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NEW DELHI: After being initially dismissed as inordinately expensive, the idea of having an underwater gas pipeline with Iran seems to be firmly back on the negotiating table between the two countries. Sources revealed that the pipeline project was discussed by India and Iran during the...

CHINESE ENGINEERS IN GWADAR ESCAPE ROCKET ATTACKS By B.Raman Even as President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan was discussing with the Chinese leaders in Beijing his requests for the construction of an oil refinery in Gwadar and oil/gas pipelines from Gwadar to Xinjiang, a group of Chinese...

KABUL: Afghanistan’s intelligence department on Saturday alleged that a series of deadly attacks against foreign targets in the capital had been planned in Pakistan. After arresting four militants who were involved in the attacks, the National Department for Security (NDS) alleged that the...

If Arab Oil Runs Out leave a comment » As’ad Abu Khalil on the perversions brought by Arab oil. What has oil madness brought to the Arab person? What can we say about the accumulated billions that have gone to support the Western banks and corporations hostile to our interests, or to buy...

Israel's long-time super spy Meir Dagan, who heads the country's ultra secretive Mossad, is likely to step down in three months time apparently because of an international furore over the Dubai [ Images ] killing of a top Hamas [ Images ] commander. Dagan, the chief of Israel's espionage...

Zimbabwean police identify pakistani terrorist suspect Zimbabwean police have identified the suspected international terrorist arrested at Beitbridge Border Post on Sunday night as Imran Muhammad who is wanted in connection with the Mumbai bombings that left hundreds dead. Muhammad (33), a...

The arrest and imprisonment of noted environmentalist Karma Samdrup has sent shock waves through the Tibetan community, who perceive it as a renewed crackdown by the Chinese authorities on anyone trying to assert their Tibetan identity. Samdrup was thrown behind bars after his brothers...

DARWIN: An Australian Muslim woman has complained that she was told to remove her face veil during a job interview at a Northern Territory hospital in Darwin. According to reports, a doctor at Royal Darwin Hospital asked the young woman to remove her veil during an administration job interview...

BEIJING – President Barack Obama welcomed China's announcement Saturday that it will allow a more flexible exchange rate for its currency, saying it would help protect the economic recovery. The announcement by China's central bank suggested a possible break from the yuan's two-year peg to...

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in which nine soldiers and 12 rebel fighters died, Turkey's military and reports said. Two other...

WASHINGTON: A group of influential Senators have introduced a legislation in the US Congress to stop using Chinese products with tax payer's money as Beijing does not give access to American companies in USD 500 billion Chinese government procurement market. "When China fails to play the...

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BOSTON – A top Massachusetts law enforcement official says two men who have been taken into custody in the investigation into the failed Times Square car bomb are considered to have had a "direct connection" to the suspect, Faisal Shahzad. The official says the men are believed to have...

New Delhi: Land grabbers in Pakistan are targeting Hindu temple properties. A Krishna temple in Sindh was demolished and 20 acres of land surrounding the temple was illegally encroached by Bashir Khaskheli, leader of a radical organisation, Jeay Sindh. The owner of the land, Padma Puri, who...

NEW DELHI: They share their name and religion. One is 27, the other 30. But the parallels end there, at least for Muslim opinion makers. Noticing that this year's IAS topper, Dr Shah Faisal from the backward Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, and would-be Times Square bomber Faisal...

BEIJING: A farmer allegedly killed a family planning official in China's Jilin province and injured her two minor children, after she forced his wife to undergo an abortion, reports said on Tuesday. The farmer, identified as Zhang Xuezhong, killed Jiang Xiaoling on May 1 because he was angry...

NEW DELHI: Prominent women have slammed as "retrograde" and "interfering" the fatwa issued by the Darul Uloom of Deoband against women going to work alongside men. Reacting strongly to the decree, Anhad founder and social activist Shabnam Hashmi said, "I don't recognize the Deoband. I think...

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