Boneless BONN conference started in Germany without its bone Pakistan

Afghan Foreign Minister Salmai Rassul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L-R) pose for a picture at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, December 5, 2011. — Photo by Routers

BONN: BONN Conference started in Germany without their Prime member country Pakistan.Germany’s foreign minister on Monday opened a major conference on Afghanistan’s future, vowing that the international community won’t abandon the country after Nato combat troops pull out in 2014.
 “The goal of this conference will be to lay the groundwork for a free, secure and prosperous Afghanistan,” Guido Westerwelle told about 1,000 delegates from around the world gathered in the western city of Bonn.
Pakistan was seeming to be very important for this conference but due to NATO attack on Pakistan's tribal area Pakistan boycotted  this conference as a protest.

The involvement of Pakistan in this conference do not matter anything as USA is doing what it likes, it never consider Pakistan's suggestions on Afghanistan issue.USA always treated Pakistan as its slave not as its alliance.So participation of Pakistan in this conference will not affect directly but there is also have some negative impacts which can raised questions on credibility and importance of decisions made during this conference as one of the country whose contributed lot during Afghan war and who is also its major neighbor country is not participating in the conference.

NATO attacks on Pakistan can be raise a question that may be it is possible that cause behind NATO attack can be to rid Pakistan from BONN conference and during conference NATO countries are planning some thing against Pakistan so they make Pakistan away from the conference and also wanting to kick Pakistan from their alliance.

Their is also some news in the circle that NATO is going to attack Pakistan's tribal areas for searching Taliban commandos.So it'll definitely increase tension among Pakistan and USA as COAS Kiyani said that he has allowed border forces to take immediate action on any attack from NATO forces. 

Pakistan seems to be Bone in the US alliance and kicking Pakistan from alliance could be danger for USA as their is two ways for NATO supplies for their equipments and other stuffs.One is from Pakistan but they have now tension with it and second is through Russia but Russia didn't forget 1980's Soviet Afghan war when USA helps Pakistan to break Russian federation into tiny parts.So Russia is also don't want to leave this opportunity.

So if USA lost the war and starts exit from Afghanistan in upcoming years with broken hands they will be 2nd Super power who 'll defeated by PAKISTAN.So they can't took Pakistan as a "Piece of Cake" as it can be cause them as a "Piece of Rock" which can break their teeth.

*********************LONG LIVE PAKISTAN*****************************

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Judaism and Islam side by side

On Sunday night, the fashion collective Three as Four opened its highly anticipated exhibition “Insalaam Inshalom” at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture in Tel Aviv, bringing to fruition a project over two years in the making. Covering the walls of the four-story building in fabric printed with their spring collection’s central motifs, which are made of a mix of Muslim and Jewish symbols, the designers Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Ange Donhauser invited 10 artists to show works that relate to the project’s central notion: that Judaism and Islam can live side by side. “We’ve accumulated the energy of artists and performers who are like-minded,” Asfour said. “We tried to balance things from all sides, though it’s always difficult.”
Featured in the show are pieces by Yoko Ono, Joseph Dadoune and Jessica Mitrani, to name a few. Installations, video works, textiles and photography are among the works on display throughout the center’s “Insalaam Inshalom”-patterned walls. The performers at Sunday’s event included the Cyprus-born, New York-based director/choreographer Maria Hassabi, who wore cotton overalls from the Three as Four collection. Carrying a rolled-up rug on her slight frame, she slowly made her way down a flight of stairs into a cramped performance area, stopping every few seconds in different sculptural positions. Having arrived, she released the rug behind her back and wrapped herself in it as in a cape. At other moments she lay on it as well as under it as if it were a blanket.
As usual, Three as Four opted for a less formal fashion show, with a backgammon board acting as a centerpiece onstage, with mannequins dressed in pieces from the collection positioned around it. Models entered the central space to stand between the forms, then took turns walking over to a low table, sitting down, rolling the dice and moving the pieces of the board game. After each turn, one model would get up and take the place of another — a collective game of musical chairs.
“Fashion and beauty are tools to promote togetherness and unity in different countries and cultures,” Gil said. “We hope we can inspire other people to work together and not be scared of working together.”
The fashion collective’s members are themselves products of multiple cultures and identities: Asfour was born to parents from Mandate-era Haifa, who fled to Beirut; Gil was born and raised in Israel before moving to Germany and then New York; and Donhauser is a Soviet-born Russian-German who moved to Germany in childhood. Donhauser met Gil in Germany, and they met Asfour in New York, where they had moved to seek a more culturally diverse setting.
“I’m the middleman in the Middle East,” joked Donhauser, who adds that she’s glad she finally made it to Tel Aviv. “I’m closer to understanding how meshugeneh it all is. You shake your head and say: It’s all so human after all.”

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RAW calls the shots in Pakistan: Imran Khan

Islamabad:  India's terrorist Intelligence (RAW) spy agency is calling the shots in the country, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan says, adding that the government lacks moral courage, "giving the space to RAW to assert its powers".

"The government lacks the moral courage, which has been giving the space to RAW to assert its powers in various affairs of the country," Imran Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said on Sunday.

Talking to the media after PTI's central executive committee meeting, Mr Khan said that RAW is no.1 terrorist organization of the world which is also responsible for corruption in India.

He said the corrupt practices of politicians had provided the RAW an excuse to meddle in the political arena,  Times of India reported.

He pledged that if he came to power and if his government's directives were not followed, he would resign rather than stay in power and will kill all agents of CIA, MOSAD & RAW in the country.He warned all agencies who are currently working against the Pakistan that they should leave Pakistan otherwise he 'll give lesson to them after coming in power.

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Defence of Pakistan Council announces to hold public meeting over issues of national security & defence

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): Pakistan Defence Council has announced to hold public meeting over the issues of national security and defence at Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi.
The council has announced to state cross-country protest against the granting of Most Favorite Nation status to India on Friday and supported sit-in protest at Wahga boarder and Ganda Singh in Qasoor.
This announcement has been made in joint declaration in the “All Parties Pakistan Defence Conference” organized by Defence of Pakistan Council; meanwhile the conference was attended by more than 45 political, religious parties and more than 62 leaders of civil society, former military leadership and other important personalities.
The joint declaration was read out by Amir Jamiat Ulema Islam-S Maulana Samiul Haq at the closing ceremony; meanwhile all the leaders presented in the conference had supported the declaration.
The APC has decided to file a writ against the drone attacks in Supreme Court and also decided to stage protest meetings against government at Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi.
Jamaat-e-Islami has announced staging protests across the country against granting of MFN status to India for trade; meanwhile Mohsinan Pakistan Forum has announced sit-in protests at Wahga boarder and other destinations on 27th and 28th November and the APC has supported the protest.
Prior to this, in a resolution passed in the conference stated that granting of MFN status to India was very dangerous and disastrous for the Pakistani industry, agriculture and trade, adding that instead of granting self determination to Kashmiri people the Indian government killed more than 0.1 million innocent people in Kashmir and trying to occupy the rivers to deprive Pakistan from the water of its share.
It is also stated in the resolution that Pakistan was divided in two parts by military aggression; meanwhile in view of these historic facts granting of MFN status to India is like attack on the two-nation theory, Pakistan movement, national integrity and its resources.
The APC through the resolution demanded from the government of Pakistan to repeal the status of MFN to India because this decision not only eliminates the cause of partition of Indian subcontinent but it is also committing a traitory with blood of martyrs of Pakistan movement and martyrs of Kashmir independence movement.
The resolution stated that those people who thought India as favored country should shift to India; meanwhile the APC warned that if the decision would not be repealed then the government should forced to repeal its decision through by public power.
Maulana Samiul Haq while presiding the conference has said that foreign powers trying to impose their decisions on Pakistan through threats, adding that India, Israel and United States is trying to eliminate Pakistan.
Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Syed Munawar Hassan while addressing the conference said that it is need of hour to come out of closed rooms and manage programs on large scale, adding that he termed SAARC conference as charged sheet against Pakistan and said that it was arranged to increase the aggression of India.
He said that the SAARC conference was effort to dishonor Pakistani image, adding that US trying to punish Pakistan on behalf of its defeat in Pakistan and for this purpose US want to handover the atomic program of Pakistan to international control.
He said that the military and government leadership should take a brave decision but it cannot happen and no step was taken for the implementation of resolution passed in all parties’ conference arranged by prime minister.
He said that the rulers declared Kashmiris as strangers but they cannot behave with the Kashmiri people as strangers.
Former director general ISI lt general (retd) Hamid Gull has said that it is not possible for anybody to ignore Kashmiri people, adding that pressure being put on Afghanistan to give five to six airbases as lease to United States.
Leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawwa Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has said that a deep conspiracy has been hatched against Pakistan and US, Israel and India are united in this conspiracy, adding that granting MFN status to India is the conspiracy to make Pakistan disable.
Leader of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that it is quite sure that granting MFN status to India is without consensus of Pakistan army, adding that situation between government and army is very critical.
Former minister for religious affairs Aijazul Haq has said that US wants Indian supremacy in Afghanistan and it is not possible without this transit and for this purpose, huge power terminals were constructed at Wahga boarder.
General (retd) Faiz Ali Chishti has said that it is need of hour to get rid of government, adding that the internal enemy is very dangerous as compare to external enemy.
Leader of PML-Q SM Zaffar while addressing the conference has said that economically weak nations are unable to defend, adding that Pakistan did not have any threat from regional powers.
Meanwhile parliamentary leader of FATA Munir Khan Aurkazai, Professor Andrew Bishop, Azad Marshal and others also addressed the conference.

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First female chief executive appointed in IBM

IBM named Virginia Rometty, the head of sales, marketing and strategy, to take over as chief executive on January 1, making her the first woman to head the legendary US computer company.
Rometty, 54, who is also a senior vice president at IBM, will take over from current president and chief executive Samuel Palmisano, 60, on January 1, IBM said in a statement Tuesday.
Palmisano, who was named IBM’s chief executive in 2002, will stay on as chairman of the board of directors.
IBM said Rometty had also been elected to IBM’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Rometty will be the ninth chief executive in the 100-year-old history of the company known as “Big Blue” and the first woman to hold the top post.
She joins a select group of women heading US technology companies. They include Ursula Burns at Xerox and Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who was recently named to the same position at Hewlett-Packard.

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A huge amount of spam attack for Facebook users in shape of graphic images

Facebook said Tuesday that a “coordinated spam attack” was responsible for graphic images appearing in the news feeds of some members of the world’s largest social network.
Facebook, which has more than 800 million members, said some users of the social network were tricked into unknowingly sharing the offensive content.
“Recently, we experienced a coordinated spam attack that exploited a browser vulnerability,” Facebook said in an email statement to AFP.
“Our efforts have drastically limited the damage caused by this attack, and we are now in the process of investigating to identify those responsible,” the Palo Alto, California-based company said.
“We’ve built enforcement mechanisms to quickly shut down the malicious pages and accounts that attempt to exploit it,” it said. “We’ve put in place backend measures to reduce the rate of these attacks and will continue to iterate on our defenses to find new ways to protect people.”
Facebook said protecting users from spam and malicious content “is a top priority for us and we are always working to improve our systems to isolate and remove material that violates our terms.”
Facebook did not say how many members were affected by the spam but hundreds of users of the social network took to Twitter to complain about the images, which they said included hardcore pornography and graphic violence.

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Wikileaks:Julian Assange files application to take extradition case to Supreme Court. Centers on "Judicial Authority"

Julian Assange’s team have raised the following points of law as grounds to appeal to the Supreme Court:
1) Whether a European Arrest Warrant issued by a partisan prosecutor working for the executive (i.e. not an independent judge or investigating magistrate in the civil law system) is a valid Part 1 Warrant issued by a "judicial authority" within the meaning of sections 2(2) & 66 of the Extradition Act 2003?

• This point argues that the decision goes against parliamentary intent in the 2003 Extradition Act (see High Court Appeal).

2) Whether a person in respect of whom no decision to prosecute has been taken can be said to be ’accused’ within the meaning of sections 2(3)(a) of the Extradition Act 2003?
Read why these two points are of ’general public importance’ in High Court Appeal (currently being updated).

15 November 2011: Julian Assange’s legal team have applied to the High Court for leave to appeal two points of law of general importance at the Supreme Court. The same High Court judges who dismissed Julian Assange’s case at the High Court will decide whether or not to certify these points, which must be of public importance and go beyond the specific facts of this case. They will decide this in open court, at the Royal Courts of Justice on 5 December 2011. A decision is expected the same day. If JA loses, he will be extradited to Sweden within 10 days and placed into Swedish custody.

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Famous designer Bilal Ansari will design Bridal dress for Reema Khan

Bilal Ansari aka Billu a very popular name of Pakistan Fashion Industry will going to design Bridal dress for Pakistan film Industry's top actress Reema Khan for her marriage at USA.

Karachi- AP, famous fashion designer Bilal Ansari will design bridal dress for Pakistani film actress Reema Khan on her marriage function in America. Both the nikkah and rukhsati of the Golden Girl of Lollywood will take place on November 18. The plan is that, following the wedding, Reema will remain in Washington for a couple of weeks before returning to Pakistan.Reema's groom Shahab graduated from Dow Medical College University of Karachi before heading for the US for further training in cardiovascular diseases. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University Of Michigan Medical Centre where he was awarded the Outstanding Resident of the Year Award.
for more visit http://www.fashionsgala.com

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Gossip World:Justin Bieber Baby Daddy “Quotes” Are Tabloid Rubbish

“Justin Bieber: Selena Not Bothered By Baby Daddy Rumors,” reads the headline of a Hollyscoop story, which heavily relies on quotes the young singer supposedly gave Britain’s Star magazine.

According to the blog, Bieber’s relationship with Selena Gomez is perfectly fine, despite allegations that fathered a child with Mariah Yeater.

“She is doing great – like me she just ignores things,” Bieber supposedly tells the tab.

He adds, “Both Selena and myself have had to get used to this stuff; it’s part of being in the industry. It’s not right that we have to get used to it, but it’s one of those things you need to accept. We’ve both learned to ignore the rubbish that comes out.”

Wait, just because Bieber reportedly spoke to a British tab, he’s now using words like “rubbish”?

Hardly.

Bieber, who does not freely talk about Gomez, seems NOT to have spoken to Star.

The singer’s rep tells Gossip Cop the quotes are “false.”

We tried to get an answer from Star, and was told by a staffer that they didn’t know whether or not Bieber really spoke to the mag, and to call again tomorrow.

Based on the quotes, Bieber’s rep, and the noncommittal response from Star, we’d say the tab’s story is… rubbish.

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Britney Spears Gets Raunchy in Newly Released “Sweet Dreams” (VIDEO)

This will come as a shock, but Britney Spears made a provocative video!
Although it was shot as an interlude for her 2009 Circus Tour, the pop princess’ raunchy visual companion to Marilyn Manson‘s cover of “Sweet Dreams” just surfaced online.
It features Spears mouthing the words to the song while writhing around a poorly lit masquerade ball that may or may not be an orgy.
The mom of 2 can still push buttons.

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Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner Call Off Engagement

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner have called off their wedding, Gossip Cop confirms.
A rep for the actress tells us, “They are no longer engaged.”
Locklear was not wearing her engagement ring Monday night at the Breaking Dawn premiere in L.A.
The former “Melrose Place” co-stars began dating in 2007, shortly after Locklear finalized her divorce from Richie Sambora.
They got engaged in August.

We’ll update when we get more information.

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PTCL broadband internet service down in Karachi - Humari Technology

Karachi: One of the biggest telecommunication & DSL internet provider in Pakistan and ex-state institution, Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) has failed to maintain its fine service and now is completely down in different areas of Karachi, the business hub of Pakistan.

According to sources, service of PTCL has been creating problems for around 4 days in different areas of Karachi and nearly 1,00,000 commercial and domestic users facing severe problems due to this crisis.

Sources said that the problems occurred due to old devices installed in the system. These devices have been working since 2006 but the maximum age of the devices is 2 years.

It is pertinent to mention that different businesses are working on Saturday in Karachi despite two-weekly offs. But the disruption in service creating many problems for the users.

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US: Reality show on lives of Muslims to be launched

New York:  Reality TV welcomes a brand new program in the United States which follows the lives of American Muslims and makes its debut on Sunday. 

According to press statements from the cable channel, ”All American Muslims” deal with the same small and large issues of life that other Americans encounter. A new eight-part series on TLC that premieres November 13 will try to answer that question by following the lives of five very different Muslim-American families.

The show, “All-American Muslim,” was filmed in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that’s known for its large Arab-American population and America’s largest mosque.

It promises to go “inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims to uncover a unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality in a post 9/11 world.”

According to reports, the show’s producers selected a diverse group of people and topics. It will cover segments on sisters who are polar opposites (one wears a headscarf and prays daily, the other has tattoos – forbidden in Islam– and is married to an Irish Catholic). It will also follow the story of a high school football coach, and newlyweds.

The media kit hopes to show people who “share the same religion, but lead very distinct lives that often times challenge the Muslim stereotype.” Additionally, the series will also delve into the hot topics of post 9/11 life for Muslims and gender roles in Islam.

The show’s ambition to provide an encompassing portrayal of an entire faith community takes it into risky territory.

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Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi likely to resign today

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is supposed to resign on Saturday after the lower chamber of the parliament passed a set of reforms, paving way for an emergency government and ending the 17-year political era in the European country.

Berlusconi agreed to step down once the bill was passed earlier this week when it became clear he could no longer garner support to keep his coalition government intact.

In a statement issued after his final cabinet meeting, Berlusconi confirmed he would go to see President Giorgio Napolitano to hand in his resignation, bringing an end to one of the most scandal-plagued periods in recent Italian history.

The definitive approval of the package by the lower house will mark the final act of the Berlusconi government. He is expected to hold a last cabinet meeting and then go to the Quirinale Palace and hand his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano.

His resignation will trigger a series of events over the weekend and most likely conclude on Sunday night or Monday morning with the formation of new government headed by former European Commissioner Mario Monti.

Global markets panicked earlier this week because of the sustained political turmoil in the euro zone’s third largest economy, and Italy’s borrowing costs shot above a “red line” of 7 percent.

On the other side hundreds of demonstrators gathered at government buildings on Saturday celebrating the imminent departure of Berlusconi, who has been Italy’s longest serving prime minister.

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UN says poverty in India higher than Pakistan

New Delhi: India has the world’s largest number of citizens living under the poverty line, with 612 million, according to a UN report.

Despite of the impression that India economy is fastest growing in the world, it has been ranked as poorer than its neighboring Pakistan, Daily Telegraph said quoted report of United Nations on global poverty.

The report also finds more ‘gender equality’ in conservative Pakistan than in ‘tolerant’ India.

Its findings amount to a wake-up call for a nation which has taken great pride in its rapid economic growth and the increasing clout of its billionaire business leaders but has failed to share the spoils with its poor. Britain’s Department for International Development has pointed to this chequered progress to justify its continuing aid to India.

The Human Development Report reveals that while India ranks slightly above Pakistan in its level of ‘human development’ – based on life expectancy, schooling and per capita income – its wider poverty level is worse than Pakistan.

In absolute terms, 41.6 per cent of India’s 1.1 billion people earned less than 78 pence per day compared with 22.6 per cent of Pakistan’s 173 million.

The report quotes its ‘multi-dimensional poverty index’ which includes measures of schooling, child mortality, nutrition, access to electricity, toilets, drinking water, and hygienic living conditions, and reveals India is poorer.

More surprisingly, India is ranked below Pakistan and Bangladesh on gender equality which reflects maternal death rates, teenage pregnancies, access to education, and the number of women parliamentarians and in the workplace.

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Indo-Pak Express-Aisam,Bopanna wins Paris Masters final

Paris: Pakistani tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopann defeaed Julien Benneteau and  Nicolas Mahut to clinch the title of Paris Masters Tennis Tournament.

Aisam and Bopanna defeated the French duo in straight sets with score 6-2,6-4.

Earlier in semi-finals, the seventh-seeded Pak-Indo pair won straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (7)  over the third seeded Belarusian-Canadian combination after battle of one hour and 27 minutes.

On Friday, they had shocked second seeds Michael Llodra and Nead Zimonjic 3-6, 6-4, 10-6 in the quarter-finals of the euro 2,750,000 event.

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