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Obama asks Congress for $3.7 billion to address immigrants crisis

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President Barack Obama has asked U.S. Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion to deal with the arrival of tens of thousands of immigrant children from Central America. The money should serve to reinforce the presence of judges and officers in the border regions, increase aerial surveillance, build detention centers for undocumented immigrants and increase cooperation with […]

Noncompliance to quality assurance principals: CAA suspends Bhoja Air operations

Noncompliance to quality assurance principals: CAA suspends Bhoja Air operations Karachi: (Tuesday, May 29, 2012) Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority today decided to suspend flights of the private airline Bhoja Air, after about a month when one of its passenger planes crashed near Islamabad taking lives of all 127 people on board. Telling details of its […]

SNOPA (Social Networking Online Privacy Act) in US congress for consideration – Part 2

  Engel’s documentation, co-sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, is yet to be furthered to a committee in the Congress. According to the document, “social media sites have become a widespread communications tool – both personally and professionally – all across the world.  However, a person’s so-called ‘digital footprint’ is largely unprotected,” Rep. Engel (D-N.Y) said […]

SNOPA (Social Networking Online Privacy Act) in US congress for consideration – Part 1

User privacy has become a growing issue in the online social networking websites. In 2011, Federal Trade Commission issued a warning to Facebook on their substandard security measures for protecting user privacy on their website, with a possible punishment if the company commits such violation in the future. Recently, another issue has spurred the growing […]

COAS visits Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence at United Kingdom

COAS visits Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence at United Kingdom Rawalpindi – Monday, March 19, 2012: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence at United Kingdom, today. The COAS held meetings with senior civil and military leaders including Minister of State […]

Balochistan can dent US-Pak ties: Hina Rabbani Khar

In reiteration of its sturdy stance, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Balochistan was Pakistan’s internal matter and the province’s elected representatives would act to resolve its issues rather than the US Congress. While speaking to scholars and senior analysts at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), the minister said the US Congress hearing […]

MPs express concerns over U.S. Congressional hearing on Balochistan

MPs express concerns over U.S. Congressional hearing on Balochistan Members of Parliament (MPs) on Wednesday expressed concerns over the Congressional hearing on Balochistan, saying Americans wanted to make the province an independent territory to use it as a route to Central Asia. While speaking on a point of order in the National Assembly, PML-Q Member […]

Those in the favour of SOPA: Go Daddy.com ‘Yea’ – Part 1

Go Daddy.com, internet domain name and space providers have indirectly pledged their support to the Stop Online Piracy Act. The company’s CEO Warren Adelman said in statement that the company no longer supports the SOPA as it stands to the date, ‘however’, things might change when this act is reformed in its entirety. “Go Daddy […]

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