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Tehran, Mar. 17 (ANI): The Iranian Government has decided to execute a 20-year-old Iranian student, who was arrested for throwing a stone during the pro-democracy mass protests against the country’s alleged rigged presidential elections.
Islamic studies student Mohammad-Amin Valian was arrested on the basis of a photograph taken at a mass demonstration against the rigged presidential [...]

TEHRAN, March 1 (Reuters) – Iranian authorities banned a moderate weekly magazine on Monday, semi-official news agency Fars reported, a day after the release of six detained journalists.
The agency’s report said the licence of the magazine “Iran Dokht”, close to defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi, was revoked by a state press supervision body.
Several publications [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is strongly considering to become President again and swap places with present incumbent Dimitri Medvedev, which will allow the former KGB spy to remain in power till 2024.

Putin insisted that swapping places with Medvedev was no more sinister than the Labour leadership agreement in which [...]

Washington, Sep.9 (ANI): Though Obama administration officials are reluctant to confirm that there has been wholesale fraud in the presidential elections in Afghanistan, they have recognised that with President Hamid Karzai getting a slim majority, that they will have to keep dealing with him for another five years.

While there are clearly numerous egregious instances of [...]

Lahore, Aug. 31 (ANI): During the recent ‘explosive’ meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, Karzai is reported to have whipped off his distinctive karakuli cap and slammed it onto the dinner table.

“For an Afghan man to do that, it’s a big gesture,” a local businessman was quoted. “It’s like [...]

Kabul, Aug. 31 (ANI): The Afghanistan Taliban slashed off a man’s ears and nose for defying their order and casting his vote in the country’s presidential elections.

Lal Mohammed, 40, was on his way to the polling station on August 20 when he was held by Taliban militants, beaten brutally, and then had his nose [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Reports of widespread fraud in the second presidential elections in Afghanistan have introduced an unwanted strain in the relationship between Kabul and the United States.

Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission said Friday that it had received over 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week’s election.

Karzai’s biggest rival and former foreign [...]

Kabul, Aug.26 (ANI): Continuing uncertainty surrounds the forthcoming results of the second presidential elections in Afghanistan, with claims and counter claims being projected by key candidates.

However, notwithstanding Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwol’s claim that incumbent President Hamid Karzai will win the elections by an overwhelming vote of 68 percent, an analysis has revealed that ethnicity will [...]

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Monday said that India has made it clear that a meaningful dialogue with Pakistan would only be possible following the fulfillment of Islamabad’s commitment not to allow its territory to be used [...]

Shimla, Aug 21 (ANI): Afghan students pursuing their post graduation degrees at Himachal Pradesh University are elated about elections back home being held in relative peace.

The students expressed their happiness with the elections getting over in [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): An expert on South and Central Asia has welcomed the holding of the second presidential elections in Afghanistan, saying it is an important sign-if not of progress, not only for Afghanistan, but also for Pakistan and the United States.

According to Daniel Markey of [...]

Kabul, Aug.21 (ANI): Supporters of incumbent president Hamid Karzai on Friday claimed victory in the second presidential elections held in Afghanistan since 2001.

Karzai cheered the “successful conduct” of the elections.

However, according to the Washington Independent newspaper and the Afghan news service Pajhwok, Karzai’s main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, said all of Afghanistan was awaiting a [...]

Kabul, Aug.21 (ANI): The chief of Afghanistan’s National Security Directorate, Amrullah Saleh, has claimed a Pakistan hand in the several suicide attacks that hit the country on the eve of the second presidential elections as also on the day of the election, which took place on Thursday (August 20).

“These anti-government elements had planned to destroy [...]

Washington, Aug.20 (ANI): US Vice President Joe Biden has proven his mettle within the Obama administration, and according to an article in the Los Angeles Times, he may be setting his sights on contesting the presidential elections in 2016.

“Biden’s ambitions go beyond serving as an influential vice president. He doesn’t necessarily believe his political [...]

Kabul, Aug.18 (ANI): Most of the candidates contesting the August 20 presidential elections in Afghanistan vow to negotiate peace with the Taliban, but appear clueless about how to move effectively in that direction.

Although incumbent president Hamid Karzai has often talked about negotiating with the Taliban, little of note has happened and the government’s reconciliation program [...]

Washington, Aug.18 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has warned that the Taliban must be defeated in Afghanistan to avoid another 9/11-style attack.

Obama was addressing veterans in Phoenix, Arizona, in the run-up to the presidential elections in Afghanistan later this week.

According to a Sky News report, he said that US troops were working hard to secure [...]

Tehran (Iran), Aug. 9 (ANI): Britain’s troubled relations with Iran suffered a further setback as a British embassy official confessed to spying during a trial in Tehran, saying that Britain had provided financial assistance to Iran’s reformists to weaken the hardline clerical regime during the [...]

Jayapura (Indonesia), July 8 (DPA) Indonesians begin voting Wednesday in only the second direct presidential elections in the country’s history, with incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is widely expected to win a second five-year term.
Voting commenced at 7 a.m. in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province, in the sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands spanning three different [...]

Tehran, July 7 (ANI): Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has vowed to continue his campaign against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s illegitimate government, but “in the framework of the law.”

“When a government doesn’t take shape within the framework of the law, it has no legitimacy in the eyes of the people. This weakens the government [...]

Tehran, July 3 (ANI): SMS text messaging services in Iran have been unblocked for the first time since disputed June 12 presidential elections.

The BBC quoted Iranian news agencies as saying that there are still technical problems. Messages up to three weeks old were being sent out, and some users were receiving multiple repeated messages, they [...]