213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

The Sharjah network was used by Victor Bout, an arms-smuggling Russian intelligence agent, to provide Taleban with weapons deliveries and other flights between Sharjah and Kandahar.

Unfortunately for the kingfisher, a U. N. plan to protect the mangroves as a biological reserve was blatantly ignored by the emirate of Sharjah, which allowed the dredging of a channel that bisects the wetland and construction of an adjacent concrete walkway.

The population was only 36, 000 in 1980 but grew considerably in recent years, due to an influx of people from the neighbouring emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and other countries.

In 2011, BoB opened an Electronic Banking Service Unit ( EBSU ) was opened at Hamriya Free Zone, Sharjah ( UAE ).

Ponting wrote, " The Sharjah incident was the result of me being over-competitive but it had the potential to get quite nasty.

The current Sharjah Airport was built in the 1970s and was opened on 1 January 1977, replacing an airport closer to the city that had been opened in 1932 for use by Imperial Airways and which was subsequently used by the RAF until 14 December 1971.

The reason for the move was development pressure from the city of Sharjah.

The 1985 – 1986 Austral-Asia Cup involved Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and was played in UAE Sharjah.

Prior to his retirement, he was one of eight senior players dropped for the Sharjah Cup in April 2003, and was then omitted from the Pakistan squad for the subsequent Bank Alfalah Cup triangular series.

The first tournament was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where the council's offices were based ( until 1995 ).

The first edition of the Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the location of the headquarters of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council.

It was followed by outstanding bowling performances in Sharjah and later in 1999 Cricket World Cup.

* Etisalat University College, a private university for men that was established by Etisalat for engineering and is located in the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with programs in Engineering and Applied Sciences

His first ODI century came against Pakistan in Sharjah in 1989 while his 134 against England at Gwalior in 1993 was his highest ODI score and the innings which he called his best when he retired in 1999.

Similarly, a semiannual Triangular Tournament was organized at Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates.

Passenger No. 2 and the old St. Lawrence were eventually scrapped after serving as accommodation ships in the early 1970s, while Passenger No. 3 was sold to Danish interests and was renamed St. Lawrence 2 and served as an accommodation ship for Eastern Bloc refugees before being sold to Arab interests in 1975 as workers ' barracks in Sharjah, UAE, where she became half-buried in sand by 1981.

The inaugural ICC Intercontinental Cup was completed on 22 November 2004 when Scotland won the title in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

In general, the rulers of the emirates accepted the British intervention, but in the case of boundary disputes between Abu Dhabi and Dubayy, and also between Dubayy and Sharjah, conflicting claims were not resolved until after the UAE became independent.

IX 536 ( Air India Express ) from Sharjah marked the first arrival and also Air India Express operated the first departure to Dubai from this new terminal.

He also had a good series against Zimbabwe in Sharjah just before that.

After his retirement from football in 1977, Kinnear spent five years in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates managing Sharjah and Al-Shabab ( alongside Dave Mackay ), also spending time coaching in Malaysia.

" The re-flagging of the islands by Sharjah three days after the withdrawal of the Persians violated the status quo agreement, rendering moot the legal relevance of any subsequent presence and activity by Sharjah on the islands and also any by Ras al-Khaimah with respect to the Tonbs from 1921 onward.

Contributed to Outlook ( New Delhi ) and to Gulf Today in Sharjah, also to other publications in India.

It also established a small maintenance facility in Sharjah Airport Free Zone by taking over a small aircraft hangar and offering services to third parties.

Dr. George is also a trustee of the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, as well as the chair of the Hamilton chapter of the United Way.

They reached the semi-finals of the ICC Intercontinental Cup again in 2005, also playing a series against England A at Sharjah, losing all four matches.

He also placed second in the zonal tournament, held in Sharjah, UAE the same year, earning his International Master Title in the process.

He also captained the side in the 1994 Australasian Cup in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where New Zealand reached the semi-finals of a six-team tournament.

He announced his retirement from International cricket on 15 August 2003, after he was dropped from the squad for the upcoming One-Day International tournament in Sharjah.

Otharad Cargo reportedly received several consignments of military hardware from the Sharjah network.

Sheikh Zayed advocated dialogue as the means to settle the row with Tehran over three strategic Persian Gulf islands which Iran seized from the ( future ) UAE Emirate of Sharjah in 1971.

“ The road begins from the entrance of Fujairah City, crossing Al Gazirmi locality, Wadi Sahm, Asfeeni, Mamdooh, Kadra and Shawka Valleys in Ras Al Khaimah, and ends at Maleeha Road in Sharjah, namely at Hamda area ," Dr Abdullah Be Hanif Al Nuaimi, undersecretary of the Public Works Ministry.

Sharjah Airport is the second largest Middle East Airfreight Hub in terms of cargo tonnage, according to official 2009 statistics from Airports Council International.

During the 1720s the Qasami had emigrated from the Persian coast and established themselves as a force in Sharjah and Julfar ( Ras al-Khaimah, now part of UAE ).

In the period 1747-59, a branch of the Qasemi from Sharjah established itself on the Persian littoral, but it was expelled in 1767.

The Qasemi administrators of Langa were of the same original stock as the Qasemi of the lower Persian Gulf ; however, their rise on the Persian littoral and to the political administration of Langa and its dependencies were attributable primarily to their distance from the politics and piratical activities of their kinsmen in Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah.

In the period from 17 June 1904 until the recognition of Ras al-Khaimah as a separate shaikhdom by Britain on 7 June 1921, the Tonbs remained under the administration of the shaikh of Sharjah.

This regular succession of poor performances, led to isolation of Ijaz from the national team and so he was not a part of the national team in the Toranto Cricket Festival of 1999 against the West Indies and Sharjah Cup of late 1999.

For six years, O ' Donnell held the record for the fastest half-century in One Day Internationals ( 18 balls v Sri Lanka, Sharjah, 1990, until Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya scored 50 from 17 balls v Pakistan at Singapore on 7 April 1996 ), a record which still stands.

A round-the-world service was introduced on 31 October 2001, flying from Singapore to Hong Kong, Dallas, Chicago, Brussels, Sharjah, and back to Singapore on Wednesdays, and on the Singapore, Hong Kong, Dallas, Chicago, Brussels, Mumbai, Singapore route on Fridays.