"It is the ultimate insult to the people of Pakistan," said senator Saadia Abbasi of exiled premier Nawaz Sharief's Pakistan Muslim League.
Kasimdzhanov, playing black, easily split points with the second seed in the first game of the World chess championship final.
The Uzbekistan Grandmaster will meet Michael Adams of England in the final of the World chess championship.
Top seed GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria drew his first game against GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan in the semi-final of the World Chess championship.
Rustam Kasmidzhanov and Vladimir Akopian also entered the quarter-finals in the World chess championship.\n\n
The top seeded Grandmaster recorded his fifth straight victory in the World chess championship.
IM Neelotpal Das also continued with his good form and held GM Ashot Anastesian for the second time in the World Chess championship.
Hussain will now be deported as his visa expired in August.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, is eyeing stake in oil fields in more than a dozen countries including Myanmar, Libya, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela, Iran, Qatar and Bangladesh.
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia will make a 45-minute presentation to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.\n\n
US First Lady Michelle Obama has invited a prominent Indian-American doctor, who is playing a key role in fighting the dreaded Ebola disease in West Africa, for Wednesday's State of the Union Address.
The list comprising old and new fiction as well as non-fiction deals with the intrinsic issues that continue to affect Africa today.
US Ambassador David Mulford and protocol officer M P Singh received Powell, who arrived by a special US Air Force plane.
"Dr Khan could not have done this on his own. There are certainly other people involved," she said.
He said Pakistani public opinion had made it impossible for Musharraf to impose legal penalties on the scientist.
"Pakistan itself is not a signatory to the NPT but Libya and Iran are," Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said.
State-owned refiner Indian Oil Corp and its exploration partner Oil India Ltd plan to bid for two onshore oil and gas exploration blocks in Myanmar.
The move was apparently aimed at Israel, which neither admits nor denies possessing nuclear weapons but is perceived by the countries in the region to have such arms.
The 23-year-old becomes India's 11 Grandmaster.
Whatever be India's course of action, it will have an impact on India-Iran ties, notes Aveek Sen.
"Immigrants make many of the nation's greatest discoveries, and create some of the country's most innovative and iconic companies," says their court motion.
'Welcome to America', '#Americaisbeautiful'. These were just some of the chants heard at American airports as families reunited with their loved ones after a federal court swept aside the ban imposed by President Donald Trump, which restricted the access of people from seven nations -- namely Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Somalia.
The gravely ill baby is Iranian, but Fatemah's family has decided they did not want her to have surgery in her birth country due to concerns about the quality of medical services.
Hollywood icon Angelina Jolie has slammed President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, saying that shutting the door on refugees or discriminating among them will not make America safer.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and about 1,000 of his colleagues have donated over $1.5 million to a leading rights group that has pledged to fight President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
While OPEC has been unable to agree on an output freeze in an effort to support prices, Iraq was the latest Middle East producer to raise its exports quota
Protesters gathered outside the White House and raised slogans like 'This is what America looks like!', 'The people united, will never be divided' and 'No hate, no fear, refugees are welcome here,' as they waved the American flag and held placards, opposing Trump's order to block any visitors for 90 days from seven designated countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
"I am heartbroken that today President Trump is closing the door on children, mothers and fathers fleeing violence and war," the 19-year-old Pakistani education activist, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, said in a Facebook post.
When asked about countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia figuring in the list, he said, "You're going to see. You're going to see. We're going to have extreme vetting in all cases. And I mean extreme. And we're not letting people in if we think there's even a little chance of some problem."
The number of people killed in acts of terror reached a record high last year, with almost four in five of these deaths occurring in just five countries, new research shows.
The British GM pulled off a scintillating victory over Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan to tie the World chess final 2.5-2.5.
GM Michael Adams made it to the finals of the World Chess Championship with a 2.5-1.5 win over GM Teimour Radjabov.
The leaked FIFA technical report rates South Africa's ability to host the 2010 World Cup as 'excellent', South African newspapers said.
The officials said the case was re-registered by the NIA recently and it has initiated investigations into it.
Nicholas Young, 36, facing a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, was employed as an officer as Metro Transit Police Department since 2003.
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