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Monday, December 31, 2012

Afghanistan: more 'dead soldiers 1000 during 2012

More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers killed in combat during 2012: a record start Taliban insurgency, at a time when the national army is preparing to take over security Afghanistan ahead of the release of NATO forces from the country in 2014. '' In the last nine months have been killed and 906 Afghan soldiers in total, in 2012, 1,056 were killed,'' he announced the general Mohammad Zahir Azimi, spokesman for the Defense

Toshiba launches chip for mobile recharge


Toshiba developed the new system that allows recharging contactless mobile phones and wireless working with the company Hanrim Postech. Based on the Qi standard, approved by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC, its acronym in English), the chip will work for low-power devicesThe invention of Toshiba, to be launched in 2013, is based on two devices: a platform for transmitting power and other integrated in the phone that receives and charges the battery . The phone, which must be manufactured by Toshiba chip is loaded alone, without plug, provided that it is within the scope of field energy emitting apparatus. The company reported that the chip can also be used in other devices such as a cameraor a game console . Furthermore, the system can load two or more devices at a time, always without wires through. Toshiba seeking and give a twist to the battery problems faced by most mobile devices , since the amount of features, coupled with the use of internet, it downloads in less than a day. Prior to Toshiba, the manufacturer Nokia had launched a system wireless charging for the latest generation of its Lumia phones , but works differently. The phone is not plugged into any electrical outlet, but it rests on a base which itself is conectad to the mains.

Last farewell to the young Indian victim of a gang rape in a bus


The body of the young woman who was raped by six men on a bus in New Delhi on Sunday was cremated in the Indian capital this morning after arriving from Singapore, where he died in a hospital. The plane, chartered by the Indian government , with the body of the university landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi at 0330 local time (2200 GMT Saturday), said an Interior Ministry spokesman told local media. According to the source, the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh , and the leader of the ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi , were at the airport, where he paid tribute to the deceased and conveyed his condolences to the parents of the girl. Then the girl's body was taken to the family residence in west Delhi and hours later he was cremated following the Hindu ritualThe ceremony took place in the most absolute privacy , with the sole presence of some politicians and the inner circle of family and friends. India woke up yesterday with the announcement of the death of the young and throughout the day there were demonstrations across the country to pay tribute to the victim, seek justice and demand increased security measures for women. In New Delhi, the "manifestódromo" Jantar Mantar was erected in the main meeting point of the outraged after police cut off access to the central monument of India Gate, where there had been so far the biggest protests. One day after his death, the protests continue in India, and New Delhi Jantar Mantar was again the venue for hundreds of outraged , where unlike yesterday, there were small clashes with police. Since the rape of the girl, on December 16, for 40 minutes by six men in a bus, India has experienced a wave of unprecedented protests, some violent, such as that caused one death and 143 injured in the Door in India a week ago. The authors of rape were arrested and the girl, who was taken to hospital where he died Singapore, suffered, according to the latest medical report, "infection in the lungs and abdomen, and a significant brain injury". An Indian diplomat who accompanied the girl's family in Singapore, said yesterday that the girl's parents' wish that his daughter's death serves to provide a better future for women both New Delhi and across India "The National Register of Crimes reported in 2011 that every 20 minutes a woman is raped in India , but in only one in four cases because the rapist is convicted, according to analysts, the "immense corruption" present in the police force.

Shiite Muslims in Pakistan, the other martyrs


"Two brothers Shiites have been killed in Karachi yesterday ... one of them was getting married today ... what's going on in this world? "asks the Pakistani from Lahore Moeid Haider, who belongs to that branch of Islam. In Pakistan called Syed Raza, Shabbir Askai or multiplies the chances of being killed ... have features different from those of most, too. Shiite Muslims are 20% or 30% of the population, which means about 60 million people. The killings of members of this branch of Islam at the hands of Sunni extremist groups have grown "dramatically". According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), more than 350 have been executed so far this year. One hundred of them in Baluchistan province, where the population is usually Hazara. That figure does not include the two young men, or to about 40 who died Sunday in several attacks, one of them with a bomb that blew up two buses in the district of Mastung (Balochistan) the Southwest.

The 'objective'

However, although the most popular targets are Hazaras, the director of the organization in Pakistan, Ali Dayan Hasan , underlines that there ELMUNDO.es Shia Muslims across Pakistan and in all ethnic groups. "The State has chosen the Wahhabi version of Islam [the same imposed by clerics of Saudi Arabia] to support his speech and uses hyper jihadism as a tool," said Mohammad Taqi , Pakistani columnist 'Daily Times'. "By default, the Shiites are now considered strange. Policy comes first, but in the end it seems that the jihadi tail is wagging the dog. Moreover, in the attempt to create a national identity, diversity has been set aside and People are fanatical, "he adds. Among the highlights bloodiest attacks of the past August when four buses circulating in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were ambushed by gunmen who drove down to travelers and, after verifying their identity,summarily executed 22 of them identified as Shiites. In the cruel scene videos posted on the Internet can be heard shouting "Allah akbar" (God is great) and on. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban , claimed responsibility for the killings. But they are not alone, other groups such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ, Soldiers Jhangvi, by founder) also have the Shiites as prey, and they have claimed responsibility for attacks in Afghanistan even. Also, Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers of the Pure, which fight against Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir), is accused of several deadly attacks in India, including the Mumbai attacks of 2008 and a raid on its parliament in December 2001 along with the cashmere Jaishi-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) that was about to trigger a war between the neighbors.

The senselessness of hate

These radical Sunnis accuse Shias to be infidels ('Kafir') if not true Muslims. They claim that their behavior, from believing in the infallibility of their Imams or give excessive weight to others that the Prophet Muhammad (Muhammad) and Ali (his son), Fatima (Prophet's daughter and wife of Ali) and Hussein (son of both) or diverts them from the highest principle of Islam : the oneness of God. The origin of the split between respective branches of Islam goes back to the problems of succession after the death of Muhammad , the Shias the only valid claims that they are the descendants of Muhammad.Today, the hatred of the radicals is transformed, as then, in murders " Sunni militant groups have been fed by the army as part of Pakistan's security policy. latter, originally used by the military and the secret services as assets in Afghanistan and Kashmir, Shias accuse of not being Muslims. After the 11-S, since the State has made ​​half-hearted attempts to stop them, have turned against the Pakistani Shia population with greater ferocity , "says Dayan Hasan. " We are in a state of siege, we can not move anywhere .'re being killed and no one to do anything, "laments the Hazara Democratic Party chairman, Khaliq Hazara , told the Pakistani daily The Express Tribune.Syed Sadiq Raza Taqvi , cleric in Karachi, warns: "We try to control our young people not to take revenge." In Quetta and Karachi, Shiite leaders urge them to exercise restraint and only buy weapons for their own defense.

Reviews for the ineffectiveness of Justice

Experts point out the influence of Saudi Arabia : "The Sunni extremist groups have long been supported by elements in Saudi Arabia, including the government itself," says HRW regional director. In this sense, Taqi remember the Saudis were the ideological and financial engine of jihad in Pakistan since its inception and, as far asIran , ruled by Shiites, denies it is supporting its minority in Pakistan, "for the simple and important reason that never a Shiite could rule here ... "he says. According to HRW, though authorities say they have arrested dozens of suspects since 2008, only a handful have been charged , and no one has been charged. " Pakistan goes through a difficult transition to democracy . was facing a security crisis and reeling under attacks by Al Qaeda, the Taliban and its affiliates. Shiites are occupying important positions in the government, but they and the same Executive has a limited ability to suppress militant groups or elements that support the military and intelligence agencies, "Dayan Hasan regrets. For its part, Pakistan insists: "We are a democratic and progressive working to protect human rights", in the words of Hina Rabbani Khar , before the Human Rights Council of the UN, collected by Reuters. From International Crisis Group stressed that the choice that Pakistan faces is not between the military and the mullahs, but between "true democracy and the alliance between the military and the mullahs, who is responsible for creating and sustaining religious extremism "said Samina Ahmed , director of the NGO in Islamabad.

Sun behind the umpire's controversial decision defeat to India?

India and Pakistan but the umpire beat of their own country? That being said, the umpire's. Due to some controversial decisions of the sun in the first ODI cricket match at the hands of Pakistan suffered defeat India by 6 wickets.Sunday's match was the sun of the field umpires. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin were scored. Nasir Jamshed, his first ball hit the bat pad edge after Virender Sehwag reached in the first slip, who grabbed it. The first leg of the team and then sought catches, but the sun turned it down.Jamshed 24 runs playing at that time.Significantly, the unbeaten century studded Jamshed.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Syrian regime executed and burned 220 people in Homs


Syrian rebels denounced a slaughter by Syrian regime forces in the town of Deir Balbeh , in the province of Homs, which have killed at least 220 peopleThe member of the Supreme Military Command, Saadedin Qasem, told Efe that the population of the town was gathered at the checkpoint Petrochimia, where they weresummarily executed, burned and buried in a mass grave , adding that 177 of the victims have already been identified. Lakhdar Brahimi , the international peace mediator for Syria warned of a potential "hell" if no agreement is reached to end 21 months of bloodshed, after talks held in Russia for a week of intense diplomacy showed no no sign of a breakthrough important. Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that there are chances of reaching a negotiated solution to the conflict that has left more than 44,000 dead and divided world powers. However, the officer Vladimir Putin firmly repeated that the output of dictator Bashar Assad can not be a precondition for a political solution and said the opposition's refusal to talk to the regime was putting the conflict in a "dead Output ". "If the only alternative is really a hell or a political process, then all must work tirelessly for the attainment of a political process," said Brahimi. It is difficult, very difficult, but there is no choice , "he added. Lavrov said that al-Assad has said publicly that he will leave office, adding that Russia "does not have the ability to change this." Brahimi trying to build a settlement on the basis of a plan of the United States , Russia and other powers, which demanded a transitional government in Syria. "The core of the political process (...) is and should be the Geneva agreement , "he said. Meanwhile, Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi , reiterated its opposition to military intervention in Syria but said while the Assad regime has no place in the future of the country."The end of the bloodshed Syria and Syrian refugees return to their homeland" are priorities for Egypt, and also said that her country is home to some 150,000 Syrian refugees, according to statistics of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR). Syria is united , free and independent , and no one other than the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people speak on their behalf, "said Mursi.

Miley Cyrus, very sensual

The former Hannah Montana is increasingly uninhibited. This time she decided to pose sexy in a bathtub. Surfaced two images Vijat Mohindra original artist where you see Miley Cyrus  naked in a bathtub. The former Hannah Montana soprendió few months ago with a new hairstyle, making clear their rebellion. Her boyfriend, and Australian star l The Hunger Games , 22, proposed marriageThe couple met in 2009 during the shooting of the film  The Last Song. 

Does Google prepares the 'X Phone'?


Google is working with his newly-acquired-Motorola phone with a code name X Phone, which aims to wrest market share from Apple and  Samsung. Bought Motorola's top seven months ago by  U.S. $ 12,500 million . Last week, the company acquired Motorola Home Arris , the unity of the Mountain View giant that manufactures TV sets, for U.S. $ 2,350 million. The newspaper  The Wall Street Journal  quoted sources saying that Motorola is working on two fronts: devices to be sold in partnership with the operator Verizon Wireless and X Phone , which would be released in 2013. The terminal would have a gesture recognition software and images . On the other hand, work on a Motorola tablet,  according to sources of the newspaper. 

China l much harder to control Internet


China  passed a law by which citizens are required to register with their real names to access the Internet and other telecommunications services, a move some sectors interpreted as an attempt to muzzle the already  censored Chinese network"Vendors will ask users to provide real-identifiable information when signing agreements to grant access to internet, landlines or mobile devices to allow users to publish information in the public domain, "says the resolution, which consists of 12 articles. As noted several official media during the week, in practice, the new rules will force the Chinese to present their ID when they sign such contracts. Although authorities justify the action aims to "ensure information security and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens", some users are behind a will to control the opinions , some critically and hitherto anonymous, Internet users. Under the new regulatory framework, in addition, the providers of these services " are required to immediately stop any illegal information once detected and take appropriate action , "including registration and subsequent disposal, adding that they can do" before inform the supervisory authorities ", which can also access the data. The document, approved by the National People's Assembly (ANP) after five days of meetings, does not specify what is considered "illegal information"A similar measure was tried in March to microblogs, social networks most successful in China, but has not actually been implemented and several users continue to write under pseudonyms. Besides citizens, the new law could affect far more businesses like Internet cafes , popular in China, if the new policies will take a more comprehensive control of their customers. Some of the dissident Chinese government could also accuse the new regulatory framework, as it is expected to be more difficult to use the net anonymouslyAnother point of law, however, says that the authorities " ensure the protection of information that can be used to determine the identity of a user "and explicitly prohibits these services providers" sell or provide such illegal "this information to others. "Violators can face penalties such as confiscation of illegal gains, revocation of licenses and the closure of websites , "says the document. While the authorities note that this procedure "is necessary to prevent false accusations" and already exists in several countries, many users consider this step as an attack on freedom of expression in a time when, for example, several cases of corruption have been unveiled by leaks journalists and citizens to Chinese forums and social networks. Although not yet know the exact consequences of the adoption of the law or behave in practice, it appears that the Chinese government censor arm-popularly called "The Great Cibermuralla" - is tightening its policies . And you are seeing this, for example, companies offering VPN (virtual private network, for its acronym in English), used by dissidents or foreign journalists to enter blocked websites in China, some services in recent weeks have left to function normally. Internet users in China have to deal with an extensive system of censorship, especially in politically sensitive issues such as human rights, while sites such as FacebookTwitter and Youtube are inaccessible without VPN .

Djokovic took the Abu Dhabi tournament


The Serbian Novak Djokovic retained the title in the exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi after beating the Spanish Nicolas Almagro in the final 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4. The world number one won a check for $ 250,000 , in addition to the fixed starting in just over two hours to leave quickly to Perth (Australia) which debuts Monday with the team along with Ana Ivanovic Serbia, against Italy at the Hopman Cup. Almagro, who replaced his compatriot Rafael Nadal, offered stiff resistance in the final.Murcia Never had won a set off of the three battles Belgrade ATP circuit (although Almagro won in 2004 Manerbio challenger, Italy), and this time he took the thorn to be done with the first set in the tiebreaker Thanks to the strong consistency of their service. Laughing, with hilarious moments between the two players, balls "Nole" and spectacular shots by either player, the Serb took control of the game to dominate the second set. Although Almagro had his chance in the third with two break points to make it 4-2, it was Djokovic who won the final in the tenth game to take the win. "I played a great game yesterday, much better than today, but Djokovic is number one in the world ", said Almagro, who returned to Spain in a few hours to spend the New Year in their land. Earlier in the third-place match, the Spanish David Ferrer beat Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Pakistan l Karachi bomb near station

At least six people were killed and another 48 were wounded in an attack near the station of Karachi in southern Pakistan. Police said a bomb 'exploded on a bus full of people and sparked a fire. The blast, which occurred in the area of ​​Sadar, the most popular shopping district caught 'big city' of Pakistan, has also caused serious damage to a nearby hotel and some vehicles.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Five Applications with New Year wishes


Whenever one year ends and another begins, it is customary to generate expectations idealize or to improve quality of life . Upon lifting the glass and think about it, are frequent health and money. In the age of technology, applications solve these issues . Calorie Counter-MyFitnessPal (for Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows) is a weapon in the battle against overweight. To look your best, you can utlizarlo and count calories from the foods you eat . Keeping track can be tough, but will have a community in the application to exchange experiences and provide support. -The Fitness Buddy (available on Android and iOS) is an ally when exercising. Coaches are costozos REMOVAL. Fitness Buddy has over 1,000 videos and training images .Custom routines and explanations has to do it correctly. It can track and a detailed job description. -You can use Livestrong MyQuit Coach (iOS) or QuitNow! Pro (Android) if the goal is to stop smoking . An object used to start each year, but difficult. Plans are scheduled to reach a healthier life and away from snuff. -If you want to improve monetarily, Mint.com (Android and iOS) offers the ability to know how much money comes in and out . The detailed tracking and instant personal expenses, including the economy will improve. Has the ability to create budgets with categories , to establish accurately that is reversed. -And finally Astrid (Android and iOS) organizes its work and to-dos , to the point of sync with smartphones, computers, tablets, or any device cotideano use. In short, a life organized facilitates other respects.

"One Pound Fish Man", new Pakistani hero


The new internet sensation the Pakistani fishmonger Mohammed Shahid Nazirknown as "One Pound Fish Man", whose music video reached 8 million views on YouTube, triumphantly returned to Pakistan on Thursday, before launching his unusual musical success in France and the United States. Nazir was greeted at the airport in Lahore (east) for about 250 people , who includedlocal politicians , who threw rose petals and shouted "Long live One Pound Fish".Television stations interrupted coverage of the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to show their live return.















Last spring, several people videotaped Nazir at a popular market in London when he sang to sell their fish to a pound (about 1.25 euros). swept YouTube Video and fishmonger signed a contract with the Warner Music. The result of this contract? The song "One pound fish" and kitsch music video where she dances with young fisherman in miniskirt, a style of light years long robes Pakistanis. The song made ​​a grand entrance into the charts in Britain. "This song is a gift from God, I can not say I take many nights writing, wrote it on the fly. The fish stall owner asked me to sing to attract customers and sang on the first day quietly, but next with more confidence, "he said. 

The lyrics of the song is simple:
Come on ladies, come on ladies (ladies come) 

one pound fish (fish to a pound) 
Very very good, one pound fish (Very very good fish to a pound) 
very very cheap, one pound fish (Very very cheap, fish one pound)


The original video received over 6.5 million views on YouTube and the video "o-fish-al" from Warner, which can be seen dancing Nazir Bollywood style with an elegant suit, managed to reach the 8 million visits . "In two weeks I will go to France to release the song. Therefore had to come here to ask for my visa , "said Nazir, denying having been deported from the UK , where, according to the British press, was being investigated for violating conditions of his student visa by working as a fishmonger. After France, is scheduled to return to London and then make the jump to the United States. "Music is my new career, but I will never forget my fish stall , "said this rising star of pop.

KFC closed down for 15 days using the same oil


It happened in Lima The closure was ordered by committing a double fault in one day, said a statement from the municipality of San Miguel, whose health inspectors unexpectedly visited the local fast food KFC located in Plaza San Miguel, one of the largest shopping centers in the Peruvian capital. The temporary closure includes a monetary fine for endangering the health of consumers to use the same oil to prepare meals, mainly chicken and chips, without respecting the periodic changes of change every 2 or 3 days. According to the testimony of a KFC worker quoted by the municipal authorities, " the oil is changed every 15 days . " The chain KFC said, meanwhile, that are "respectful of controls that implement the relevant local authorities to verify the quality of the product offering." "The company meets the most demanding global standards that verify manufacturing processes of all its products," he said in his defense KFC, without specifying how many days each oil change.

Pakistan l U.S. drone attack, five killed

At least five suspected Islamic militants were killed in the raid of a U.S. aircraft unmanned (drone) in the tribal region of North Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, where there are bases of the Taliban and Al Qaida.Him, a source of intelligence. 's attack and 'took place in the Shawal. '' Three missiles hit the house of a local Taliban commander known as Abdur Rehman Mehsud'' stated the source.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Moments that marked music in 2012


Billboard chose the top 20 among the events that take place between the marks of the year. Here we highlight the top five , led by the death of Whitney Houston. Like any ranking, open space for discussion and debate, not only by the order but bythose who are striking acontecimeintos for each medium.

For Billboard, in addition to those detailed below were among the ten largest in the confession of homosexuality Frank Ocean, the success of the teen group One Direction , the millionaire sales Taylot Swift, the twists and turns in the reality shows of singers and the gigantic Tour MDNA Madonna prompting worldwide. And the top five are:

5. Call me maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen : his debut work placed nine weeks as number one to become a pop star automatic . The girl in love with the gardener who ends an appointment asking another boy added more than 300 million visits to see the famous video on YouTube.


4. Chris Brown and Rihanna : the unhealthy relationship kept busy musical environment to the press, did not want to believe that after the ferocious beating that left the singer with his face smashed in 2009 this could forgive and fall in love again her boyfriend. But it did and it is.


3. a great year for Adele : The singer sold4.3 million copies of "21" in 2012, bringing the total-was released in 2011 - more than 10 million. The amazing thing is that this furor occurred in a year that started with a surgery on his vocal cords.Six Grammy and rounded Skyfall song 12 months for the British dream.


2. Gangnam PSY and Style: dominated the second half of the year with its irresistible catchy K-pop and video borders on the bizarre. No one is deprived of giving the note rehearsing "horse dance" anywhere, anywhere. On  Youtube, more than one billion people clickearon his hit, breaking all previous records.


1. the death of Whitney Houston : February 11 was found in a hotel room Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. He was 48 years , won six Grammys and a record seven consecutive No. 1 songs on the charts in the '80s, with "I Will Always Love You" as indelible mark: 14 straight weeks atop the Hot 100. 

Mandela has left the hospital

Nelson Mandela 94 has left the hospital after two weeks of hospitalization for a lung infection.The sources said the Presidency of South Africa. "It will be 'taken care of at his home in Houghton (Johannesburg) until it will be' fully recovered ', and' wrote in a note. On Christmas Day, President Jacob Zuma had visited the anti-apartheid hero and found him much better.

The disaster adds 45,000 dead in Syria


More than 45,000 people have died in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011, at least according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Its director, Rami Abdel Rahman, explained that among the dead are civilians and 31,544 rebels. Furthermore, killed more than 1,500 deserters and 11,217 Army soldiers. Other 776 bodies could not be identified. On Wednesday, 20 people were killed, including eight children , in bombing a village in northern Syria, the source said, in a bombingin the town of Qahtaniyé, in the province of Raqa . "Dozens of people have been injured, including an entire family. Were transported to hospital," local Raqa have said, adding that the victims have been taken to the medical center as possible, asvehicles not can use to have run out of fuel . Raqa has been the epicenter of climbing in recent months, during which the rebels have launched several operations in this province near the Turkish border. However, in this case, all the victims are civilians. "We have to be very clear: no rebels in this sector; victims today are civilians , "he explained the director.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

PAKISTAN | United Nations decides to reduce the campaign Killed three other workers polio campaign in Pakistan


Three new murders have risen today to nine the number of workers in the vaccination campaign against polio killed in Pakistan in the past 48 hours in what is suspected to be a wave of crimes coordinated by the Taliban insurgencyOn the death of a vaccinator on Monday and five women, one of them 14-year- joins the murder this morning of another member of the medical team who was shot dead in Peshawar, capital of the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KPK) and a vaccinator and his driver in the Charsadda district, reports the BBC, adding that the UN has decided to reduce its campaign in the country. All attacks have been perpetrated by masked gunmen firing from motorcycles and then abscondAlthough the wave of deaths yesterday led the federal government to order the suspension of the campaign, the regional government of KPK disregarded the instruction and decided to continue today with three days of vaccination despite security threats. "We have continued because the most important is to end polio,"said an official of the regional Ministry of Health, Ali Shah, while a police official in Peshawar said that "it is giving protection to vaccination teams."

Suspicions

Although there has been no formal claim the wave of attacks, suspicion falls on the Taliban (Pakistan grouped under the acronym TTP) as it related groups in the tribal areas in summer threatened to attack the vaccinators. What at first was a boycott of local tribal groups to demand economic improvements to the local administration quickly became a campaign against vaccination arguments made fortunes locals. One of the first justifications that gave the Taliban threats to vaccinators is that they were spies for the U.S. , as it was a Pakistani doctor who participated in the work location of Osama bin Laden last year. Dr. Shakil Afridi, sentenced to 33 years in prison, helped set up a fake child vaccination campaign against hepatitis in the area where bin Laden was believed to obtain DNA samples from the blood of immunized. The hepatitis vaccine is injected while the polio is administered in drop form. A more recent argument is that the Taliban's campaign against polio vaccination is part of a Western plot to sterilize Muslims. Despite all the propaganda that had led to direct threats and even murder last July of an individual vaccination teams in Karachi, until this week there had been a coordinated wave of attacks.

Latest attacks

The attacks in the past 48 hours have occurred in the province of KPK, Pashtun majority, and in the southern city of Karachi, with a large presence of people of this ethnic and growing focus of activity of TTP. Polio is a contagious viral disease that can affect the central nervous system and cause paralysis, this is a disease that has no cure but its prevention by an oral vaccine is easy. Pakistan is the only country with Afghanistan and Nigeria where polio is still endemic and local authorities together with international agencies made a major effort to immunize all children under five in the country. According to the agency, which coordinates the fight against this disease, each year there are four national campaigns for several days in receiving the vaccine about 34 million children. Official figures show that last year there were 198 cases in Pakistan, while in 2012 already accounted 56.

Time chose Obama as Person of the Year 2012


According to Time when Obama's name is on the ballot, "the United States next-younger and different," arises in the polls." "We are in the midst of cultural and demographic changes of historic proportions , and Obama is both the symbol and, in many ways, the architect of the new United States, "said the editorial director of Time , Rick Stengel, told broadcaster NBC  to announce Wednesday's decision. The magazine said the country is in the midst of immense cultural and demographic changes and Obama is responsible for creating a "new majority" that seeks to create "a more perfect union." "By finding and forge a new majority, by converting weakness into an opportunity and to seek, in the midst of great adversity, create a more perfect union, Obama is the personality of the year 2012 from TIME , "the editor of the publication, Rick Stengel said in a statement. Stengel said that "Obama is the first Democratic president since FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) who gets more than 50% of the vote in elections in a row and the first president since 1940 to win re-election with an unemployment rate of 7.5 % ". "He has achieved a winning coalition and perhaps also a governing coalition. His presidency marks the end of the realignment initiated by (former Republican President Ronald) Reagan that marked American politics for 30 years, "he added. Obama had already been selected by Time as Person of the Year in 2008, when he became the first black U.S. president. The person of the year of the magazine is a traditional publishing. Last year, for example,the publication chose the protester as person of the year, in recognition of all forms that emerged in the Arab world , in Spain , in Greece and in the United States. This time, Time chose eight finalists for this year's Person of the Year. They were:  Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani Taliban which fired for fighting for a better education for women, the Egyptian President  Mohamed Mursi , former U.S. president Bill Clintonand his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , the head Yahoo! executive, Marissa Mayer,  the president of Apple, Tim Cook , and besides, the three scientists who discovered the Higgs boson. Last week, were the readers of Time who chose their person of the year  and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was the one that received the most votes in a poll published in the magazine page. Time  means "person of the year" who in his opinion has  exercised the greatest influence on news and life in general during the past year.  previous Designated include the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the president of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, in 2009, the then president-elect Barack Obama in 2008 and formerly the singer Bono, President George W. Bush and the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.