Timeline: Gitmo hunger strike

A mass hunger strike has been unfolding in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison for nearly six weeks. RT has been badgering the UN, prison officials, detainees’ attorneys and activists to get a full account of the situation.

In a gesture of solidarity with Guantanamo Bay prisoners, activists across the world have launched a week-long fast. The action, organized by the Guantanamo prisoners support group Witness Against Torture (WAT), is to last through March 30. Some activists plan to continue fasting every Friday until the prison is closed, the group says.

The fast will be accompanied by public gatherings to protest against the existence of Guantanamo prison and the condition of people held there.

PAKISTAN DAY

خدا کرے کہ میری ارض پاک پر اترے
وہ فصل گل ، جسے اندیشہ زوال نہ ہو
یہاں جو پھول کھلے، وہ کھلا رہے صدیوں
یہاں خزاں کو گزرنے کی بھی مجال نہ ہو

یہاں جو سبزہ اگے، وہ ہمیشہ سبز رہے
اور ایسا سبز ، کہ جس کی کوٴی مثال نہ ہو
گھنی گھٹاٴیں یہاں ایسی بارشیں برسا ٴیں
کہ پتھروں سے بھی روٴید گی محال نہ ہو

خدا کرے کہ نہ خم ہو سر وقار وطن
اور اس کے حسن کو تشویش ماہ و سال نہ ہو
ہرایک فرد ہو تہذیب و فن کا اوج کمال
کوٴی ملول نہ ہو، کوٴی خستہ حال نہ ہو

خدا کرے کہ میرے اک بھی ہم وطن کےلیے
حیات جرم نہ ہو، زندگی وبال نہ ہو
خدا کرے کہ میری ارض پاک پر اترے
وہ فصل گل ، جسے اندیشہ زوال نہ ہو

Ahle Watan Ko Youm-e-Pakistan Ke MUbarakbad :)

American Oil Growing Most Since First Well Signals Independence

The U.S. expanded its oil production this year by the most since the first commercial well was drilled in 1859, upending a belief that Americans were increasingly hooked on foreign crude.

Domestic output grew by a record 766,000 barrels a day to the highest level in 15 years, government data show, putting the nation on pace to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer by 2020. Net petroleum imports have fallen by more than 38 percent since the 2005 peak and now account for 41 percent of demand, down from 60 percent seven years ago, moving the U.S. closer to energy independence than it has been in decades.
Seven years after President George W. Bush declared “America is addicted to oil, much of which is imported from unstable parts of the world,” the country has so much crude that it was able to join Europe in choking off exports from Iran without pushing U.S. benchmark prices over $100 a barrel. And refining capacity helped make the U.S. the world’s largest fuel supplier. Even in Venezuela, where Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)’s assets were seized, more and more cars run on gasoline made in America.

“The U.S. has a huge lead in the 21st century in maintaining its superpower status,” said Ed Morse, global head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc. in New York. “There was absolutely no way to anticipate the level of growth in the oil supply.”

Qudrat Ullah Shahab: About qudrat ullah shahab

Qudrat Ullah Shahab: About qudrat ullah shahab: ( Qudratullah Shahab; 1917– July 24 1986) (Urdu: قدرت اللہ شہاب) His Life :-Qudrat Ullah Shahab was a well known bureaucrat of Pakistan. He...http://babaqudratullahshahab.blogspot.com/

Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline

The Iran–Pakistan gas pipeline, also known as the IP pipeline a partially constructed pipeline to deliver natural gas from Iran to Pakistan.

The idea was conceived by a young Pakistani civil engineer Malik Aftab Ahmed Khan in mid 1950s, when an article of his was published by the Military College of Engineering, Risalpur.

Pipeline Route