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 [...]
Israel says it has held its first high-level meeting with Turkey since the latest row between the former allies over Israel’s killing of Turkish activists on an aid-ship heading for Gaza. An Israeli spokesman told the BBC the meeting had taken place in secret between the Turkish foreign minister and the Israeli trade minister. The [...]
Israel has announced an internal inquiry into its deadly raid last month on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships. Israel earlier rejected a UN proposal for an international probe, but has now agreed to include two foreign observers in its own inquiry. The “independent public commission” proposal would be voted on by the cabinet, said [...]
Taliban militants have resumed targeted killings of local leaders in Pakistan’s troubled Swat valley, officials have told the BBC. Pakistan’s army declared the Swat valley free of militants after carrying out an anti-Taliban operation in 2009. A Pakistani army spokesman said three people had died in attacks over the last 10 days. Local journalists say [...]
The US defence secretary has warned that Hezbollah now has more rockets and missiles than most governments. Robert Gates accused Syria and Iran of supplying weapons of “ever-increasing capability” to the military wing of the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement. “This is obviously destabilising for the whole region,” he said following talks with his Israeli counterpart. [...]
A gun and bomb attack was mounted on Bhutto A long-awaited UN report into the killing of Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto two years ago has been highly critical of the government of the day. It says Bhutto’s death at a rally near Islamabad could have been prevented if proper security measures had been taken by [...]
NEW DELHI: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is going to marry former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik in mid-April and the couple is all set to live their lives in Dubai after the wedding. Meanwhile, Shoaib admits that he will marry Sania after Geo TV reported on Monday that the two sporting superstars have got [...]
Karachi, Mar 25: The alleged leaking of the matriculation examination paper of Islamiat has put a question mark on the credibility of the Board of Secondary Education (BSEK). The board seems to have failed in safeguarding the rights of hard working students. The Islamiat exam of class X Science Group was leaked in the wee [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has vowed to fight the results of parliamentary elections that saw former PM Iyad Allawi win a narrow victory. Speaking angrily on national television, he said he would challenge the count through what he described as a legal process. Mr Allawi won by only two seats, paving the way for [...]
