Tag: Danish

ISLAMABAD/MOGADISHU - Sixteen Pakistanis and two Iranians have been freed from Somali pirates after the Danish Navy carried out an air-raid operation to rescue the hostages, in custody of Somali pirates since last year. On April 2, the Danish Navy's rescue team was attacked by the pirates after which the rescue team responded through fire and overcame the pirate crew. The team boarded the vessel off Somalia's coast targeting an Iranian fishing boat that the pirates had used as a

ISLAMABAD - Leading Danish Food Company Castus has commenced import of Pakistani dates from southern of Pakistan to produce healthy fruit bars for children in Denmark. It plans to import around 800 tonnes of dates each year with a total value of $650,000. This is the first time that Pakistan will be exporting dates to Denmark and it aims to develop a new niche for Pakistani products on the Danish market.
Castus is a well known Danish enterprise which has been producing fruit bars

AARHUS - A Danish judge jailed a Somali Islamist for nine years and told him that he would then be kicked back to his homeland Friday for trying to butcher a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). A day after Mohamed Geele was found guilty of attempted murder and terrorism for a New Year's Day axe attack, judge Ingrid Thorsboe disregarded his plea to be spared expulsion back to war-torn Somalia after his time behind bars.
"Mohamed Geele is sentenced to nine years

AARHUS - A court on Thursday convicted a 29-year-old Somali man of attempted terrorism and attempted murder for attacking a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The court in the central Danish town of Aarhus ruled that Mohamed Geele not only tried to kill Kurt Westergaard when he broke into his home on January 1, 2010, wielding an axe and a knife, but that the attack also amounted to an act of terrorism.
"The court deems that the attempted murder of Kurt

LAHORE - Punjab chief minister said that the nation will have to stand on its own feet if it wanted to live with dignity in the international community, as no nation could prosper on aid and alms. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of Danish School in Hasilpur on Thursday.
Ambassadors of different countries, Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Education Minister of Sindh Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, provincial ministers, members of assemblies,

AARHUS - A cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed told a Danish court Thursday he narrowly escaped "certain death" when an axe-wielding Somali attacker broke into his home last year. "He was chopping so violently with his axe on the bathroom door that it began to vibrate... I thought I was going to die," Kurt Westergaard, 75, testified on the second day of the trial of his attacker, Mohamed Geele, in a court in Aarhus, central Denmark.
"It would have been certain death

AARHUS - A Somali man charged with trying to kill the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) only admitted to breaking in with an illegal weapon when his trial opened Wednesday.
Mohamed Geele, 29, had been set to appear before the district court in the central Danish town of Aarhus, but the hearing was moved to the larger Appeals Court to fit in the throngs of reporters and other onlookers who braved tight security to follow

PARIS - Afghan war film "Armadillo" follows young Danish soldiers deploying against the Taliban for the first time, intimately recording their confrontation with a complicated conflict, the battles, the waiting, the emotions.
It is a film that director Janus Metz said "very consciously tried to break with the sort of news footage realism of Afghanistan to get behind the scenes" of a war that this band of soldiers sees as their generation's Vietnam.
It blurs the boundaries of