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Former captain Wasim Akram will help coach Pakistan’s pacemen at the Champions Trophy in England in June. The great all-rounder told a news conference in Lahore that he had also agreed with the Pakistan Cricket Board to hold a 10-day … read more »
By Paul Omoniyi Fellow Nigerians, for the past four weeks, I have been monitoring Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA) Website to see if they have addressed the issues I raised in an article published January this year, ‘Where is … read more »
By Luka Biong Deng The question of whether the Ngok Dinka of Abyei are citizens of South Sudan may seem strange to most people, who would answer it in the affirmative. But it seems a difficult question to a few, … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abyei, Deng Alor, IndepthAfrica, India, Kashmir, Ngok Dinka, Pakistan, SouthSudan, Sudan
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WALKING WOUNDED: The shocking disfigurement and crippling effect of polio in Nigeria. Source: The Courier-Mail THEY have been dubbed heroes. As gunmen rained bullets on their clinic, shooting their colleagues in cold blood, they lay still on the floor pretending … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Courier-Mail, IndepthAfrica, Kano, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, nigerian newspapers, North Korea, Pakistan, Poliomyelitis, Yobe State
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Repercussions of Algerian gas field attack Al-Qaeda linked extremists carried out a deadly attack against the Algerian Amenas gas filed on 16 January. Reportedly, the strike was conducted in retaliation for the military intervention France has initiated in its former … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Pakistan
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press release On-going armed conflicts and insurgency make Syria and Somalia the world’s most dangerous places for journalists, according to the annual figures on journalist deaths compiled by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Sixty-eight journalists and … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Press Releases, Somali
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Tagged Brazil, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, Journalist, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria
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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa skipper Graeme Smith, making his 100th appearance as captain, won the toss and elected to bat in the first test against Pakistan at the Wanderers on Friday. The Proteas have kept the same side that was successful … read more »
Posted in Cricket, South Africa, Sports
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Tagged Asad Shafiq, Cricket, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Pakistan, Robin Peterson, South Africa
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Johannesburg – The description of Pakistan doesn’t change. Their Test record in the last two years may point to consistency, but they remain, even according to one of their senior players, an unpredictable side. They’re also an unusual side. Their … read more »
Posted in Cricket, Sports
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Tagged Cricket, cricket highlight, Dale Steyn, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Irfan, Morne Morkel, Pakistan, South Africa, Vernon Philander, Younis Khan
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Robele Ababya, Emulating the Pakistani uprising against corruption This piece is prompted by the recent development of crisis in Pakistan where “Pakistan‘s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the country’s prime minister on corruption charges, heightening the already extreme … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Robele Ababya
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New Delhi: Battered and bruised by yet another series defeat, India`s struggling cricketers will seek to restore some pride when they go into the third and final one-dayer against arch-rivals Pakistan here tomorrow with the future of some of the … read more »
Posted in Cricket
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By: Ivan Eland For weeks and months, the foreign policy debate in the United States has focused on the non-issue of whether the Obama administration played politics with the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Although the more … read more »
Posted in America, Egypt, Global Issues, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, AlQaeda, Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pakistan Air Force, Somalia, Taliban, United States, Yemen
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By Sabahat Khan, Unilateral U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan have been a contentious and thorny issue between Washington and Islamabad for some years now but a new political movement being spearheaded by Imran Khan – leader … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Asia
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Tagged Afghanistan, drone, Imran Khan, ISLAMABAD, Mali, Pakistan, Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Syria, Tumor, United Nations Security Council, Washington
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India failed to reach the World Twenty20 semi-finals despite beating South Africa by one run in a gripping final Super Eight Group Two match on Tuesday. A total of 152 for six was not enough for India because in the … read more »
At least 15 people have been killed in Pakistan in clashes during protests over an anti-Muslim film. Police fired tear gas and live ammunition at thousands of demonstrators who threw rocks and set fire to buildings. Dozens were injured. Muslims … read more »
An Ethiopian maid, who allegedly asphyxiated her newborn by locking her in a bag, was charged with murder in the Court of First Instance on Monday. According to court records, she had become pregnant following an illicit relation with a … read more »
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The 2012 Democratic Platform, the 40-page document released on Monday, can be regarded as United States President Barack Obama’s election manifesto in the November election. There is a lengthy portion set aside in it outlining the foreign-policy orientations … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, India, Mitt Romney, obama, Pakistan, United States
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By: Eurasia Review By Nasir Naveed Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China in 1950 and the third non communist state. Pakistan then voted for a bill concerning the restoration of China’s legitimate rights in the UN. PIA … read more »
By Ismail Salami – Tehran Despite the West’s deliberate inattention to and willful disregard for Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, there is no denying the fact that the summit has occasioned extreme chagrin in Washington and Israel and that dialogue … read more »
Yes, there IS a war against women! Imagine you were a teenage girl in Pakistan, and your parents married you off very young. The marriage is a disaster but you have no rights. You flee with your daughter … read more »
(Credit: Reuters) “I see mothers with children, I see fathers with children, I see fathers with mothers, I see kids playing soccer … [but] I feel no emotional attachment to the enemy. I have a duty, and I execute the … read more »
analysis Somalia’s post-transition government will face an array of complex challenges in reforming the country. Somalis have largely been disillusioned with the various governments that have ruled over them for the past few decades. If the new post-transitional government is … read more »
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Tagged Bradley Strawser, Geneva Convention, IndepthAfrica, James Cartwright, Naval Postgraduate School, Pakistan, Unmanned aerial vehicle, White House, World War II
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Africans do not like to listen to their own or pay them either. Were what well educated, capable, passionate and gifted Africans have to offer come from some ‘lighter’ skin fraudsters in the color of an European, Indian, Lebanese, Pakistani, … read more »
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR After months of tortuous negotiations with the United States, Pakistan has reopened the transit routes for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization convoys heading toward Afghanistan. The US rendered an apology, finally, for its massacre of 27 Pakistani soldiers … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, ISLAMABAD, NATO, Pakistan, Pakistani, Pentagon, United States
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Pallekele, Sri Lanka – Pakistan will look to deny Sri Lanka a long-awaited series victory when they take on the hosts in the third and final Test in Pallekele from Sunday. Sri Lanka, who won the first Test in Galle … read more »
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PALLEKELE: Pakistan will look to deny Sri Lanka a long-awaited series victory when they take on the hosts in the third and final Test in Pallekele from Sunday. Sri Lanka, who won the first Test in Galle and drew the … read more »
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KARACHI: Pakistan Thursday finally announced a limited over series schedule against Australia, delaying the matches to late in the evening to avoid the heat in the United Arab Emirates, the cricket board said. Pakistan had to search for the venue … read more »
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South Africa is set to be the host of this year’s Champions League T20 in October, with Cape Town, Johannesburg, Centurion and Durban as the venues. Sundar Raman, a member of the CLT20′s technical committee, tweeted: “South Africa will host … read more »
The south-west monsoon allowed only 6.2 overs of play in the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the R Premadasa Stadium, leaving the series level at 1-1. There were early warning signs that the match could be a … read more »
Posted in Cricket News
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Tagged Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, cricket india, cricket live, cricket live score, cricket live streaming, cricket score, cricket streaming, Lasith Malinga, live score, Mohammad Hafeez, Nuwan Kulasekara, online cricket, Pakistan, Sajeewa Weerakoon, Sri Lanka, stick cricket, World Cup Cricket, yahoo cricket
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Australia and Pakistan could ask the ICC for permission to stage the longest bilateral Twenty20 international series ever played later this year. The two countries are due to meet for a series of five ODIs and three T20s in August, … read more »
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Tagged Australia, cricket australia, cricket games, cricket india, cricket live, cricket live score, cricket live streaming, cricket score, cricket streaming, ICC, ICC World Twenty20, International Cricket Council, Intikhab Alam, live score, online cricket, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, stick cricket, World Cup Cricket, yahoo cricket
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Washington – In what United States officials described as major blow to al-Qaeda, the group’s second-ranking leader, a militant known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in a strike by a missile fired from a US-operated drone, an official confirmed … read more »
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