LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif denied in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that he has had links with religious hardliners. He said the accusations were propaganda unleashed by General Pervez Musharraf, who deposed him in a coup in 1999. Although members of the PML-N sometimes characterise the war on terror as […]
It should be clear by now that we are at war with ourselves as the enemy within grows more audacious by the day. Yet there are educated people in this country who continue to blame American foreign policy and the ever-potent ‘foreign hand’ for the wave of terrorism sweeping the country. This argument is deeply […]
Australian approval for Valin-Fortescue deal Australian authorities approved $438 million Chinese investment in Fortescue Metals Group, Australia’s third-largest iron ore miner. China’s state-owned Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group received approval to take up to 17.55 percent of Fortescue. The Australian decision was relatively unexpected as a similar Chinese mining investment bid was blocked on […]
WASHINGTON: President Barak Obama on Friday announced a new strategy which seeks to triple US economic aid to Pakistan and promises 4,000 additional troops to train Afghan security forces. ‘Make no mistake: al Qaeda and its extremist allies are a cancer that risks killing Pakistan from within,’ he warned the Pakistani nation. ‘Al Qaeda offers […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers close to the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, officials said. The attack in the Khyber region was the bloodiest in Pakistan this year and came hours before President Barack Obama was due […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After agreeing to bury their differences and unite forces, Taliban leaders based in Pakistan have closed ranks with their Afghan comrades to ready a new offensive in Afghanistan as the United States prepares to send 17,000 more troops there this year. In interviews, several Taliban fighters based in the border region said […]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama called President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Thursday to tell them Washington had completed a review of its new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said. According to TV reports, President Zardari expressed concern over US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas and told President […]
NEW YORK: US and Pakistani intelligence officials are drawing up a fresh list of terrorist targets for Predator drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, part of a US review of the drone program, the Wall Street Journal said Thursday. Citing official sources the newspaper said Pakistani officials are seeking to broaden the scope of the […]
The G20 Global Summit, which will take place in the UK in April, stands to be an important factor in determining China’s stance on climate change commitments as Copenhagen draws near. First, this meeting will provide the US and China a chance to meet behind the scenes, for the first time since Hillary Clinton visited […]
Shifting bargaining power in China trade The steady price increase in China-made goods has come to an end and bargaining power has shifted back to overseas buyers, according to executives at Li & Fung, the world’s largest trade sourcing company. After almost four years of steadily increasing prices for goods made in China a deflationary […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Intelligence officials say at least 11 people are dead after a suicide bomber struck a restaurant in volatile northwest Pakistan. The two officials say the roadside restaurant’s visitors at the time included some two dozen militants opposed to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. They say several others were wounded in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Taliban’s military campaign in southern Afghanistan is aided partly by support from operatives in Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The newspaper, citing U.S. government officials, said the support for the Taliban and other militant groups was coordinated by operatives in the S Wing of Pakistan’s […]
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