Finally, President Barack Obama has signed a $662 billion national defence authorisation bill which freezes $700 million in aid to Pakistan until Islamabad gives assurances of helping it fight against the spread of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). After signing the bill Obama stated, “I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions [...]
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Pakistan Boycotts Upcoming Bonn Conference
On November 29, 2011 Pakistani cabinet announced a boycott and has decided not to attend the upcoming Bonn conference as a protest,” a government official said after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in Lahore. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar briefed the Cabinet about the incident and described the ongoing diplomatic [...]
Passions and Weapons
It is neither the Pakistan army nor the ISI; it is Pakistan which few of our own media-men are targeting, knowingly or unknowingly. For the last many years, the world around us has been exploiting all possible resources to defame the two very sacred and no doubt holy institutions of Pakistan, the Pakistan army and [...]
Nato helicopters kill three Pakistani soldiers in Kurram Agency
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Nato helicopter attack in Kurram Agency, a border region with Afghanistan, security and military officials said, apparently the fourth such strike in recent days. The attack by two Nato helicopters took place early in the morning in Teri Mangal village in Kurram Agency, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region on [...]
The NATO Money to Ensure Taliban Security: A Discreet Bartering
The English Prime Minister David Cameron, who before kicking off for India on a business tour few days ago, very rudely and snobbishly, keeping all the diplomatic norms aside, warned Pakistan to behave and to stop exporting terror to India. The interesting part is that the British prime minister insisted that he had neither caused [...]
Afghanistan-Waiting for Another Trial
British PM David Cameron warns Pakistan to please India
British Prime Minister David Cameron buttered Indians during his three day visit to India by warning Pakistan to stop supporting terrorists and showed interest in work to deepen his nation’s ties with India, using his trip to the former colony turned rising regional power to rake in millions of dollars in new business for the struggling British economy. India [...]
Dutch PM: troops to leave Afghanistan this year 2010
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said Sunday Dutch troops will begin leaving southernAfghanistan in August, since his caretaker government has no authority to accept a NATO request to stay on. Speaking a day after his coalition government collapsed over the issue, Balkenende said the Netherlands will end its role in Uruzgan province, where 21 Dutch [...]




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