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Saudi Arabia recalls Syria envoy as Assad defends crackdown
Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Syria in a major escalation of international pressure Monday after security forces killed more than 50 people and the regime defended its crackdown on “outlaws.” The surprise move by Riyadh, the Middle East’s Sunni Muslim heavyweight, followed condemnation by Pope Benedict XVI and the Arab League over the continuing [...]
Continue reading...US stocks plummet as uncertainty grips world markets
9. August 2011
NEW YORK: Fear and mass selling triggered after the US rating was downgraded from AAA continued across stock markets in the US and around the world. Despite US President Barack Obama claiming to the counter and promising better times, Dow Jones fell almost 500 points on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 4.5 percent, [...]
Continue reading...US warns of terror attack on utility plants
21. July 2011
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Homeland Security has warned thousands of US utility plants that they could be the targets of “violent extremists,” according to a report Wednesday from ABC News. On Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security sent out a terror alert titled “Insider Threat to Utilities” that said “violent extremists have, in fact, [...]
Continue reading...Republicans move to place more curbs on Pakistan aid
21. July 2011
WASHINGTON: US Republicans moved on Wednesday to tighten control of assistance to Pakistan and to cut aid to several of Israel’s neighbours, vowing to get tough on militants and tame US spending. The Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee pushed a range of issues in a spending bill for the fiscal year starting in October, including [...]
Continue reading...India Pakistan – Foreign secretaries talks begin in Islamabad
23. June 2011
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao are meeting in Islamabad for peace talks on Thursday. Earlier, Rao had said she was in Pakistan for talks with an “open and constructive” mind. Following a hiatus of more than two years, the two countries announced talks would resume after a meeting [...]
Continue reading...US insists Pakistan keep anti-terror pledges
23. June 2011
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed the United States will “insist” Pakistan fulfill its promises to counter militant sanctuaries on its soil. “We will work with the Pakistani government to root out the cancer of violent extremism, and we will insist that it keep its commitments,” Obama said in a televised speech on troop [...]
Continue reading...India-Pakistan talks – Rao arrives with open constructive mind
23. June 2011
ISLAMABAD: Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said on Thursday Rao was speaking to the media after her arrival in Islamabad for talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the Kashmir dispute. The two-day talks will be the first since the Mumbai attacks in 2008 that stalled the peace process between the neighbours. The agenda [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan ranks 12th on failed states index
21. June 2011
Pakistan ranked number 12 on a list of the “most failed states”, according to an annual report published in the Foreign Policy* magazine on Tuesday. The report titled “The Failed States Index 2011” compiles a list of countries in terms of vulnerability. From refugee flows to poverty, public services to security threats, the list takes [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan host to 1.9m refugees – UNHCR
20. June 2011
The United Nations sought Monday to debunk what it called “worrying misperceptions” about movements of displaced people saying that developing countries hosted 80 percent of the world’s refugees. The total number of refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons, had not ceased to grow with the figure reaching nearly 44 million people in 2010, the UNHCR said [...]
Continue reading...Samjhota Express bombing: India files case against 5 accused
20. June 2011
NEW DEHLI: The Samjhota Express case took a major turn on Monday when India filed charges against five Hindu activists for their involvement in the 2007 bombing of the Pakistan-bound train that killed 68 people. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, two of the accused were in custody while one was dead and two others [...]
Continue reading...Haqqani defends decision to detain CIA informants
20. June 2011
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani on Sunday defended Pakistan’s decision to detain five informants who aided the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in tracking down Osama bin Laden. Haqqani was speaking during a media interview. The ambassador said 30 people had been rounded up in investigations concerning Osama bin Laden’s compound. He [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan-India talks to focus on terrorism – SM Krishna
20. June 2011
NEW DEHLI: Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna says upcoming talks between the foreign secretaries of Indian and Pakistan will focus on terrorism, reported on Monday. Speaking to the media in New Delhi, Krishna said trust deficit between the two countries needed to be reduced. He said that India had asked Pakistan to speed up [...]
Continue reading...Indian foreign secretary due in Pakistan to discuss Kashmir
15. June 2011
India’s Foreign Secretary is due to visit Pakistan this month to discuss the Kashmir issue, a Pakistani official said on Tuesday, the first formal talks between the two countries on their core dispute since the Mumbai attacks in 2008 froze their peace process. “She (Nirupama Rao) is expected here later this month to discuss peace [...]
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9. August 2011
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