US announces a bounty of US $10M on Hafiz Saeed and US $2M on Abdul Rehman Makki United States of America offered handsome prize money of US$ 10m for arrest of Pakistan-based militant group’s founder, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The organisation is blamed for planning the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in India but nothing […]
Iran stayed firm on its Nuclear Plans regardless of the American and Israeli threats Despite the massive pressure from the outer world, Iran is determinant to continue on its nuclear path. Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, “The sanctions may have caused us small problems but we will continue our […]
Zakaria Al Sadah, the brother-in-law of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden expressed fears that he might be pushed out from Pakistan to deprive his sister and her children of legal assistance. Zakaria said that District and Session Judge Shahrukh Arjumand had also adjourned the petition of applicant till March 26 without passing any orders […]
Slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, Zakaria Al Sadah, filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the dismissal of case against his sister Amal Abdul Fattah Al sada and her children. He pleaded his sister and her five children be allowed to go back to Yemen. Filing the petition through his […]
Dubai is getting back on the track and last year, it departed the lone and dreary junction of financial crisis with a long honk. The once business and tourism hub of the United Arab Emirates fell victim to the devouring 2008 crisis. That year and the following two saw the city’s economy go into free […]
Moreover, Dubai is also continuing to invest in infrastructure to finish what it started. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved a $7.8 billion expansion plan for Dubai’s two airports to boost annual capacity to 75 million travellers by 2012 and to 90 million by 2018, Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer of Dubai […]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates the city and its state-controlled companies still face about $10.3 billion in debt repayments this year alone. “There’s still a lot of debt overhang and corporate restructurings to be worked through,” said Khalid Howladar, a Dubai-based senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service. “Deferral of the problem has been […]
Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs started new businesses, built new homes, hotels and malls at the most popular and populated Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, since the government allowed foreigners to own houses and offices in 2002. The economy of Dubai may expand as much as 5 percent given the circumstances remain unchanged and Euro […]
Obama openly supports Israel on Iran’s issue – World News The U.S. President Barack Obama has had a recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Oval Office on Monday. The meeting lasted for about two hours and Obama tried to win the trust of Netanyahu, who represent America’s top ally in the […]
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A gang of gunmen wearing military-style uniforms and carrying forged arrest warrants killed 25 police Monday, then hoisted the battle flag of al Qaeda in a carefully planned early morning shooting spree in western Iraq, officials said. The killings in Haditha highlight al Qaeda’s success in regaining a foothold in an area it once dominated […]
A Syrian official on Monday accused the West of taking advantage of the Middle Eastern country’s unrest to try to destabilize it and warned the opposition that militarizing is a big mistake that will backfire. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said the only way out of the current crisis that has killed thousands of people […]
Arabs and Democracy – Part 2 The prevalence in the revolts of social networks like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, are symptoms, not causes, of this organizational structure. These are the modes of expression of an intelligent and capable people to use the tools at your disposal to organize independently. Although these movements deny network organized in […]
