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PARIS: France was set to move one step closer to barring the Muslim women from wearing the full Islamic veil with the release Tuesday of a report calling for a ban on the burqa in public institutions. After six months of hearings surrounded by fierce public debate, a commission set up by parliament will publish [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister declared on Sunday that his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever a statement that infuriated Palestinians and could complicate the year-old peace mission of a visiting US envoy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid claim to disputed territory just hours after meeting with George Mitchell, the Obama administration’s Middle [...]
TEL AVIV: The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a United Nations report accusing it of grave violations of international and humanitarian law in its Gaza invasion a year ago. Its central aim is to dispel the report’s harsh conclusion — that the death of noncombatants and destruction of civilian infrastructure were part of [...]
DUBAI: A purported audio tape of Osama Bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a December 25 attempted bombing of a US-bound plane, and the al Qaeda leader vowed to continue attacks on the United States. “The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is [...]
BAGHDAD: The two biggest secular coalitions were hit hardest by this month’s decision to bar about 500 candidates from parliamentary elections in March, a top election official said Thursday, as efforts to resolve what has become a political crisis intensified. The decision infuriated Sunnis and deepened their fears of being excluded from the political process. [...]
NEW YORK: Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey found. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they have little or no knowledge of Islam. Still, a majority dislike the faith. The analysis is from the Gallup World Religion Survey and [...]
WASHINGTON: Osama bin Laden’s son Omar believes the Al-Qaeda leader has achieved his aim of humbling the United States but warns his death could unleash “very, very nasty” attacks by militants, Rolling Stone magazine said. In a rambling interview conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, Omar bin Laden told the magazine that US [...]
TEHRAN: Iran has not rejected a UN-brokered offer to exchange enriched nuclear fuel but it wants a staged swap rather than a wholesale handover of most of its stockpile, foreign ministry officials said in comments published Thursday. “Iran did not reject the principle of the exchange (of nuclear fuel),” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
