Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Tributes pour in for Leonard Nimoy, ‘Star Trek’s’ Mr. Spock
President Barack Obama joined Leonard Nimoy’s co-stars from “Star Trek” to bid adieu to the actor who delighted sci-fi fans worldwide with his iconic turn as the pointy-eared half-human, half-Vulcan Mr Spock in the “Star Trek” television series and films. “Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy,” said Obama, who recalled...
The rubble crisis and future of the world
Have we been here before? Economics is going to set the rules of interstate relations in the world and the current economic crises would drive the world into the emergence of a new competition of alliance structure, dividing the world into two parts ie pro-west and anti-west blocs. Today once again, the rise of antagonism over control of economic...
Wars for resources?
The petroleum factor Recent conflicts in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine have ostensibly been about “bad guys” who threatened peace with weapons of one kind or another, or stifled freedom and democracy. Whatever the accusation, concerns about petroleum — oil and gas — are missing from official pronouncements. Yet each of these “hot spots”...
G-B jailbreak: Prisoner involved in Nanga Parbat attack killed
GILGIT: At least one of the two prisoners involved in the Nanga Parbat attack (resulting in 10 foreign tourists’ killing) has been shot dead; the other injured in an attempted jailbreak in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) early Friday morning. On June 23, 2013, gunmen dressed as para-military forces stormed into Nanga Parbat base camp, killing...
Britain gives soldier highest bravery award for Afghan battle
LONDON – Britain said on Thursday it had awarded a 27-year-old soldier the Victoria Cross, its highest military honour for bravery, for his actions during a battle in Afghanistan in 2013. The rare award, last given to a living British soldier in 2005, was one of 139 honours presented to British armed forces personnel for service in active...
Pakistan lifting ban on death penalty a ‘ draconian and repressive’ tactic: Amnesty report
Governments are failing to protect millions of civilians from violence by states and armed groups, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, describing the global response to widespread conflict from Nigeria to Syria as “shameful and ineffective” while highlighting how governments, including that of Pakistan in 2014 had reacted to security threats...
Kerry says considering extra sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the United States and its allies were not prepared to play games with Russia and are discussing additional sanctions against Moscow over its role in eastern Ukraine, undermining a European-brokered truce. “Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days,” Kerry...
Ukraine truce unravels as battle rages, arms pullback stalls
Pro-Russian rebels and government forces fought street-to-street in a strategic town in east Ukraine on Tuesday and refused to pull back their heavy guns, all but scuppering hopes that a European-brokered peace deal will end months of conflict. Two days after a truce went into effect, the agreement reached at all-night talks in the Belarussian...
Netanyahu calls on European Jews to immigrate to Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his call on European Jews to immigrate to Israel, hours after an attack on a synagogue in Danish capital Copenhagen. “Jews have been murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews and this wave of terrorist attacks – including murderous anti-Semitic attacks – is expected...
Ukraine rebels disavow ceasefire at encircled town
Ukraine’s rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks. Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with the ceasefire agreement, reached after a week of marathon diplomacy led by France and Germany....
