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Qaisar Sultan The Egyptians have finally found the dignity as people. One Egyptian woman put it bluntly that she was not proud to be an Egyptian before; and now she is. A poster read, “We… Read More »Pride of a Nation

ABU DHABI // The UAE has become the Arab world’s biggest contributor to the International Monetary Fund after increasing its US$611 million (Dh2.2 billion) stake. Cabinet members agreed yesterday to raise the country’s share in… Read More »UAE NOW ARAB WORLD’S LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO IMF

ABU DHABI — The Central Bank of UAE on Monday asked all financial institutions in the country to immediately report any suspicious money transactions or cases they come across to its Anti-money Laundering and Suspicious… Read More »UAE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS SAFE: CENTRAL BANK

DUBAI – The nominal gross domestic product, or GDP, of the UAE is estimated to have reached Dh928 billion, up 1.5 per cent in 2010, while the real GDP grew 0.6 per cent to Dh517.6… Read More »UAE nominal GDP up 1.5% to reach Dh928b

ABU DHABI: The UAE non-oil foreign trade maintained a sturdy growth of 11.5 per cent Y-o-Y till last October, Federal Customs Authority (FCA) said in its report. FCA preliminary statistical data confirmed that the value… Read More »UAE’S NON-OIL TRADE RISES TO DHS605.4B

The UAE will highlight its defence capabilities to the world with 151 companies from across the Emirates taking up indoor and outdoor exhibition space at the 10th International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2011), marking… Read More »IDEX 2011 to feature 151 exhibitors from the UAE

By Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan Burkan Munitions Systems (BMS) L.L.C. the first national company specialising in manufacturing medium and heavy ammunition in Abu Dhabi, is on the move to supply the UAE’s armed forces with multiple use… Read More »UAE ammunition firm eyes GCC market

By Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan United Arab Emirates has been put on the armaments industry map by the successful holding of successive IDEX Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Local, regional and international defence manufactures… Read More »THE INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE (IDEX), UAE

Taking advantage of the problem of metal and chemically treated strings used for flying kites, the ‘spoilsports’ led by the religious parties were able to convince both the provincial government of Punjab as well as the higher judiciary that kite flying was a dangerous activity and violated the rights of individuals who were injured by these strings

Too many things are going on worth writing about. But for me something more important than all the major stories filling the newspapers and TV headlines is the one about Basant (festival of the kites). Evidently, the governor and the chief minister of Punjab have agreed that the people of Lahore will be allowed to fly kites this year. That is great news and is in its own way more important than the sort of stuff consuming the attention of our op-ed page commentariat as well as the talking heads on TV.Read More »Let us go fly a kite! —Dr Syed Mansoor Hussain

ALI SUKHANVER

Burdened with the burnt dead bodies of innocent children and helpless men and women, the unlucky Samjhauta Express still seems moving towards Lahore. Across the Wahga border, somewhere into the Indian lands one can feel Swami Aseemanand sinisterly smiling at the pathetic fate of the departed train; he is enjoying the pain and agony which the passengers of this train had experienced before handing over their lives to the heartless flames surrounding them. He is very happy that he succeeded in acting upon the “bomb-for-bomb” strategy. Under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code a Panchkula magistrate recorded Aseemanand’s statement on 15 January 2010, regarding the Samjhauta blast case. His earlier confession was recorded in the Mecca Masjid case, which was being probe by the CBI. Aseemanand confessed that the bomb attacks on the Samjhota Express in 2007 were plotted by the Hindutva militants Ramji Kaisangra and Sandeep Dange under the benevolent guidance of some military and intelligence officers.Read More »INDIA NEEDS ANOTHER KARKARE