COMMENTARY | In spite of the current protests over everything from dissatisfaction over the economy to any efforts at restoring the economy and putting people back to work, it’s still all-too-easy to imagine President Barack Obama will be re-elected in 2012. Why? It’s nothing other than religious extremism within the
Residents in parts of the US state of Oregon are to cast their votes by iPad during a special election on Tuesday. The program, designed to make voting easier for disabled residents, is part of a five-county pilot in the north-western state. The counties are voting to nominate candidates to
NEW DELHI: A set of freshly declassified top secret papers on the 1971 war show that US hostility towards India during the war with Pakistan was far more intense than known until now, said a report published in the Times of India. The documents reveal that Indira Gandhi went ahead
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s fortunes are improving slightly, although he would face a tough struggle for re-election next year if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Friday. Forty-nine percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, up from 47
The International Criminal Court said Thursday that the death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have been a war crime, Reuters reported. “I think the way in which Mr Gaddafi was killed creates suspicions of … war crimes,” ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo reportedly said. “We are raising this concern to
FAISALABAD: The Scientists of University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) and Punjab agriculture department have marked a new chapter of success by introducing a fertilizer model of Nitrogen and Phosphorus keeping in view the soil analysis and type of crop. It is revealed during a training workshop aiming to equip the
Shahbaz Sharif claimed that those present in the Lahore rally, in Karachi, in Quetta, were rising up against Zardari and were calling on the President to resign and hand himself over to the public for justice. “I make this rally a witness that people of Karachi and Quetta have stood
LAHORE: Shahbaz Sharif addressed the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) rally in Lahore with an unequivocal demand for President Asif Ali Zardari to resign. (Read: PML-N rally – Go Zardari go rings out in Lahore) The Punjab chief minister said that corruption had reached unprecedented levels and the people of Pakistan were
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia’s parliamentary election, results showed Monday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade. Rival parties and election monitors said even a result of around 50 percent was inflated,
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and MNA Sherry Rehman has been appointed Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. The appointment comes after Husain Haqqani was asked to resign by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in the wake of the Memogate scandal. Gilani has approved the appointment. “The prime minister is
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