The Canadian maker of Blackberry phones has reportedly struck a deal with the Saudi authorities to avert a threatened ban on its messaging service. The Associated Press news agency quoted a Saudi official as saying that the Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) would under the deal allow the Saudi government access to its encrypted data. Telecom authorities in [...]
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has tried to implicate Israel in the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. In a video address to journalists from an undisclosed location on Monday, Nasrallah said he had evidence to prove Israel’s complicity in al-Hariri’s assassination in Beirut, the Lebanese capital. “He has not provided undisputed, solid proof that [...]
For the past several days, the people of Pakistan have been told to evacuate town after town, village after village. But as the flood-triggered humanitarian disaster continues to unfold and cast its dark shadow, the economic cost is now increasingly evident. It could have serious ramifications for the relief effort that is yet to get [...]
Indian coastguards on Monday battled choppy seas, monsoon rain and strong winds to contain oil from a badly listing container ship that collided with another vessel off the city of Mumbai. The Panamanian-registered MSC Chitra has been leaking fuel into the sea off India’s financial capital since the collision on Saturday, raising environmental fears about [...]
In occupied Kashmir, people staged forceful anti-India demonstrations and offered prayers on roads in different cities and towns of the territory. People staged pro-freedom demonstrations and held congregational Zuhar, Asar and Magrib prayers on roads in Safapora, Naid Khai, Islamabad, Pulwama, Kakpora, Pampore, Tral, Shopian, Baramulla and Bandipora areas. In Shopian, after every prayer people [...]
Israel will pull out of a UN probe into a deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla if the panel insists of grilling its soldiers, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. “The prime minister said Israel would not cooperate with any commission that would ask to question soldiers,” Nir Hefetz told [...]
The United States on Monday made an emphatic call for world help in support to Pakistan’s daunting flood relief and rescue effort, with special envoy Richard Holbrooke calling the unfolding tragedy over unprecedented regions of the South Asian ally a “major international humanitarian catastrophe”. “This is very serious…but so far we have not raised this [...]
The much-awaited President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived back home after completing a much-criticized foreign trip on Tuesday morning, Geo News reported. He may review the conditions in flood-stricken areas soon, officials hoped. Meanwhile, president sopped over Syria while returning from London on Monday. The stopover may have been made for superstitious reasons, as the [...]
Dozens of civilians have been killed and several others injured in Afghanistan after US warplanes bombarded the country’s east, according to witnesses. The American forces launched two airstrikes in Nangarhar province on Thursday morning, witnesses said. One of the attacks left at least 30 people dead and injured. The other strike, which hit a funeral [...]
Amid growing clamor against the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates cautioned Sunday that large numbers of US troops will remain in the country after a “limited” July 2011 drawdown. Despite mounting casualties and public doubts, Gates said the US-led force was making headway in the war and Taliban insurgents would not be able [...]
