NEW DELHI (Agencies) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and opposition BJP leader LK Advani were involved in an uncharacteristically sharp war of words over Kashmir in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Advani mounted a scathing attack on the Congress-led government’s foreign policy and asked why US President Barack Obama…
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WASHINGTON – A prominent Muslim civil rights organisation Friday called on US Congress to probe allegations of anti-Muslim bias at the taxpayer-funded agency that advises the President and other government officials on issues related to religious freedom worldwide.
Current and former staff and commissioners of the US Commission on International…
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Congressman Charlie Wilson was a “remarkable individual who by dint of his personality, persistence and passion helped change the course of global events,” Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani said Friday while condoling loss of the American lawmaker who passed away this week.
“We are saddened at the…
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Charlie Wilson, the former US congressman, whose funding of Afghanistan’s resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie ”Charlie Wilson’s War,” died in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday. He was 76.
Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern…
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Congress on Monday gave a qualified thumbs up to a fresh round of Indo-Pak talks by insisting that terror would have to be the central. “Our priority remains to ensure that South Asia must be a region without terror footprints,” Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari said at a media briefing. Against…
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After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in the US Congress.
His tone at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser yesterday night verged at times on defeatist. Even while saying he still wanted to get…
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top American military officer on Tuesday urged Congress to approve billions of dollars for the war in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban were gaining influence across the country.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers that “without your continued support, we…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed .2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants.
Created by Congress last year, the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund set aside some 0 million in 2009 to train and equip the…
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RAWALPINDI (Online) – A five-member US Congressional delegation called on Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday.
According to the ISPR, the delegation was led by Congressman Stephen Lynch, Chairman Committee on Oversight and Government Reforms and member of Sub-Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs.…
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A US Congressional delegation led by Stephen Lynch, Chairman Committee on Oversight and Government Reforms and member of Sub-Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, on Saturday called on Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters.The visiting delegation remained with him for some time and discussed…
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US President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for another .2 billion to train Afghanistan’s army and police over the next two years, a move a key lawmaker welcomed as part of a long-term U.S. commitment to that country’s military. The proposed amount — more than double the .6 billion…
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Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war activists are rallying Saturday outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to protest the American use of drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is also among the group that plans to march to former Vice President…
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A senior Democratic congressman has demanded that President Obama delay a nuclear deal with the United Arab Emirates after a member of its Royal Family was acquitted despite a videotape showing him subjecting another man to torture.
Jim McGovern, who heads the US House of Representatives Human Rights Committee, expressed…
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PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday urged the US government to remove Pakistan from the list of 14 countries, whose citizens will undergo enhanced security checks at the airports across the world. Talking to the US Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain, the Prime Minister expressed serious reservations…
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President Barack Obama is reviewing reports from homeland security officials as his administration tries to determine what U.S. policy and personnel failures preceded the attempted bombing of a jetliner bound from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Intelligence officials, meanwhile, prepared for what was shaping up to be uncomfortable hearings before Congress about…
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan welcomes any suggestion that can help resolve disputes between India and Pakistan, Foreign Office said on Saturday adding the world had widely acknowledged Pakistan’s stance over Kashmir.
Commenting on a suggestion given by US Congressman John Conyers to US President Obama that stated “In order to secure…
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The Obama Administration has sent to the US Congress its first report on its aid to Pakistan as mandated by the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act. Under the Kerry Lugar Berman Act, Pakistan will receive .5 billion in the next five years. The report sent to the Congress summarises the US assistance to…
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