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Showing posts with label pak usa latest news. Show all posts
Imran Khan’s revolution
The way Imran Khan has been rallying the youth over the years has now seen him put up a big show in Peshawarover the weekend. “Stop the drone strikes, or we’ll block Nato supplies to Afghanistan!” cried the angry cricketer-turned-philanthropist-turned politician from a stage that seemed more like a pulpit.Khan is no diplomat; he does not know how to mince words, and believes in thinking aloud at all times. He boots for success and does not know of failure; even when failure strikes, as in his politics over the years, he picks up the pieces and starts walking
US charges four Pakistanis in Mumbai attack plot
Four Pakistanis have been charged as co-conspirators in the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans, US prosecutors said on Monday.The four were previously mentioned, but not named, in indictments charging American David Headley and Pakistani-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana with helping to identify targets in Mumbai.
Headley and Rana have also been charged in a plot
US evacuates some staff, ups pressure on Syria
The United States has ordered embassy families and some staff out of Syria as it has hardened its tone on Damascus’s crackdown on protests without calling for President Bashar al-Assad to go.
The State Department late Monday ordered embassy family members and some non-emergency personnel to leave Syria, after an earlier travel warning telling US citizens to leave the country because of escalating attacks on
Obama to set out budget plan on Wednesday
Washington is still regrouping from the political jousting that led to the near shutdown of the federal government at the weekend, but looming on the horizon are even bigger battles over the debt ceiling and the 2012 budget.
Opposition Republicans put pressure on Obama in the long-term budget debate by unveiling a spending blueprint last week that would cut government expenditures by $6 trillion over the
Pak, Iran, N.Korea eyed Swiss technology: cable leaks
Iran was keen on magnetic digital compasses, while Syria was interested in a high-speed camera, North Korea in precision machinery and Pakistan in parts for its missiles, French-language Le Temps said.
The cables from 2006 to 2010 contain assessments by U.S. diplomats in the Swiss capital of Berne on how Swiss authorities, including
Pak-US joint intel operations on hold'
Uneasy US-Pakistani ties have become even tenser after a string of diplomatic disputes so far this year, including a massive drone strike in March and the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who shot dead two Pakistanis on January 27 in Lahore.
“Presently, joint operations are on hold,
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