Showing posts with label minister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minister. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Libyan Rebels tell to loyalist Gaddafi: ‘Surrender or face attack’




Libyan Rebels tell to loyalist Gaddafi:
 
The ultimatum given by Libyan rebels to of deposed Libyan leader the loyalists Muammar Gaddafi, ‘Surrender or face attack’.

The rebels have claimed that they are closing in on Gaddafi. Rebels’ interior minister Ahmed al-Darrad sees the asylum granted to Gaddafi and his family by Libya as an ‘enemy act’. The rebels demanded that Gaddafi and his family, who were given shelter in Algeria should be returned to Libya.

Rebel leaders seen making attempt to restore order in Libya, According to a report by Sydney Morning Herald,

Reporters touring Tripoli still saw chaotic scenes, including desperate motorists stealing fuel from a petrol station. In the capital's Souk al Jumma neighbourhood, about 200 people pounded on the doors of a bank, demanding that it open.
 
 
Rebel fighters were converging on Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which is his main remaining bastion, some 400 kilometres east of Tripoli.

The rebels gave pro-Gaddafi forces there a deadline of Saturday - the day after the end of the Muslim holiday - to complete negotiations and surrender.

After that, the rebels will "act decisively and militarily," Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the rebels' National Transitional Council, said on Tuesday.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

‘Fashion icon’ Hina


‘Fashion icon’ Hina 

Hina Rabbani Khar is a Pakistani politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 20th July 2011. She is youngest and first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan.

She is married to Feroze Gulzar and has two daughters Annaya and Dina.

Hina Rabbani Khar was born on 19th January 1977 in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. She is daughter of the politician Muhammad Ibrahim Arqam and niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar.

Pakistan's youngest Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar is not pleased with her depiction by  the Indian media  as a "fashion icon".

Hina unhappy over her depiction as ‘fashion icon’

Pakistan's first woman Foreign Minister, Khar, who returned to Pakistan Thursday evening after a visit to India for talks with her counterpart S M Krishna, reacted angrily to questions pertaining to coverage of her fashion style in leading Indian dailies.

"You see paparazzi are every where. Besides, you (referring to media) should not do such acts," Khar said, replying to aquestion at the Lahore airport on her arrivalfrom India.

So irked was she at the question that she refused to take any more questions and left for Islamabad.

During her visit to New Delhi, she was the talk of the town, with the mediaclosely following her fashion accessories. Such was the focus that even TheWall Street Journal too carried a story on the Indian media's reporting of Khar's fashion style.

"She is quite a breath of fresh air for someone who comes from Pakistan, "said Shantanu of Shantanu-Nikhil, the leading fashion house in India.

She said, "Dialogue process with India should continue uninterrupted as it loses credibility when it is interrupted."

Friday, July 29, 2011

Week since Norway


Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil
"Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil," the prime minister added.

The first funerals Friday for victims of the massacre of 76 people a week ago leap in popularity for the ruling Labor Party that was his main target.

Flags around the nation flew at half mast to mark a day of memorial one week after self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-Islam zealot, that killed 8 people. He then shot 68 people at a summer camp for youths of the ruling Labor Party.

Bano Rashid, aged 18 and who came to Norway in 1996 with her family fleeing Iraq, was being buried at Nesodden church near Oslo in the first funeral.

Rashid was buried to Muslim and Christian prayers as the nation tried to come to terms with the trauma. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere was expected to be among the mourners.

"We have to stand united and carry their dreams forward," Nesodden mayor Christian Holm said of Rashid and another Nesodden youth, Diderik Aamodt Olsen, who died in the attacks on Utoya island that were worst in Norway since World War II.
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A memorial service also was held by the Labor Party and its youth wing in Oslo Friday, with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg making an address followed by a moment of silence to remember the victims.