Google Shows Search Trends for Presidential Debates

Like many people watching the presidential (and vice-presidential) debates, I was googling and looking up information like mad as the various leaders were speaking, including Biden and Palin.I wondered while doing so how many others were doing the same, and now google has...

Misleading Obama Attack Ad On Stem Cell Research

"ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) today issued the following statement on Barack Obama's misleading new radio ad on stem cell research, which is airing in the Philadelphia suburbs: "The fact is John McCain has been a champion for stem cell research,...

Pakistan shutds down Asia's biggest salt mine

The Punjab Mineral Department in Pakistan has ordered shut the biggest salt mine of Asia located in the centre of the Salt Range in the northeast of the country, terming it dangerous. The order was passed during a visit of the Rawalpindi Mines Inspector Dilshad Baloch to the...

9/11 anniversary: Pakistan has a new breed of Taliban

After the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, the US made Pakistan to jump into Washington's so-called war on terror but Islamabad could neither satisfy its bullying ally despite suffering huge losses nor could maintain order on its own soil, with the situation reaching...

Power prices in Pakistan go up by whopping 40pc

An unprecedented hike in prices of electricity by 40 per cent went into effect in Pakistan on Wednesday jolting a country of 160 million people already reeling under the highest inflation in the country’s history. www.maverickpakistanis.com

New-look cabinet, bureaucracy on the cards in Pakistan

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to accept resignations of ministers from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had walked out of the ruling coalition last month in protest at non-reinstatmeent...

Parliament to decide fate of Musharraf, says Zardari

Newly sworn-in Pakistan president on Tuesday said that the Parliament would decide the fate of the actions taken by former military ruler, Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf. http://www.maverickpakistanis.com/news/090901.htm

Pakistani premier knew of impending attack

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has revelaed that he was informed during his stay in Lahore about the plot to assassinate him in Islamabad, and consequently, he had cancelled his trael to the federal capital on Tuesday night and therefore escaped an assassination...

McCain/Lieberman '08?

****Opinions Expressed Here, be warned****Not if I have anything to say about it. "Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee who has endorsed John McCain, is being vetted as a potential running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful, according to an...