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

Articles By Maleeha Tareen

Egypt First Time Criminalizes Sexual Harassment

woman harassment in egypt

In his last hours as interim president of Egypt, Mansur Adly Thursday approved a decree that makes sexual harassment a criminal offense for the first time in Egypt. Although the law includes prison terms and heavy fines for offenders, women’s organizations considered it insufficient as it does not include the necessary mechanisms to be applied. […]

Tories defeat UKIP in a Midterm UK Elections

Tory candidate Robert Jenrick

The political earthquake UKIP took a breather in the midterm elections of Newark, central England, where the Conservative Party retained the seat with no problems left by the resignation of one of its members. The Tory candidate Robert Jenrick scored 45% of the vote, well ahead of the UKIP candidate (26%) and Labour (18%). As […]

Abdullah unharmed in a bomb attack in Kabul

Abdullah-Abdullah

Abdullah Abdullah, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and candidate in the Afghan presidential election, has managed to emerge unscathed from a double bombing which has been in western Kabul. Two bombs have exploded outside the hotel west of Kabul where he had to hold a rally. “When I was coming out of the meeting of […]

Boko Haram Killed at least 45 in Nigeria

boko haram

Militants of the terrorist group Boko Haram, which still held captive to 219 girls abducted last April, have killed at least 45 people in the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria. Neighbors said that the attackers, who appeared to be preachers, opened fire on the crowd. The local media, as the Nigerian newspaper The Premium […]

Woman Survived Attempted Honour Killing in Gujranwala

attempted honour killing

Another attempt to kill a young woman in Pakistan for marrying  a man on her own will in the name of of honour failed and 18 years old woman survived miraculously. Saba Masood was shot, put in a sack and then threw in a canal. Police shifted her to hospital where she is in critical […]

The G -7 snubs Putin in Brussels

G-7 flags

The intensity of security measures is usually directly related to the significance of an event. Brussels has awakened Wednesday besieged by police to host the G -7 marked by an absence: the first meeting without Russia in the last 17 years of which were once the seven major industrial powers of the world, a snub […]

Lights and shadows in disappearance of US SoldierBergdahl

Bowe Bergdahl

Bowe Bergdahl Sergeant is “right”, ” can walk alone” and is in the military medical center in Landstuhl based in Germany, says the Pentagon. It will be in Germany where the sergeant disappeared in 2009 in the Afghan province of Paktika, southeast of the country, start a process of rehabilitation is not easy adventure. That […]

French police arrest four jihadists in Paris and south

suspect in belgian killing

French police have arrested four people Monday in an operation against the jihadi networks in the Paris region and in the south of the country, said Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve told Europe 1 radio. The operation was carried out a day after the arrest was announced Friday in Marseille from suspected of killing three people […]

Altaf Hussain Condemns Political Victimization of Gillani and Faheem

Altaf-Hussain

Altaf Hussain, the leader of Muthidda Qaumi Movement (MQM)  has expressed condemnation of issuance of non-bailable warrants for the arrest of former prime ministers Yusuf Raza Gillani, Raja Pervez Ashraf and senior PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Faheem in a statement on June 2, 2014.  He has called the actions by present government as political victimization.  […]

Unrest in Taksim on first anniversary of Turkish protests

Taksim Square

Turkey has marked the anniversary of the protests Gezi with similar scenes to vivid then: violent clashes between police and protesters and large amounts of tear gas. Yesterday marked the one year into a series of mass demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They triggered by the attempted demolition Gezi Park, […]

WHO Travel Restrictions for Pakistanis Come into Force

WHO concerned over Polio outbreak in Syria

All the travelers from Pakistan are required to carry a certificate of polio vaccination as recommended by World Health Organization. The other two countries which were also included in the list of states with high risk of transmission of polio to other countries are Syria and Cameroon. Pakistan has arranged counters on international airports for […]

Forget Elections for at Least One Year, says Thailand Army Chief

Prayut Chan-O-Cha

Thailand’s junta chief, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, has made it very clear that elections will only be held in country after a year long political reforms. Prayut plans to introduce new constitution to lay the foundation for elections to allow good and honest people to run the country.  received formal recognition from the Thai sovereign, Bhumibol Adulyadej, […]

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