The US has no virtually no leverage over Iran by keeping the country isolated and it is only the country’s inclusion in the global economic system that will lead to its democratisation, argued two Iranian diaspora authors settled in the West. Reza Aslan and Fariba Hatchtroudi also contended that the spark, for what is now […]
Pakistan Thursday said barriers to bilateral trade with India have to be removed. Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said other impediments to boosting India-Pakistan trade such as non-tariff barriers, lack of adequate connectivity and transportation, issues of standards, customs harmonisation, communication, visa facilitation, payment mechanisms and dispute resolution need to be addressed. Addressing an […]
Al Qaeda militants killed 12 soldiers in attacks on a police station and two military posts in Yemen’s southeastern province of al-Bayda Thursday, a government official said. “Two military posts and a police centre were attacked by a group of Al Qaeda gunmen who threw explosives into the sites manned by army soldiers and opened […]
A pilot and an assistant pilot were killed when a trainer plane of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Punjab province Thursday afternoon, officials said. A spokesperson of Pakistan Air Force said that the trainer Mirage aircraft crashed during a training mission in Qadir Abad area of Mandi Bahauddin, a district in the Punjab, Xinhua […]
A team of farmers from Afghanistan are in Bihar to study and learn farming techniques, a minister said Thursday. The team of 22 Afghanistan farmers, including women, are in Bihar’s agriculture field to study and learn techniques for cultivation of mango, litchi and other cash crops, Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh said. Farmers from Aghanistan […]
Bangladeshi authorities should drop criminal charges against two senior members of the human rights group Odhikar and end the harassment of its workers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said Thursday. Odhikar published a report on security forces abuses in June 2013. The international community should speak up and press […]
A 28-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to death by a court in Dubai for murdering a fellow national last year. According to Dubai Criminal Court records the defendant, identified by the initials of his name NS, had loaned the victim 8,500 dirhams (around $2300) to be paid back in three instalments, The National reported […]
Thai opposition leader Suthep Thaugsuban Tuesday threatened to take over the administration of caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and also take key cabinet ministers into custody if they did not resign. Speaking at a rally, People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) chairperson Suthep said the protesters would lay siege to all government offices in the next […]
Major Dubai malls have extended their shopping hours to accommodate the huge influx of Saudi and other tourists expected in the city over the mid-term school holidays. The extended hours will be in effect from Jan 16 until the end of the Dubai Shopping Festival Feb 2, according to the Riyadh branch of the Dubai […]
Two people were shot at a movie theatre in the US state of Florida Monday afternoon, and a suspect is in custody, media reported. The shooting took place inside a movie theatre in Wesley Chapel, Pasco County, Xinhua reported citing local WTSP-TV. The Pasco county sheriff’s office said that both victims were airlifted to a […]