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Russia offers NATO life line for sending supplies into Afghanistan Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw troops from the war-torn country. Sergei Lavrov said the proposal to […]
Top Political and Military leadership decides on rules of engagement with the US and NATO Islamabad: (Wednesday, March 14, 2012) Pakistan’s top military and political leadership, in a meeting convened here today, discussed and approved recommendations over new rules of engagement with NATO and the US. In the meeting, the participants reached the consensus to […]
Wrangling between the United States and Russia over the Syria crisis left the UN Security Council even further from reaching an accord on ways to end the bloodshed, diplomats said. Council members are now waiting to see if President Bashar al-Assad keeps a commitment to respond by Tuesday to proposals made by UN-Arab League envoy […]
The US soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. The Pentagon chief told reporters aboard his plane enroute to Kyrgyzstan that the suspect in the Afghan shooting spree would be brought to justice under the US military […]
UN envoy Kofi Annan met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday in Damascus during a high-profile international mission to mediate an end to the country’s yearlong conflict, even as activists reported fresh shelling by regime forces that sent families fleeing for safety in the northern province of Idlib. Thick black smoke billowed over the […]
Hitting out at the anticipated extension of DG Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said if the government tries to extend his tenure for another term then it seems that the memogate scandal was fake. In a hurried press conference, which apparently organized to […]
Border blockade for Nato troops continues More than three months after the Nato and ISAF troops attacked two Pakistan outposts on Afghanistan border, Pakistan continues suspension of NATO supply routes through its territory into Afghanistan. A top US official said on Tuesday that he will soon visit Islamabad for talks and hoped after the latest […]
Red Cross teams began handing out food and blankets in central Homs province on Sunday after days of delays, helping families who fled the besieged neighbourhood of Baba Amr and took shelter in nearby villages. Government forces have blocked humanitarian access to Baba Amr since Friday, the day after troops seized it from rebels, and […]
A council of Afghanistan’s top religious leaders on Friday called on the U.S. to end night searches and hand over its prisons, saying that if Afghans had been in charge, Muslim holy books from a detention centre library would never have been burned at an American base. In a statement issued after a meeting with […]
Opposition leader in the National Assembly (NA) and senior member of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that it would be considered as a deal with the government if the Pakistan People’s Party-led government extends the contract of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha for a […]
A suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 23 of its supporters in an outbreak of factional fighting, an official said. Elsewhere in the Afghan border region, fighting between security forces and militants claimed the lives of 41 others, an especially deadly day that showed the […]
According to an estimate, only 0.5 million out of 180 million people, apart from salaried class, file any tax returns in the country. Unfortunately, the paid civil bureaucracy, the judiciary and our political parties have consent in making such a pathetic situation. Despite the country has been ruled by army, politicians and technocrats, no solid […]
