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This article is a continuation of ‘Breast Ironing in Cameroon – Part 1’. The agency conducted extensive research in 2006 with surveys of 5,700 women 10 to 82, who also revealed that half of girls whose breasts began to grow before the age of nine have this practice more common in cities than in the […]
IOM needs funds to evacuate stranded migrants from Yemen Yemen: (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) Amid paucity of funds, the International Organization for Migration has expressed its disability to continue with its project on evacuation of the stranded migrants from Yemen. This month, the organization will conduct the final air evacuation of 277 stranded Ethiopian migrants […]
Russia, Iran offer to lay Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline Islamabad: (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) lending a helping hand to energy as well as cash starved Pakistan, Iran and Russia have expressed interest in laying the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. In order to determine feasibility of the offer, Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has formed a Federal Cabinet body. […]
Timely grant from US enables IOM to send aid for over 1000 displaced migrants in western Chad Western Chad: (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) After receiving aid from the US, the aid workers of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has become capable of sending a road convoy carrying aid for over 1,000 displaced migrants, most […]
The US soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. The Pentagon chief told reporters aboard his plane enroute to Kyrgyzstan that the suspect in the Afghan shooting spree would be brought to justice under the US military […]
In quite an astonishing move, an unidentified man set fire to Rida mosque, in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, on Tuesday, leaving the Muslim community in a deep shock. The imam (prayer leader) of the mosque lost his life in an act some linked to tensions between Sunnis and Shias, the two sects of Muslim […]
Talibans offered to form alliance with the with Government It has been said by Pakistan Government officials that the names of the banned organisations will be removed from the list if they stop their activities across the country. Interior Minister Rehman Malik noted, “If the proscribed organisations assure us that they have closed down their militant […]
Ever heard of a society so hostile that mothers have to iron their daughter’s breasts in order to decrease their sexual appeal and therefore save them from being raped? This is the story of the torture that female children of Cameroon have to bear. The procedure contains placing hot stones on the developing breasts of […]
A human rights group and a law firm took legal action Monday against the British government, accusing it of passing on intelligence to assist US covert drone attacks in Pakistan. The London-based charity Reprieve and the law firm Leigh Day & Co. are filing papers to the High Court claiming that civilian staff at Britain’s […]
Dubai is getting back on the track and last year, it departed the lone and dreary junction of financial crisis with a long honk. The once business and tourism hub of the United Arab Emirates fell victim to the devouring 2008 crisis. That year and the following two saw the city’s economy go into free […]
Moreover, Dubai is also continuing to invest in infrastructure to finish what it started. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved a $7.8 billion expansion plan for Dubai’s two airports to boost annual capacity to 75 million travellers by 2012 and to 90 million by 2018, Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer of Dubai […]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates the city and its state-controlled companies still face about $10.3 billion in debt repayments this year alone. “There’s still a lot of debt overhang and corporate restructurings to be worked through,” said Khalid Howladar, a Dubai-based senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service. “Deferral of the problem has been […]
