Monday, August 18th, 2008
Parvez Musharraf has resigned as Pakistan's president on August 18, 2008. Mr Musharraf said, in a lengthy televised address to the nation "After consultations with legal advisers and close political supporters and on their advice, I'm taking the decision of resigning." "My resignation will go to the speaker of the ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I would like to wish all the Pakistanis a very happy indepence day August 14.
Long live Pakistan!
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
In an other post We Only Want to Make Peace! I quoted the following verse from Quran.
"When it is said to them: “Make not mischief on the earth,” they say: “Why, we only want to make peace!” Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they realise (it) ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
There are reports that massive Israeli exercises in the Mediterranean may be a part of preparations for a strike on Iran’s nuclear installations. Indications that this could be a purpose of the drills practiced at sea have come from the US Department of Defence. In response, Iran has warned it ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas came into force in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, amid scepticism over how long the Egyptian-brokered deal would hold. It is the first formal ceasefire since Hamas’s takeover of the territory just over a year ago, which triggered a crippling Israel blockade of ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Pakistan has offered to help setup nuclear power reactor in Bangladesh after International Atomic Energy Agency gave green signal to Bangladesh to use nuclear energy for civlian use according to report in The Times of India. China and Russia have also offered the nuclear power reactor to Bangladesh to deal ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
These days every where on media the Tibet issue is being highlighted. Most probably it is one way to put China under spot light. However, not many media channels are showing what is happening in Kashmir. The following picture is just a glimpse of what Kashmiries have to go through ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Women felt elated and people generally hailed as Pakistan had its first ever woman Speaker of the National Assembly. Born on December 20, 1956 in Karachi, Dr. Fehmida Mirza took over the chair from outgoing Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain after her election by overwhelming two-third majority in the secret ballot.
An ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
On one hand some people of Pakistan are forced to sell their children due to hunger and poverty and on the other hand the President of same country spent about 70,000 British Pound to stay in a hotel room for four days on a private visit to UK.
According to a report ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
The huge survey involving more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations initiated after the September 11, 2001 attacks in US suggests that overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned them and subsequent attacks, citing religious reasons.
The poll, which claims to represent the views of 90% the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, is to ...
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