Beyonce MTV pregnancy revelation breaks Twitter record

Beyonce’s pregnancy news at Sunday night’s MTV video music awards (VMAs) has broken a Twitter record.

Users on the microblogging site posted 8,868 tweets per second when the singer showed off her baby bump after her performance at the event.

The previous record was 7,196 after Japan’s win over the US in the women’s World Cup final in July.

This will be the first child for 29-year-old Beyonce and her husband of three years Jay-Z, who is 41.

Another football match is next in terms of the highest number of tweets per second ever sent after Brazil’s loss to Paraguay in the Copa America.

Twitter users sent 7,166 tweets per second at the end of that match.

6,939 tweets per second were sent on 1 January, 2011 as the new year arrived in Tokyo and more than 5,000 per second as news spread of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.

Other peaks for Twitter activity include the 11 March earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, with 5,530 tweets per second, and the royal wedding in April, with 3,966 tweets per second.

Twitter said in June that Twitter users are sending 200 million tweets a day, up from 65 million a year ago.

Meanwhile, the VMAs drew MTV’s biggest audience since the network began recording its viewing figures.

Sunday night’s show attracted 12.4 million viewers.

Serena has few faults as she hands out lesson to Jovanovski

Serena has few faults as she hands out lesson to Jovanovski

Williams missed last year’s tournament with a foot injury that, coupled with related blood clots in her lungs, kept her out of the game for a year.

She returned a week before Wimbledon and, perhaps unsurprisingly, struggled through three rounds at the All England Club before losing to Marion Bartoli in the fourth.

Since then, though, the 29-year-old has returned to full match fitness and went into the tournament on the back of a 12-match winning streak that included titles in Stanford and Toronto.

Jovanovski, 19, is considered one of the brighter talents in the game but she swiftly discovered the size of the challenge ahead as Williams smacked winners past her in the opening game.

The Serbian got on the board in the fourth game but Williams was making very few unforced errors, moving well and serving superbly, giving Jovanovski no chance to get into the match.

The American wrapped up the first set in 25 minutes and the second took only six minutes longer as she cruised through to a second-round meeting with Dutch qualifier Michaella Krajicek.

Williams comfortably maintained her record of never losing in the first round of a grand slam, but she admitted to nerves before she walked out on court.

The 28th seed said: ‘I always have little jitters I think before I play. You’ve just got to play through it. I was thinking, I’m just trying to hold the little record I have of first rounds.

‘Eventually things are meant to be broken, but hopefully it won’t happen soon.’

Williams had burst into tears after winning her first-round match at Wimbledon against Aravane Rezai, but there was very little emotion from the 13-time grand slam champion tonight.

Williams said: ‘Wimbledon was amazing for me to even be there and play. Here I have had more preparation and I’ve been doing better. Again, I’m happy to be here. But it was just a totally different thing.’

The 29-year-old is the hot favourite to win the title, not that she is thinking about things that way.

She added: ‘I’m just here to play. Everyone’s been playing all year and I haven’t. I’ve played five tournaments this year. I don’t think that’s usually a favourite going into a grand slam.

‘It is what it is. I can’t even express how excited I am to be playing.’

A Sparkiling History Of GOLD

Gold has had a hold on mankind since it was first mined in the Copper Age.
Perseus went in search of a Golden Fleece. Croesus, among the first to mint gold coins, amassed so much wealth that the phrase “rich as Croesus” is still used by people who have no idea of his identity. South American Indians called gold “the sweat of the sun.” Pizarro and other conquistadors exhausted themselves searching for El Dorado, the city of gold. The Golden Rule is still the most important rule, the Gold Medal is still the highest prize in the Olympics, and the California Gold Rush is one of the founding mythologies of America.

Throughout history, gold has been associated with:

Integrity: We say someone is “good as gold” or have a “heart of gold” or are “worth their weight in gold.”

Excellence: We say someone is “going for the gold.”

Brilliance: We say it “glitters like gold” or that it “shines like gold.”

Success: We say someone “struck gold,” or that it was a “golden opportunity,” or that “everything they touch turns to gold” or someone has “the Midas touch.”

Integrity. Excellence. Brilliance. Success. You could also associate gold with greed, wrath, pride, and envy—four of the Seven Deadly Sins.Currency

Use as a Currency

In prehistoric times, payments for goods and services were done primarily by barter, but most items used for barter were not easily transferable.

Gold’s glitter, malleability and portability made it attractive as money almost from the time it began to be mined. The economic historian Peter Bernstein notes the Egyptians were casting gold bars as money as early as 4,000 BCE, each bar stamped with the name of the pharaoh Menes.

The main problem with accepting gold and silver as money was making sure of the purity and weight.

That’s where coins came in.

About 600 BCE in the city of Sardis, in western Turkey, several kings, but principally King Croesus, began minting gold coins. Sardis sat at the western end of a highway stretching from Egypt to the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor all the way into Persia, Babylon and Asia. Sardis was an important trading center, and the Lydians needed money, something that could be used in payment for goods and services but was also transportable.

They got the gold from deposits on the banks of the Pactolis River, which ran through the city. It was a crude form of gold, called electrum, but it was good enough.

Gold had been used as a medium of exchange before, but Croesus had one big advantage: His predecessors had established a state monopoly on electrum. In other words, the state controlled the supply of money.

Lydia grew rich by exporting its gold coins, and here Croesus added his own contribution. He recalled the electrum coins and melted them down into pure gold and silver coins. He also made sure they were a uniform weight and size.

The result: his coins were accepted immediately throughout Asia Minor and Greece. Gold became money, and it remained so for the next 2,500 years.

Gold And Empires

Every great empire minted gold coins. The Romans minted the aureus for 400 years. The aureus was replaced by another gold coin, the solidus, by Constantine in 309. They circulated for nearly 700 years.

The Byzantines — also minted the solidus. Until the 11th century, the fineness of the solidus was high — 95 percent to 98 percent pure gold. But Byzantine emperors of the 11th century began debasing the coin. At one point it had only a roughly 15 percent gold content.

Very little gold circulated in central Europe during the Dark Ages. Gold coin production did not really resume in Europe until the 13th century when Florence, at the peak of its power, began minting the florin. The dominant coin for large transactions, it was minted for almost 300 years.

The successors to the Byzantines were the Venetians, who amassed power based on maintaining a positive trade balance. They exported dramatically more than they imported, and that difference was covered by gold.

In 1204, Crusaders from Europe, allied with the Venetians, sacked Constantinople and carried off much of the gold and treasures back to Venice. The Venetians were now fabulously wealthy, particularly in gold. Like the empires before them, they minted their own gold coin: the ducat, which became the standard gold coin for the next 400 years.

But the European economy was expanding, and more gold was needed. The supply was about to expand dramatically. Columbus set sail in 1492 to find a new route to Asia.  “Get gold, humanely if you can, but at all hazards, get gold,” was the legendary instruction of the Spanish King Ferdinand to his subjects.

They got it. First they confiscated gold from the Incas, then they began new production on the backs of the enslaved natives.

The result was an enormous increase in the global supply of gold. For a short while, Spain was the mightiest empire in the world. But within a century of Columbus’ voyage, the gold supply began to dry up, and the vast horde that Spain had amassed was wasted in the 16th and 17th centuries on ruinous wars with England, France and other countries.

The Spanish empire had its gold coin: the doubloon, minted in Spain, Mexico, and Peru.

Asian Stocks Struggle as Rocky August Closes

Asian stocks were set for a quiet end to a volatile month on Wednesday as expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would do more to stimulate the economy underpinned equities.

The U.S. central bank in early August discussed a range of unusual tools it could use to help the economy, with some officials pressing for bolder steps to shore up a flagging recovery, according to minutes of an Aug. 9 meeting released on Tuesday.

The FTSE CNBC Asia 100 Index[.FTFCNBCA  6181.47    62.65  (+1.02%)], which measures markets across Asia, added 0.3 percent.

Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell as investors took profits after four days of gains with sentiment hurt by news that U.S. consumer confidence had dropped to its worst level in two years.

The benchmark Nikkei[.N225  8955.20    1.30  (+0.01%)]was down 0.4 percent at 8,918.50 at the midday break. The broader Topix shed 0.1 percent to 766.78.

Aozora Bank dropped 7.1 percent as those who had bought shares of the bank on reports of a possible acquisition by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group took profits on concerns the deal won’t materialize.

Taiheiyo Cement tumbled 15 percent, becoming the most actively traded stock by turnover, after it said it would raise up to 37.5 billion yen in a public share offering in September. It plans to use the proceeds for capital investment and to restore a quake-damaged plant.

Seoul shares stretched their gaining streak into a fifth straight session, as foreign investors continued buying.

The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI)[.KS11  1880.11    36.29  (+1.97%)]gained 0.37 percent to 1,850.67 points after swinging between small gains and losses.

Hyundai Motor, the country’s top auto maker,  rose 1.5 percent, supported by foreign buying, set to mark seven-day straight gains. Its affiliate Kia Motors was also up 1.5 percent.

However, Samsung Electronics, the world’s No.1 memory chip maker and the largest stock on the KOSPI, slid 1 percent. Samsung said it would keep its flat-screen production flexible, denying media report that the company plans to cut LCD production by four-fifths by the end of this year.

Shares in Nongshim, the country’s top instant noodle maker, fell 2.5 percent after media reports that it had decided to stop selling its Shin Ramyun Black premium instant noodle product next month due to faltering demand. Smaller rival Samyang Foods jumped 10.9 percent.

Australian shares fell 0.2 percent, with banks and other financials slipping as investors worry about a weak economic performance in Europe and a fall in U.S. consumer confidence to its worst level in two years.

Whitehaven Coal fell 5.1 percent after it said major shareholders private equity group First Reserve Corp and AMCI International sold 65 million shares, equivalent to a 13.15 percent stake in the company.

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index[.AXJO  4296.50    27.30  (+0.64%)]was down 8 points at 4,261.3. It rose 0.1 percent on Tuesday. New Zealand’s benchmark NZX 50 index fell 0.3 percent to 3,306.7.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index[.HSI  20350.21    146.04  (+0.72%)]climbed 0.3 percent to 20,266.7. ZTE[0763.HK  21.50    0.75  (+3.61%)], China’s second-biggest phone and telecommunications-gear maker, suffered a 12.4 percent fall in first-half net profit, its first drop since 2007 as fierce competition ate into margins. That news sent its stock 2.2 percent lower.

China’s Shanghai Composite[.SSEC  2567.34    0.75  (+0.03%)]reversed course to trade 0.4 percent lower at 2,557.6 points.

In Southeast Asia, Singapore’s STI [.FTSTI  2854.58    62.69  (+2.25%)]advanced, up 1.4 percent.

Trading volume was slightly thinner than usual as markets in Malaysia, Indonesia and India were closed for public holidays.

Libya: Gaddafi loyalists told they have just 72 hours to surrender or face destruction

Libyan rebels have vowed to attack Colonel Gaddafi’s home town, the tyrant’s last major bastion of support.

Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte – 250 miles east of the capital Tripoli – have been ordered to surrender within three days or face a bloody military battle.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council, said negotiations with forces in Sirte would end on Saturday after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, when rebels would “act decisively and militarily”. Speaking in Benghazi, he said: “I hope it will not be the case but we can’t wait more than that.”

The NTC’s military chief Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said: “Zero hour is quickly approaching. So far, we have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender.”

Nato reported hitting 22 armed vehicles, three command and control sites and other targets in the Sirte area yesterday.

Spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said the area around Tripoli was now “essentially free” but Nato would continue their mission as long as civilians were threatened.

The rebels yesterday demanded the return of Gaddafi’s wife and three of his children for trial after they fled to Algeria.

Safiya Gaddafi, daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed entered the country on Monday.

Yesterday, Algeria’s health ministry said Aisha had given birth to a girl. Reports said that was behind the country’s decision to take the family in.

Rebel information minister Mahmoud Shammam said Algeria’s decision to allow entry to members of the Gaddafi clan was an “aggressive act”. He added: “We are determined to arrest and try the whole Gaddafi family.”

Meanwhile, a Libyan suspected of involvement in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in London in 1984 has been killed, according to rebel officials in Tripoli.

Abdulqadir al-Baghdadi, an official in the Libyan embassy in London at the time of the murder, was shot in the head.

And yesterday, campaign group Physicians for Human Rights said three girls aged 15, 17 and 18 who were raped by Gaddafi loyalists in Libya had their throats slit by their father in so-called honour killings.

Novak Djokovic looks fine in quick win at U.S. Open

NEW YORK — If Novak Djokovic’s shoulder was still bothering him, it didn’t show.

Then again, he was barely around long enough to tell. He spent 44 minutes on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court Tuesday, taking a 6-0, 5-1 lead in his first-round match at the U.S. Open against Ireland’s Conor Niland before Niland retired because of food poisoning.

It wasn’t much of a test for the top-seeded Djokovic, who pulled out with an ailing shoulder while trailing in the second set of the Cincinnati Masters final on Aug. 21.

In his first match since, Djokovic won the first seven games, then after Niland won his single game, Djokovic tore off 16 points in a row before Niland retired. Djokovic moved to 58-2 on the year, and this might have been the easiest of them all.

“Throughout the whole week I was carrying the pain and discomfort in my shoulder,” Djokovic said. “After Cincinnati, I took some time off. I did everything to recover the shoulder. Today, I didn’t feel any pain. I served well and I played well and I didn’t have any concerns.”

Djokovic, who would have been the overwhelming favorite regardless of Niland’s health, said he was glad to get a short match on an 80-degree day in New York — the first in what he hopes will be a seven-match run to the final. Already guaranteed one of the best tennis seasons in history, Djokovic is seeking his third major title of the year.

“The season’s not over yet,” he said. “I’m feeling really confident and fit, and I want to have as much fun as I can.”

Rafael Nadal opened defense of his U.S. Open title with a tougher-than-expected struggle — a 6-3, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5 victory over 98th-ranked Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan.

The second-seeded Nadal staved off seven set points in the second set and needed to rally from two breaks down in the third.

His next match will be against Nicolas Mahut, the Frenchman who lost the 70-68 fifth set to John Isner at Wimbledon last year.

On the women’s side, No. 1 seed, Caroline Wozniacki defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives of Spain, 6-3, 6-1

No. 28 Serena Williams beat Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia, 6-1, 6-1.

French Open champion Li Na was upset by 53rd-ranked teenager Simona Halep. Li, seeded sixth, lost 6-2, 7-5, meaning the second round at Flushing Meadows will be without all three of this year’s major champions.

PM greets Malaysian counterpart on National Day

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has sent a message of greetings to Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato Seri Mohd Najib bin Haji Tun Abdul Razak on their National Day falling on August 31. In his message, the Prime Minister said “On behalf of the Government and the people of Pakistan, and on my own behalf, it is my great privilege and pleasure to extend our warmest felicitations to Your Excellency, the government and the people of Malaysia, on the auspicious occasion of the National Day of Malaysia.” He said Malaysia and Pakistan enjoy very cordial and mutually beneficial relations based on strong foundations of common faith and culture as well as shared values and aspirations. He said, “I am confident that the friendship between our two countries would grow from strength to strength in the years ahead.” “I take this opportunity to pray to Almighty Allah for Your Excellency’s health and happiness, and for the continued progress and prosperity of the brotherly people of Malaysia,” he added.

 

BEIJING – Hewlett-Packard Co’s personal computer business will retain its position as the world’s largest PC manufacturer even after any spinoff, the head of HP’s PC business said on Tuesday.

 A spinoff of the Personal Systems Group (PSG) will bring the “best value” to HP shareholders for taxation and other reasons, PSG head Todd Bradley told Reuters in an interview.

 “A standalone company could and will do what’s most required to drive value for shareholders and partners,” Bradley said.

 HP stunned markets when it announced two weeks ago that it is considering shedding its PC business, part of a wrenching series of moves away from the consumer market that included killing its new tablet. .

 Selling the PC division to a rival such as Taiwan’s Acer Inc, which acquired computer maker Gateway in 2007 or to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd, which purchased IBM’s PC division in 2004, is not a desirable alternative, Bradley said.

 “I would just say that the numbers don’t support that that strategy works,” said Bradley, citing Acer reporting its first-ever quarterly loss last week.

 “We prefer a spin-off as a separate company and the working hypotheses is that a spin-off will be in the best interests of HP’s shareholders, customers and employees,” a HP spokeswoman said. “However, we have to complete the diligence process and validate this assumption, including fully understanding the dis-synergies in separating the PSG business from HP.”

 Some of the alternatives HP is exploring for the PC unit include hiving off the business into a separate company through a spin-off or sale.

 HP has been struggling in the PC market – a high-revenue but low-margin business – as popular devices such as Apple Inc’s iPad have lured consumers away.

 Bradley is on a trip to China, Taiwan and South Korea to meet with employees, suppliers, government officials and media to convince them that HP’s PC business will remain robust and committed to Asian markets.

 “China’s obviously a critically important market for HP as well as PSG,” Bradley said.

 Bradley said HP will increase investments in Shanghai, and over the next three years expand its Shanghai manufacturing base, consolidate six employee sites into one campus, and make Shanghai a regional headquarters in China for the PSG.

 Bradley said the company could resurrect HP’s short-lived TouchPad tablet computer, which was introduced on July 1 before being terminated only about six weeks later.

 “Tablet computing is a segment of the market that’s relevant, absolutely,” Bradley said.

 A standalone incarnation of HP’s PC business would be a full-line computer maker including ultrathin and all-in-one PCs.

 He said he is stressing that “regardless of what happens, we’re the largest PC company in the world. We need everybody energized, and while this isn’t business as usual, we need people to go out and sell products every day.”

 Suppliers to HP PCs will remain largely intact, although the company may renegotiate and redefine the relationships.

 “Unwinding the integration that’s taken place within HP will be enormous amounts of work and effort, justified by the return we think we’ll be able to provide to our shareholders.”

 Nevertheless, he said, “we will be one of, if not the largest customers of all of our major suppliers, be it Samsung to LG to Microsoft to Intel.”

 HP said the whole process could take 12 months to 18 months, but a final decision on the unit is expected by the end of this calendar year.

 The Palo Alto, California-based company is now exploring options for its WebOS software, which it acquired through the acquisition of Palm, of which Bradley is a former chief executive.

 Bradley has said in the past that a number of companies had expressed interest in possibly using WebOS as an operating system, but he gave no further details on Tuesday, saying that he is not in China to announce or even negotiate anything regarding WebOS.

 HP’s board will meet in December to decide on the course to take with the PC business, although insiders assume the decision will be a spinoff.

Bradley said he expects to be chief executive of any such new company.

 “My intention would be to lead it through this transaction…and if it’s a standalone public company, to lead that,” he said.

Rebels issue surrender deadline

Libyan rebels have declared their readiness for the “final battle” of the sixmonth uprising and issued an ultimatum to Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte to surrender by Saturday or face an all-out military assault.

The coastal city is the last centre of resistance against the revolution which seized the capital Tripoli last week.

“Zero hour is quickly approaching. We would like everyone to know that we are ready for a final military battle,” Col. Ahmed Omar Bani said Tuesday.

Rebel forces have been closing on Sirte, but have slowed their approach to allow time for a negotiated surrender.

They know they may face fierce resistance from tribes loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, making Sirte a more difficult city to capture than Tripoli.

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of the rebel Transitional National Council, said he wanted to avoid more bloodshed but loyalists had only until the end of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr to agree to a peaceful handover.

“Beginning from next Saturday, if there are no peaceful indications. We will act decisively to end this situation in a military manner,” he said.

Rebels have been moving tanks and rocket launchers into position about 130 kilometres to the east of Sirte while at the same time, fighters to the west have closed to within 30 kilometres.

They have held their positions hoping shortages of gas and electricity would turn the population against Gadhafi loyalists who control the city.

However, the rebels have now decided they can wait no longer.

“We have given ample time for questions regarding the city of Sirte and up to this moment we have not yet received any hopeful, peaceful proposals,” Bani said.

Rebels in Benghazi believe that Gadhafi forces have been moving to the south of the country to regroup, leaving rebels in control of much of the coastline, but little of the interior. NATO officials said their mission was not over despite the fall of the Gadhafi regime.

“He is displaying a capability to exercise some level of command and control,” Col. Roland Lavoie, military spokesman of the NATO air mission in Libya, told a news briefing in Brussels.

“The pro-Gadhafi troops that we see are not in total disarray, they are retreating in an orderly fashion, conceding ground and going to the second best position that they could hold to continue their warfare.” Warplanes have been in action for the past four days, attacking targets in and around Sirte.

Gadhafi’s wife Safia, and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed entered Algeria on Monday morning, along with their children, Algeria’s foreign ministry said.

His pregnant daughter Aisha was also among the party and she gave birth within a day to a girl, a source close to Algeria’s health ministry said.

The interim council accused Algeria of an act of aggression in giving refuge to the family. But Algerian officials said the plight of the expectant mother weighed on the decision.

The baby was born in Djanet, according to two Algerian official sources. An oasis deep in the Sahara, Djanet lies about 60 kilometres from the Libyan frontier and 500 kilometres southwest of Sabha, one of the last bastions of support for Gadhafi.

Aisha, who is in her mid30s, was on the very point of giving birth when the family appealed to cross the border, an Algerian source said.

Gadhafi’s whereabouts have not been generally known since his foes seized his Tripoli compound on Aug. 23.

Britain’s Sky News, citing a young bodyguard of his son Khamis, said the fallen leader had stayed in Tripoli until Friday when he left for Sabha.

It quoted the captured 17-year-old as saying Gadhafi met his son Khamis, a feared military commander, at around 1: 30 p.m. on Friday in a Tripoli compound that was under heavy rebel fire. Gadhafi had arrived by car and was soon joined by Aisha.

After a short meeting, they boarded four-wheel drive vehicles and left, the bodyguard told a Sky reporter, adding that his officer had told him: “They’re going to Sabha.”

Some anti-Gadhafi officers have reported that Khamis Gadhafi and former intelli-gence chief Abdullah al-Senussi were both killed in a clash on Saturday. This has not been confirmed and NATO said it had no word on Khamis’s fate.

A TNC spokesman said it would seek to extradite Gadhafi’s relatives from Algeria, which is alone among Libya’s neighbours in not recognizing the de facto government and previously opposed sanctions and a no-fly zone against Gadhafi.

Nearly 60 countries, including Canada, have acknowledged the TNC as Libya’s legitimate authority. Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil are among those which have so far withheld recognition.

A rebel military commander Tuesday estimated that 50,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the revolution.

Col. Hisham Buhagiar, commander of the troops who advanced out of the western mountains and took Tripoli a week ago said: “In Misurata and Zlitan between 15,000 and 17,000 were killed and Jebel Nafusa (the West-ern Mountains) took a lot of casualties. We liberated about 28,000 prisoners.

“We presume that all those missing are dead.”

Many Libyans were overjoyed at the fall of Gadhafi, which followed that of longtime rulers in Egypt and Tunisia earlier this year, but have been chilled by evidence of mass killings in Tripoli as his forces fought losing battles with rebels.

But a week after Gadhafi’s fall, Tripoli’s two million people remain without running water or electricity. Banks, pharmacies and many other shops are still closed. The stench of garbage and sewage still pervades despite cleanup efforts.

A council spokesman said a pumping station for Tripoli’s water supply that lies in a pro-Gadhafi area had been damaged and could not be reached for repair.

The European Union’s humanitarian office said pro-Gadhafi forces in Sirte had cut two-thirds of the water supply to Tripoli, most of which comes from the “Great Man-made River,” a huge project built under Gadhafi that pumps out water from under the Sahara desert.

Aid agency Medecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) said hundreds of African migrants and refugees in desperate need of medical attention were hiding in makeshift camps in Tripoli.

“Many of these people already fled from fighting in their home countries, such as Somalia, Sudan or other African countries,” said Simon Burroughs, MSF’s emergency co-ordinator in Tripoli. “Some people came to these makeshift camps looking for a way to cross by boat to Europe. All of them remain trapped with nowhere to go.”

Hits Since June, 2008

What Zulfiqar Mirza has revealed is sure a mini-nuclear bomb exploded on political front but didn’t we know it already that Americans want Pakistan divided, MQM and many others are collaborating with the US for the purpose. Didn’t we know that Rehman Malik and many others are the enemies within; they are working on the agenda of dismemberment of Pakistan? People from day one know it, even the street man speaks. The hundreds of SMS circulating in Pakistan tell everything. But despite knowing all this, nobody at the helm of affairs took any action against them, anything to get them exposed.

So what if Zulfiqar Mirza has told in public the truth before media and the people? Don’t we all know that nobody even then will act? Nobody would stop the sinister plan from being materialized. Nobody would bother to hold the traitors responsible, nobody would like to mend own ways before it is too late. Mirza has made very daring confession and explicitly exposed the hidden hands working on the world powers agenda to rip apart Pakistan.

According to his claim he has already told the army chief, the ISI chief, the President, the Prime Minister; and the case is in the CJ’s court who has taken now suo moto notice of the Karachi situations. Let us not ignore it, let us use these disclosures as an opportunity to set things right, now and right at this moment of time.