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  Mir
MIR in Radios - (Maximum Information Rate) maximum bandwidth the SU will be delivered from the AP in Kbps
MIR also stands for the unsigned emo band Making It Right.
Mir (is also the same word as 'me' in the German language)
www.destination-luxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Mir   (184 words)

  
 Baharistan-i-Shahi: A Chronicle of Mediaeval Kashmir
Kashmiri nobles and commanders, especially the sons of Mir Sayyid Mubarak Shah, found it in the interest of the general public of that land that Mirza Ya'qub should assume the reins of the kingdom in place of his father and resolved to ensure the security of their country.
Mir Hasan Chadura escaped to Shamhal village and 'Ali Dar sought refuge with the landlords of Bartal.[37]
Mir Sibi was wounded and both Shaykh Ya'qub and Shanker Jarariyeh [sic] were captured and were not subjected to torture or harsh treatment, for the reason that the former was a man of learning and the latter a blood relation of Hasan Chak [sic].
www.kashmir-information.com /Baharistan/chapter8.html   (17659 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - Deadly double game
Mir remarks that the United States' "reluctance to act against Pakistan and make it pay a prohibitive price for helping jihadi terrorists encouraged the Musharraf regime to keep the jihadis alive and active".
Mir had allegedly struck a deal with al-Qaeda in 1996 to supply arms and offer protection, a pledge that was renewed in 1998 in the presence of Saudi intelligence boss Prince Turki.
Mir's plane crashed in 2003 without explanation and it is speculated that the US forces carrying out anti-Taliban operations had shot it down near Kohat because of his links with al-Qaeda.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/HH26Df01.html   (1855 words)

  
 Mir Rahman: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mir was busy as a Goldman Sachs investment banker in New York before he returned to Karachi in 2001 to assist in the planning and launching of GEO.
While the dream of a television channel was born during his grandfather's time, it was Mir's father, Shakil-ur-Rahman, who pursued it relentlessly with the Pakistani government.
Mir swears that there is minimal linkage between GEO and the Group's publications, but even he admits in New York tech-speak that there is "a kind of perception synergy".
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Rahman_Mir_525180567.htm   (343 words)

  
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One of Saddam's top co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim, was absent after being thrown out of the court the day before for arguing with chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman.
Ibrahim, Saddam's former intelligence chief, was dragged out of the court Monday by guards after he accused Abdel-Rahman of “terrorizing'' the defense.
When he tried to push off the guards who were grabbing him, they held his left arm and pushed him into a wall as they tried to hustle him out the door, causing an uproar among the defense lawyers.
www.thenews.com.pk /print.asp?id=3618   (736 words)

  
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Two suspected militants, Rahman Khan and Mohammad Ashraf, are arrested and tortured to death by Indian army, in Srinagar.
Troops raid the marriage ceremony of Ghulam Muhammad Mir at Hattipura and intimidate the guests.
Ghulam Muhammad Mir is allegedly a relative of a suspected militant.
www.kashmiri-cc.ca /quarterly/kq3-1/REVIEW.htm   (5008 words)

  
 HIMAL SOUTHASIAN | September - October 2005
Mir hints that the capital came from a mix of resources – “personal, family and third-party”.
“By the way,” adds Mir, “a recent World Health Organization report states that 12 percent of Pakistani children are abused.” The decision was taken to air the programme – albeit outside the regular primetime slot at 9:30 pm – after enough letters had come in from around the country identifying incest as a significant issue.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman of GEO has said that his vision for his channel is not restricted to Pakistan, and that “Southasia is GEO’s canvas”.
www.himalmag.com /2005/september/special_report_1.html   (3262 words)

  
 mir - Ask.com Web Search
Mir (Мир, which can mean both world and peace in Russian) was a highly successful Soviet (and later Russian) space station.
Mir (tribe), (Urdu: مير) is a tribe in...
A report on the Mir space station, describing the assembly of its modules in orbit.
search.ask.com /web?q=mir   (344 words)

  
 KashmirToday.com - Your Window On Kashmir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 22: The design of a gate to be built at the Torkham border has become a bone of contention between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the latter has expressed reservations over its design.
Once there, the security forces picked up Abdul Samad Mir, a village resident who was imprisoned until September last year on charges of being a covert Lashkar operative, as a guide.
Mir and three other local residents, Mohammad Alam, Ghulam Hassan, and Amir Hajjam, aged between 8 and 18, were shot dead.
www.kashmirtoday.com   (15358 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Islamabad --- The young audience fell into confused silence and then buzzed with whispers after Mir Ibrahim Rahman announced that there was no difference between an apple and an orange.
Rahman, 28, chief executive of the immensely popular Geo TV network, was speaking last Sunday at a youth conference in Rawalpindi.
His absurd statement, he immediately made clear, was meant to illustrate the failings of a set of Islamic decrees known collectively as the Hudood Ordinance.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=48786   (381 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: The Hudood Ordinance: Zara Souchiye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mir Ibrahim's grandfather Mir Khalil ur Rahman and father Mir Shakil ur Rahman founded the Jang Group of newspapers and are well known media moguls in Pakistan.
At 28, Mir Ibrahim is one of the youngest CEOs to head a major TV channel anywhere.
One of the goals Mir Ibrahim outlined in that memo addressed the issue of bringing the Hudood Ordinance in to the public arena for debate.
desicritics.org /2006/05/31/132120.php   (4444 words)

  
 Front Page
The finance and planning minister, M Saifur Rahman, said the authority of allocating the fund belonged to the prime minister and he had released the money on her order.
The finance minister had earlier declined to provide any funds, saying that his ministry was not in a position to give the money to an ‘incompetent’ organisation, and he wanted to know how every taka was spent by the EC in its previous move to prepare a fresh voters’ roll.
Tareq Rahman, an explosives expert, said the battalion had asked the Uttara police to defuse the bombs after they were seized from the possession of the five militants in December 2005.
www.newagebd.com /2006/aug/03/front.html   (9790 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Mir Sayyid Ahmad": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mir Sayyid Ahmad states unequivocally that the album's owner, Amir Ghayb Beg, supervised the intimate...
and it was albums of this kind that became particularly popular at the Mughal court 1371, 3741.34 As Mir Sayyid-Ahmad wrote in his introduction to the album he prepared in 1564-5 for Amir Ghayb Beg Ostalju, one of 215.
Likewise, Mir Sayyid Ahmad Kashani, another Nuqtawi leader, captured in the village of Nasrabad in the vicinity of Kashan, was cut in half on...
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 AbdurRahman.org [The Fundamentals of Tawheed]
Then he followed this with another request to his Rabb: That He preserve him and his family from idol worship, for he knew the danger of that and he knew how easily people can be seduced by it.
Ibrahim's prayer for the security and stability of Makkah.
That it proves that Ibrahim, with his strong faith, fears for himself and his family that they may be affected by Shirk; thus, the obligation upon us to fear Shirk is that much greater.
abdurrahman.org /tawheed/kitabattawheed.html   (6261 words)

  
 Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mir Md Nasir Uddin, State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, has resigned from the cabinet amid widespread speculation of tussle between the Religious Affairs Ministry and his ministry over the fate of 56,000 non-ballotee hajj pilgrims who face uncertainty about availing flights to Saudi Arabia.
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan, who also spoke on the occasion, presented Prime Minister Khaleda a replica of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman’s excerpts from letters written to Heads of State and Government with the urgency of forming the SAARC.
FBCCI president Mir Nasir Hossain Thursday also congratulated Prime Minister Khaleda on her election as SAARC chairperson and holding the regional summit successfully in Dhaka.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/18/18112005pl.htm   (3293 words)

  
 Acumen Fund Blog
In the late afternoon, we visit Mir Ibrahim Rahman and Imran Aslam at GEO TV.
They are trying to change the nature of media between them and turning issues on their heads.
Anis and Nargis Rahman hold a dinner for Acumen Fund, inviting a range of guests who include local businesspeople, writers and thinkers.
blog.acumenfund.org /2006/09/13/using-the-power-of-the-media   (736 words)

  
 Around the World | www.azstarnet.com ®
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Mir Ibrahim Rahman, 28, chief executive of the immensely popular Geo TV network, has used his network to illustrate the failings of a set of Islamic decrees known collectively as the Hudood Ordinance.
And, at least partially as a result of Rahman's broadcasts, there are signs the laws may be softened.
The laws, introduced in 1979 and criticized internationally since, include a clause stating that to prove rape, a woman must have at least four male witnesses.
www.azstarnet.com /news/137141   (508 words)

  
 Baharistan-i-Shahi: A Chronicle of Mediaeval Kashmir
In their absence, Baharistan-i-Shahi enjoys the status of being the first fully detailed history of Kashmir written anonymously in A.D. (The forty-eight folio MS history written by Sayyid 'Ali is mainly an account of the saints, particularly of Sayyid 'Ali Hamadani).
The narrative does not deal only with the rulers of Shahmiri and Chak dynasties, but also treats of the story of the Baihaqi Sayyids whose ancestor, Mir Sayyid Mahmud, had been defeated by Timur and had fled to Delhi along with his followers during the reign of Sultan Ghiathu'd-Din.
This Suh Bhat had also given his daughter in marriage to the Sayyid and, as such, he could not be sent away easily.
www.kashmir-information.com /Baharistan/introduction.html   (6604 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Ibrahim Ahmad": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the words of Ibrahim Ahmad, then sixteen, `from that day I thought it my duty to work as a Kurd.'3 Like a handful of...
In the words of Ibrahim Ahmad, then sixteen, `from that day I thought it my duty to work as a Kurd." Like a handful of...
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 (ii) I.S.I.S. News Blast | Have the courage to talk and wisdom to listen
Rahman stated that to say rape and adultery is the same crime is like saying apples and oranges are the same fruit.
After Rahman pushed for televised public debates on this issue, Geo TV presented four shows during which religious scholars debated certain aspects of the Hudwood Ordinance, and came to an agreement on various amendments.
Pakistan Law Minister Wasi Zafar believes that the real problem lies within the misuse of laws rather than the actual laws, but has stated that the Law Ministry will draft amendments to the Hudwood Ordiance which will be presented at Parliament?s next session.
www.freewebs.com /isisnews/internationalnews.htm   (4782 words)

  
 The South Asian Consumer Market: How Big is the Potential? - HBS Working Knowledge
Mir Ibrahim Rahman, CEO of GEO TV in Pakistan, agreed with the notion that entertainment is one of the marketing opportunities that can cross boundaries.
Someone who thinks in Urdu is more likely to understand the viewers of GEO and make the media brand adapt to their needs.
One popular show, "George Ka Pakistan" or "George in Pakistan," uses the American reality-show format to detail the experiences of a British man named George who attempts to adapt to Pakistani life after falling in love with a local Pakistani woman.
hbswk.hbs.edu /archive/4702.html   (1025 words)

  
 The Young And The Restless - A Pakistani Forum : Online Discussion Community
Mir Ibrahim Rahman, the 20-something CEO of popular news channel GEO, offers this simple explanation.
Unlike the denizens from the middle class, who are becoming increasingly media-savvy, those from the upper echelons seem uncaring about the real world, as long as they are updated on the fashion headlines to be discussed over a Starbucks latte at one of the latest trendy dining haunts, Evolution.
While psychiatrists such as Dr Musa believe that the cliché that the media has played a role in shaping society does ring true, Geo's Rahman disagrees.
www.muziqpakistan.com /board/index.php?showtopic=21076   (4143 words)

  
 Pamirs - the roof of the world
Hensman H. The Afghan war of 1878-80, being a complete narrative of the capture of Cabul, the siege of Sherpur, the battle of Ahmed Khel, the brilliant march to Candahar, and the defeat of Ayub Khan, with the operations on the Helmund, and the settlement with Abdur Rahman Khan.
Ibrahim K. “Rout of I.K from Kashmir through Yassin to Yarkand in 1870,” Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol.
Rahman A. The Life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan.
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 Pakistan Blog - Pakistani News, Views, & Commentary - PakBlog.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rahman — who has pressed for public debate over them in television shows, advertising campaigns and personal appearances at seminars, like the one last Sunday — may be a major reason.
Rahman, the son and grandson of Pakistani media magnates, studied in the United States and worked at Goldman Sachs in New York.
He returned to Pakistan four years ago to lead Geo, one of more than a dozen private television channels that were founded after President Musharraf liberalized media laws.
www.pakblog.org   (2199 words)

  
 In Pakistan, media chief criticizes Islamic laws - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD Mir Ibrahim Rahman, 28, chief executive of Pakistan's immensely popular Geo TV network, is leading a wave of critics who say that the failings of a set of Islamic decrees must be addressed, and the law amended.
The laws, known collectively as the Hudood Ordinance, were introduced in 1979 and have been criticized internationally ever since.
And Rahman - who has pressed for a public debate on the laws through his television shows, advertising campaigns and personal appearances at various seminars, like the one last Sunday - may be a major reason for that softening.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/09/news/rape.php   (427 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After their confessional statement RAB raided the house of one Abdul Gani and arrested Abdur Rashid Asif (22) Divisional Commander of JMB, Mahfuzur Rahman Ibrahim (26), District Commander of Nilphamari, Moniruzzaman Iqbal (25) District Commander of Rangpur, Abu Bakker Siddique (32), Kurigram District Commander of JMB, Ahsan Md. Ahsanul Haque (18).
Mentioning that a team was now active in lobbying with the political parties of the country, the AWBI leaders urged the government and other parliament members to refrain from passing such law, which, they said, would be contrary to the people’s rights and tantamount to cheating them.
Former Finance Minister and Awami League lawmaker SAMS Kibria was killed, along with four local leaders, in a gruesome grenade attack on a rally on January 27, 2005, in Habiganj.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2006/02/08/front.htm   (4664 words)

  
 The News Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lebanon seeks that the UN international force, operating in South Lebanon, is supplemented and enhanced in numbers, equipment, mandate and scope of operation, as needed, in order to undertake urgent humanitarian and relief work and guarantee stability and security in the south so that those who fled their homes can return.
Saifur Rahman had talks with the Prime Minister on the NCBs and was asked to take up the issue after her return from Malaysia.
They expressed their concern over the militancy in the country and posed a question as to who would control the militant outfits during the caretaker government.
www.newstoday-bd.com /frontpage.asp?newsdate=8/4/2006   (8176 words)

  
 Acumen Fund Blog
GEO TV is an independent media channel in Pakistan, run by an incredibly exciting team of young people with vision and real passion for change in the world.
Below is a note from the CEO of GEO, Mir Ibrahim Rahman, to announce the station’s Zara Sochieye campaign which is focused on re-evaluating the country’s Hudood Ordinances.
If societies limit women’s abilities, they cheat themselves of half their human resource base.
blog.acumenfund.org /2006/06/20/205   (470 words)

  
 The Hindu : Magazine / Columns : Debates that inform
After all these years, the Hudood Ordinances are still in place in Pakistan despite demands that they be repealed by women's groups, human rights groups, several jurists and by the permanent National Commission on the Status of Women.
Mir Ibrahim Rahman, who heads Geo TV, has taken a personal interest in this issue and said that after over two decades of controversy, it was important to bring the issue into the public realm again.
To do so, the channel asked 26 men, all experts on religion, the following question: "The Hudood Laws are presented as divine laws, which cannot be touched.
www.hindu.com /mag/2006/06/11/stories/2006061100470300.htm   (944 words)

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