HOUSTON, Dec 28 (AP): Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering \”a series of setbacks,\” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email, Jim McGrath, Bush\’s spokesman in Houston, said the 88-year-old former leader had been admitted Sunday to the […]
SEOUL, Dec 19: South Korea elected its first woman president on Wednesday, with voters handing a slim but historic victory to conservative candidate Park Geun-Hye, daughter of the country’s former military ruler. As leader of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, Park, 60, will face numerous challenges, handling a belligerent North Korea, a slowing economy and soaring welfare
CHITRAL, Dec 16: Most traditional musical instruments of Chitral are no longer in use. Ironically, the youths, by and large, are unaware of their names. Rahim Khan of Mulkhow valley told this correspondent that Chitrali sitar, gharba, chhang, jighikin, ormachi, daf and flute were the traditional instruments of Chitral but youths had little or no
PARIS, Dec 11: France would extend its full help and cooperation to Pakistan to meet its energy requirements. Addressing a joint press conference following their talks at Elyse Palace, French President Francois Hollande and President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said that they discussed regional situation and increasing cooperation between the two countries. The French President
Facebook has shut down a page set up by the Pakistani Taliban to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video. The Umar Media TTP page, which had more than 270 likes at the time it was shut down, was created in September and had just a handful of messages written
By Siraj Ulmulk CHITRAL, Nov 23: There is a very sad story about what happened last week to Chitral’s most famous mosque, the Shahi Masjid, built by my grandfather in 1922 (the work had started in 1910). Every brick was transported from India when no roads were motor-able in Chitral. They were delicately placed, by
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AJMAL KASAB was nervous just before he died, according to a guard at the prison where he was executed in the city of Pune on November 21st. After India’s president, Pranab Mukherjee, rejected his clemency plea, Mr Kasab became the first person hanged in India since 2004. The public responded, by and large, with a
By Fakhruddin Akhunzada CHITRAL, Nov 19: Education should bring positive change to the society but the education system in our country is preventing this change. Now is the time to do something about this aimless education system. Replacing it with mother tongue-based multilingual education, prevailing around the world, is the best option. Researchers argue that
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CHICAGO, Nov 7: President Barack Obama told cheering supporters early Wednesday that “the best is yet to come” for the United States as he stormed to a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney. After taking the stage at a raucous Chicago victory party with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama returned to
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DUBUQUE, Iowa, Nov 3 (Reuters): The U.S. presidential race, which has hinged for months on a handful of states, converged on one city in Iowa on Saturday as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each made a last-minute appeal for support before Tuesday\’s election. [caption id=\"attachment_5413\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Face to face\"][/caption] With the race
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