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MULTAN, Pakistan: Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said yesterday he did not expect any breakthrough on improving relations with old rival India when he meets his Indian counterpart in New York this month.
The nuclear-armed rivals have held three bilateral meetings on the sidelines [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Islamabad planning major changes to anti-terror law
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan government is introducing major changes to the anti-terrorism law to give sweeping powers to law-enforcement agencies and courts to effectively deal with militancy and terrorism, sources here revealed yesterday.
“We are living in a changed environment. The new environment h [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 1.5 million ‘suspicious’ votes in Afghan election: EU observers
KABUL: EU observers yesterday branded as suspicious 1.5 million votes from Afghanistan’s presidential election and refused to be party to any “massive fraud,” flinging the polls into deeper controversy.
Afghans voted August 20 for a president for only the second time, but claims of vote-rigging h [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Karzai secures 54.6pc votes in preliminary count
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai won 54.6 percent of the preliminary result released yesterday from controversial elections, but his victory is not secure until massive claims of vote fraud are resolved.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) released figures which put Karzai on track to w [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Wounded Taliban commander captured in Swat
PESHAWAR: Pakistan said troops captured a wounded Taliban commander yesterday, closing in on wanted chieftains in Swat following a two-year Islamist uprising in the former tourist paradise.
It is the third high-profile arrest announced in five days. Analysts have welcomed the detentions as a brea [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Karzai reopens probe into reporter’s death
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai yesterday ordered a second investigation into the killing of an Afghan reporter during a British commando raid that rescued his Western colleague, his office said.
The president told the interior ministry and National Directorate for Security to re-open inquiries int [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Al Qaeda calls for kidnapping of foreigners in Afghanistan
SYDNEY: A senior Al Qaeda official has called on the Taliban to kidnap foreign civilians in Afghanistan to force US-led forces to negotiate prisoner exchanges, a former Australian police counter-terrorism analyst said.
The directive has been issued by veteran Al Qaeda adviser Mustafa Hamid, also [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 All Indians to get biometric identity cards
DELHI: India’s 1.2 billion citizens are to be issued with a biometric identity card in an attempt to improve the delivery of India’s inefficient public services — a move civil liberties’ activists are condemning as the act of a “surveillance society”.
This month (SEP), the country began the ambit [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 11 flu deaths in one day take total toll to 212
New Delhi: A record 11 swine flu deaths, including three in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh each, were reported yesterday, taking India’s total toll to 212 as the government announced “restricted sale” of anti-influenza medicine Tamiflu in the open market.
As many as 212 fresh cases were reported i [more...]
Posted on:9/17/2009 Police hunt culprits in Rahul train stoning
Gharaunda, Haryana: The Haryana police yesterday launched a massive manhunt for a group of young men who allegedly stoned a train in which Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was travelling the previous evening, even as the party said security of leaders was as important as austerity measures. < [more...]
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