Lifestyle – Iran unveils plans for Women’s car

Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women.Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tyres without getting grease on your chador. Iran’s biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colours and interior designs

The best way to stabilize the Middle East

During the cold war, when the U.S. and Soviet Union created a bipolar geopolitical world and engaged in proxy conflicts all over the world, it made a certain amount of sense to worry about stability on the Middle East. Now that we don’t have a dual-power conflict, it’s much less important. We don’t need to have bases there to get oil; they have to sell more urgently than we have to buy. As of now the major destabilizing element in the Middle East is the U.S. military presence. The best way to stabilize the region is to leave and let the people who live there figure out how to achieve stability on their own. I wish some American politician would begin to acknowledge this.

China-Pakistan relations are all weather

Mr. Mahmood Akhtar Mahmood, Vice Consul at the Consulate General of Pakistan Shanghai, sat down with 2point6billion.com, to discuss China-Pakistan relations – their impact on the rest of Asia and in a changing socio-political environment the road ahead. Mr Mahmood a certified accountant, also holds two masters degrees in History and Economics. He studied Mandarin in Beijing since the past two years and has written several research papers some of which cover the historical understandings of Mahayana Buddhism, Evolutionary Changes in Chinese Society, the Secrets of Prophet hood etc.

2point6billion.com: How are the improved relations between Pakistan and China changing / impacting the Asian region?