A 25 member delegation from the Philippines attended the 2008 UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva Switzerland. The delegations were tasked by the president to defend the country’s human rights records before the members of Human Rights Council. In a progress reports submitted to the news media organizations, the delegations were convinced that the […]
Zardari or Nawaz Can Be the Next President
Helpless victims of General Pervez Musharraf for years, Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, who were in political wilderness until just a few months ago and who have suddenly become the virtual controllers of the country’s destiny, realise that they have to get even with the establishment through a systematic, comprehensive and calculated joint […]
Alone on the Left Wing
Several weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story about Dennis Kucinich, the gadfly Ohio congressman who was running a quixotic campaign for the US presidency. The article did not focus on Iraq, or his plans to provide universal healthcare, or his efforts to get Dick Cheney impeached. Nor, for that matter, did […]
Questions for Musharraf on Missing Terror Plot Suspect at No 10 Talks
A British terrorism suspect who was said to have escaped in Pakistan last month may still be in the custody of the country’s intelligence services, according to his lawyer. Rashid Rauf, from Birmingham, was said to have vanished after two police officers escorting him from court to prison stopped at a roadside mosque and allowed […]
Steve Bucknor to Discontinue
The ICC on 8 Jan Tuesday curved to India’s insists to eradicate contentious umpire Steve Bucknor from the enduring Cricket Test series alongside Australia. Billy Bowden would umpire in place of Buckner for the third Test starting in Perth on January 16, ICC media official Sami-ul Hasan told AFP from Dubai. India had demanded Bucknor’s […]
Sixty years need not be the end of the road
Mention sixty years of age and the visuals that flash to mind is that of quiet, laidback contemplation; a slow journey into inexistence. Determined by man to be the age of retirement sixty years is reckoned as a major crisis in life that most don’t look forward to. It is considered a time when one […]