One year on from the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al-Qaeda has revealed both a technological sophistication and a morbid creativity that nearly flummoxed intelligence officials across the West, from Germany to the United States. This week, documents obtained by CNN showed that pornographic videos seized from an Austrian terror suspect, called [...]
Toronto: The International Fashion Festival 2012 Toronto EDITION will be held on July 2nd-8th this summer. The organizers claimed to have roped in 24 Designers to participate in the event that will have six performances featuring International Models, Top Designer Workshops, Hair & Make-up Workshops, Modeling Workshops and Great entertainment for all attendees. [...]
London: Lord Nazir Ahmed, a Pakistani immigrant in the UK who was elevated to the ‘Lord’ status by the then ruling Labour Party, has been caught up in a scandal when he allegedly called for a 10 million pound bounty for the capture of the US President Barack Obama. The Labour Party suspended him [...]
Mumbai: Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, who managed to shoot a part of her next project “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” in Lahore, Pakistan, says the city, though unsafe to shoot in, was a “twin” to Indian capital New Delhi’s old world charm. Nair managed to shoot in Lahore for four days, but had to shoot the [...]
London: Up to 400 children, including from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, were coerced into or threatened with marriage in Britain last year, a government report has said. A girl aged five was the youngest victim, the Daily Mail reported citing figures from the Home Office’s Forced Marriage Unit. U.K. Ministers are considering whether [...]
Hamilton: Tracking health differences by ethnicity is the cornerstone of the new Chanchlani Research Centre at McMaster University. The new centre is dedicated to understanding the genetic and environmental causes of common diseases among diverse cultural groups, women and the socially disadvantaged while providing innovative training to the next generation of health [...]
Markham: On Feb-23, Canada-Pakistan Business Council hosted an event at their headquarters with Kamran Bokhari as a Guest Speaker. Kamran is the Vice-President of Middle Eastern & South Asian Affairs with STRATFOR, a global intelligence company headquartered in Austin, Texas and a Fellow with the Detroit-based think tank, Institute for Social Policy & [...]
Islamabad: Talks between Pakistan and India to avert conflict is a step in the right direction, said a daily while observing that “the criticality of arrangements to ensure that there is no tripping of the nuclear wire cannot be underscored enough”. An editorial in the Pakistani Daily Times said that the two countries [...]
How many schools in the world are providing free of charge laptop to each student in the school? Well, the answer may not be encouraging. But I know about one school in Pakistan’s cosmopolitan city Karachi, where the school provides free of charge One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The name of School is Rahnuma Public [...]
Washington: Some 3.2 million Indian Americans, including Asian Indians of mixed race, lived in the United States in 2010 as South Asians led all Asian groups in population growth in the last decade. They led all Asian American households with highest media household income. At 3,183,063, Indian American made up 18 percent of the Asian [...]
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