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• The dream of peace in the subcontinent

  31 March 2013 ( #International Court of Arbitration, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Kashmir, #India, #Neelum River, #Rehman Malik, #Jeddah, #Pakistan )

  The recent visit of Pakistan politician Rehman Malik to India received wide media coverage in both countries. Now both countries have agreed to ease visa restrictions, increase trade and resolve all disputes through dialogues. However, the truth is that...

• Looming climate disaster

  31 March 2013 ( #United Nations, #Climate change, #United States, #Doha, #Ban Ki-moon, #Secretary-General of the United Nations, #Hurricane Sandy, #Climate )

  Qatar_June07062 (Photo credit: Julie Lindsay) After the worse effects of global warming in different countries, the recent conference in Qatar on climate change has become a big challenge for the conscience of big powers which are mostly responsible for...

• Good Bye Ricky Ponting

  31 March 2013 ( #Ricky Ponting, #India, #Steve Waugh, #Sachin Tendulkar, #Test cricket, #South Africa, #Donald Bradman, #Australia )

  Ricky Ponting at a training session at the Adelaide Oval (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At a time when cricket is passing through a critical stage of its history and losing some of its charm as a result of match fixing and other scandals, another legend is...

• UN’s historic move

  31 March 2013 ( #International Criminal Court, #United States, #Palestinian National Authority, #Palestine, #Gaza, #Benjamin Netanyahu, #Palestinian people, #Israel )

  In a historic move, the United Nation’s General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favor of the Palestinian authority becoming a non-observer state according to the 1967 borders. Although three permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely France,...

• Nelson Mandela

  30 March 2013 ( #South African Communist Party, #Mandela, #African National Congress, #Umkhonto we Sizwe, #ANC, #Nelson Mandela, #South Africa, #President of South Africa )

  Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla] ; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid activist, revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to...

• The Bermuda Triangle

  03 April 2013 ( #United States, #Vincent Gaddis, #Caribbean, #Bermuda Triangle, #United States Board on Geographic Names, #Atlantic Ocean, #Bermuda, #Florida )

  Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangle...

• The Russian Red Army

  31 March 2013 ( #Bolshevik, #Red Army, #Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, #Moscow, #Leon Trotsky, #Russian Civil War, #Soviet Union, #Russia )

  The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия; РККА or Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya; RKKA) started out as the Soviet Russia's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922....

• Terrible performance

  31 March 2013 ( #United States, #India, #China, #Hockey, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #Saudi Arabia, #Pakistani )

  London 2012 banner at The Monument. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The recent poor performance of players from sub-continent countries in the London 2012 Olympics proved that like in other fields, sports is also falling. Pakistan’s 21-member team could not...

• Fall of Berlin Wall

  30 March 2013 ( #West Germany, #Brandenburg Gate, #Ronald Reagan, #Berlin Wall, #United States, #Mikhail Gorbachev, #Reagan, #Berlin )

  . Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the...

• The People's Liberation Army

  31 March 2013 ( #People's Liberation Army, #Nanchang Uprising, #China, #Kuomintang, #Second Artillery Corps, #Communist Party of China, #PLA, #Central Military Commission )

  The People's Liberation Army (PLA; simplified Chinese: 中国人民解放军; traditional Chinese: 中國人民解放軍; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn) is the military arm of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the de facto armed forces of the People's Republic of China,...

• Nancy Pelosi

  27 March 2013 ( #San Francisco, #Pelosi, #Nancy Pelosi, #Thomas D'Alesandro, #California, #Democratic, #United States House of Representatives, #Baltimore )

  Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from California Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi ( pron.: / p ə ˈ l oʊ s i / ; born March 26, 1940) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as...

• The Libya Revolution

  30 March 2013 ( #Muammar Gaddafi, #Khamis Brigade, #General People's Committee, #NATO, #WikiLeaks, #Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, #Libya, #Gaddafi )

  Muammar Gaddafi was the head of the Free Officer's, a group of Arab nationalists that deposed King Idris I in 1969 in a 'bloodless coup. [51] He abolished the Libyan Constitution of 1951, considering it a neo colonial document. From 1969 until 1975 standards...

• The assassination of Benazir Bhutto

  02 April 2013 ( #Rawalpindi, #Pakistan People, #Pervez Musharraf, #Bhutto, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Jinnah International Airport, #Benazir Bhutto )

  The assassination of Benazir Bhutto occurred on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections...

• Margaret Thatcher

  27 March 2013 ( #Denis Thatcher, #Norman Dodds, #Baroness Thatcher, #Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, #Conservative, #Edward Heath, #Thatcher, #Margaret Thatcher )

  Profile photo of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS , née Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of...

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders

  13 April 2013 ( #United States, #Xi Jinping, #China, #North Korea, #Kerry, #John Kerry, #South Korea, #Beijing )

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders on Saturday in a bid to persuade them to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent rhetoric and, eventually, return to nuclear talks. Travelling to Beijing for the first time...

• Green on blue attacks in Afghanistan

  04 April 2013 ( #United States, #NATO, #Helmand Province, #Afghan National Security Forces, #British Army, #Afghanistan, #Afghan National Army, #International Security Assistance Force )

  According to the news, Afghan security forces killed six service members from the American-led military coalition in a series of attacks in southern Afghanistan. These attacks were the latest in the long series of so called green on blue incidents (attacks...

• Brezhnev

  27 March 2013 ( #Joseph Stalin, #Yuri Andropov, #Nikita Khrushchev, #Mikhail Gorbachev, #Leonid Brezhnev, #Soviet Union, #Communist Party of the Soviet Union, #Brezhnev )

  Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев; IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲid ɪlʲˈjitɕ ˈbrʲeʐnʲɪf] ( listen); Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 (O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central...

• Che Guevara

  30 March 2013 ( #United States, #Fidel Castro, #Cuba, #Fulgencio Batista, #Guevara, #Bay of Pigs Invasion, #Cuban Revolution, #Che Guevara )

  Che Guevara (Jim Fitzpatrick's style) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa] ; [7] June 14, [1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician,...

• George Galloway

  21 March 2013 ( #Galloway, #Bradford West, #Member of Parliament, #Labour, #George Galloway, #Glasgow, #Scottish Parliament, #Glasgow Kelvin )

  George Galloway (Photo credit: DavidMartynHunt) George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) forBradford West. After first coming to public attention as the...

• Fidel Castro

  27 March 2013 ( #Castro, #United States, #Fidel Castro, #Cuba, #Communist Party of Cuba, #Cuban Missile Crisis, #Dwight D. Eisenhower, #Cuban Revolution )

  Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba as a result of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Spanish: [fiˈðel ˈkastro] ; born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976,...

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO

  27 March 2013 ( #Cold War, #Berlin Wall, #United States, #North Atlantic Treaty Organization, #NATO, #Korean War, #Warsaw Pact, #Brussels )

  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; pron.: / ˈ n eɪ t oʊ / NAY -toh ; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN) ), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic...

• Saddam Hussein

  26 March 2013 ( #Ba'ath Party, #Iraq, #Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, #Saddam, #17 July Revolution, #Iran–Iraq War, #Saddam Hussein, #Baghdad )

  Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; [1] 28 April 1937 [2] – 30 December 2006) [3] was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April...

• Pakistani Students

  03 March 2013 ( #Danish Ali, #USA, #United States, #Science Olympiad, #National Film Festival for Talented Youth, #State University of New York, #Pakistan, #Sydney )

  This year has been great for Pakistan as far as International Competitions and science projects are concerned as a number of students from across the country bring home the accolades in fields ranging from debates and film-making to math Olympiads and...

• Killing of Polio Workers

  03 March 2013 ( #Central Intelligence Agency, #Poliomyelitis, #Osama Bin Laden, #Abbottabad, #Vaccination, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #North Waziristan )

  21 December, 2012 Child receiving polio vaccine According to media news thousands of Pakistani children are at high risk of Polio disease after killing of ten polio workers most of them were women in Karachi and other different parts of country. After...

• Climate Change

  03 March 2013 ( #Climate change, #Geophysical Research Letters, #Oxford, #La Niña, #Greenhouse gas, #Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, #2011 East Africa drought, #East Africa )

  Copenhagen was the center of climate change For the first time, we have proof that climate change has led to a humanitarian disaster. The East African drought of 2011, which resulted in a famine thatkilled at least 50,000 people, was partly caused by...