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MUKAH: Sarawak will not bar Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from coming into the state, although three of his PKR colleagues have been denied entry.

Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem said the state government was not afraid of Anwar and therefore he would be allowed to enter.

“But if he tries to do anything naughty while he is here, we will kick him out,” he said yesterday.

An Ankara administrative court has issued a stay of execution on an executive decision adopted by Turkey’s telecommunication’s authority (TİB) to block access to Twitter, as the ban entered its sixth day on March 26.

The government had blocked access to the social media network late March 21, hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğanvowed “to wipe out Twitter,” sparking global outcry.

Le président de l'association ATIDE, Moez Bouraoui a déclaré lors de l'émission Midi Show de ce mercredi 26 mars 2014 que le projet de loi électorale élaboré à l'Assemblée Nationale Constituante continent plusieurs failles qui pourraient conduire à la non-validation de 1.7 millions de votes lors des prochaines élections. Il a affirmé que si le projet de loi sera ratifié, les élections seront biaisées d'avance. 

PESHAWAR: The peace negotiations began as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) intermediaries and the government negotiators reached North Waziristan to meet the TTP Shura on Wednesday, Express News reported.

They travelled to Miranshah via a helicopter from Peshawar and then proceeded to an undisclosed location to meet the TTP Shura. The meeting has previously been postponed twicedue to bad weather.

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai said in a gathering in eastern Paktiya province on Tuesday that peace and security would result in economic development for the province’s residents.
 
Ghani-Ahmadzai added that he is determined to take steps towards agriculture and industrial development of the province.
 
“We want an industarial Paktiya, each acre of government land needs an industrial park, without making Paktiya industarial there will be no jobs for Paktiya youths ,” Ghani-Ahmadzai said.
 

Afghan presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf pledged in a speech in Herat on Tuesday to implement Islamic law and punish killers with the death penalty if he is elected president.
 
According to Sayyaf some elements try to frighten people regarding the involvement of the Mujahideen in the political process, and said that he would try to establish a totally Islamic rule in the country. 
 
“We will establish an Islamic system which was also the aim of Jihad so that our oppressed nation is in the shadow of an Islamic government,” Sayyaf said.
 

"The deputies of the Kyrgyz Parliament should learn to trust the Government more," the MP Anarbek Kalmatov stated today at session while discussing amendments to the Constitutional Law "On Government".

Les Forces alternatives pour le renouveau et l’émergence (Fare) viennent de tenir leur 1^ercongrès ordinaire. C’était les 15 et 16 mars 2014 au Palais de la Culture Amadou Hampaté Bâ de Bamako.

KARACHI: MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari says his party is holding talks with the PPP over joining the provincial government in Sindh. 

Sabzwari added that the MQM had been approached three times over the last ten months by the PPP regarding joining the provincial government.

According to MQM leader no final decision had been taken on joining the Sindh government as the MQM was still evaluating the PPP’s invitation.

Sabzwari further said there needs to be a working relationship between both parties.