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NEW YORK: An extraordinary video has emerged showing a bungled CIA operation that led to the shooting down of a light plane carrying American missionaries in Peru. The dramatic footage taken from a CIA surveillance plane, which has been shown on America’s ABC News, shows Peruvian fighter jets opening fire on the missionaries’ seaplane even [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States believes Pakistan can protect its nuclear weapons but vulnerabilities remain, according to the director of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Lt-Gen Ronald Burgess told the US Senate Intelligence Committee that the Pakistani government and the military establishment both came under repeated pressure from the Taliban extremists last year, including an attack [...]
WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda is poised to attempt an attack on the United States within three to six months, America’s top intelligence officials have warned Congress. The intelligence chiefs also warned that militant groups in Pakistan were coordinating their attacks with Al Qaeda, which had led to an increase in terrorist attacks inside Pakistan as well as [...]
WASHINGTON: The US defence budget for 2011 seeks more funds to enhance drone operations by 75 per cent, citing its success in targeting militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal belt. “With this funding, we will increase the unmanned Predator and Reaper orbits from 37 to 65, while enhancing our ability to process, exploit and disseminate [...]
MIAMI: NASA will become “an agency of pipe dreams and fairy tales” under proposals by President Obama that would kill off plans for returning Man to the Moon, critics said yesterday. Spelling out a controversial new vision for space exploration as part of his $3.8 trillion (£2.4 trillion) budget proposal to Congress yesterday, Mr Obama [...]
BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting the Dalai Lama, saying it would “seriously undermine” Sino-US ties — the latest salvo in an escalating row between the two powers, reports AFP. Beijing also said no progress was made in the latest round of talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the [...]
NEW YORK: Tensions in the Gulf between the US and Iran are set to rise further after it emerged that American-made anti-missile systems are to be deployed to Washington’s Arab allies in the region. The Obama Administration said yesterday that it was speeding up arms sales to a number of states and that it had [...]
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has begun looking for places other than the heart of New York City to prosecute the accused Sept. 11 attack plotters in the face of fierce criticism tied to security and costs, US officials said on Friday. Critics have said the government’s plan to try self-professed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and [...]
WASHINGTON: The political furor escalated over President Obama’s high-profile rebuke of a recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign advertising Thursday, as Democrats pounded the high court decision. Democrats rallied around Obama the day after the president committed a rare breach of political etiquette, criticizing the controversial ruling in his State of the Union address as [...]
President Obama will not be able to win the war in Afghanistan but he could save his country from a disgraceful defeat. However, so far President Obama has based his strategy on the dictates of a warlike strategy. The violence in Afghanistan is on the rise. On Dec 29, the United Nations Assistance Mission in [...]
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s national security adviser on Monday called for Pakistan to see greater urgency in the fight against extremism and pledged that Washington was committed for the long haul. Retired general James Jones said that the role of Pakistan was critical for the future of the region, where the United States is pouring [...]
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama launched an extraordinary attack on the US Supreme Court on Saturday, saying a ruling on corporate donations to political campaigns this week “strikes at democracy itself.” Obama’s broadside was triggered
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration wants to keep some 50 Guantanamo detainees locked up indefinitely because they are too dangerous to release and evidence against them is insufficient for a criminal trial, the Washington Post said on Friday. On the anniversary of President Barack Obama’s executive order to close the “war on terror” prison within a [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is reaching out to “all levels” of the Afghan Taliban in a bid to encourage reconciliation in its war-torn neighbour, the foreign ministry said on Saturday. US President Barack Obama has said a political solution is needed to stabilise Afghanistan and emphasised that success would not be possible without the support of Pakistan. [...]
واشنگٹن… سال 2009 نے اس حقیقت کی تصدیق کر دی ہے کہ باراک اوباما کی زیر صدارت بھی امریکا ایک جنگ جو قوم ہی کا کردار ادا کرتا رہے گا۔ امریکا کے ایک لاکھ فوجی عراق اور ستر ہزار سے ایک لاکھ تک افغانستان میں تعینات ہیں۔ اس کے علاوہ یورپ میں80 ہزار، مشرقی ایشاء [...]
KARACHI: The trial of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has taken a bizarre turn when a witness’s testimony came out to be different from the one given by American official Captain Schnieder. Furthermore, an FBI agent testified that they did not find Dr. Aafia’s finger-prints on the rifle. The US federal court in Manhattan heard Aafia Siddiqui [...]
In The Prince, Machiavelli (May 1469 – June 1527) wrote: The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of [...]
A year has gone by since Sen. Barack Obama assumed the presidency, replacing George W. Bush, who was among the worst chief executives in American history. The election of an African American to the White House is an historically positive development. And his first year in office has shown his superiority to Bush and his [...]
BOSTON: Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts. By a decisive [...]
NEW YORK: The United States formally charged Dr Aafia Siddiqui on Tuesday with trying to kill a group of US soldiers and FBI agents at an Afghan police compound in July 2008 with a rifle she had snatched from a soldier. Dr Aafia’s lawyer, however, rejected the charge, saying that there’s no evidence to support [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
