UN report: Benazir Bhutto’s death due to security flaws

Pakistan’s former military regime failed to protect ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto despite knowing of numerous threats against her shortly before her assassination
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Pakistan’s former military regime failed to protect ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto despite knowing of numerous threats against her shortly before her assassination

BEIJING: The death toll from the earthquake in a remote part of western China rose to 617, with 66 students and 10 teachers dying in school collapses that echo the country’s last major quake in 2008. Thousands of survivors battled freezing temperatures overnight with scant shelter after a 6.9-magnitude temblor flattened the town of Jiegu in [...]

WASHINGTON: Without naming Pakistan’s A Q Khan operation, India on Tuesday reminded the world of the dangers of “clandestine proliferation networks” and asked the world to join hands to combat trafficking of nuclear materials. “Clandestine proliferation networks have flourished and led to insecurity for all, including and especially for India,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [...]

Pakistan has said that it has acquired advanced nuclear fuel cycle capability and can offer it to the rest of the world under

WARSAW: Language problems between Russian air traffic controllers and Polish pilots, and pressure from high-ranking plane passengers, may have contributed to the crash on Saturday in which 96 people – including the Polish president – were killed, it was revealed today. The Russian air traffic controller Pavel Plusnin – who was the last person to [...]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Monday urged non-discriminatory access to civil nuclear technology to meet the country’s exponentially growing

KARACHI: The frustration of the people intensifies as the hours of loadshedding increases throughout the country. Protests against prolonged and unscheduled power outages continued throughout the country on Monday. In Hyderabad, a rally was taken out by members of a business association as protesters blocked the main Jinnah roundabout. Residents of Multan also took to [...]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan yesterday came under increased pressure over its nuclear arsenal when a Harvard study warned of “a very real possibility” that its warheads could be stolen by terrorists. The rising concern about poorly-guarded nuclear weapons and material was the subject of an extraordinary two-day summit which began in Washington yesterday. Last night, Ukraine became [...]

NEW YORK: Stressing on the need of establishing peace and a secure environment in Pakistan and Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama has said that dismantling the terror network flourishing in the region is the “singular focus” of his administration. In an extensive interview with the ABC, Obama said rooting out the militant base in the [...]

KARACHI: A case of rape, attempted murder, corruption and impunity that took place in 2008 and 2009 continues to haunt two girls in

LAHORE: Showing their reservations on certain clauses of the 18th Amendment, the Supreme Court Bar Association and Lahore

PRAGUE: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. The treaty commits the former Cold War enemies to each reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 – 30% lower than the previous ceiling. Mr Obama said it was an [...]

ISLAMABAD: The wife of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is one of the main beneficiaries of the recent loan write-off policy of the National Bank of Pakistan. The bank waived a loan of over Rs 38 million loan taken by Pak Green Fertiliser Limited (PGFL) which she owned as one of its main partners, a [...]

MUZAFFARABAD: A judicial crisis in Azad Jammu and Kashmir took a turn for the worse after AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national assembly on Thursday unanimously approved reforms stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers in a move to bolster parliamentary

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, according to several members of parliament. They said that Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting with selected lawmakers – just days after kicking up [...]

India has rejected a call from the US to shun participation in gas talks with Iran, saying “energy security” is a priority for New Delhi.

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talk of new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear programme. His defiance came after US President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up global pressure on Tehran to abandon its controversial atomic programme which he said [...]

LONDON: The UK government needs to be “less deferential” towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said. The Commons Foreign Affairs committee also said it was wrong to speak of “the special relationship” with the US, as it was fostering other alliances. However, the MPs did [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is negotiating with the United States to buy 14 additional F-16 fighter planes, Pakistan defence officials said on Sunday, following talks aimed at reversing tempestuous ties between the allies. The United States and Pakistan have agreed to fast-track pending Pakistani requests for military equipment as the two step up security cooperation, Pakistan’s foreign [...]