Wednesday, 27 January 2016

world current affair



Is Maryam Nawaz gearing up to be the next prime minister of Pakistan?



ISLAMABAD: – Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif has on Tuesday also demanded apology from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan over accusing Suleman Shahbaz of accompanying Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif on Saudi-Iran visit. Maryam said that Suleman was in Lahore and Imran Khan must apologize.
Milaad at Parliament House attended by Mrs. Nawaz, Mrs. Raheel Sharif

Pakistan isn’t a mediator in Saudi-Iran row: FM



ISLAMABAD - Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir has denied that Pakistan mediated between Saudi Arabia and Iran amid recent tensions between the two rival countries, Bahrain’s state media reported on Monday.

Saudi Arabia, Iran brotherly countries: PM Nawaz

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi,  Army Chief General Raheel Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can be seen onboard an aircraft enroute from Saudi Arabia to Iran. — Photo: PMO

Ukraine Expands Trade Routes, Bypasses Russia










The Beskyd-Skotarske train tunnel in the Carpathians is being widened from one track to two, thanks to funding provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank. The project will more than double the speeds at which trains can travel through the tunnel as well as double the number of trains undertaking the journey. Since 60 percent of Ukraine’s current trade with countries to its west goes through the tunnel 
CNN’s Democratic town hall debate
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UPDATE: 11:05 p.m.T ES -- Last to take the stage Monday night was former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She spoke highly of the campaigns that rivals Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley had run so far.
“It’s a great country, despite what one other Republican said, and on the Democratic side, we are having a spirited debate on the issues we care about. ... The other side isn’t talking issues; it’s talking insults,” 

25 years ago: US President George H.W. Bush sworn in


On January 20, 1989 George Herbert Walker Bush was inaugurated as the 41st US president. Bush, vice president for eight years under Ronald Reagan, was the Republican candidate to succeed Reagan after his two terms in office.
Bush declared in his inauguration speech that “a new breeze is blowing.” He proclaimed the coming era as “the age of the offered hand.” To the world, he promised the hand would be “a reluctant fist” but warned that the fist would be “strong and … used with great effect.

Lifestyle documentaries:


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The week in numbers: January 20 - 26


Real Madrid's new teenage signing Martin Odegaard from Norwegian club Stromsgodset holds up his jersey during his presentation at the Valdebebas training grounds in Madrid, January 22, 2015.

The rumoured weekly salary of 16-year-old wonderkid Martin Odegaard who signed a contract with Real Madrid. 

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