By Harold Brown Xi Jinping, China's newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China's leading military official. Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter's administration. ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan ISLAMABAD, Nov 21 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday stressed the need for fast tracking the conclusion of Pakistan-Turkey Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and creating facilitative mechanisms and opportunities for investors and private sectors of the two countries to bolster bilateral trade to new heights and achieve mutually agreed trade target of $ 2 billion. The Pres ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak-Iranian relations are rapidly strengthening day by day. During the visit of Iran’s Vice President for International Affairs Ali Seedlou, both the countries signed three agreements on November 13, this year as part of Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to promote economic cooperation, timely completion of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project and electricity import from Iran. Both th ...

By Susanne Posel Communist-in-Chief and Zionist-controlled, President Barack Obama says that he is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians, and we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.” This announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to expand Israel’s “military ...

Poated:  Zaheerul Hassan November 18, 2012 "Al Jazeera" --- Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza, has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the same family in Gaza. Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood". Five children were among the nine ...

Robert Shaw | Cloudtweaks Around the country, many corporate and small business IT professionals are downright scared about the future of their careers. Due to slow adoption in the corporate world and general unfamiliarity with administrating cloud services in the small business sector, the IT field has yet to undergo any massive shifts. But IT workers shouldn’t count on that pattern holding forever. Accord ...

By Tarek Fahmi Israel did it and launched the Operation “Pillar of Defence,” targeting the head of Hamas military wing Ahmad al-Jaabari, the leader in the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, who played a role in the capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.This operation has many indications at different levels: The first level: within the Israeli government The discussions within the ministers committee of sec ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Forbes Nine Italian cardiologists have been arrested as part of a broad investigation into serious medical misconduct at Modena Hospital, according to multiple reports in the Italian media. The investigation encompasses at least 67 other individuals and a dozen medical equipment companies, including 6 foreign companies. The charges include conspiracy, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, forger ...