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Police breath Three soldiers killed in Pakistan

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by Erum

A police officer said a bomb hit a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops in the south-west of the town of Pakistan in Karachi, killing three of them.

Naeem Akram said that the bomb contained about 11 pounds (5 kg) of explosives was planted along a road near an army cantonment. The morning explosion also injured four soldiers Friday.

No group has claimed responsibility for attack.Islamist militants, including the Pakistani Taliban and its allies have made many such attacks across the country.

Karachi also frequent victims of violence caused by power struggles between gangs allegedly linked to the city’s main political parties

Quetta, Pakistan (AP) -. assailants fired more than 20 tanker trucks carrying fuel to Pakistan to U.S. troops and NATO in neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday in the first attack reported from Islamabad closed the border to protest against air attack of the coalition 24 Pakistani soldiers killed last month.

Hundreds of trucks were stuck in poorly guarded terminals across the country while waiting for Pakistan to reopen its two border crossings in Afghanistan. . About 40 percent of non-lethal equipment to the U.S. led troops in Afghanistan travel locked in the soil of Pakistan

Islamabad closed two border crossings in Afghanistan November 26, hours after strikes Aerial of US-led coalition killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan-Pakistan border. U.S. officials and NATO have said the incident was a mistake and promised to investigate.

The police officer Hamid Shakil said unidentified men fired rockets at a terminal for trucks near the town southwest of Quetta. He said that at least 23 trucks were on fire. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Last year, Islamabad temporarily closed one of his visits to Afghanistan for NATO supplies after U.S. helicopters accidentally killed two Pakistani soldiers. Suspected militants and criminals took advantage of the impasse to launch multiple attacks against trucks blocked or diverted supplies to NATO.

The deadly air strikes on the border sent the already strained relations between Pakistan and the United States to new lows, threatening cooperation from Islamabad to help negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan.

This came amid political tensions in Islamabad, to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States after an outcry from the country’s powerful military establishment, which is in charge of Afghan politics and American. Husain Haqqani envoy resigned because of accusations that he wrote a note to Washington to ask for help to stop an alleged military coup.

President Asif Ali Zardari, has been under pressure because of the scandal, Tuesday and flew to Dubai for medical treatment for heart disease. His journey has led to rumors that 56 years was losing his grip on power.

Earlier Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. should Zardari, an ally of the United States will “be able to return to full health in his duties” after receiving a treatment. A statement of the Presidency of Health said Zardari has been improved.

fascinating history of the art traditional oil painting

Articles by Arold Sincere

When people think of art and culture, they often think of museums and art galleries. It is highly anticipated stop on a European holiday. Most people do not realize the long history of oil paintings, as the work had.

Oil painting is the process of using the oil based paint to create a masterpiece. Oil was once made from a natural resin with boiling oil. The oil comes from natural sources, usually linseed, but do not exclude nuts and safflower and poppy oil. By using a resin as incense would make a varnish that was popular as a way because of his body and shine.

Most people believe oil paintings of the early 15th century when the use of oil-based paint throughout Europe. In truth, it is a treatise written by Théophile priests written about 1125, which describes how to use oil-based paint. Much earlier than has been the use of oil, paint, Indian and Chinese artists in respect of Afghanistan between the fifth and ninth centuries.

When oil painting was an art form popular in Europe, most images are threefold. Painters would paint portraits for money, and many courts held famous artist in residence for such uses. Photos are also composed of famous biblical or mythological scenes, such as the increase of the Cross or the rape of Europe. Another popular topic was that of ordinary people. Paintings by the bust of an old man with a helmet and The Blue Boy is very common.

One of the most famous oil paintings of existence is the Mona Lisa. Shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years, the painting was finally deemed complete by Leonardo da Vinci, just before his death in 1525. A marginal note found in 2005 correctly identifies the guardian of Lisa del Giocondo, for whom the picture was painted on the occasion of the birth of her second son and his family bought a new home.

The Mona Lisa is considered a beautiful portrait, despite the unorthodox beauty sitter. Compared to women of the time, even in his time it was not considered attractive. It is believed that this is proof of how talented da Vinci painted his true form. People have long believed that she had no eyebrows or eyelashes, as women of his time chose what they considered ugly hair. But closer inspection shows the remains of this type have existed in the original paint, and probably suffered no further cleanup since.

Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by an employee of the Louvre and held captive for nearly two years before his return. The man who stole was an Italian patriot who left the museum in working with the painting under his jacket. The painting toured in Italy and has been returned, and he spent six months while being hailed as a hero of his country men.

Oil paintings have the ability to bring people back to the time when art was hard as a painting of water tn were not soluble, and artists had to work in their studies because they made their own pigments themselves. Now, appreciation of modern art, allows people to look back in history and see how things were made and how people lived. Only through the hard work of famous painters for whom collectors of modern art have an immense debt of gratitude.