- New Delhi’s participation in Kingdom’s mega projects a major aspect of renewed ties: Talmiz Ahmad
- Attack was one of the worst single attack against Indian forces in Kashmir
- Last year, a record 175,000 of them traveled to Makkah for Hajj
- Neither option would likely pass muster in the cases of US citizens, who enjoy strong legal protections under the Constitution
- US President Donald Trump is due to meet the North’s Kim Jong Un in Hanoi for a high-profile summit
- The bulk of South Korea’s 600,000-strong military are conscripts, who are required to serve for some 20 months
- The outlook on property was part of a challenging assessment of the credit-worthiness of the emirate
- S&P was generally comfortable with the credit ratings of the emirate’s banking system
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What is a Rabab?
Rabab is an essential musical instrument in Pashtun music on both sides of Durand Line. Several families’ livelihood is dependent on rabab manufacturing in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Iran's mullah regime
• Iran has had two supreme leaders in its history: Ruhollah Khomeini, who served until his death in 1989, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose life tenure started then. • A supreme leader is considered a head of state, the highest-ranking political and religious authority of Iran. • The supreme leader controls many government bodies, including the armed forces, judicial system, and state television and radio, while acting as a final decision-maker on the amount of transparency in elections, and on matters of the economy, environment, foreign policy, education and national planning. He is considered more powerful than the president. • Supreme leaders are chosen by the clerics who make up the Assembly of Experts. Khomeini was the second-longest serving head of state in the Middle East at the time after Oman’s Sultan Qaboos.
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