Posted on 25 July 2010.
“We have started discussions on the civilian nuclear energy deal and we will continue them but Pakistan’s energy crisis needs immediate attention and for that we are working on plans that can come to fruition in the short term,” Gerald Feierstein, US deputy chief of mission, told a group of journalists on Thursday. He explained [...]
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Posted on 25 July 2010.
Mapping US drone and Taliban attacks in Pakistan * BBC Urdu report shows 2,500 people have been killed in US drone and terrorist attacks since January 2009 * Drone attacks have tripled under Obama administration Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: According to a research carried out by the BBC Urdu service, nearly 2,500 people have been [...]
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Posted on 24 July 2010.
Yes, we need the Cordoba House complex to set an example for the rest of America and for the world, and so the fear and hate mongers don’t win. It is necessary to show the world that Americans are neither trembling in their boots nor willing to compromise the dignity and rights of American Muslims [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, US CA
Posted on 24 July 2010.
‘Pakistan is eating their lunch in Afghanistan Indians shell-shocked’
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 24 July 2010. Tags: Iran, Russia
Ahmadinejad warns Medvedev of joining ‘U.S. plot’ against Iran Russia joined U.S., Western allies last month in imposing a fourth UN Security Council resolution and additional sanctions against Iran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday warned his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev of joining a “plot” by the United States against Iran, ISNA news agency reported. [...]
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Posted on 24 July 2010. Tags: Palestine
The U.S. announced this week that it would upgrade its diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority by granting its mission in Washington – which is actually a PLO mission – the same status it enjoys in most European countries: that of a PLO “general delegation.” This is still a lower status than an embassy and [...]
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Posted on 24 July 2010.
Germany and Israel have failed to agree on a sale’s deal of a German submarine to Israel, a Berlin source said on Friday. “There is no financial commitment,” government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said. “There are no concrete negotiations with Israel over a sixth submarine. As for whether there are informal talks — because of the [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
SRINAGAR (Indian Occupied Kashmir): In occupied Kashmir, the authorities clamped curfew in Srinagar, Sopore, Kupwara, Handwara and Bandipore while imposing strict restrictions in Baramulla, Pulwama, Islamabad, Kulgam, Budgam and other towns on Friday to thwart anti-India demonstrations, reports KMS. Life continued to remain disrupted in the Valley with shops, business establishments, educational institutions and banks [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
The proposed location of the city is near Jherek in Thatta district. KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to identify a million acres of land near the coast in Thatta district for the development of ‘Zulfikarabad’, in the memory of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. State Minster for Information Samsam Ali Bukhari [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
“I know I’m sexy,” Srinagar resident Junaid Rafiqi proclaims on his Facebook page, below a professionally lit photograph that, among other things, shows off his possession of an expensive pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. He goes on with an enthusiasm unfettered by punctuation, spelling and grammar: “I got the looks that drives the girls wild I [...]
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