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US to host third India-US strategic dialogues

US to host third India-US strategic dialogues On June 13, the State Department will host the third annual session of the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue in Washington, D.C. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Minister of External Affairs S.M. Krishna will co-chair interagency delegations to discuss a broad range of bilateral issues, reflecting the breadth […]

Spain agrees to bail-out plan, specifics to surface soon – Part 1

The latest from the West is that Spain has agreed to receive a bail-out assistance plan from the Euro zone ministers in tune of $125 Billion. However, the Spanish government is expected to release the exact amount needed by June 21. The mere news of the acceptance of bail-out plan has brought smiles on the […]

Spain agrees to bail-out plan, specifics to surface soon – Part 2

The US stock market also showed a promising start to the current week after the news received from across the ocean. Though the trading is still to commence on Monday, the futures showed a prosperity of 1 percent. Dow Jones industrial average futures gained 130 points. Nasdaq composite futures rose 28.50 points. S&P 500 futures […]

US-Pakistan relationship treading a thin line, very little done to strength the cord – Part 1

United States’ relationship with Pakistan is souring by the passing day. It is at the lowest in the last two decades mainly because of two reasons; the blockade of NATO supply line and the increased number drone attacks in Pakistani territory. In the light of recent events, it seems that both sides are least interested […]

US-Pakistan relationship treading a thin line, very little done to strength the cord – Part 2

Panetta’s statement has spurred a huge hatred in Pakistan. Pakistani people have not been fond of the coalition with the US in war on terror for it has brought nothing but economic inequality and the haunting culture of suicide attacks that has claimed thousands of lives only in last half a decade. Pakistan ambassador to […]

IAEA and Iran open new round of talks on the nuclear issue

The UN nuclear watchdog held fresh talks with Iran Friday in Vienna, where it was expected to push for access to a suspected testing site near Tehran. The agency’s chief inspector Herman Nackaerts and deputy director general Rafael Grossi were meeting Iran’s envoy to the agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, to try to get greater access […]

China and India: Asia’s most powerful economies – Part 1

Once upon a time in far-far West we had the US and the UK, the promising and most thriving economies, and on the other side of the globe was Japan playing fist fights with them single-handedly. Then came the God of Economic Destruction and set the world on ‘Stock Fire’. But, two countries saw the […]

China and India: Asia’s most powerful economies – Part 2

China, these days, is facing hard times due to the lack of foreign demand, especially in the US and Europe, economic crisis being one of the reasons. The country’s own domestic consumption is less than satisfactory which has resulted in slow growth rate, somewhere near 2 percent a year, which was once well above 10 percent […]

Pakistan to resist US pressure on resumption of NATO supplies

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani vowed not to succumb any international pressure to open land route for NATO forces, saying that the government wants to re-examine its ties with the United States on basis of equality. Speaking to the media, the premier said that they would take all decision in the national interest on […]

Sherry Rehman terms Leon Panetta’s remarks unhelpful

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has criticized statements given by US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta, saying these remarks would reduce the space for narrowing differences between the two countries. Embassy of Pakistan issued a statement in reply to the remarks of US Defence Secretary in which strongest language used l to […]

Panetta says that attacks on Al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan will continue

Pentagon Chief Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the US would continue to attack al Qaeda in Pakistan following the killing of the group’s number two Abu Yahya al-Libi. “We have made it very clear that we are going to continue to defend ourselves,” Secretary of Defence Panetta said when asked about drone strikes in Pakistan […]

Reddit behind protests against SOPA, PIPA and CISPA, Ohanian the main character – Part 1

Reddit, the online web link sharing company, has slowly and gradually become the internet giant of late. Its power became obvious from its recent actions that forced the US Congress to back off from the anti-privacy and so-called anti-piracy acts earlier this year. When Congressman Lamar Smith authored the Stop Online Piracy Act to be […]

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