" It said that when the British were defeated, " His Majesty the Khalifa, in agreement with allied States, will acquire guarantee for independence of the united state of Pathanistan and will provide every kind of assistance to it.

Nevertheless as Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said " If a war starts anything can happen.

Benevolence International Corporation is said to have been started in 1988 by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa of Jeddah, the brother in law of Osama bin Laden.

Khalifa was said to have moved to another North African city following the disintegration of the Gaddafi government.

In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US $ 4, 000 per sq ft ( over US $ 43, 000 per m² ) and the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US $ 3, 500 per sq ft ( over US $ 37, 500 per m² ).

Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, the tower was renamed Burj Khalifa, said to honour the UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support.

Marshall Strabala, an SOM architect who worked on the project until 2006, in late 2008 said that Burj Khalifa was designed to be tall.

Computer hardware expert Van Smith said the monument's dimensions predicted the height of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world which opened in Dubai over thirty years after the Georgia Guidestones were designed.

Smith said the builders of the Guidestones were likely aware of the Burj Khalifa project which he compared to the biblical Tower of Babel.

Prof Black said he felt " a measure of personal responsibility " for persuading Libya to allow Megrahi and his co-accused, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhima, who was acquitted, to stand trial under Scots law.

The design of the Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, is said to have been inspired by that of The Illinois.

the Al Khalifa, Al-Sabah, Al-Roumi and Al Jalahma's self-sufficiency to the desert was abandoned as they became linked to this trading network that included trade in horses, wood, spices, coffee, dates and especially pearls.

Once the Persians eventually forced the other two out, it was not long before the Al Khalifa family appeared from nearby Qatar, to take control of the whole of the island at the end of the 18th century.

Khalifa bin Hamad was appointed prime minister in May.

On February 22, 1972, Khalifa ibn Hamad deposed Ahmad ibn Ali, who was hunting with his falcons in Iran.

He was followed by Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, known as the Khalifa, who began an expansion of Sudan's area into Ethiopia.

Sheik Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain during the 1930s, was known for a pack of Salukis that accompanied him throughout the Arab world on hunting trips.

However, the pure-bred lines of the royal kennel were saved by the efforts of Dana Al Khalifa who was given two pure-bred puppies by the King, and about a decade later had around pure-bred Salukis registered with the Kennel Club of Bahrain.

An elected representative body was not reintroduced until the rule of Sheikh Isa ’ s son, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

In January 2008, the Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was appointed as the Deputy Supreme Commander, while Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the BDF.

In June 2006, Bahrain was elected head of the United Nations General Assembly, and used the honour to appoint Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa as the Assembly's president, making her the first Middle East woman and only the third woman in history to take over the post.

She was given one set by Bahrain ’ s king and a second set by the country ’ s prime minister, Sheikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.

Shortly after, the Financial Times reported that Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was interested in acquiring the company.

The Khalifa escaped and survived until 1899, when he was killed in the Battle of Umm Diwaykarat.

* Seven ♣: Ayad Futayyih Khalifa, Quds forces chief of staff (# 30, was # 20 ).

A compliant piled tower design, it is 609. 9 metres ( 2, 001 ft ) high, and was arguably the tallest free-standing structure in the world, until surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in 2008, although this claim is disputed since only 75 metres of the platform are above water.

Khalifa then went to his car to call his fiancée to say that he was being Punk'd.

In 1571 the Ottoman Turkish ruler Mustafa Pasha converted the church into a mosque, believing that this was where the Khalifa Umar rested during his visit to Lefkosia.

In particular, the Mahdi abolished the four Sunni schools of jurisprudence ( Arabic: madhahib, مذاهب ), rejected all authoritative texts in the history of tafsir or Qur ' anic exegesis, changed the Sha ' hada, or profession of faith, to include the phrase, " Muhammad al-Mahdi is the Khalifa of the Prophet of God ," and revised the five pillars of Islam by replacing the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca with the obligation to undertake jihad, and adding a sixth pillar, which was belief in the Mahdiyya.

The " Khalifa " was committed to the Mahdi's vision of extending the Mahdiyah through jihād, which led to strained relations with practically every neighboring nation in Africa.

It follows the teachings of Rashad Khalifa who is regarded in this faith as God's messenger of the Covenant, who claims to be prophesied in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Quran.

Khalifa distinguished between " messengers " and " prophets ", arguing that prophets brought down scriptures from God while messengers did not.

Khalifa claimed that it was wrong to mention any name besides the name of God in any of the worship practices, including the salat, or daily prayer, and the shahadah, or confession of faith.

Khalifa argued that mentioning the name of any powerless human being in any of the worship practices was idolatry, or setting up partners beside God.

Yuksel says that he broke with Islamism in 1986 and adopted the Qur ' an Alone philosophy as preached by Rashad Khalifa, the inspiration of the United Submitters International whose beliefs include: the dedication of all worship practices to God alone, upholding the Quran alone, and rejecting the Islamic traditionalist hadith and sunnah attributed to Muhammad.

Submitters consider Khalifa to be a Messenger of God.

The building with the most stories is the Burj Khalifa, with 162.

Hirst gained the auction record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist — his Lullaby Spring in June 2007, when a 3 metre-wide steel cabinet with 6, 136 pills sold for 19. 2 million dollars to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar.

The heraldic device has been most recently altered in 2002, when the emirate was declared a kingdom by Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa.

Many rappers, most notably Kanye West Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa have mentioned the company in certain songs.

Emaar started construction on its most ambitious project to date on 1998, the AED 73 billion ( US $ 20 billion ) Burj Khalifa Downtown development, which comprises the Burj Khalifa-the tallest tower in the world when completed in 2009, the Dubai Mall, Burj Khalifa Business Hub, The Lofts, The Old Town, The Old Town Island, Burj Khalifa Boulevard, The Residences, Burj Views, man-made lakes, landscaped parks and gardens.

Khalifa Airways had stopped most flying by mid-March 2003 after it failed to meet lease payments.

The Sheikh Zayed Road is home to most of Dubai's skyscrapers, including the Emirates Towers and the Burj Khalifa.

The most notable leader from the Ta ' isha is Khalifa Abdulla Al Ta ' ishi who ruled Sudan after the death of Mohamed Ahmed Al Mahdi in 1885 till it was recaptured by the Anglo-Egyption forces in 1899.