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Dr Aafia Siddiqui has been sentenced to 76 years of imprisonment by the federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, for allegedly firing at US troops in Afghanistan. A jury found Aafia Siddiqui guilty in February of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers, after Afghan police detained her in 2008. Does this innocent and beautiful MIT graduate look like what she has been accused of? BULLSHIT OF SHEER NONSENSE During Siddiqui’s three-week trial, FBI agents and U.S. soldiers testified that when they went to interrogate Siddiqui, she snatched an unattended assault rifle. They claimed that the neuroscientist allegedly shot at them after abusing America. American soldiers have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan and their political leadership has confessed that they acted upon fake and wrong information. Now look at the same lady.  Who did it to her? Did the judge take notice of the tortures she had been through during all these year...

Prominent Pakistan politician murdered outside his London home Imran Farooq, a prominent Pakistani politician, has been murdered outside his home in London . By Laura Roberts and Heidi Blake Published: 12:27AM BST 17 Sep 2010 Dr Farooq, 50, was repeatedly stabbed in the head and neck during the assault in Edgware, north London . He was a leading member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party, which is one of the largest in Pakistan . There were suggestions from Pakistan that he may have known his killer. When police arrived at the scene, they found Dr Farooq’s body outside his house. Imran Farooq claimed asylum in Britain after spending seven years on the run as one of Pakistan's most wanted fugitives.   Photo: GETTY   A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers attended an address in Green Lane , Edgware, shortly before 5.30pm after reports of a serious assault. “On arrival, officers found a single Asian man aged 50 with multiple stab wounds and h...

T he biggest clock in the world started operation in Ramadan The world's biggest clock perched on the Makkah Clock Tower started the trial run since Wednesday morning. The clock is perched on a sky rise which is part of the King Abdelaziz endowment property in Makkah, and the entire tower project is due for completion in three months. The project was ordered by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz in an attempt to provide an alternative for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), currently used as international reference. The design of the project has traditional Islamic architectural features and the clock is to be run with the latest operating systems and gear. The tower is 601 meters high and the clock has four faces, one in each direction, with the name of Allah on top of each. The face of the clock is over 40 meters in diameter and is over 400 meters above surface level. The call for prayer from the Holy Mosque would be heard from the new landmark's loudspeakers for a distanc...

By  CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Rafael Nadal  does, of course, share an era with  Roger Federer , which has done the era plenty of good, but this season and this year’s  United States Open  now belong exclusively to Nadal. There were times, in his earlier years, when it seemed too much to ask for Nadal to hold up the trophy in New York. The courts were supposed to be too quick for his big forehand backswing. The balls were supposed to bounce too low for his extreme grip. The lack of an overwhelming serve made it too tough to win easy points. The combined weight of the early season, with all those inevitable clay-court victories and his hard-charging style, were too much for a body — even his body — to bear. But Nadal, with his 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Novak Djokovic in Monday night’s rain-interrupted United States Open final, has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that there are no limits to his range or appetite. Playing against an opponent who had beaten him in ...

Power spots by Felicity Want to make a bit of money, improve your health or win big at pachinko? Then invest in a copy of comedian/fortune teller Shimada Shuhei’s new book: “ The Definitive Countrywide Guide to Lucky Power Spots .” Being published Sept. 9 the book will tell you where to go in Japan to collect the spiritual energy necessary to achieve life’s more elusive goals. Shuhei’s book is the latest in a recent glut of publications on the power spot topic. A quick look at Amazon Japan reveals that this year has seen no less than 32 new books on the subject go into print. Photo credit:   Ivan Walsh The book that’s received the highest user rating so far is “ This Power Spot is Amazing ,” by guru Teruo Wakatsuki Yuu. To write the book, this spiritual master travelled from Hokkaido to Okinawa and carefully selected 79 energy spots. Wakatsuki Yuu’s other works include a book called “ Become a Spiritual Leader ,” a job he is evidently believes himself to be rather skill...

For the first time, securitymen kill more civilians than terrorists in J&K Josy Joseph, TNN NEW DELHI : As the central government looks at concrete steps to stem the tide of violence in Kashmir , statistics paint a worrisome picture of what is wrong in the Valley. For the first time since insurgency started in Jammu and   Kashmir   in the late 80s, more   civilians   have been killed by security forces than   terrorists .   This sudden twist in the reality of Kashmir should weigh heavily in their minds as the   Prime Minister   and his senior colleagues assemble for a   Cabinet Committee on Security   meeting later this week to chalk out a strategy to deal with the upsurge in street protests and casualties in firing by the security forces. According to the latest statistics, the number of civilians killed in firings by security forces is almost three times the number of those killed in actions by terrorists. A...

By   MICHAEL RICHARDSON In the race to build advanced industrial and military products, China has a key advantage: the world's biggest reserves of rare earth minerals that are essential to many of these products. China dominates mining of the obscure but strategically vital rare earth elements (REEs) used in an increasing array of commercial and defense applications, ranging from batteries, magnets and electric motors to satellites, lasers and precision-guided munitions. Last year China produced about 97 percent of the world's rare earth oxides. Just as important, Chinese companies, many of them state-controlled, now have a near monopoly on processing rare earth metals into finished materials. This stranglehold is starting to alarm the United States , Japan , the European Union and other major economies that depend on supplies from China . Since 2005, it has been restricting output and exports, pushing prices higher. The Pentagon is due to finish a report by the end of th...

Playing two finals in the US Open is a greater achievement than losing one to the World No.1 pair. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (DDQ), along with his Czech parter Kveta Peschke, lost first of his two Finals in the US Open to the world's No.1 pair last night. To my chagrin, most of the private television channels back in Pakistan termed it as his defeat.  They were all wrong.  He lost the game but surfaced as a winner for his countrymen, for he is the first ever Pakistani to achieve such a landmark of his career. He is not only the first Pakistani but also the first Asian ever to play double finals of doubles matches in one of the most prestigious tournament. I call him a winner even after losing the match because the winner Bob Brian announced half of his prize money to donate to flood-victims of Pakistan and certainly he did so because of Aisam-ul-Haq. The Lahori boy gave his countrymen moments of joy and hope in these hard times after the devastating floods and amidst lam...

Was it a 'D' Day for Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi when he, with his Czech parter Kveta Peschke defeated the rival pair in the Semis of US Open Mixed Doubles?  OR - when he and Rohan Bhopanna of India defeated the opponents in the Semis of Men's Doubles last night? OR - perhaps is it still to come on Friday when he would be making history, though he has already made it by moving into the Final of two doubles of doubles, by defeating the opponents in the Final of Mixed Doubles? To me and back at home to millions of Pakistanis, including millions of flood-affected people, he has already become a real hero of his own class in the sense that no State support could be tagged with his success. I give him the nick name 'DDQ', Double Doubles Qureshi.  Maybe someday he could acknowledge it in person. People in three countries, Pakistan and all expatriates abroad, India and Czech Republic, would be wishing him success along with his two partners in two dif...