Mandela returns home from hospital

   In this file image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed April 29 after being released from hospital. Mandela was taken to a hospital again on June 8 because of a lung infection.                                                                         Former South African President Nelson Mandela has returned unannounced to his home in Johannesburg after a long stay in hospital in Pretoria.

The 95-year-old was admitted with a recurring lung infection on 8 June.

His condition was last week described as “critical but stable”, and there has been no official update on his health since then.

The infection is said to date back to a period of nearly three decades he spent in prison for anti-apartheid activity.

The BBC’s Mike Wooldridge in Johannesburg says it will be a relief for his family and for the nation that Mr Mandela has improved sufficiently for the journey to be made and for him to be cared for at home. 

                                                                                                              

Obama ready to go it alone on Syria

Obama ready to go it alone on Syria

The White House signaled Thursday that President Barack Obama is ready to go it alone to strike Syria despite the British parliament’s rejection of military action and the lack of a UN mandate. Aides said Obama believes that Syria must pay a price for breaking taboos on the use of chemical weapons, action which he sees as posing a grave threat to US national security. US plans to build an international coalition for a “limited” strike on Syria suffered a devastating blow when the House of Commons in London voted against the use of force to punish a chemical weapons attack last week outside Damascus. US officials signaled earlier Thursday that Obama would take unilateral action if necessary, but the possibility became a reality with the vote, which reverberated immediately across the Atlantic. “We have seen the result of the parliament vote in the UK tonight,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.

Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande gave a boost Friday to US plans to forge an international coalition for possible strikes against Syria after British lawmakers rejected any involvement in military action. The White House had signalled Thursday that President Barack Obama, guided by the “best interests” of the United States, was ready to go it alone on Syria after deadly chemical weapons attacks last week.

But Russia, the Syrian regime’s most powerful ally, questioned US intelligence on the gas attacks and warned any military strikes without UN backing would deal a serious blow to “world order”. In Damascus, UN experts began a final day of investigations into the attacks, visiting an army hospital where victims were reportedly being treated.

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said despite the British vote, the White House was still seeking an “international coalition that will act together” against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. —AFP 

A lost soul of KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM

A lost soul of KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM

Nazrul was restless — a defining trait in his character. He had been granted permission to come down from heaven to his beloved country to see for himself how his devotees were observing his death anniversary. While the angels draped him in his favourite ‘gerua khadder panjabi’, he put on his black military boots that he always wore. His trademark — untamed long curls falling loosely from underneath the bright yellow silk turban, he hummed a favourite tune “Sheye choley gechheye boley…” The twinkle in his eye said it all — he would hardly wait.
Nazrul had a plan chalked out. He would spend the day visiting all the organisations that work to cherish and honour him, in particular the Nazrul Institute. He would also make time to visit the Bangla Academy, the Shilpakala Academy, radio and the TV channels. The institutions had to be the focus, where he could see for himself the people teeming in, the music in the air and reminisce on the days of yore.
Weaving his way to the Nazrul Institute through a crammed Dhanmondi road 28, he became increasingly confused. He figured that once in the vicinity, he would simply follow the crowd. But where was the crowd? Where was his house? It took him some time to finally spot the decrepit building and what he saw shocked him to his core.
Nearly 37 years ago, this used to be his home. He had slowly slipped into a terminal illness and watched in silence as hundreds of people thronged day in and day out to get a glimpse of him and to express their adulation anyway they could. It was here where he bade farewell to the world, leaving behind his admirers in a sea of grief. He had hoped the house would remain as a link to him and his memories. Now it seems, along with him, the house had died a premature death; the worn out structure looking helpless in the midst of a concrete wilderness.
As he walked in with dreaded steps, he saw a droopy receptionist at the entrance, responding half-heartedly to a few visitors. The auditorium itself looked like a post war scene. It seemed a heavy shower or mild tremor would bring the ceiling crashing down. The musty smell was nauseating. Termites had taken full control of the auditorium. A chill ran down his spine, “It’s only a matter of time before my lifetime’s work is ruined because of sheer negligence and apathy,” he thought.
“Special” classes where held, two days a week, he heard some people discussing nearby. With hope, he made his way to the classrooms. But as the soft melody gradually became louder, Nazrul stopped dead in his tracks. These are not the tunes he had lovingly composed! In his prime, legendary singers had followed Nazrul’s compositions with a rigid discipline, maintaining that certain magical appeal that defined his music. Now it seemed the students were fusing his style with their own. And where were the reputed artistes who could guide the students? Who was in charge of preserving his notations? As he looked around desperately, the rooms seemed eerily empty.
At the Gramophone Company when Nazrul was signed as an exclusive trainer, eminent artistes such as Dilip Kumar Rai, Abbassuddin Ahmed, Kamol Das Gupta, Juthika Rai, Angur Bala, Indu Bala, Kamala Jharia and many others recorded songs under his guidance and gained immense popularity, turned into legends.
At the library, Nazrul noted with horror, the CDs featuring songs from original records, and 35 volumes of notations containing a thousand songs, a picture album lying under a layer of dust. Most artistes unfamiliar with the technique of following swaralipi, have probably bailed out and shifted to other genres.
The situation perplexed Nazrul. It wasn’t as if there were no funds allocated by the government. But most of it seemed to go to printing books, pamphlets, reprints — anything — but original articles. The songs that were so close to his heart were clearly not given the priority they deserved.
Nazrul remembered that he had composed 3500 songs — on patriotism, ghazals, devotional, for theatre and cinema, and based on Turkish, Arabic and Cuban tunes all within a span of just 22 years. “Was that all in vain?” — he thought to himself.
Agitated, he left the venue and decided to go to Bangla Academy, which was a hub of scholars and cultural activities. The dimmed lights, however, were a clear indication that the programme had either been cancelled or not promoted properly. There were several other venues in the country where celebrations were on, but the mediocrity was too painful for the poet to bear any longer. Uncontrolled tears welled up, as it became apparent that his desire to listen to his creations would remain unfulfilled.
As the moon emerged in the sky, Nazrul sat on the lawn and reminisced on his days in the Alipore Jail. Tagore had dedicated his play “Basanta” to Nazrul. He remembered his emergence on the literary scene of Kolkata, as a soldier poet — a time when Rabindranath Tagore’s influence was dominant. This was the golden age of Tagore’s literature and it was difficult for any poet not to be swept up by his presence. Nazrul himself was influenced by Tagore. But very soon Nazrul started to break away from that trend, composing songs with fiery spirit, heroic sentiment and ignited a newfound passion among readers and music enthusiasts. It seemed that the fire was now being put out through sheer apathy — had his work inherited his terminal illness?
Subhas Chandra Bose had once said that he had travelled to many war fronts of India, but never had he been so moved by a song as spirited as Nazrul’s “Durgomo Giri”. Bose said, “Whenever we will be at the war fronts or in jail, Nazrul’s songs would always be our true inspiration.” Nazrul took a deep breath — were the songs taught at educational institutions to familiarise the young ones with the National Poet’s works? Perhaps not, he thought.
What about the media, he thought? Surely with all the new technological developments he had observed from above, something could be done? And what about this “globalisation” he had heard about? Didn’t that imply promoting one’s ideas to the world? Re-recording of the original songs by talented singers, attractive visual presentations of the songs could also draw the audience, couldn’t they? What also concerned Nazrul was a dearth of skilled teachers across the country. He was also surprised that the government institutions, as well as sponsors or private institutions, seemed oblivious to the gradual decline that had set in.
But, there was no one to share his grief and it was time to return. Hurt and desolate, he made his way back to his abode in the heavens. The twinkling lights of stars greeted him. From a distance he could see a grand stage bedecked with flowers. Legendary artistes of yesteryears were waiting to greet him with his classics.
Perhaps his wish was to be fulfilled after all. But not in the earthly world!

Snowden gets stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry

Snowden
Snowden gets stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry

Snowden gets stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry:

Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would not let him fly from Russia to Cuba, a Russian newspaper reported on Monday.
Snowden, who is wanted in the United States for leaking details of U.S. government surveillance programmes, had planned to fly to Havana from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport a day after arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. But Snowden, who eventually accepted a year's asylum in Russia after spending nearly six weeks at Sheremetyevo, did not show up for the flight although he had been allocated a seat. Citing several sources, including one close to the U.S. State Department, Kommersant newspaper said the reason was that at the last minute Cuba told officials to stop Snowden from boarding the Aeroflot flight.
It said Cuba had changed its mind after pressure by the United States, which wants to try Snowden on espionage charges.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon

‘Syria gas attack would be crime against humanity’

The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a “crime against humanity”, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said yesterday, adding there was “no time to lose” in probing alleged attacks which the opposition says killed hundreds.
Ban described reports of the incidents near Damascus on Wednesday as “very alarming and shocking” and urged the regime to allow a United Nations inspection team, already on the ground in Syria, to begin an investigation without delay.
Meanwhile, UN-Arab League envoy to Syria crisis Lakhdar Brahimi yesterday warned the Syria conflict is the biggest current threat to world peace.
Footage distributed by activists, showing unconscious children, people foaming around the mouth and doctors apparently administering oxygen to help them breathe, has triggered revulsion around the world.
“Any use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anybody, under any circumstances, would violate international law,” Ban said. “Such a crime against humanity should result in serious consequences for the perpetrator.
“There is no time to waste,” Ban said, adding that he had instructed his envoy for disarmament affairs, Angela Kane, to travel to Damascus immediately.
“I can think of no good reason why any party — either government or opposition forces — would decline this opportunity to get to the truth of the matter.”
The United States said it has yet to “conclusively determine” chemical weapons were used. President Barack Obama has ordered US spy agencies to urgently probe the claims, aides said.
Damascus denied it unleashed chemical weapons, particularly at a time when the UN was in Syria to inspect three sites where other such attacks allegedly took place.
It would be “political suicide” to go ahead with such an attack, a senior security source said.
Videos posted online by activists have provoked shock and condemnation around the globe. None of the videos could be verified but AFP analysed one of the most striking pictures showing the bodies of children using specialised software. The analysis showed the picture was not manipulated and was taken, as presented, on August 21.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon 

ANGELA MERKEL IS A POWERFL WOMAN IN THIS WORLD

ANGELA MERKEL

Merkel was built-in Angela Dorothea Kasner in Hamburg, West Germany, the babe of Horst ,built-in of Berlin, and his wife Herlind, built-in in 1928 in Danzig (now GdaЕ„sk, Poland) as Herlind Jentzsch, a abecedary of English and Latin. Her mother was already a affiliate of the Social Democratic Affair of Germany.[9] Merkel's benevolent grandfathering Ludwig Kazmierczak was Polish, built-in in 1896 in Posen (now PoznaЕ„, Poland), at that time allotment of the German Empire. Kazmierczak, a police-officer, confused to Berlin afterward World War I and afflicted his name to Kasner in 1930. Merkel still has abroad ancestors in Poland.She has a brother, Marcus (born 7 July 1957) and a sister, Irene (born 19 August 1964).

Merkel's ancestor advised canon in Heidelberg and, afterwards, in Hamburg. In 1954 her ancestor accustomed a pastorate at the abbey in Quitzow (near Perleberg in Brandenburg), which again was in East Germany, and the ancestors confused to Templin. Thus Merkel grew up in the countryside 80 km (50 mi) arctic of Berlin. Gerd Langguth, a above chief affiliate of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, states in his book[12] that the family's adeptness to biking advisedly from East to West Germany during the afterward years, as able-bodied as their control of two automobiles, leads to the cessation that Merkel's ancestor had a "sympathetic" accord with the antipathetic regime, back such abandon and allowances for a Christian pastor and his ancestors would accept been contrarily absurd in East Germany.

Like a lot of pupils, Merkel was a affiliate of the official, Socialist-led adolescence movement Free German Adolescence (FDJ). However, she did not yield allotment in the civil advancing of age commemoration Jugendweihe, which was accepted in East Germany, and was accepted instead. Later, at the Academy of Sciences, she became a affiliate of the FDJ commune lath and secretary for "Agitprop" (Agitation and Propaganda). Merkel herself claimed that she was secretary for culture. If Merkel's onetime FDJ commune administrator contradicted her, she insisted that: "According to my memory, I was secretary for culture. But what do I know? I accept I will not apperceive annihilation if I'm 80."[13] Merkel's advance in the compulsatory Marxism-Leninism advance was graded alone genГјgend (sufficient, casual grade) in 1983 and 1986.[14]
At school, she abstruse to allege Russian fluently, and was awarded prizes for her accomplishment in Russian and Mathematics.Merkel was accomplished in Templin and at the University of Leipzig, area she advised physics from 1973 to 1978. While a student, she alternate in the about-face of the ruin of the Moritzbastei, a activity acceptance accomplished to actualize their own club and amusement ability on campus. Such an action was aberrant in the GDR of that period, and initially resisted by the University of Leipzig. However, with abetment of the bounded administration of the SED party, the activity was accustomed to proceed.[16] Merkel formed and advised at the Central Institute for Physical Allure of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Adlershof from 1978 to 1990. Afterwards getting awarded a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) for her apriorism on breakthrough chemistry,she formed as a researcher and appear several papers.

In 1989, Merkel got complex in the growing capitalism movement afterwards the abatement of the Berlin Wall, abutting the new affair Democratic Awakening. Afterward the aboriginal (and only) multi-party acclamation of the East German state, she became the agent agent of the new pre-unification babysitter government beneath Lothar de MaiziГЁre.

Member of Bundestag and chiffonier minister
At the aboriginal post-reunification accepted acclamation in December 1990, she was adopted to the Bundestag from the constituency Stralsund “ Nordvorpommern – RГјgen, which is adequate with the commune of Vorpommern-RГјgen. This has remained her balloter commune until today. Her affair alloyed with the west German  and she became Abbot for Women and Adolescence in Helmut Kohl's 3rd cabinet. In 1994, she was fabricated Abbot for the Environment and Nuclear Safety, which gave her greater political afterimage and a belvedere on which to body her political career. As one of Kohl's protГ©gГ©es and his youngest chiffonier minister, she was referred to by Kohl as "mein MГ¤dchen".

 

No plan to change GB structure: Muhith

The government will accompany no changes to the anatomy of the Grameen Coffer (GB), Accounts Abbot AMA Muhith insisted Wednesday afterward able criticism over the achievability of structural change in the Nobel Prize-winning microlender.

The abbot about said the government will alter the GB balloter rules to aces directors.
Muhith fabricated the animadversion while acknowledging to queries of reporters afterwards a affair at Economic Relations Division (ERD) appointment in the capital.

A notification will be issued in this attention soon, he added.No ambition to change the buying or administration appearance (of the Grameen Bank), he said.

At present, the government owns 25 allotment allotment of the microcredit organisation and it will abide the same, he said.
About Grameen Coffer architect Prof Muhammad Yunusв accusation that the government was out to abort the bank, the accounts abbot said, This is not true. Ithis hallu cination. Utterly Nonsense.

Yunus fabricated the accusation if the micro-credit organisation has been angry off government ascendancy as the Grameen Coffer Commission, formed beforehand to analysis the bank activities, is set to acclaim its approaching structure.

Yemen on ‘high alert’ over al-Qaeda threat:All US, British citizens, staff told to leave Yemen

Yemen on ‘high alert’ over al-Qaeda threat

All US, British citizens, staff told to leave Yemen
Yemeni aegis armament accept been put on top active amidst warnings of an approaching advance by al-Qaeda in Sana’a, as the US and Britain withdrew admiral agents and apprenticed their citizens to leave the country.

BBC Arabic quoted a Yemeni aegis antecedent as adage that extraordinary and unprecedenteaegis  measures had been put in place, with armoured cars deployed at the presidential alcazar and added acute government and adopted installations in Yemen capital .

Dozens of al-Qaeda agents were said to accept streamed into Sana’a in the endure few days, allegedly to yield allotment in a agitator attack, the BBC said. The Yemeni affirmation could not be apart confirmed.
Hours earlier, Yemeni affiliated sources and bearding admiral appear two US bombinate strikes that dead four al-Qaeda agents in Marib arena north-east of Sanaв, including a chief administrator who was called by al-Jazeera as Salah al-Jumati. Endure month, the additional in command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al-Shehri, was aswell dead in a US bombinate strike.

The New York Times appear that US intelligence casework had intercepted communications amid Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda all-embracing leader, and the Yemeni arch of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Nasser al-Wuhayshi.

In London the Adopted Office said all UK admiral agents had been briefly withdrawn. The FCO aswell brash adjoin all biking to the accomplished country.

A US defence administration agent said the American air force transported accompaniment administration cadre out of Sana aboriginal yesterday. The US administration of defence continues to accept cadre on the arena in Yemen to abutment the US accompaniment administration and adviser the aegis situation,said George Little.

A all-around biking active issued bygone said:The US administration of accompaniment warns US citizens of the top aegis blackmail akin in Yemen due to agitator activities and civilian unrest.

Hasina takes a swipe at Dr.Yunus

Hasina takes a swipe at Yunus

Prime Abbot Sheikh Hasina bygone airtight Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, calling him a selfish personв who can do annihilation for his own sake, said cardinal Awami League sources.

She claimed that Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunication company, lobbied for Yunus and even donated a huge sum to the Clinton Foundation so that he got the Nobel prize. But the company, she added, was no best with Yunus.
Hasina, aswell admiral of the AL, fabricated the comments at a affair with a accumulation of affair leaders at her official abode Gono Bhaban.

Prime Ministerв Adviser HT Imam, Communications Abbot Obaidul Quader, Forest and Environment Abbot Hasan Mahmud, State Abbot for LGRD Jahangir Kabir Nanak, AL Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury and axial baton Alauddin Nasim abounding the affair that connected for added than an hour.

Later, the prime abbot alone talked to Quader, Nanak, Alauddin, AL Accepted Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and Joint Accepted Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif.
Hasina said she answer the microcredit abstraction at the United Nations and added places in the apple if she was prime abbot amid 1996 and 2001.

Even Grameenphone was set up during that administration of our government. What a egocentric being he is! He can do annihilation for his own interests,” Hasina was quoted as adage by a affair lawmaker, who talked to The Daily Star on action of anonymity.
She said Grameen Coffer was formed for lending money to the poor. But this coffer absent funds to Grameen Shakti and added agnate institutions, which it was not declared to do.
He even set up Yunus Centre with the bank’s money, and his brothers and ancestors fabricated money from the bank’s associated institutions, declared the AL chief.

She said her government capital to accomplish Yunus an adviser to Grameen Coffer even admitting he had captivated the column of its managing administrator accomplished the retirement age in abuse of the bank’s law. But he beneath to be an adviser and admired to break on as the managing director.
Hasina said a able country backs Yunus and the day is not far abroad if the humans of that country will apprentice all about him and ask their government to abjure its abutment for him.
“When that country turns him away, what will appear to him?” the AL arch was quoted as adage by an AL baton who was present at the meeting.

Her comments came a anniversary afterwards Prof Yunus told an AmCham affair that the 84 lakh associates of Grameen Coffer are not alone citizens of the country but aswell voters.
At addition affair in Chittagong on June 19, he aswell warned the government that humans would not acquiesce it to breach Grameen Bank.
Apart from issues accompanying to Grameen Coffer and Prof Yunus, the AL’s beating in city-limits association polls, organisational affairs and the next accepted acclamation ample noticeably in yesterday’s meeting.

At the alpha of the meeting, Hasina declared how the AL survived the years afterward the assassinations of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his abutting aides.
She bidding optimism about acceptable the next aldermanic acclamation admitting the actuality that the cardinal party-backed candidates suffered base defeats in the contempo elections to 5 city-limits corporations.

She hoped humans would “surely” anticipate about the incidents of torture, repression, killing, corruption, aggression and bomb blasts during the administration of the accomplished BNP-led government, and vote her affair to power.

Though we accept been defeated in the city-limits association polls, we will not ache the aforementioned fate in the next aldermanic election. We will absolutely win,” she was quoted as adage by an AL leader.

Talking to The Daily Star, Quader, aswell a affiliate of the AL Presidium, said, “The prime abbot has directed us to accomplish an absolute alertness to adverse advertising and the use of the adoration agenda by the BNP, Jamaat and Hefajat, and strengthen the affair for the next election.”
Hanif, aswell appropriate abettor to the prime minister, said the affair arch asked them to appear affair offices consistently and organise commune tours.


Another affair antecedent told that a above shakeup was acceptable both in the affair and the government, as the prime abbot had mentioned about it to her abutting aides.
Some of the baronial ministers and affair leaders ability lose their positions in the affair and the government for poor performance, said the source.

SHERMAN & Dr.YUNUS MEET

SHERMAN & Dr.YUNUS MEET

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Dr Raj Shah, Administrator of USAID, active a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday in a commemoration abounding by top admiral of USAID at Washington DC to coact in announcement amusing business in assorted countries, said a columnist release.

The new absolution said a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has active amid the US Agency for All-embracing Development (USAID) and Yunus Amusing Business (YSB) acknowledging their accepted absorption in adopting market-based solutions to the analytical amusing and bread-and-butter challenges adverse the World poor.
USAID and YSB will plan calm to beforehand entrepreneurship and the development of  Social Businessв in accessible and under-served communities about the apple in an accomplishment to beforehand abiding and absolute social, bread-and-butter and ambiance development.
YSB, headquartered in Frankfurt, has been spearheading the beforehand of “Social Business” about the world. Amusing business focuses on a amount amusing and ecology mission, but employs business models which accredit them to accomplish revenues and be financially sustainable.
Recognizing the ability of ambitious approaches to acclamation development challenges, USAID has abutting YSB to coact on the development of Amusing Business Incubator Funds in a targeted set of developing countries. These incubator funds will accommodate costs as able-bodied advising abutment to called amusing businesses that are assertive to abound and calibration up their impact.

Our accord with Yunus Amusing Business is apocalyptic of the new archetypal for development that USAID is actively advancing with a aggregation of ally throughout the World, to beforehand solutions to development challenges that are acceptable in the long-term” declared USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah at the MOU signing captivated at USAID headquarter in Reagan Building. “We allotment eyes of how to abode social, bread-and-butter and ecology challenges in the developing world, and we attending advanced to authoritative a absolute aberration in the countries we plan in, he added.

Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Chairman of Yunus Amusing business, stated, I am captivated to advertise this new affiliation amid USAID and YSB to abutment our Amusing Business Initiatives beyond the world. The abstruse abutment from USAID will advice us to amplify the appulse accomplished by our Amusing Business Incubator Funds.
USAID banking accession will act as the agitator in alluring new clandestine area basic into Amusing Business, enabling YSB to beforehand in added amusing businesses, and to ability even added poor humans than before.
YSB offices and programs in Haiti, Albania, Brazil, Colombia and Uganda, will seek to coact with USAID Bureaus and Missions to acquisition and apparatus solutions together, accumulation USAID`s all-inclusive all-embracing development ability with YSB`s ability in Amusing Business. I am aflame to be abutting by USAID in our accomplishment to beforehand the abstraction of Amusing Business.

USAID ally with organizations like YSB that are demography avant-garde approaches to acknowledging amusing entrepreneurship that advance the appulse of our own development interventions,Raj Shah said.
In accession to the MoU signing, Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the agents of USAID on the accountable OF Microfinance, Amusing Business and Eradicating Extreme PoverTY.

TOP NEWS PAKISTAN TOP NEWS PAKISTAN

TOP NEWS PAKISTAN

Pakistan Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) baton Farooq Sattar said on Sunday that no individual political affair could boldness the issues and challenges getting faced by the country and it appropriate collective efforts. Speaking to media assembly alfresco the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, the MQM baton said every affair should be taken into aplomb for the country’s advancement and prosperity.

Rouhani takes adjuration as Iran admiral vowing to accomplishment economy................

Iran's new admiral Hassan Rouhani was set to yield the adjuration afore assembly on Sunday a day afterwards demography arrangement with a affiance to plan to affluence crippling Western sanctions.
The 64-year-old cleric, who the West is acquisitive will yield a added effective access in long-running negotiations over Iran's arguable nuclear programme, was aswell accepted to bare his government line-up, Iranian media reported.

Rouhani formally took arrangement on Saturday at a commemoration in which he accustomed the endorsement of absolute baton Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who retains the final say on all cardinal issues, including the nuclear talks.

Ten active of accompaniment from about the arena were due to appear Sunday's aldermanic session, set to alpha from 1130 GMT, Iranian letters said.
Rowhani begins his four-year appellation with Iran adverse all-embracing abreast and boxy EU and US sanctions adjoin its oil and cyberbanking sectors that accept beatific the amount of the rial coast and aggrandizement soaring.

The abstinent conservative, who is himself a aloft arch adjudicator in the nuclear talks with the aloft powers, has vowed to appoint added constructively with the all-embracing association in a bid to about-face the accident acquired by the hardline behavior of his agitator predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
His aboriginal agents appointment, the choice as arch of agents of Chamber of Commerce and Industry admiral Mohammad Nahavandian, who holds a doctorate in economics from George Washington University in the United States, was apparent as a account of his priorities.

"The aisle of my government will be extenuative Iran's abridgement and effective assurance with the world," Rowhani said in a accent on Saturday advertisement reside on accompaniment television.
My government, "will yield axiological accomplish in adorning Iran's position based on civic absorption and appropriation of the backbreaking sanctions," he said.
Khamenei aggregate acclaim on Rouhani and said his acclamation had delivered a "clear message" to the world.
"There is a bright bulletin in electing a competent alone with added than three decades of account to the (Islamic republic's) establishment," Khamenei said .
The crippling EU and US sanctions, imposed over and aloft the UN sanctions slapped on Iran over its abnegation to append uranium enrichment, accept dealt a abundant draft to Iran's economy.
Over the accomplished two years the sanctions accept beatific aggrandizement aerial to added than 45 percent, while the rial absent about 70 percent of its amount adjoin the dollar and created double-digit unemployment.

Western governments doubtable that Iran's nuclear programme is awning for a drive for a weapons capability. Iran insists it is for ability bearing and medical purposes only.
Rouhani denticulate a surprise, first-round achievement adjoin several bourgeois candidates in a June 14 presidential election, on a agreement to boldness tensions with the aloft admiral and animate Iran's economy.
Iran has captivated again circuit of talks with the alleged P5+1 accumulation of Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States additional Germany, but they accept bootless to abate Western concerns.

Russia on Friday faced fury from the United States after granting asylum to fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and allowing him to walk free from an airport transit zone where he was marooned for over five weeks.The whereabouts of Snowden—who is wanted by the United States after leaking details of vast US surveillance programmes—are now a mystery with his lawyer refusing to disclose the location for security reasons.The White House said it was “extremely disappointed” by Moscow’s decision to grant Snowden asylum, adding that it would now review the need for a planned summit between President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin in September.The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Friday and took a taxi to a secret location. He now has temporary asylum in Russia for a year.On Friday, Life News website published a photograph showing Snowden smiling broadly as he walked through the airport with a rucksack on his back and carrying another bag.