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• Polio vaccine ban

  24 February 2013 ( #Federally Administered Tribal Areas, #South Waziristan, #Central Intelligence Agency, #Poliomyelitis, #Osama Bin Laden, #Vaccination, #Pakistan, #North Waziristan )

  According to media reports, thousands of Pakistani children are at risk of polio disease. Militant organizations have banned polio vaccination campaigns in their areas. According to health officials, 160,000 children in North Waziristan and 80,000 children...

• Haj journey of Bosnian Man

  24 February 2013 ( #Africa, #Mecca, #Allah, #Asia, #Makkah, #Bosnia and Herzegovina, #Saudi Arabia, #Hajj )

  Hajj 2008 (Photo credit: Al Jazeera English) Thousands of people belonging to different cultures and nationalities coming from all over the world to perform Haj is truly an amazing feeling. Haj shows the unity of Muslims all over the world from Asia to...

• Setting an example

  24 February 2013 ( #Asia, #United Arab Emirates, #Jeddah, #Transparency International, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Demographics of Pakistan, #Dubai )

  Saturday 6 October 2012 Last Update 6 October 2012 12:30 pm Unfortunately, due to the lack of interest on part of the government and weak laws, corruption is becoming a part and parcel of daily lives of Pakistani people . Because of the rampant corruption...

• Speedy recovery

  24 February 2013 ( #Birmingham, #Taliban, #Malala, #United Kingdom government, #CNN, #Surgery, #Pakistan, #Saudi Arabia )

  Friday 19 October 2012 I read with much interest Khawaja Umer Farooq’s letter “Many Malalas in Pakistan (Oct. 17). I wonder shouldn’t the United Kingdom government also be commended for accepting Malala into its state-of-the-art Trauma Hospital, and for...

• Tony Blair

  26 March 2013 ( #Sedgefield, #Blair, #John Smith, #Member of Parliament, #Labour, #New Labour, #Politics, #Tony Blair )

  Former Prime Minister Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) [1] is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield...

• Food shortage in Pakistan

  24 February 2013 ( #United States, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Asia, #Famine, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #World Food Day, #Agriculture )

  Food shortage in Pakistan Wednesday 24 October 2012 Last Update 23 October 2012 5:52 pm Like other countries of the world, Pakistan also observed World Food Day last week. But a recent UN report presents a very grim picture of Pakistan’s agriculture sector.According...

• Pakistan verdict

  24 February 2013 ( #Pakistan Supreme Court, #Chief Justice Pakistan, #Pakistan International Airlines, #Contempt of court, #Silvio Berlusconi, #Pakistan, #Bill Clinton, #Supreme Court )

  Supreme Court of Pakistan The recent verdict of Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the contempt of court case is enough to open the eyes of the ruling class in Pakistan. The detailed verdict clearly stated that the contempt of court act recently passed by the...

• Drones killing our allies

  24 February 2013 ( #Drone attacks in Pakistan, #United States, #Mullah Nazir, #South Waziristan, #Hakimullah Mehsud, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #North Waziristan )

  Satellite image of Shamsi puports to show three Predator aircraft on a parking ramp. Militant commander Mullah Nazir was killed in a US drone strikes in South Waziristan, killing him is astonishing news as he was the only commander who was supporting...

• Facts About Children and Poverty

  23 June 2013 ( #Canada, #Africa, #Poverty, #Children Youth and Family, #Children, #Prostitution, #Education, #Cycle of poverty )

  Facts About Children and Poverty Health Care and Nutrition Measles, malaria and diarrhea are three of the biggest killers of children — yet all are preventable or treatable More than 30 million children in the world are not immunized against treatable...

• Mohamed ElBaradei

  21 August 2013 ( #Nobel Peace Prize, #New York University School of Law, #Hosni Mubarak, #Cairo, #Mohamed ElBaradei, #International Atomic Energy Agency, #ElBaradei, #Egypt )

  Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد مصطفى البرادعى , Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Barādaʿī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd mosˈtˤɑfɑ (ʔe)lbæˈɾædʕi] ; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who was the acting Vice President of...

• George Zimmerman

  21 July 2013 ( #Mountain House Alameda County California, #Police officer, #George Michael, #Seminole State College, #Sanford, #Zimmerman, #Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, #Peru )

  George Michael Zimmerman was born on October 5, 1983, in Manassas, Virginia, [34] and is the son of Gladys (née Mesa) Zimmerman, who was born in Peru, [35] and Robert Zimmerman, Sr., a retired Virginia magistrate. [36] [37] He was raised as a Catholic,...

• Amazing World of Harry Potter

  16 November 2013 ( #Harry Potter in amusement parks, #Harry Potter Wizarding World, #Universal Studios, #Harry Potter, #Wizard World, #Orlando Florida, #Hogwarts, #Places in Harry Potter )

  Universal Studios Opens the Wizarding World of Harry Potter The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was opened on June 2010 in Orlando Florida. The Wizard World of Harry Potter was containing several attractions areas. Here are some attraction areas within...

• Willis Tower

  06 April 2013 ( #Chicago, #World Trade Center, #United States, #Federal Aviation Administration, #Willis Tower, #Sears Tower, #Sears, #New York City )

  Willis Tower, completed in 1973, introduced the bundled tube structural design and was the world's tallest building until 1998 Willis Tower (formerly named, and still commonly referred to as, Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper...

• After Effects of Hurricane Sandy

  01 April 2013 ( #New York, #Climate change, #United States, #Environment, #Global warming, #Natural disaster, #Hurricane Sandy, #Russia )

  According to news reports, New York and a few other US states are struggling with the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Offices, school and business came to a standstill, which signals a large financial loss. According to initial warnings, three-and-a-half...

• Cleopatra

  05 December 2013 ( #Ptolemaic Kingdom, #Battle of Actium, #Julius Caesar, #William Shakespeare, #Cleopatra, #Augustus, #Egypt, #Ptolemy XII Auletes )

  Cleopatra VII Philopator August 12, 30 BC), known to history as Cleopatra, [2] [3] was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] origin that ruled Ptolemaic Egypt after Alexander...

• Kofi Annan

  08 April 2013 ( #Arab League, #United Nations, #Nobel Peace Prize, #Syria, #Kofi Annan, #Government, #Ghana, #Annan )

  Kofi Atta Annan ( pron.: / ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n ə n / ; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients...

• The Great Mosque of Aleppo

  15 April 2013 ( #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #Free Syrian Army, #Aleppo, #Great Mosque of Aleppo, #Ancient City of Aleppo, #Al-Madina Souq, #Mamluk )

  The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جامع حلب الكبير Jāmi‘ Halab al-Kabīr) or the Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo (جامع أمية بحلب) is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria. It is located in al-Jalloum district of the Ancient City...

• Space craft has landed on Mars

  01 April 2013 ( #Manned mission to Mars, #United States, #China, #Mars, #Space, #Spacecraft, #Russia, #NASA )

  A NASA space craft has successfully landed on Mars after a nine-month journey. The total estimated cost of the Mars mission is US$2.5 billion. After recent large aid cuts from the US government, and the destruction of Challenger and Columbia, NASA is...

• Nelson Mandela's legacy

  09 December 2013 ( #Robben Island, #Mandela, #African National Congress, #Demographics of South Africa, #ANC, #Nelson Mandela, #South Africa, #President of South Africa )

  NELSON Mandela completely changed the course of his nation and developed a society based on equality and justice. He spent many years in prison but he never compromised on his principles. He became an active political leader after graduating in law. He...

• The Umayyad Mosque

  15 April 2013 ( #Islam, #Syria, #John the Baptist, #National Museum of Damascus, #Umayyad Mosque, #Umayyad Caliphate, #Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, #Damascus )

  The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus (Arabic: جامع بني أمية الكبير , Romanization Ğām' Banī 'Umayya al-Kabīr) or formerly the Basilica of Saint John the Baptist (Greek: Βασιλική του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Βαπτιστή, transliteration...

• NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan

  31 March 2013 ( #United States, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #NATO, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Afghan National Army, #International Security Assistance Force )

  Honor guard of the Afghan National Army during the 2011 commemoration of Afghan Independence Day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to media news, NATO closed more than 200 bases in Afghanistan and transferred nearly 300 others to local forces. Now,...

• The Guantanamo Bay detention camp

  17 April 2013 ( #United States, #Geneva Conventions, #Barack Obama, #Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, #Guantanamo Bay, #Guantánamo Bay, #Guantanamo Bay detention camp, #Bush administration )

  The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States military located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in January 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees it had...

• Bloodshed in Syria

  24 February 2013 ( #United Nations, #Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, #Politics of Syria, #United States, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #Turkey, #Homs )

  ROMULO TANGBAWAN Saturday 20 October 2012 Last Update 19 October 2012 1:59 am In his recent speech Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rightly said that due to the silence of the international community, Balkan-like tragedy is developing in Syria...

• The Sri Lankan Civil War

  06 April 2013 ( #United States, #Tamil Eelam, #Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, #Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, #Sri Lanka, #Sri Lankan Civil War, #LTTE, #Sri Lankan )

  The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), a separatist...

• Martina Navratilova

  10 April 2013 ( #Navratilova, #Grand Slam, #United States, #Pam Shriver, #Billie Jean King, #Martina Navratilova, #Steffi Graf, #Margaret Court )

  Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová ; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach. Billie Jean King, former World No. 1 player, said in 2006 that Navratilova is "the greatest singles, doubles...