LONDON: A British businessman has been arrested at the request of South African authorities on suspicion of conspiring to have his Swedish bride murdered while on honeymoon, police said Wednesday. Shrien Dewani, 30, surrendered himself to authorities in Bristol, southwest England, ...
BRISBANE: The Australian government on Wednesday blamed the United States, not the WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorised release of about 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables and said those who originally leaked the documents were legally liable. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd also ...
LUCKNOW: India was on high alert Wednesday after a bomb exploded in Varanasi, one of its holiest cities and top tourist destinations, killing a one-year-old girl and wounding dozens of people. Fearing more attacks, the home ministry put police across the ...
BEIJING: The death toll from a gas blast at a coal mine in central China rose to 26 on Wednesday, state media said, after officials confirmed that more workers than previously thought were in the shaft. A total of 46 workers ...
Sept 4, 2009 SUMMARY: On July 16, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Dr. James Miller met allies to consult on the US. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and related topics. Permanent Representatives (PermReps) expressed appreciation for the timeliness ...
WASHINGTON: A senior US Marine general in Afghanistan on Tuesday declared the battle in the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah ''essentially over.'' The commander's assertion of victory in Marjah comes 10 months after thousands of US-led Nato troops stormed the cluster ...
Feb 5, 2008 Classified By: Anne W. Patterson Subject: Scene-setter for Admiral Michael Mullen`s visit Summary: We look forward to your visit to begin the process of strengthening and refocusing our military to military relations with Pakistan`s CJCS General Majid and COAS Kayani. This ...
May 30, 2008 Classified By: Anne W. Patterson SUMMARY: On May 26, Codel Schiff — US Representatives Adam Schiff and Allyson Schwartz — met Pakistan People`s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zardari, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, NSA Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani and Ambassador-designate ...
WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia proposed setting up an Arab force to fight Hezbollah militants in Lebanon with the help of the United States, UN and NATO, a leaked US diplomatic cable said Tuesday. In a meeting in May 2008 with US ambassador ...
WASHINGTON: The commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, said on Tuesday that the United States and Pakistan were involved in efforts that would bring considerable pressure on extremists groups operating in Fata but both sides avoided discussing ...
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Foreign Office believes that there are 'gaps' in reports about the death of son of renowned television actor Jamil Fakhri in the US and has directed the Pakistan embassy in Washington to seek clarification from the authorities there. "There ...
KARACHI: A series of political and strategic blunders by former president Gen Pervez Musharraf had given the cause and justification to both Asif Ali Zardari and new army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to work separately for his "honourable exit", ...
KARACHI: Dozens of paramilitary troops cordoned off some poor neighbourhoods of Manghopir on Tuesday and reportedly picked up hundreds of suspects during a search operation of houses that lasted for more than six hours, officials and sources said. Though senior officials ...
LAHORE: The major political parties think that after the sensational expose of diplomatic cables by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks their leaders will be "more cautious" about interacting with foreign diplomats and think twice before saying a thing to them which they ...
KARACHI: At a high level meeting at the headquarters of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, the security arrangements with regard to Muharram-ul-Haram were reviewed. An announcement here on Tuesday said that the meeting was attended by the Director General Rangers Sindh, Home Secretary ...
ANKARA: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said Pakistan wishes to take its relations with Turkey to a higher level, with an aim to transform them into an enhanced 21st century partnership in political, security, economic and cultural ...
LONDON: Overseas students in Britain wanting to stay on and look for work after their courses end will no longer be able to do so under government plans to curb immigration laid out on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of overseas students ...
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was remanded in custody until December 14 by a London court on Tuesday after saying he would fight his extradition to Sweden on suspicion of rape and molestation. The 39-year-old Australian, whose whistleblowing website has enraged ...
LUCKNOW: A blast outside a temple in northern India injured several people, including Hindu worshippers, and caused a small stampede on Tuesday, triggering a security alert across the country. A police official had initially said one person had been killed, but ...
NEW DELHI: India will attend Friday's Nobel peace prize ceremony in Oslo for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the country's national news agency said on Tuesday. The Press Trust of India (PTI) did not give details or say who will represent ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday decided to allow the private sector to export one million tonnes of wheat after a three-year ban, finance ministry officials said. "The government has allowed the private sector to export one million tonnes of wheat," one of ...
RIYADH; Saudi Arabia plans to be producing nuclear power within 10 years, a senior US trade official said here Monday. "They want to have civil nuclear power as a part of their mix ...relatively soon," said Under Secretary of Commerce ...
QUETTA: A suicide bomber tried to kill the top elected official in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, damaging his motorcade but leaving the minister unhurt, officials said. The blast wounded nine people near the convoy of Nawab Aslam Raisani ...
KARACHI: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Tuesday that Pakistan is committed to support peace and stability in Afghanistan. During an interview with a Turkish Newspaper, he said that Pakistan holds close relations with Afghanistan since three decades. "The ...
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police on a European warrant issued by Sweden, London's Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday. Swedish prosecutors issued the arrest order for the 39-year-old Australian who is wanted in Sweden on ...
ALDENHAM: Milked by hand, allowed to breed naturally and free from the threat of slaughter, the cows at Gokul farm near London could be possibly the happiest in Britain. The 44 animals are owned by a community of Hare Krishnas, who ...
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi courts accepted the bail of former CPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Khurram Shahzad before their arrest in regards to the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. Former CPO Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Khurram Shahzad appeared before ...
KABUL: British Prime Minister David Cameron made a surprise trip to Afghanistan Tuesday and urged an investigation into the death of a British soldier in a friendly fire incident in the country's south. The British Defense Ministry has said a British ...
MUMBAI: French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned Pakistan on Tuesday for allowing extremists "safe havens" in its tribal border areas, as he paid tribute to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sarkozy, in Mumbai on the last day of a four-day ...
GHALANAI: The death toll from twin suicide bombings in the Mohmand tribal district bordering Afghanistan has risen to 43, an official said Tuesday. "Three more people died in Peshawar hospital. The death toll has now reached 43," Miraj Khan, a senior ...
LONDON: Nato has drawn up secret plans to defend the Baltic states against any Russian threat, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The decision to draft contingency plans for the former Soviet states of ...
NEW YORK: The trustee charged with recouping assets for victims of Wall Street fraudster Bernard Madoff is suing British banking giant HSBC and related entities, seeking at least nine billion dollars. In a statement issued Sunday, trustee Irving Picard accused the ...
Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b) (d) Feb 26, 2010 A court decision preventing (Taliban leader Mullah) Barader`s extradition to Afghanistan comes amid renewed anti-American hostility in the media. The Americans speculate that the Pakistanis might swap ...
LONDON: Washington has worked discreetly to block the supply of Iranian and Syrian weapons to Islamist groups in the Middle East, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday, citing US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The United States, in many cases using ...
FREDERICIA: Children skip across the roof of a mosque and play hide and seek in a Hindu temple: this unsual playground is designed to build tolerance as religious relations are cooling in Denmark. Volunteers from various faiths in Fredericia helped ...
KARACHI: Two political activists were gunned down in as many incidents in the city on Monday, police said. The incidents of politically motivated targeted killings continue unabated in the metropolis, as 15 activist have so far been killed since last month. In ...
ISLAMABAD: The Monday hearing of a suo motu case about the mishandling of Haj affairs was widely expected to be a stormy one, but no one had possibly foreseen Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi coming up with quite an ...
ISLAMABAD: Following an objection raised by the counsel representing a high court judge, Justice Mohammad Sair Ali recused himself on Monday form heading a larger bench of the Supreme Court hearing a contempt case against superior court judges who ...
Islamabad/Brussels: In a report about "Reforming Pakistan's Criminal Justice System," the International Crisis Group urged the government of Pakistan to take immediate actions to reform the criminal justice system of the country. The report also stressed against taking Suo moto notices ...
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill 2010 during a special ceremony held here at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday. The signing ceremony was attended among others by federal ministers, members of parliament, federal secretaries and representatives ...
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