INTERNATIONAL OCTOBER 2010
- Pakistani Veteran Human Rights activist Asma Jehangir won the election for President of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
- A powerful earth quake triggered a three-meter Tsunami that pounded remote Island villages in the Western Indonesia on October 26, 2010 killing at least 113 people and more missing.
- India was ranked 87 out of 178 countries in Transparency International’s corruption perception index report. India fell by three positions from its rank of 84 in 2009.
- India was elected as non permanent member in UN Security Council. After a Long gap India was elected council member ship.
India, which won by a record 187 votes (98 percent of the UN member ship), joined south Africa, Colombia, Germany and Portugal as the fifth new member of the 15 nation body. Their two years term begins from January 1, 2011. - Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf announced his new party, the All Pakistan Muslim League from London.
- The IAEA Board of Governors has elected the Governor of Pakistan,Mr. Ansar Parvez, as its Chairman for 2010-2011 (one year mandate) at a meeting held in Vienna.
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