Allama Muhmmad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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If you are not aware of who Eskinder Nega is, you are not alone. The said individual is a prominent Ethiopian journalist who covered the developing human rights violations in his native country. Ironically, he is now held in contempt of the same crime he set off to raise his voice against. Nega’s trial will […]
Because Russian women could not attend university, Sofia Vasilyevna contracted a marriage with a young paleontologist, Vladimir Kovalevsky, and they moved to Germany. There she could not attend university lectures, but she was tutored privately and eventually received a doctorate after writing treatises on partial differential equations, Abelian integrals and Saturn’s rings. Following her husband’s […]
Good Governance; a panacea for economic ills in Pakistan and beyond Marred by the persistent global financial crunch, the world seems disregarding a number of its previously held ideals. The phenomenon of lingering economic downturn has made it believe that fiscal recovery is perhaps mutually exclusive with societal welfare, environment protection, quality service delivery and […]
After 129 years, Billy the Kid continues to be pardoned by the governor. One of the most famous gangsters of the American West was shot by Pat Garrett in 1881. The death of his friend John Tunstall had led him to unleash a conflict known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, and flee […]
Chen Guangcheng comes out of American Embassy in China Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese citizen who had sought asylum in USA embassy in Beijing, has finally come out after developing understanding with the Chinese government. Expressing her delight over this peaceful development, USA secretary of state, Hillary Clinton said, “I am pleased that we were able […]
USA lauds Aung San Suu Kyi led democratic transition in Burma Only eighteen months ago, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. Today, the pro-democracy leader and several other members of the National League for Democracy have taken their newly won seats in Burma’s parliament. For the first time in the country’s […]
The US President Barack Obama is currently visiting Kabul, Afghanistan, in order to to sign a post-war agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. His visit to Afghanistan was supposedly a secret tour but Twitter almost let the cat out of the bag. The news spread like jungle-fire eventually causing the White House to scramble to […]
The Taliban militia announced their “spring offensive” would begin across Afghanistan on Thursday. Code-named al Farouq, the primary targets of the offensive would be “foreign invaders, their advisors, their contractors, all those who help them militarily and in intelligence”, the militants said on their website. “Al Farouq spring offensive will be launched on May 3 […]
Two intrusions occurred a few hours apart, in two separate nuclear power plants in France. On Wednesday morning, a Greenpeace activist was able to fly aboard a paramotor on the Bugey power plant in Saint Vulbas. In a statement, the environmental organisation announced, “He managed to drop smoke bombs on one engine and landed inside […]
US President Barrack Obama paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan, seeking fresh talks with Taliban insurgents to bring peace in the region. While addressing the first anniversary of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, Obama laid a path of peace before the Taliban fighters, saying they could be part of the future setup […]
Augusta Ada Byron (later Countess of Lovelace) never knew her father, the poet Lord Byron, who left England due to a scandal shortly after her birth. Her overprotective mother, wanting to daughter to grown up as unemotional—and unlike her father—as possible, encouraged her study of science and mathematics. As an adult, Lovelace began to correspond […]
The United States’ deployment of cutting-edge F-22 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates “will endanger the region’s security,” Iran warned on Tuesday. “We do not in any way approve the presence of foreign forces in the region. We advise the regional countries against providing a basis for their presence, “foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast […]
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