Adel Rafeea received a wire transfer of $ 5000, on April 18, from Ali Abdul Aziz Ali in the UAE, which he later claimed was money Nawaf had asked him to accept on his behalf.

In July 2011, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the key figure in Pakistan's nuclear weapons development, allegedly claimed that North Korea had gained access to Pakistan's nuclear technology in the late 1990s by paying bribes to Pakistan's senior military officials, a claim Pakistan's senior officials disputed.

Although initial reports blamed the company and claimed four Afghans were killed in the accident, Sayed Abdul Ghaffar, the head of the Kabul police criminal investigations division, told The New York Times that the Afghan driver had caused the accident and said only one Afghan died in the wreck.

Fernandes, however, claimed that the scientific adviser to the Defence Minister in NDA Government ( 1998 – 2004 ), who later became the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, had cleared the missile deal.

72-year-old Abdul Hadi Khalilzai, the oldest candidate and a former teacher and religious lawyer, claimed to support women's rights " according to the Constitution, accepted Afghan tradition and the holy religion of Islam ".

Examples of those who have claimed this are Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Imam Nawawi, Ibn Arabi, Sidi Abdul Aziz ad-Dabbagh and Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi.

In June 2008 Abdul Qader al-Husan, head of Jordan's Rihab Centre for Archaeological Studies, announced the discovery at Rihab in northern Jordan of what he claimed was "... the first church in the world, dating from 33 AD to 70 AD ," beneath the foundations of the church building dedicated to Saint George at Rihab.

His hat-trick against Pakistan, the first by an English bowler in an ODI, claimed the wickets of Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami.

In 2002 Abdul Wahid al Nur, a lawyer, Ahmad Abdel Shafi Bassey, an education student, and a third man founded the Darfur Liberation Front which subsequently evolved into the Sudan Liberation Movement, and claimed to represented all of the oppressed in the Sudan.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game.

Abdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era.

In 1987, Abdul used her savings to make a singing demo.

In 1988, Abdul released her pop debut album, Forever Your Girl.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

In 1991, Abdul embraced advertising and starred in a popular Diet Coke commercial in which she danced with a digital image of her idol, a young Gene Kelly.

By 1995, Paula Abdul had recovered from her battle with the eating disorder bulimia nervosa and prepared to return to the spotlight with her new album Head over Heels.

In January 1997, Abdul starred in the ABC television movie Touched by Evil, playing a businesswoman who discovers that her boyfriend is a serial rapist.

Meanwhile, Bravo began airing the reality television series Hey Paula, which followed Abdul through her day-to-day life.

In May 2009, Abdul debuted her latest song " I'm Just Here for the Music " ( originally an unreleased song from Kylie Minogue's ninth album Body Language ) on the Ryan Seacrest Radio KIIS-FM show and performed the single on the American Idol results show.

Abdul kicked off 2011 by serving as lead judge, executive producer, creative partner, mentor and coach on CBS ' new dancing competition, Live to Dance ( formerly Got to Dance ) Abdul said that unlike American Idol, her new show is less about " competition " and more about " celebration.

Abdul is still observant in her Jewish faith today and is proud of her heritage.

" In November 2006, Israeli Tourist Minister Isaac Herzog invited her to Israel, Abdul responding with a hug, adding, " I will come ; you have helped me make a dream come true.

On December 20, 2004, Abdul was driving her Mercedes on an L. A .- area freeway when she changed lanes and hit another vehicle.

" According to Abdul, the man at the party argued with her, grabbed her by the arm and threw her against a wall ," Vernon said.

Following his departure in 1974, the reins of the FAM was taken over by Malaysia's second Prime Minister – Tun Abdul Razak, who served for just one year.

Initially, the National Assembly seemed willing to allow a place for the Caliphate in the new regime, agreeing to the appointment of Mehmed's cousin Abdul Mejid II as Caliph upon Mehmed's departure.

In the year 1789, Tipu Sultan ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore sent an embassy to the Ottoman capitol of Istanbul, to Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company and had proposed an offensive and defensive consortium ; Sultan Abdul Hamid I, informed the ambassadors of the Sultanate of Mysore that the Ottoman Empire was still recuperating from the Austro-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish Wars.

His father and brother, Abdul Rahman al-Haznawi, reportedly last heard from him in late 2000, after he made references to training in Afghanistan.

* Excerpts from an interview given by Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Obeikan, vice-minister of Justice of Saudi Arabia, to the Arabic daily Asharq al awsat on July 9, 2006, in which he discusses the legal value of a fatwā by the Islamic Fiqh Academy ( IFA ) on the subject of misyar marriage, which had been rendered by IFA on April 12, 2006:

* Extracts from the preface of Answering Islam: The Crescent in the Light of the Cross ( Norman L. Geisler and Abdul Saleeb )

This provoked Tunku Abdul Rahman to demand that Singapore withdraw from Malaysia, which it did in August 1965.

The government declared a state of emergency, and a National Operations Council, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, took power from the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman, who in September 1970 was forced to retire in favour of Abdul Razak.

Shaikh Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah insisted that Kuwait was in full control of all territory out to a radius of 140 km from the capital ; however, the ruler of Najd, Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud, argued, in September 1920, that the borders of Kuwait did not extend past the walls of the capital.

Ahmad Shah Massoud withdrew his forces from Kabul to the northern regions of Afghanistan where he and his former enemy Abdul Rashid Dostum created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

On December 30, 2005 Syria's former Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, said that " Hariri received many threats " from Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

This peace was shattered in May 1997, when he was betrayed by one of his generals, Abdul Malik Pahlawan, forcing him to flee from Mazar as the Taliban were getting ready to take the city.

The provincial governor was Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz from 2000 until his death in 2007.

In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R & B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s.