The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned the attack on a UN peacekeeping base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday in which at least 11 Pakistani peacekeepers were seriously wounded. The 15-member council “reiterated their serious concern about the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in the Kivus and the impact on [...]
ISLAMABAD: The commander of Nato-led forces in Afghanistan met Pakistan and Afghanistan army chiefs on Sunday for talks on border security, almost six months after US airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The November 26 airstrikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border provoked a major crisis in Pakistani-US relations.Pakistan retaliated by shutting its Afghan border crossings to Nato [...]
KARACHI: Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has urged Pakistan once again to reopen Nato ground supply routes to Afghanistan, DawnNews reported. However, Rasmussen also said on Friday that Pakistan had not been invited to the crucial 25th Nato summit to be held in Chicago.The May 20-21 two-day summit, with over 60 heads of state [...]
TOKYO: Japan’s Mount Fuji may be sitting on a large, active fault that could trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, changing the shape of the mountain and devastating nearby communities, the education ministry said on Thursday. A survey commissioned by the ministry found a 30-km fault beneath Japan’s highest mountain, believed by many to be sacred, and [...]
Dubai: Germany has become one of the key destinations for tourists from Gulf Countries and the tourism industry witnesses a growth of 20-30 percent year on year. “Munich received 120,000 arrivals from the GCC last year and over 70 percent of the tourists were there for medical treatment,” said Frank Heller, GM, Charles Hotel in [...]
JAKARTA: A Russian Sukhoi passenger plane with 50 people on board, including businessmen and Russian envoys, went missing during a demonstration flight near a volcano on Indonesia’s Java island on Wednesday, officials said. Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said radio contact with the plane was lost at about 0800 GMT after the jet descended to [...]
The Supreme Haj Committee yesterday discussed a number of major issues including creation more space for pilgrims in Mina, expansion of Mashair Railway, Haj visas of people living in foreign countries and reorganization of foreign media delegations. Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, who chaired the meeting, emphasized the need to achieve [...]
The CIA thwarted a suicide plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to bring down a U.S.-bound airliner near last week’s one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with an upgraded “underwear bomb,” the Associated Press reported Monday. The White House quickly released a statement insisting “the device did not pose a threat to the public.””We [...]
KANSAS CITY – A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile work environment” after her conversion, according to a judge’s order issued Friday. Susann Bashir, a 41-year-old married mother, sued AT&T unit Southwestern [...]
On June 5 and 6, millions of people worldwide will be able to spot Venus crossing the Sun’s face in what will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Venus will take about six hours to complete its transit, appearing as a small black dot on the sun’s surface, in an event that will not happen again until [...]
