a medal after Israel’s offensive on Gaza

Henk Zanoli

A 91 years Dutch has returned the honorary title to Israel he received after saving a Jewish boy during the Nazi occupation in protest at the Gaza offensive, after six of his relatives passed away during an Israeli offensive on the Gaza last month. Man, Henk Zanoli, was declared “Righteous Among the Nations” in 1943 […]

Sunni leaders support newly designated Iraqi prime minister

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The withdrawal of Nuri al-Maliki’s bid to lead the new government of Iraq opens the way for a national coalition that includes all communities can cope and the Islamic State (EI). The spiritual leader of the Shia Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, on Friday reiterated its support for the designated Prime Minister Haider al Abadi, and […]

One dies in a shipping container at Tilbury port

Tilbury container death

One of the 31 people found Saturday morning inside a container at the Port of Tilbury, southern England, has died and two others have been hospitalized with major health problems and another 17 have been treated at the Basildon hospital. In the group of people found there were men, women and children. Not yet reported […]

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