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

Articles By Maleeha Tareen

LPG prices increased third time in 3 days

LPG banned in Pakistan for Public Transport

The price hike spree of LPG marketing companies in the country shows  no sign of coming under control as LPG prices have been increased for the third consecutive day. After the most recent raise, the price of LPG cylinder for domestic use has now increased by Rs200 during past three days. LPG marketing companies today […]

Dr. Qadri refuses to cooperate with police investigation

Dr Tahirul Qadri

Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader, Dr. Tahirul Qadri has refused to cooperate with the police investiagtion of  Model Town tragedy in response to request by the Punjab Inspector General of Police. According to media reports, Mushtaq Sukhera IG Punjab Police requested Dr. Tahirul Qadri, chief Pakistan Awami Tehreek, in letter to cooperate in the police investigation […]

7 members of Hamas killed in Gaza shelling

Palestine

The escalation in the Gaza Strip continued on Sunday morning with further exchanges of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist militias. Hamas announced the deaths of six of its members in the collapse of a smuggling tunnel in the town of Rafah, along the border with Egypt. According to the Palestinian news agency Maan, […]

Massive gathering in Karachi against terrorism

altaf hussain salutes pakistan army

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 […]

Obama’s executive orders

president obama

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 […]

Rs300-1000 Sales tax levied on mobile phone sets

mobile phones

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 […]

5 killed in Egypt during protests on first anniversary of army coup

5 killed in Egypt during protests on first anniversary of army coup

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 […]

Kurdish leader calls for independence referendum

Massoud Barzani

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 […]

Thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Russia to escape conflict

ukraine refugees in russia

Thousands of Ukrainians are entering Russia in recent months to be safe from violence engulfing the eastern regions of the country, where the central authorities in Kiev on Tuesday resumed military operations against insurgents and pro-Russian separatists after failed truce to be such. Women, children and, to a lesser extent, men, come to Russia by […]

500 arrested in Hong Kong after rally for more democracy

police arrest protesters in hong kong

Hong Kong police have arrested Wednesday over 500 people who attended a vigil organized by student groups to demand more democracy in the Chinese autonomous territory. The vigil in the business district, which concluded in the early hours of this morning, extended the historic mass march on Tuesday in favor of freedoms in the former […]

Italy rescues 5,000 immigrants on weekend

immigrants italy

After last October, nearly 400 African immigrants died in two consecutive shipwrecks off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy launched solo, with minimum support of the European Union (EU), rescue operation Mare Nostrum. So far this year, the Italian Navy has rescued 67,696 people trying to cross the Strait of Sicily crammed aboard barges. But not […]

Two policemen killed in separate attacks in Cairo

egypt

After a hiatus of nearly two months, the terrorist again hit hard Egypt on the eve of the first anniversary of the coup that deposed President Mohamed Morsi. Two police officers died and a dozen wounded when three bombs exploded near the presidential palace Ittihadiya in Cairo on Monday. The two policemen belonged to the […]

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