A suicide bomber blew him up among police guards deployed in front of a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned protest by lawyers Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said. Suspicion will likely fall on Islamic militants. An Associated Press photographer at the scene of the […]
Tuning the National Theme
Last week I was reading the business magazine, Money Today; it had summed up the year 2007. The columnist Dipen Sheth said that in the year gone by, you would have made a lot of money if you had invested in the market in tune with the national theme. He went on to say that […]
Pakistan keeps her heritage of Assassination
December29, 2007 Pakistan keeps her heritage of Assassination. RAWALPINDI- PAKISTAN…——— Ms. Benazir Bhutto,54, the opposition leader and twice-serving prime minister of Pakistan was shot , according to differing sources, in the neck, as she was standing in the open sunroof of a car and waved to crowds Thursday evening. A suicide activist, riding on motorcycle […]
Uncertainties as Pakistan ends bloodiest year in history
Although the outgoing year, in its usual mixed bag way, threw up a number of good times and bad sides, for the Asian nation of Pakistan, 2007 was an exceptionally terrible year. Founded on August 14, 1947, the receding year marked Pakistan’s Diamond Jubilee, but instead of celebrations and projections of this nation’s strong sides […]
Bhutto was the target of many militant groups.
Even as Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility of killing Benazir Bhutto there still lays a lot of confusion about the veracity of the claim. She was, in fact, the target of threats from virtually all of the militant groups who make Pakistan their home from al-Qaeda to home-grown terrorists to tribal insurgents on the Afghan border. Her […]
Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code
The Vatican’s release of a historic document revealing the 14th Century trial against the Knights Templars sheds new light on books such as the Da Vinci Code. Large parts of the Templars’ history has been unequivocally determined. In the 14th-Century document, known as the Parchment of Chinon, Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of any […]
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