Pakistanis and the Gulf states – The Express Tribune
The other day, a Pakistani labourer in the UAE, who reacted to an insult by making a rude gesture extending his middle finger was arrested, jailed for a month and awaits deportation on the completion of his sentence. When the...
ADB to lend $100m for power plant in Balochistan – The Express Tribune
KARACHI: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday it will lend up to $100 million to UK based International Power to build a Pakistani gas-fired plant to help address the countrys energy crisis.
The 404...
The former Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, on Monday said India and Japan were close to finalising a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. He also assured full help and cooperation to India in the field of nuclear power.
India and Japan have come to a stage of concluding the nuclear...
The editor of The Lancet, Richard Horton, has said naming a superbug after New Delhi was an error, and has apologised.
Some Europeans returning from South Asia had been found infected with a bacteria carrying a drug-resistant gene last year, which had been named New Delhi...
Bruce Bueno de Mesquitas game theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict
Recently, hes applied his science to come up with some novel ideas on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In my view, it is a mistake to look for strategies that build mutual trust because it aint going to...
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s game theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict
Recently, he’s applied his science to come up with some novel ideas on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “In my view, it is a mistake to look for strategies that build mutual trust because it...
A sample of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's wilder-and most accurate-predictions
Forecasted the second Intifada and the death of the Mideast peace process, two years before it happened.
Defied Russia specialists by predicting who would succeed Brezhnev. "The model identified Andropov, who nobody...
Over the past 30 years, Bueno de Mesquita has made thousands of predictions about hundreds of issues from geopolitics to personal problems. Overall, he claims, his hit rate is about 90% accuracy!
If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don't, he'll claim that...
gulfnews : Row over Straw's remarks on British Pakistanis
London: A row has broken out after the former UK home secretary Jack Straw said some British Pakistani men regard white girls as easy meat' for sexual abuse.
The Blackburn MP spoke out after two Asian men who raped and sexually...
Imran Khan links Blasphemy laws to War on Terror – The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) chief, Imran Khan has said that there is a sound reason for the blasphemy laws legislature, and the real reason for rising terrorism being witnessed across Pakistan is...
ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa on Sunday said his outfit was ready to sit for peace talks without any preconditions for an honourable solution to relieve the people of Assam of their suffering.
A new chapter begins in our long struggle. As per the wishes of the National Convention, we...
Manama: Senior officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA and many people keep visiting US embassies in their countries to establish links with the US intelligence agency, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website, said.
These officials are...
Fabulous Fabiano is a 16-year-old chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.
On 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States. In the...
5. Aelita Andre: The 2-year-old artist who showed her paintings in a famous gallery
The abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in Australia's art world talking. Aelita is two (the works were painted when she was even younger). Aelita got an opportunity to show her...
[b]1. Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15; World's highest IQ
This Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guy alive today (he's recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ of anyone on the planet). By the...