The UK-based watchdog group Privacy International says Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI, is building a mass surveillance system. A UK-based watchdog group says Pakistan spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has hired intermediary companies to acquire spying toolkits from Chinese firms for a mass surveillance program. According to a recent report from Privacy International, the ISI has sought... 

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education Mostafa Qanei says the country has ranked first in scientific progress in the world in 2011. “According to the statistics published in Nature, Iran ranks 40th in science production and first in scientific growth in the world in 2011,” Qanei said on Saturday. He went on to say that the Islamic Republic has witnessed a 20% growth in...