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Mohammed: Vigorous youth make a sublime nation
Mohammed: Vigorous youth make a sublime nation Staff Reporter / 13 August 2013 His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has posted some tweets on his Twitter Account on Monday meant to motivate young people. In his tweets, Shaikh Mohammed mentioned that he meets a lot of young Emiratis who repeatedly ask the question: ‘What does the leadership expect from young people?” Perhaps it is a good opportunity here to answer with some detail”, Shaikh Mohammed said. Shaikh Mohammed continued: ‘We want from our young people the power of knowledge, perseverance in work, skill when shouldering responsibility and humility at completion.’ He added: ‘Our young people are the spirit that pervades our home; we want them to be knowledgeable and have vision and understanding as well as a sense of responsibility towards their homes and their families.’ He went on to say: ‘We want our young people to be efficient and able to make a positive change in their life, their society and their homeland as vigorous young people make a sublime nation.’ –news@khaleejtimes.com Continue reading
Pakistan PM urges ‘new beginning’ with India
Pakistan PM urges ‘new beginning’ with India (AFP) / 13 August 2013 Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a “new beginning” in relations with India in comments published Tuesday, amid high tension over the disputed region of Kashmir. Clashes in recent weeks across the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC), which divides the Himalayan territory between India and Pakistan, have raised the temperature between the neighbours. Sharif said it was vital India and Pakistan became “good friends”, in remarks published Tuesday by the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), the state news agency. “Let us make a new beginning. Let us sit together to resolve all outstanding issues in a friendly manner and in a peaceful atmosphere,” he said in comments on Monday. India’s army on Tuesday accused Pakistan of firing across the LoC late on Monday in the latest confrontation. Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two over Kashmir. A deadly flare-up along the LoC in January derailed peace talks that had only just resumed after a hiatus sparked by the 2008 Mumbai attacks. “We must become good friends. Hold each other’s hands. We must sit together with open and clean heart,” Sharif said, adding that Pakistan had “a lot of love and affection” for the Indian people. Sharif has stressed his desire for better relations with India since his election in May. But tensions have flared in the Kashmir valley since the killing last week of five Indian soldiers, which India blamed on the Pakistani army. Pakistan accused India of killing a civilian during firing on Monday and summoned its envoy in Islamabad to register a protest. The picturesque Himalayan territory is divided between India and Pakistan by the UN-monitored LoC, but both countries claim it in full. Continue reading
Koskei: Real estate killing the coffee industry
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Felix Koskei is asking county governments to go slow on real estate investments in order to save the coffee industry from rapid… Continue reading
