Academy Awards Sunday proved a good night for Pakistan, Iran
AAP staff report HOLLYWOOD — The 84th Annual Academy Awards aired Sunday evening, with a few surprises and a few noteworthy awards for Asian Americans. The Academy of Motion Picture[…]
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Bhutto documents extraordinary life of Pakistani leader
“Bhutto”, the new documentary film about the slain Pakistani leader will have a one week screening starting January 28, 2011 at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis. Filmmaker and political consultant Duane[…]
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Assassination of Pakistan governor
NEW YORK (January 4, 2011) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the assassination today of the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer.
Soccer events support Haiti and Pakistan
Athens, Greece (December 14, 2010) – More than 33,000 football fans demonstrated their support Tuesday for the people of Pakistan and Haiti by filling the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece, to[…]
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UN seeks more helicopters to fly aid to marooned flood survivors in Pakistan
New York (August 24, 2010) – An estimated 800,000 people affected by the catastrophic floods in Pakistan can only be reached by helicopter, the United Nations reported today, appealing for[…]
Doctors Without Borders working to avoid disease outbreaks in Pakistan
New York, NY (August 16, 2010) – In the aftermath of a disaster that arrives as suddenly as the flooding in Pakistan did, the immediate impact – the deaths and the injuries[…]
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133rd Airlift Wing Assists with Pakistan Flood Relief
The United States provided humanitarian relief to Pakistan shortly after July 29, 2010 flooding left hundreds reported dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The first American military aircraft to fly[…]
Pakistan Monsoon floods worst in decade
Minneapolis, Minn. (August 3, 2010) – The American Refugee Committee is assisting survivors of the floods in Pakistan, which have killed more than 1,400 people and forced more than 3[…]
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Times Square suspect Shahzad doesn’t speak for me
By Zaid Jilani Two weeks ago, as I traveled to my Washington office at the Center for American Progress think tank, I noticed that the Washington Post-published Express newspaper for[…]
SAALT welcomes DHS changes
Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2010) – South Asian Americans Leading Together welcomes the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement to rescind a misguided policy issued in January 2010, which applied enhanced[…]
