U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continued to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban’s momentum.
Gates said the…
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Strongly lambasting scanning of Pakistanis in US, Secretary General PML-Q Mushahid Hussain on Sunday again made it clear that scanning Pakistanis abroad is a sheer violation of human rights and ethics urging President Zardari to raise the issue with his US counterpart Barrack Obama immediately.
While talking to a private…
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LOS ANGELES (Agencies) – The top US diplomat in Pakistan has said that the US is gathering information with Pakistan and other governments to identify and locate people holding US passports who are receiving terrorist training then legally returning to commit violent acts.
The envoy said the Obama administration does…
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to reduce both the number and the role of nuclear weapons as he recommitted himself to the abolition of the ultra-destructive arms.
Obama was marking the 40th anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which he said remained the cornerstone…
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The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal has not complicated efforts to achieve universalisation of the Additional Protocol for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards as a condition for nuclear supply, according to a top aide of President Barack Obama.
“I can’t say that that, in and of itself, has complicated…
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A top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan said on Friday that the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups, but the number is not thought to be large.
Speaking to the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los…
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The Obama administration on Thursday praised Pakistan for the high-profile arrests it has made in the recent past, in particular those of the top Taliban leaders.
“More broadly we are very encouraged about steps that have been taken within Pakistan to attack and diminish activity that is of a direct…
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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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The Pentagon will transfer sophisticated laser-guided-bomb kits to Pakistan, escalating the Obama administration’s recent push to better arm Islamabad for its military campaign against the country’s Islamic militants.
U.S. military officials said Pakistan will soon receive equipment capable of converting 1,000 traditional munitions into “smart bombs” that can more precisely…
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama is making final decisions on a broad new nuclear strategy for the US that will permanently reduce the US nuclear arsenal by thousands of weapons, The New York Times reported Monday.
But citing unnamed senior presidential aides, the newspaper said the administration…
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PAKISTANI and Indian heads may meet on the sidelines of a summit called over nuclear security by US President Barack Obama to be held in Washington on April 12 in which more than 70 heads of state are expected to participate, reports a private TV channel, quoting Foreign Office sources.<br…
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Voicing disappointment at the lack of any movement at Thursday’s India-Pakistan talks, a leading American newspaper has urged the Obama administration to nudge the two South Asian rivals “harder” to return to the negotiating table.
“The administration knows how important it is for India and Pakistan to lower tensions. At…
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When Barack Obama took office last year he was compared to Superman, even joking at a dinner that he had been “born on Krypton and sent here … to save the planet Earth”. Last January he appeared on the cover of Spider-Man.
Now, with his legislative agenda in tatters, the…
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A conservative American newspaper has criticized President Barack Obama’s choice for U.S. ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), suggesting that he is a voice of radical Islam.
Rashad Hussain, an American of Indian origin who is Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, was appointed last week…
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WASHINGTON – A senior Obama administration official on Thursday appeared unaware of any request from Pakistan about a civilian nuclear deal similar to the one US had with India, but said Islamabad’s concerns regarding its civilian and military needs were being addressed.
“I don’t know,” Assistant Secretary of State for…
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The Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq a new name — “Operation New Dawn” — to reflect the reduced role U.S. troops will play in securing the country this year as troop levels fall, according to a memo from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
Since U.S.…
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China’s foreign ministry on Friday bitterly condemned US President Barack Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama as having “grossly violated” international norms. Dalai Lama likes ‘energetic, tall’ Obama
In a pre-dawn response hours after the Tibetan spiritual leader got a cordial welcome at the White House, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman…
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