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

Articles By Maleeha Tareen

Death toll in Gaza exceed 330 as Israel maintain its positions

Israeli ivasion of gaza

The second night since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza resulted in 26 Palestinians killed and four Israeli soldiers injured, one of them in a road accident. The Israeli army has killed 330 Palestinians since the beginning of Operation Margin Protector on Gaza in the early hours of July 8. 72 of them […]

Moscow warns against United States sanctions

vladimir-putin

Sanctions against Russia have a ” boomerang effect ” and have Russian- American relations to a “dead end,” said Thursday President Vladimir Putin reacting to the latest round of restrictions against key economic enterprises of the country, announced on Wednesday in Washington. The state oil company Rosneft, the gas company Novatek and Gazprombank Vneshekonombank and […]

Rebels allow access to area of Malaysian Airline plane crash

MH-17 crashed

A Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines, in transit from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on Thursday in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in the armed conflict between the central authorities in Kiev and pro-Russian independence insurgents. In the plane traveled 298 people, 283 passengers (including many children) and 15 crew members. They all perished in […]

US embassy official carrying pistol detained at Islamabad airport

airport security forces detained us embassy employee

Airport Security Force personals detained a passenger at Benazir International Airport who was carrying loaded 9 mm pistol and 15 bullets in his luggage while trying to board flight from Islamabad to United States visa Abu Dhabi on Thursday July 17, 2014. The passenger was shifted to police station for further investigation and later released […]

Australian senate scraps visa rules for offshore rig workers

offshore oil rigs

Australian Senators on Wednesday July 16, 2014 teamed up to vote down  a new visa regime that allowed the skilled migrants to be hired at the offshore rigs in the Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The rules were exploiting the foreign workers at the expense of Australian workers as claimed by the Senators. The governing party, […]

Khawaja Asif assures Pervez Khattak to resolve electricity issues

electric supply issues in khyber pakhtunkhawa

Federal Minister for Water and Power, Khawaja Asif, met with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, in Peshawar to discuss the electricity load shedding issues on Wednesday July 16, 2014. Khawaja Asif assured Pervez Khattak to resolve the electricity problems in three phases.  Pervez Khattak had threatened to shut down the electric supply to Punjab […]

Canada changing immigration rules for foreign workers in 2015

Canadian immigration minister chris alexander

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is introducing a new Express Entry electronic application management system in January 2015 in a bid to reduce the backlog and match the newly arriving permanent residents with jobs already secured. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander met with business leaders and other stakeholders to discuss the new Express Entry system […]

U.S. soldier released by Taliban returns to active duty

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl

One step closer to normal: just six weeks of his release after spending nearly five years in the hands of the Taliban, American Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, 28, returns to active duty, who will be by the time at a military base in Texas, confirmed Monday the Pentagon. “The Sergeant Bergdahl has completed the final phase […]

Netanyahu pledges to intensify Israeli offensive against Gaza

gaza strip shelling by israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said on Tuesday that Hamas has left us no choice but to intensify the military offensive in Gaza after truce plan offered by Egypt did not work out.  Almost 200 people had died in Gaza as result of Israeli shelling during the past 8 days whereas one Israeli citizen […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Photo Gallery

Unique Auction UAE
Log in