She negotiated to stay in the running right until the end. Then, she lost her battle to those elements she vowed to cleanse. It’s hard to believe that Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated. She was only 54, a twice-elected and twice-expelled prime minister, the only woman to have led a Muslim country as head of […]
Network that converts trash to treasure
When Laura Gernell heard about a place where people gave away perfectly good things to strangers – no money changing hands, no questions asked – she figured it was too good to be true. But husband Ronald had lost his job as a truck driver and she was temporarily unemployed, at home in a rented, […]
Pakistan election decision deferred.
Pakistan’s electoral officials will decide on Tuesday whether to go ahead with a January poll in a nation plunged into crisis by the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Bhutto’s killing in a suicide attack on Thursday has stoked bloodshed across the country and rage against President Pervez Musharraf, casting doubts on nuclear-armed Pakistan’s stability […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
Fashion as empowerment
Mina Sherzoy and Zolaykha Sherzad know Afghanistan is an ongoing battle. Time had stood still here for nearly 30 years. Its people are waking up from forced slumber to realise the world has left them behind. So, when designers Sherzoy and Sherzad sat back to watch the rehearsals of the SAARC Fashion Show-2008 in New […]
Al-Qaeda planned Haj attack, 2007
Security forces in Saudi Arabia, the target of Islamist attacks since 2003, arrested an Al-Qaeda linked group planning a "terrorist act" during this week’s Muslim pilgrimage, the interior ministry said on Friday. "The authorities have arrested a group which planned to carry out a terrorist act aimed at harming security and damaging the (Haj) pilgrimage," […]
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