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India has apparently lost its cold war with China, or at least the current phase of it. What is disturbing to India is not only China's superior military power and stronger economy, but also China's intrusion into what was once regarded as India's backyard. The development has rendered the so-called Indira doctrine ineffective or obsolete. The doctrine, formulated during the …

'Papa, Don't Do It'   Pastor Terry Jones: "He seems like a stranger to me." It remains unclear whether Pastor Terry Jones will go ahead with his plan to burn Korans in Florida on Saturday. His daughter Emma has begged him not to go through with it. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, she describes a man who became a …

President Aquino has declared September 10, Friday, a regular holiday in the country in observance of Eid’l Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The holiday declaration on Eid’l Fitr was contained in Proclamation No. 26 signed by the President last Thursday. “To promote cultural understanding and integration, the entire Filipino nation should have the full opportunity to …

  In recent weeks and days, US President Barack Obama earned ten points, lost ten points and earned ten points again with his headline-hitting political moves. On August 14, he earned ten points for standing firm in support of a move to build an Islamic cultural centre and a mosque near Ground Zero where nine Septembers ago two towering structures …

More than forty years after the first Zahirian migrated to Canada, the Old Boys Association was inaugurated on Sunday the 29th August 2010 at the Pak Center Restaurant, in Toronto. This was initiated by the three musketeers M/s Faizal Nazeer, Mohamed Asif and Mohamed Ashrath. There were more than twenty young, very enthusiastic old boys were present to form the …