Pakistan is, yet again, paying the price for flirting with the United States, who itself has not learned anything from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Now Pakistan finds itself between a rock and hard place, and is viewed by many as giving too much to the Americans, who in turn, want nothing [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 4, 2008
Islamabad: Pakistan Economy Watch has said that approval of 700 billion dollar bailout package will not bring any long-term improvement in the moribund US economy. The short and undefined bill may help some institutions and powerful individuals in the Wall Street but it is not expected to boost the world’s No. 1 economy in the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 20, 2008
WASHINGTON: The direct costs of the seven-year “war on terror”, which includes operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have reached US$752 billion, if the current year’s appropriation of $188 billion is included, according to the non-partisan US Congressional Budget Office. With the situation in Afghanistan further than ever from being settled, the US response, much like [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
(AdeebPress.com) - U.S. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has vigorously urged the United States Congress to impeach Israeli-ZioCon war criminal George W. Bush - who is fraudulently masquerading as a White-American, compassionate-conservative-Christian, dogmatic-Republican and who is also known as an “infamous mass murderer, barbarous serial killer, corrupt international terrorist, blood-thirsty butcher of millions of Arabs [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 13, 2008
Pakistan’s government is quite hopeful that they will convince Washington that the unilateral U.S. attacks on militant dwelling near the Afghan border only arouse sentiment against leaders of both countries. Thus Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani very generously and pragmatically has said, “”It is not that we will launch any attack. We will [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 13, 2008
Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich has denounced a reported US move to conduct raids into Pakistani territory, saying such incursions from across the Afghan border flout international law and endanger world security. Instead, the former presidential candidate advocated the “situation requires intense diplomacy,” and urged Congress to intervene legislatively to block pursuance of the dangerous path. “The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
BBC has reported that two opponents of The US presidential elections, Barack Obama and John McCain will appear together on the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks. “All of us came together on 9/11 - not as Democrats or Republicans - but as Americans,” the joint statement said. The September 11 attacks (often referred to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has felicitated President-elect Asif Ali Zardari on his election as head of the state and praised the Pakistani leader’s avowed commitment to return unconstitutionally appropriated powers from presidency to the parliament. “I congratulate Asif Ali Zardari on his election as President of Pakistan. I am glad to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
The world is eying on the new elected president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari; Most of the leaders have felicitated him but the challenges he is expected to face are more bigger. He is not lucky enough to be in very calm political environment to prove himself rather he is the most unfortunate enough president [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
ISLAMABAD: US Chamber of Commerce delegation led by Lt. Gen. (R) Daniel W. Christman, Senior Vice President for International Affairs accompanied by Mr. Jay Collins, Chairman US-Pakistan Business Council met Syed Naveed Qamar, Finance Minister here on Friday. The US delegation is in Pakistan to explore avenues for closer cooperation in commercial and trade sectors [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
Bush to work with Pakistan CRAWFORD US President George W. Bush will keep working with Pakistan on counter-terrorism and other issues after President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation, the White House said Monday. “President Bush is committed to a strong Pakistan that continues its efforts to strengthen democracy and fight terror,” US National Security Council spokesman Gordon [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 17, 2008
WASHINTON: Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the statement of U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Ms. Anne W. Patterson that Dr. Aafia was not in custody of US before July 17, 2008. HRW criticised the recent published letter of her in Pakistani news papers as Patterson said, “Dr. Aafia was not in US custody [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 17, 2008
KABUL: Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said. Ciaran Donnelly, director of operations in Afghanistan for the International Rescue Committee, said the entire aid community has been affected by worsening security.”We’re [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 16, 2008
President George W. Bush’s administration refrained from directly commenting on the fate of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf amid reports he may resign to skirt impeachment or criminal charges. A key US senator meanwhile cautioned the Bush administration against taking any steps that could be interpreted as propping up Musharraf, a key US “war on terror” [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 16, 2008
LONDON :The plane crash in Bahawalpur desert twenty years ago which killed former President General Zia-ul-Haq along with the US Ambassador Arnold Raphael and spawned several conspiracies theories has now been blamed on the mechanical problem, says a report in The Times. According to the daily, American, Soviet, Indian and even Israeli intelligence agents [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 16, 2008
WASHINGTON: The United States has released $ 116 million to finance mid-life upgrades for Pakistan’s existing fleet of F-16 fighter planes. The administration released the amount after completion of necessary process for shifting funds from foreign military financing, already allocated for the anti-terrorism South Asian ally. Popularity: 13% [?]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
WASHINGTON: The United States sees political issues including different parties’ position toward President Pervez Musharraf as internal politics of Pakistan and expects anything happening in respect of impeachment move would be in accordance with the Constitution of the country, said a senior State Department official. Popularity: 19% [?]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
RAWALPINDI: US ambassador, N. W. Peterson called on President Pervez Musharraf here. Political circles were giving much importance to the meeting in the wake of the ruling alliance’s move for impeaching the President. It may be recalled that the US ambassador had recently returned from Washington after some crucial consultations and briefings. Popularity: 14% [?]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
WASHINGTON: The move to remove President Pervez Musharraf has set off alarm bells in official Washington, Gulf Times has reported. At this point, impeachment of President, ousting a president through parliamentary impeachment is unprecedented in Pakistan’s history, and fraught with legal and political uncertainties. Popularity: 19% [?]
Continue reading...Friday, August 8, 2008
WASHINGTON: Any impeachment of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is unlikely to hamper US “war on terror” efforts, experts say, as Washington quietly hopes the military will remain on the fringes amid political tensions in Islamabad. The US State Department reacted cautiously to the move Thursday by Pakistan’s ruling coalition to impeach Musharraf, saying it was [...]
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