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After Resignation, Pervez Musharraf

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Pervez Musharraf led Pakistan from 1999 to 2008. After his resignation, Musharraf went for a pilgrimage to Mecca. He then went on a lucrative speaking tour through the Middle East, Europe, and United States. Chicago-based Embark LLC was one of the international public-relations firms trying to land Musharraf as a highly paid keynote speaker.[According to Embark President David B. Wheeler, the speaking fee for Musharraf would be in the $150,000–200,000 range for a day plus jet and other V.I.P. arrangements on the ground. Return to politics Since quitting politics in 2008, Musharraf has been in London in self-imposed exile. Musharraf launched his own political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, in June 2010. On 1 October 2010, Musharraf officially launched his political party as a President of the party, All Pakistan Muslim League. Since the start of 2011, news has been circulating that Musharraf will return to Pakistan before the next national elections. He himself h

Indira Gandhi

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara   19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). She was assassinated by Sikh extremists. Gandhi was the second female to hold the office of prime minister (after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka) and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2011. Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. She adhered to the quasi-socialist policies of industrial development that had been begun by her father. Gandhi established closer relations with the Soviet Union, depending on that nation for support in India’s long-standing conflict with Pakistan. She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that

About Pervez Musharraf

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Pervez Musharraf ( born 11 August 1943), is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled Pakistan as Chief Executive from 1999–2001 and as President from 2001-08. In the face of impeachment, he resigned on 18 August 2008. After years of military service, he rose to prominence when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed him as the Chief of Army Staff in October 1998. Musharraf was the mastermind behind the controversial and internationally condemned Kargil infiltration, which derailed peace negotiations with Pakistan's long standing enemy India. He previously also played a vital role in the Afghanistan civil war (1996-2001) both in peace negotiations and in trying to end the bloodshed. After months of contentious relations with Sharif, Musharraf was

ABOUT Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi

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Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi      born June 22, 1956) . He is senior Leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the coalition government of PPP, Muttahida Quami Movement[MQM], ANP and JUI-F formed after the 2008 general elections. He was a senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party, where he was the president of PPP Punjab.He is the head of the Qureshi family and has many followers in the country and in South Asia. Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi is also the current Sajjada Nashin and custodian of the Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam and of the Shrine (Darbar) of Hazrat Baha-ud-din Zakariya.. An agriculturalist by trade, Qureshi is also the president of the Farmers Association of Pakistan. Family Qureshi hails from a prominent religious and political family in South Punjab. He was the eldest son of Makhdoom Sajjad Hussain Qureshi. Sajjad Qureshi was a Sajjada Nashin for Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam and the Darbar of Hazrat Baha

sindhi sufi kalam [RAKHYAL SHAH] zeb zeenat zulf thahan

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Babalfaqeer: Gaddafi’s fugitive son Seif Al Islam has been arr...

Babalfaqeer: Gaddafi’s fugitive son Seif Al Islam has been arr... : 19 November 2011,  Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Seif Al Islam has been arrested in the south of the country, a senio...

Gaddafi’s fugitive son Seif Al Islam has been arrested

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19 November 2011,  Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Seif Al Islam has been arrested in the south of the country, a senior National Transitional Council official told AFP on Saturday. Seif Al Islam, Gaddafi’s one-time successor who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, was ‘arrested in southern Libya,’ said NTC justice minister Mohammed Al Allagui, declining to give any details. The ICC issued warrants on June 27 against Seif Al Islam as well as his father and Abdullah Al Senussi, the late dictator’s intelligence chief, on charges of crimes against humanity in crushing anti-regime protests. A source in Tripoli’s ‘thwar’ (revolutionary) council, made up of former rebels who toppled Gaddafi’s regime, said the arrest of Seif took place in the Ubari region of the south. The ICC’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo predicted on November 9 that Seif’s arrest was just a matter of time. ‘The question is not if he will be arrested, it’s when,’ he told a news con

Facebook to help Congress expand online reach

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Friday, November 18, 2011 WASHINGTON: Leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties in the US Congress are reaching out to Facebook to help develop online tools to connect with their constituents. They announced plans on Thursday to host a "hackathon" next month featuring members of Congress, their staffers, Facebook developers and others. The first-ever "Congressional Facebook Developer Hackathon," to be held on December 7, will "explore the potential connections between legislative data, constituent correspondence, and social media," the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives said in a statement. "Americans have a right to petition government, and new online technologies are giving that right exciting new possibilities," said Steny Hoyer, leader of the Democratic minority in the House. "Members of Congress have a duty to embrace these technologies to make the legislative process as open and acce

Prophet Adam (alaihis salaam)

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Informing the Angels About Adam Allah the Almighty revealed: And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: “Verily, I am going to place (mankind) generations after generations on earth.” They said: ‘Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood, – while we glorify You with praises and thanks (Exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners) and sanctify You.” He (Allah) said: “I know that which you do not know.” Surah 2: 30 And He taught Adam all the names (of everything), then He showed them to the angels and said: “Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful.” They (angels) said: “Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise.” He said: “0 Adam! Inform them of their names,” and when he had informed them of their names, He said: “Did I not tell you that I know the Ghaib (unseen) in the heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you h

Sindhi Culture Topi Ajrakh Day

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Sindh Culture Day is observed on December 4th, 5th, 6th. The day is celebrated by the people of Sindh, province of Pakistan to express their loyalty to the Sindhi culture and it's thousands of year old cultural symbols, the traditional Sindhi Cap and Ajrak cloth. When the day was celebrated for the first time in 2009, it was referred to as "Sindhi Topi Day" (Sindhi Hat Day), however in 2010 it was universally referred to as "Sindh Culture Day" History Topi Ajrakh Day The compaign for the day was first started by a young Sindhi Hasan of Balhreji (Dokri, Distt Larkana) in November 2009 through SMS service in response to a television anchors condemnation of President Asif Ali Zardari's wearing of the traditional Sindhi cap and shawl (representing Pakistan) on his state visit to attend the ceremony of swearing in of Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan for a second term.The comments which were made on November 21, 2009 in the current affairs show M