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Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’

Obama’s Speech is Good But World Need Action

By Shayan Khan • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics, Politics (Urdu), Worth A Second Look

Barack Obama, Yes you can, but you cannot if you merely keep giving lip service to the people of the world. Your glossy speeches heavily sprinkled with lofty words, noble ambitions and promising future are very welcome, but we have over the years grown very apprehensive and wary of such ornamental rhetoric, and now want [...]



Egypt: Obama Unfurls His plan

By A Khokar • Jun 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

While giving his most eloquent Cairo speech,  President Barrack Obama was not found to be a comfortable guest for the Egyptian government, although he was courteous and honest. He said things, many of his listeners would have preferred not to hear, among them his host, President Hosni Mubarak, to whom he indirectly recommended non-repressive domestic [...]



CIA Chief In Algeria Drug Muslim Women, Made Secret Sex Videos

By Gul Raiz • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Misc

The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
The suspect in the case is identified as Andrew Warren in an affidavit [...]



Let’s not have a false sense of security

By Justin Podur • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Numerous analysts have said that “Israel will not allow a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Gaza”. First of all, I am not sure how they would define a “full-blown” crisis. Can the current crisis reach “half-blown” status at least? The place is rubble. Sanitation, electricity, and drinking water facilities are destroyed. Hospitals are destroyed. The systems [...]



Deliberate Acquiescence to Israeli Terrorism

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]



A Fateh e Mubeen for Hamas in Gaza

By A Khokar • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Looking at the tepid global reaction to the massacre of the civilians in Gaza, one wonders whether the conscience of the international community is half asleep or is suffering from something called sympathy fatigue.  Hundreds of civilian casualties, incessantly escalating human misery, and with no end in the Israeli military action in sight, even God [...]



Like Gaza, Muslim World Won’t Help Pakistan When India Attacks

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza is burning and Gazans are dying, 99% of them Muslims. Egypt keeps its’ blockage of Gaza and supports Israel silently while the Arab world utter some weak squeals from their harems amidst the beauties of world. Who cares for Gaza, when the oil prices are dropping like hell and the sustenance of the luxuries [...]



World must say “No” to Jewish Nazism

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Jan 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Without any doubt the current plight of Palestinian people and the Muslim world in general is their own fault, but we must not forget that those who are suffering are humans. A human life, what ever religion he/she may belong to , is priceless.
It may seem that the Palestinian people are again trying to get [...]



Hezbollah’s Passion: A New lesson of war

By A Khokar • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the recent history of Middle East; Hezbollah’s passion demonstrated in the Lebanon War 0f 2006 has shown a new way to the Arabs in particular and also to all the resilient resistance movements struggling for their freedom around the world that nothing dares standing in the way of their ‘will power’.
A rag-tag Hezbollah; when [...]



Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims

By fzuberi • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT

Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on [...]