The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.
Italian Journalist Domenico Quiric disembark from airplane at Ciampino Military airbase in Rome Rome: Two captives held by Syrian rebels say that the chemical weapons used in suburbs of Damascus were actually used by rebels to provoke the world to intervene in Syrian, reported Russian Today . Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin and Italian journalist Domenico Quiric, both of whom were abducted and held hostage for several months in Syria, said they overheard in an exchange between their captors that rebels were behind the recent chemical attack. Belgian captive Pierre disembark for airplane on 9 September, at Rome Piccinin said during an interview with Belgium's RTL radio station that, “It is a moral duty to say this. The government of Bashar al-Assad did not use sarin gas or other types of gas in the outskirts of Damascus,” Another captive, an Italian journalist, Domenico Quirico told Italy’s La Stampa that, "In this conversation, they said that the gas a