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News for Friday, 24 Dec 2010

Paris airport terminal evacuated because of snow on roof

PARIS: Around 2,000 people were evacuated from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday because of snow on the roof of a terminal that partly collapsed shortly after opening in...

Hamas still committed to Israel truce: Zahar

GAZA CITY: Hamas remains committed to its truce with Israel, a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Mahmud Zahar, said on Friday, despite the increase in rocket attacks from...

N Korea may have new atom test to boost heir: South

SEOUL: North Korea could carry out a third atomic test next year to strengthen the credentials of its young leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un, a research report from a South Korean foreign...

The Quaid

What Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah said in his historic address delivered before the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947 is as authoritative as it is unequivocal and precise....

No pressures?

Hearty declarations by the government on the floor of the house of independence from foreign pressures might lead to a measure of desk-thumping but they belie the truth. The premieres...

The Machiavelli

Barring the lone nay vote of Kashmala Tariq, the 19th Constitutional Amendment has gone through the National Assembly unanimously. This rare consensus has only been reached on the process of...

White Lies

A cynic once said Friendship is an arrangement by which you undertake to exchange small favours for big ones. Is that what is happening between a certain senator with a...

Meaningless words

Those green-robd senators of mighty woods,

Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars

Dream, and so dream all night without a stir...

(Hyperion - John Keats)

Strange bedfellows

The PPP decided to induct the MQM, JUI(F) and PML(F) into the ruling coalition after the PML(N) left the government in 2008. The decision looked odd to many as the...

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