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I am Proud of Muntadar al-Zaidi (Bush Shoe Treater)

Well done, President George W. Bush. As a sportsman, I admired your ducking capability and your witty response when, on receiving an Iraqi journalist’s shoes, you reacted by saying that “the shoe number is 10″.
Why don’t you try these shoes for a change…and know if it pinches? You insisted on a “farewell” visit to your [...]

Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, throws his shoe at President Bush.
Baghdad, Iraq. December 14, 2008. Associated Press
On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when [...]

Mera taluk punjab ke pasmanda tareen zila ki pasmanda tareen union council mud wala se hay.meray walid sab ka pesha zirat hay. aur thori se zari arazi hay. unki khawhish par main ne Masters kia jis par unhon ne kafi kharch kia. university education kafi mehngi pari..
aur haimain maqroz kar dia. 6 [...]

After his fairly good performance in Iraq, General David Petraeus takes charge of his new post as the overall head of the U.S. forces in the Middle East (including Afghanistan) on October 31. But now General Petraeus needs to acquaint himself better with the history and ground realities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the Central [...]

Amir Tahri, a columnist gives us an insight that what future holds for women in our neighbouring country Iran. Iran where even Shirin Ebadi: The Nobelist faces threats for backing women’s rights.
AHMADINEJAD’S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN.
IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of “three threats” to his vision of [...]

The NBA Memphis Grizzlies signing deal with the leading 2008 Olympic basketball rebounder Hamed Haddadi of Iran astonished the global mainstream media while being broadcasted by American papers and sites regularly, making no difference to Iranians!
The coming out figures by US treasury house that revealed a tenfold increase of Iran-US trades [...]

Pakistan has complained to the United States military leadership and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that Washington’s policy towards terrorism in Pakistan was inconsistent with America’s declared commitment to the war against terror.
Impeccable official sources have said that strong evidence and circumstantial evidence of American acquiescence to terrorism inside Pakistan was outlined by President Pervez [...]

It was British who created the buffer between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of FATA and governed it through FCR. It was the successive governments of Pakistan who under the international pressure and especially under the pressure of Afghanistan, didn’t do much to include FATA in the settled mainstream. Then it was due to [...]

Hearts and minds have to be won to win the war on terror, and its time United States must learn this point, otherwise the blood of people would keep on spilling in vain, and the thoughtless mantra of “Do More”, which is still there has to be abolished.
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is 2460km [...]