German bank chief wants ‘real fiscal union’ in eurozone

Sep. 1 | BERLIN: The head of Germany’s powerful central bank called Thursday for greater co-ordination of fiscal policies in the eurozone as a response to the debt crisis, which he termed its “most severe ever test.”Speaking in Hanover in northern...

Badnaam (10/14) – Pakistani classic Urdu film from 1966

Feb. 3 | Film: Badnaam (Urdu – 1966) Producer & director: Iqbal Shehzad Story: Saadat Hassan Manto Written by: Riaz Shahid Cinematography: M. Sadiq Actors: Neelo, Ejaz, Nabila, Hameed Wayn, Diljit Mirza, Nasim, Asad Jafri, & Allauddin...

Muslim Women in America

Jan. 10 | Muslim Women Gain Higher Profile in U.S.By BRIAN KNOWLTON, New York Times ATLANTA — Around Sept. 11, 2001, not long after she founded the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, Soumaya Khalifa heard from a group whose name sounded like “Bakers Club.”...

PEPCO announces new wave of loadshedding

Jan. 6 | PEPCO has announced more load shedding as cold and foggy weather has resulted in shortfall of nearly four thousand megawatts in the country. PEPCO has announced more loadshedding as cold and foggy weather has resulted in shortfall of nearly 4,000...

European Union to set up eurozone

Dec. 17 | European Union leaders have agreed to set up a eurozone rescue fund. This step has been taken for permanent safety net to bail out any member state whose debt problems threaten the 16-nation eurozone.The new mechanism, which will start from 2013, will...

ECB bond eases euro zone market stress

Dec. 6 | European financial markets steadied as the European Central Bank kept on buying euro zone government bonds in modest amounts to reverse a debilitating rise in peripheral countries? borrowing costs. But European governments and central bankers continued...