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Maleeha Tareen
Joined on: May 12, 2014 Published stories: 189

Articles By Maleeha Tareen

Kurdish forces claim control of oil city of Kirkuk

mosul under militants control

The jihadists are within 100 kilometers of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad by Thursday. They leave behind large cities conquered in the north – Baiji and Mosul, where, after launching an offensive earlier this week, took control of the province of Nineveh. Although the insurgents were several points of Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein, the Army […]

Clinton launches her campaign with memories of Obama

Hard Choices

Few will read from start to finish the 600 pages of ‘Hard Choices’, the new book by Hillary Clinton. The book, a memoir of her years as Secretary of State of her former rival, Barack Obama, offers little new. As with most books of politicians in the United States, she has not written it herself. […]

Pakistani Fashion Parade Stuns Crowd in London

fasion parade

Pakistani Fashion Parade at  The Kensington Palace shined bright amongst the fashion lovers enhanced by sizzling star power, and an impressive designer lineup that focused on streamlined fashion. Pakistani fashion was celebrated amongst international fashion editors, film directors and esteemed marketing heads of huge corporations.  Fashion Parade was attended by many international names like Gurinder […]

A right-wing Likud replaced Peres as president of Israel

Reuven Rivlin

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, elected on Tuesday as conservative Reuven Rivlin tenth president of the State. The veteran politician belongs to the right wing of the Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rivlin needed a second round of voting to beat Schitrit Meir, the centrist party Hatnúa of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Three […]

Activist icon of Egyptian revolution Sentenced to 15 years

Alaa Abdel Fatah

No dissident escapes the elongated arm of Egypt’s repressive justice. Alaa Abdel Fatah, one of the symbols of the revolution of 2011 who was still at large, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison with 24 other lfor organizing an illegal demonstration in November last year, according to a filtration official newspaper Al Ahram. […]

End of the ‘ghost goal’ in Football World Cup 2014

fifa goal line technology

The knockout clash between Germany and England in the last World Cup (4-1) went down in history as a humiliation due to a wrongly disallowed goal of England’s Frank Lampard when the score was just 2-1. The glaring error led FIFA to definitely rethink the thorny issue of ‘ghost goal ‘ and adopt Goal Line […]

Merkel reaffirms support for Juncker as chairman European Commission

Jean-Claude-Juncker-and-merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday showed support for Jean-Claude Juncker as the ” leading candidate ” to head the European Commission, to be designated by the European People’s Party, the most voted in the last election. It has done after meeting in Harpsund (Sweden) with three other center-right European leaders critical of the former […]

Thunderstorm in Germany Killed 6 People

germany storm kills 6

At least six people have died in the last hours in West Germany because of the worst storm of the last seven years, which has damaged hundreds of buildings, land and affected air traffic and cut power in several regions. The German weather service reported that this time there have been stronger gusts of wind […]

Short Precise Cancer Treatment

cancer cure

Santiago Velazquez, physicist Andalusian Health Service (SAS), has spent a decade working to relieve suffering and make the life easier for cancer patients. “We’ve managed to turn a tragedy in just a nightmare,” says the scientist, Medical Physics Service Hospital. Velazquez has created a system that can be used in any particle accelerator and radiotherapy […]

Prime Minister Thaci won parliamentary elections in Kosovo

Hashim Thaci

Official results of parliamentary elections on Sunday in Kosovo confirm the victory of the Democratic Party (KDP) led by outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. After proclaiming the victory of the PDK, which was introduced in the campaign with the slogan ‘New Mission’,  Thaci said his party “will work even harder to ensure (Kosovo) is integrated […]

Fighting in Iraq Has Forced 500,000 Civilians to Leave Home

Adrian Edwards, UNHCR

Fighting between the army and rebels have made so far this year nearly half a million displaced civilians in Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Only in the Al Anbar province, northwest of the country, violence has forced more than 50,000 families to leave their home but, according to Adrian Edwards, […]

Large Oil Reserves Near Jehlum Discovered

oil rig

Pakistan’s largest oil producing well with an estimated production of 5,500 barrels per day near Jehlum, Punjab is expected to start production by the end of this month. The discovery of oil reserves in this region of Pakistan is the first and opens door to further exploration for oil reserves. Mari Pertroleum Company Limited has […]

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