World Bank sees lower 2015 China growth goal as appropriate
BEIJING (AFP) – An economic growth target of about seven percent, down from 7.5 percent this year, would be appropriate for China in 2015, the World Bank said Wednesday as expansion slows in the worlds second-largest economy.China enjoyed decades of decades of double-digit increases, but its leaders have repeatedly pledged to transform its...
Would have accepted all resignations by now: Bilawal Bhutto
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday said that if he was the Speaker of the National Assembly, he would have accepted all resignations of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs by now, Dunya News reported.In his latest tweet, Bilawal said he would have accepted all the resignations by...
Deadlock over verification of PTI resignations continues
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Talking to the media after walking out of Speakers’ lounge where they kept waiting for the verification of resignations at the National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday, Vice Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Shah Mehmood Qureshi said 25 of the PTI members kept waiting for two and a half hours till 4:15 pm but were...
Imran Khan’s political future is dark, ‘Jewish lobby’ is working undercover: Fazlur Rehman
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has become ‘tareek-e-Insaf’ literally ‘dark justice’, adding that PTI chief Imran Khan’s political future is dark, Dunya News reported.According to the details, a tribal jirga arranged by JUI-F...
Operation Khyber 1: Ten militants killed, several injured in Tirah Valley
KHYBER AGENCY (Dunya News) – At least ten militants got killed and several injured as a result of shelling on militant hideouts through jet planes in Tirah Valley Aka Khel in Khyber Agency on Wednesday. According to the sources, four militant compounds have also been destroyed by the forces.Khyber 1 operation is continued in Tirah Valley and Bara...
Statement by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Kanerva on the Ukrainian elections
COPENHAGEN, 29 October – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) issued the following statement today on the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine: “I congratulate the authorities and citizens of Ukraine for holding an election that our OSCE PA observers found to be well-organized, transparent and peaceful overall. As...
Video: Russia’s War, Ukraine’s History, and the West’s Options
In Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, history was presented as justification for war. Is there any resemblance between Russian justifications and historical consensus? What does it mean when ethnic claims trump international law? And should hate propaganda be seen simply as an instrument in one war, or an element of a larger strategy to...
Mutual trust, dialogue needed to prevent terrorist abuse of non-profit organizations, say participants of workshop in Bratislava
BRATISLAVA, 28 October 2014 – Government authorities and non-profit organizations need to engage in regular dialogue on the basis of mutual trust to ensure non-profit organizations are not abused by terrorists or operate as fronts for the financing of terrorism, said participants of a three-day regional workshop which opened today in the...
OSCE’s dedication to security dialogue in Mediterranean remains strong – says Secretary General Zannier
VIENNA, 28 October 2014 – “Challenges facing us are too big for any single country or region to tackle them alone. Co-operation and common action are an absolute necessity”, said OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier at the 20th Annual OSCE Mediterranean Conference, taking place on 27/28 October in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 26 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The situation remained calm on Election Day throughout most of Ukraine, including around Shchastya in the Luhansk region, where a local truce seems to have been arranged, and in Donetsk city. A number of frontline villages to the south of Donetsk city were, however, subjected to shelling. The SMM...
