CAIRO: The head of the Arab Parliament, a committee of parliamentarians from Arab League states, called on Saturday for Arab countries to expel Syria’s ambassadors and sever diplomatic relations over President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on protests.
RIYADH: A symposium honoring Saudi Arabia’s founder King Abdul Aziz entitled “Humanitarian and Social Aspects in the History of King Abdul Aziz,” was opened Saturday by Defense Minister Prince Salman at King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh.
CAIRO: The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence.
His story reads like the plot of an improbable Bollywood flick
They say fact is stranger than fiction. Things in real life are sometimes so weird that they defy the absurdity of reel world. The more you read of the tragedy of Dr. Khalil Chishty the more implausible it seems. How could an ailing old man suffer for two decades for a crime he did not commit? And why long after the courts, governments and everyone else had concluded that Chishty was innocent and deserved to be set free at once, he is still languishing in his twilight years in a dark prison cell in India? No one seems to have an answer.
Individual tolerance or fear of different groups is not confined to political elites
