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Claiming that differences have emerged between US President Barack
Obama and Secretary of State on foreign policy issues, an American
magazine today suggested that Hillary Clinton's trip to India and
Thailand has been her way to distance herself from the White House.
"The
trip to India and Thailand, in one sense, is Clinton's way of literally
and figuratively distancing herself from Obama, her way of letting us
know she has better policies for dealing with Beijing," wrote Forbes
columnists Gordon G Chang.
Author of the book "The Coming
Collapse of China", Gordon said that during her recent visit to India,
Clinton devoted most of her time to relationship-building events.
"Clinton's
concept of siding with another large democracy seems much more
attractive-and sustainable," he wrote, adding most important, the US
and India share values.
Meanwhile, The Gujarat High Court order's
dismissing a petition challenging the probe by Special Investigation Team (SIT)
into the alleged role of
post-Godhra riot case has been welcomed by Zakia Jaffrey, widow of former MP
Ehsan Jaffrey.
The former MP was killed along with 38 others
belonging to the minority community in the Gulbarg Society massacre in
Ahmedabad. She said the SIT should speed up the investigation against Modi, his
Cabinet colleagues and senior officials involved in the conspiracy that allowed
the mobs to target the members of the minority community and kill them.
Talking to TOI here on Friday, Zakia said, "Since the HC has rejected the
petition, I want the SIT to speed up the investigation. I had appeared before
the SIT and now I want them (Modi and 62 others) to appear before it at the
earliest."
She had filed a 100-page complaint against Modi and 62
others, including his Cabinet colleagues alleging that that they as part of a
conspiracy had ordered their subordinates not to perform their duty when the
mobs arrived to kill her husband and others during the post-Godhra violence in
2002. She said 39 members of the minority community were killed, including Ehsan
Jaffrey, in the attack on Gulbarg Society.
The petition by former
BJP MLA Kalu Malivad one of the 62 was just an attempt to prolong the SIT
investigation, Jaffrey said while watching the television at her residence at
Alvi Row House on Causeway Road.
"The SIT is carrying out the
investigation directly under the Supreme Court's supervision. I have named all
the 63 people including Modi in my complaint."
Zakia's elder son,
Tanveer Jaffrey, said, "We are elated over the dismissal of the petition by the
high court which would now allow the SIT to question the 63 persons including
Modi in connection with the case."
Rejecting
criticism that India "capitulated" to Pakistan, the government has said
an assurance by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to go after
the masterminds of Mumbai terror attacks seriously prompted the
issuance of the Indo-Pak joint statement.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna
said India wanted to give the Pakistani government a "chance to prove
or disprove" that they are in control of the machinary.
"Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza
Gilani had assured our prime minister that they were very serious in
going after those responsible for Mumbai 26/11. This assurance prompted
the issuance of the joint statement," Mr. Krishna told "India Today" in
an interview.
Justifying the joint statement issued
after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting Mr. Gilani at Sharm
el-Sheikh in Egypt, Mr. Krishna said India agreed to delink the
composite dialogue from action against terror as the country can never
afford to take a "position where we refuse to talk to a nation."
"We have not capitulated. India is too
big and mature a country for these situations. So, we will have to
continue to talk to Pakistan. There is no alternative. We have to keep
them engaged so that we know what they are planning and what they are
up to," he said.
"We wanted to give Pakistan a chance to
prove or disprove that they are in control of the machinery in
Pakistan. Here is an opportunity for Pakistan to prove they are in
total control, that they are going after the terrorists," Mr. Krishna
said.
Asked what prompted the change of heart
as the Prime Minister had told Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari
recently that his mandate for talks was limited to how Pakistan handled
terror, Krishna said Islamabad took "certain steps" in the intervening
period.
"Certain steps have been initiated by
Pakistan in terms of follow-up action they propose to take. They have
arrested five people responsible for the Mumbai attacks and have filed
charge sheets against them and their trial is to start soon in
Pakistan," he said.
"We also received a dossier from them
which we are studying. Now there is Mohammed Ajmal Kasab's confession.
So we are going stage by stage. Let's wait and watch on how things
unfold," Mr. Krishna added.
On inclusion of Balochistan in the
joint statement, he said India's "conscience is clear and as a nation
we don't do anything nefarious and that's why if you want to mention
Balochistan, do it by all means".
"It is an open book as far as India is concerned as we have nothing to hide," he said.
Mr. Krishna said Pakistan has been
asked to show the "same kind of commitment" to fighting militants
targeting India as they have done in fighting terror in the Swat
region.
Noting that India continues to impress
upon Pakistan the need to fight terror, Krishna said the government is
still sticking to its stand that the composite dialogue can wait till
the terror-related issues are settled.
"As reiterated by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh in Parliament, we stick to our stand that the composite
dialogue can wait till the terror-related issues are settled," he said.
India, he said, had announced
suspension of the composite dialogue after Mumbai terror attacks till
Pakistan brings to justice perpetrators of the attacks and that remains
the position even today.
On US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's visit to India, Mr. Krishna said "her pronouncements have all
been very positive towards India".
"In our bilateral talks, she sounded
positive, sounded decisive at times. So we feel that we can continue to
depend on the Obama administration," he said.
"And the fact that Manmohan Singh has
been bestowed the honour of being the first visiting statesman to the
White House in November is further indication that contrary to the
whispers we hear, we are on the right note with the US."
Asked whether the US approach towards
India may change following the recent G8 proposal to restrict sales of
nuclear reprocessing technology to non-signatories of NPT, Krishna said
Clinton made it clear that the Obama administration is "very serious"
about the civilian nuclear pact and will continue to make headway
according to the agreement.
He disagreed that there has been drift in India's foreign policy towards Pakistan, the US or other countries.
It used to be an eerie landmark; the tree I saw everyday in the summer
of 1999, blackened and ripped by incessant bombing at the old brigade
headquarters, is green again.
But much else has withered. The legacy of the Kargil war, one of the
toughest wars of modern military history — far tougher than Iraq and
Afghanistan — has been shortchanged by India’s politics.
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| A soldier points to a post that Pakistani soldiers had occupied in Drass in 1999. Virendra Singh Gosain / HT Photos |
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government has mostly looked away
since 2004 when it came to observing the anniversary of the BJP
government-era war. President Pratibha Patil was requested to come to
Drass, but declined, army sources said.
“I think it’s just disgraceful. They are trying to politicise the
issue for no reason,” retired Colonel VN Thapar, father of the late
Kargil war hero Capt. Vijayant Thapar, told the Hindustan Times as he prepared to head to Drass, the world’s second coldest inhabited place after Oymyakon in Russia.
That is the casualty in a country where a major section of its
under-15 population of 350 million have no recollection of the war and
no sense of what it meant for India.
“We used to think armymen live a cushy life and zoom around in cars
and waste money — I had no empathy for the Army,” said Manraj Singh,
19, a physical education student from Punjab’s Abohar town, as he sat
back after dinner at a restaurant in Drass, a town of 2,000 people.
“After we came here and saw how and in what kind of place they fought
and won the war for the nation I felt really proud of them.”
More than 520 soldiers died in the Kargil war.
In 1999, Indian soldiers had to clamber up impossible, vertical
cliffs amid gunfire to retake strategic Ladakh mountains from hundred
of Pakistani raiders, including army regulars who sat on the height and
could easily bring down approaching soldiers.
On July 26, the day when victory was declared in 1999, Defence
Minister A.K. Antony will only pay a wreath in New Delhi, staying away
from the massive 10th anniversary celebration planned in the
operational hub of Drass on the weekend when top generals from across
India and the families of slain officers and soldiers are to arrive
here.
Congress MP Rashid Ali called it “Bharatiya Janata Party’s war”.
Coal Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal said he did not know about the
anniversary.
A top army officer shrugged it off. “We chose this life. We aren’t
cribbing or hankering after praise. We shall honour our heroes
ourselves,” said the officer, declining to be named as he is not
authorised to talk to the media.
But Thapar, whose son Vijayant died fighting as he led an advance on
a mountain feature called Knoll, said: “This is going a bit too far. I
think we should not expect anything from the leaders and have the army
and citizens celebrate.”
That is what is happening.
Unlike previous years when Drass hosted mostly western backpackers
Indians dominate the tourists who have come here for the summer.
Yes, the former bombed-out dusty town is now a tourist hub.
The town where the ‘market’ was a row of crumbling wooden-shuttered
shacks, and just a tea shop for some shelling-time reprieve, now has
several small hotels “with complete sanitary fittings” — as one proudly
advertised.
“It’s amazing so many Indian tourists are coming this year,” said
Mohammed Saleem, 45, of the Afzal hotel. “They want to know what
happened at Tiger Hill and Tololing peak and Drass.”
Businessman Saleem Iqbal, 25, sees a greater opportunity.
“If we get permission to take tourists to Tiger Hill on horseback, there will be a big boom,” he said.
Not like the ones he heard everyday in the summer of 1999 as he hunkered fearfully in his first floor marketside home.
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Two US FBI officers to depose in 26/11 cases
Indo-Asian News ServiceA Special Court conducting the 26/11 Mumbai terrors attacks case on
Friday allowed summons to be issued to two US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) officials and three US nationals to depose in the
trial.
Special Judge ML Tahilyani gave his ruling on an application by
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam seeking the court's permission
to summon the FBI officials who had assisted the Mumbai Police in the
terror attacks probe.
Nikam had argued that the evidence of the FBI officials could reveal
the conspiracy behind the attacks and prove crucial in nailing Mohammed
Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist who along with
nine accomplices had created mayhem in Mumbai.
He informed the Special Court that he would submit the names of the
FBI officials next week and other details of when they would come to
depose.
Tahilyani also ruled that in view of their security, the names and addresses of the FBI officials would not be disclosed.
It may be recalled that the FBI team, which included some technical
experts, had collaborated closely with the Mumbai Police in
investigating the terror attacks case and had also interrogated Kasab
early this year.
The decision to summon the FBI officials came a day after Tahilyani
accepted on record Kasab's confession of Monday and also ruled that the
trial would continue as usual.
'Obama, Hillary differ in courting India'
Washington (IANS): Suggesting a foreign policy rift between President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Forbes columnist says her trip to India "is Clinton's way of literally and figuratively distancing herself from Mr. Obama".
"She left the U.S. amid reports of
intense infighting with a White House intent on marginalising her
role," said Gordon G. Chang, a columnist of the U.S. business magazine.
"Real policymaking power, some say, is now exercised by a small West Wing group cantered on Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
"While she has been publicly denying
the rumours, the Secretary of State has been on the attack, tarring
President Obama through intermediaries," wrote Mr. Chang, the author of
The Coming Collapse of China, in his column titled "Clinton Chooses India".
"One of her State Department aides has
argued in off-the-record conversations that Obama has been making a
series of foreign policy blunders, among them letting the Chinese do
whatever they want and giving them more than they ask for," he
suggested.
"The trip to India and Thailand, in one
sense, is Clinton's way of literally and figuratively distancing
herself from Obama, her way of letting us know she has better policies
for dealing with Beijing," Mr. Chang suggested.
In search of a better China policy,
"the White House saw the need to hedge against China, it looked to
Russia," he says suggesting that's what the president's trip to Moscow
this month was all about.
"Clinton's concept of siding with
another large democracy seems much more attractive - and sustainable.
Most important, the U.S. and India share values," Mr. Chang said.
"Moreover, Washington and New Delhi
have common geopolitical interests in that both are threatened - albeit
in different ways - by an assertive Beijing. There are, however, areas
of disagreement between the U.S. and India.
"Finally, there is India's twin, the troubled nation of Pakistan," Mr. Chang said.
"The U.S. cannot afford to make
Islamabad an adversary just to please New Delhi, but the U.S. needs to
rebalance its unsuccessful Pakistani policies in any event and that
rebalancing will inevitably please India.
"In short, there is no issue that
prevents Americans and Indians from joining together in a durable
partnership," the author concluded.
Pakistan displaced returns resume
 Thousands of families have now left the relief camps |
The return of people displaced by fighting in the Swat valley has resumed, officials say.
On Thursday, military authorities suspended the return of the displaced
for "logistical reasons". No vehicles were allowed into the district.
More than 350,000 people have returned to their homes after the army said it had cleared the area of militants.
Two million people were displaced as the army took on Taliban insurgents based in the Swat valley.
It was said to be one of the biggest human migrations in recent times -
and the government has been sending back many of the refugees housed in
the relief camps set up across the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Thousands of others who were not housed in camps but who had been
staying with relatives in alternative accommodation also began
returning of their own volition.
On Friday the first batch of families was reported to have left their homes from camps in Mardan.
Although the army had announced that the Malakand division, which
includes Swat valley, was largely free of militants there have been
isolated outbreaks of violence.
Pakistan's army says it has
now shifted its focus to the Taliban hideouts in the tribal district of
South Waziristan, which is where Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah
Mehsud has his headquarters.
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The Army's Special Forces to fight terror will be in place here by
this month-end with a six-fold increase in its strength to nearly 600
personnel, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said today.
"The Special Forces will be strengthened in two phases. In the first
phase, approximately 250 persons of all ranks and in the second phase
another 250 persons will reach Bengaluru," Chidambaram told reporters
here. The concept of Special Forces was mooted after the 26/11 terror
attacks in Mumbai.
Chidambaram said by the end of this month
"we will have approximately 600 persons of all ranks of Special Forces
Batallion at Bengaluru".
The Home Minister was on a day's visit to the Army's Special Forces
Unit, set-up in the city, having 100 personnel from all ranks, who can
be deployed at a very short notice. The Home Minister, during his
address to the conference of Chief Ministers of Internal Security in
January this year, had said that in addition to setting up NSG hubs in
four metros, trained anti-terror force units will be set up by the
defence forces.
As per the plan, Bangalore is being covered by the Army and the
Special Forces are stationed with Territorial Army Batallion in Benson
town but eventually they would be moved to a new location in Hebbai.
Government
sources have told
TIMES NOW
that the
Pakistan needs to do more to tackle terrorism. Sources also claim that all
materials given by Pakistan to India have been examined and there is nothing
about Balochistan. It also claims that India has no interest in Balochistan.
Earlier, a section of Pakistani media had reported that a dossier on
India’s alleged involvement in unrest in Balochistan and terrorist attacks
was handed over to Singh during his meeting with Gilani. Indian officials have
said no such dossier or information was handed over during the
meeting.
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said the matter had
been adequately covered by the Joint Statement issued after the meeting between
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on
the sidelines of the NAM summit in Egypt on July 16. "All I can say is that
whatever was discussed and handed over is contained in the Joint Statement,"
Basit told a weekly news briefing, responding to a question on whether Pakistan
had handed over a dossier on India's alleged involvement in unrest in
Balochistan to Singh.
The issue involved intelligence matters and
Pakistan does not discuss such issues in public as a matter of policy, he said.
The spokesman evaded several pointed questions on the matter, saying only that
Pakistan's position was amply reflected by the Joint Statement. Asked about a
reference in the Joint Statement to the two countries sharing real-time credible
and actionable information on future terrorist threats, Basit said mechanisms
for this were already in place and both sides need to "invoke" the mechanisms.
"The specific details are being worked out and it would not be proper for me to
divulge the details," he added.
Meanwhile,
In a damning indictment, a top US General has said the ISI is fomenting "chaotic activity" in Kashmir and Afghanistan and asked the Pakistani spy agency to change its "strategic thrust". The US is having "discussions" with the Pakistani leadership on this issue, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. Elaborating, he said the ISI has been supporting militant groups in Kashmir and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) bordering Afghanistan. "I believe that in the long run the ISI has to change its strategic thrust which has been to foment chaotic activity you know in its border countries," Mullen, who has travelled to Islamabad for nearly a dozen times in the past one year, said. “That has been a Pakistan view to its own survival and its own security. And I think in the long run that's got to change," he said in a interview to Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV. "What I mean is that they have clearly focussed on support of ... historically of militant organisations both east (India) and west (Afghanistan). I mean that's been a focus of theirs in Kashmir historically as well as in FATA. And I think ... that fundamentally has to change," he said. His remarks came when he was asked to explain what he meant by saying that the ISI had a strategic thrust to foment chaos in neighbouring countries. Describing ISI's close links with the Taliban as "another extraordinarily complex" relationship, Mullen said: "And it's one that I've spoken very publicly about." At the same time, he said ISI has also provided "some very positive intelligence" in the past. "...the ISI has also served ... some very positive intelligence needs both in the country and certainly between our two countries," he said. "So, I think it's something we keep discussing, keep looking at. In the long run, it’s about the security for Pakistan and better security in the region for both those countries." Mullen also said that the US was having discussions with the Pakistani leadership on how to change ISI's focus. "There are discussions which have been ongoing in respect to that and the leadership recognises that and there is a big challenge dealing with that based on what their history is and what they need to do for the future," he said. | ||||
India on Thursday (July 23) asked Pakistan to demonstrate the same "force" to deal with terror groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed like it has done against the Taliban in Swat Valley. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said India also expected Pakistan to take action against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, whose outfit has been blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks of November 26 last year.
"Pakistan has taken certain steps in fighting Taliban in Swat. We expect Pakistan to go after those terrorist groups the activities of which are directed against India with the same force as they have shown against the Taliban in Swat," he told reporters while returning from Phuket in Thailand after attending India-ASEAN and ASEAN Regional Forum ministerial meetings.
When asked whether he was referring to outfits like LeT and JeM, he replied in the affirmative and said "all those groups who are operating from Pakistani soil and targeting India." Asked whether there was any clarity on Pakistan challenging the release of Saeed in the country's Supreme Court, Krishna said Islamabad has said it has gone for an appeal as been reported in media. "But we will have to wait and find out," he said.
In what clearly looks like
a distancing act, MoS for external affairs Shashi Tharoor on Thursday downplayed
the significance of the
was a "diplomatic paper" and not a legally binding commitment.
The
remarks have been interpreted as an indication that the composite dialogue
— delinked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from terrorism at his meeting
with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Gilani at Sharm el-Sheikh — is not
likely to be resumed any time soon. It does appear that the government will make
all efforts to "reiterate" the view that Pakistan must deliver on
terrorism.
Tharoor sought to defuse the controversy by arguing that
what mattered was not "the perception of words on paper" but the conduct of
Islamabad in preventing future acts of terror. "It (the joint statement) is a
diplomatic paper that is released to the press different from legal papers," he
maintained. His words only seemed to reflect a wider unease in Congress that
India had given away too much.
Tharoor claimed that Manmohan Singh had made
his stance on talks in the joint statement "very clear". "We have said India
cannot go for a composite dialogue with Pakistan, until and unless we have we
have absolute assurances and we have seen credible action from Pakistan," the
MoS said. While the bid to shield the PM is expected, it was Singh himself who
told Parliament last week that dialogue had indeed been de-bracketed from
Pakistan acting on terror.
What Tharoor did not say but which is
worrying the Congress and several senior ministers is that the formulation can
permit Pakistan to argue in the wake of a terrorist attack on India that its
agencies were not involved and that such an incident should not disrupt the
engagement between the two countries. The minister added "it is not the language
of the statement alone that writes policy."
Replying to a question on Saeed, Krishna emphasised that Pakistan should take action against the head of any terrorist organisation which targets India. He refused to comment on the assertion by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Pakistan had, in the recent months, shown commitment to go after terrorists. "That is something which is the US perception," the External Affairs Minister said.
Krishna also refused to react to a Pakistani media report that claimed that Islamabad had proof about involvement of RAW in the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3. "Government does not react to press reports and media speculation. If there is anything that comes through the government side, then the government will react," he said. He also did not comment on media reports that ISI had asked India to talk to it also as it was one of the bodies that give their inputs on framing of policies on India. "It is the internal matter of Pakistan as to whom they consult (on framing of policies)," he said.
On the controversy surrounding the Indo-Pak Joint Statement issued in Sharm El-Sheikh after the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, Krishna said the Prime Minister has already made a statement in Parliament spelling out India's position and there was nothing to add.
Earlier, addressing the ARF meeting in Phuket, Krishna, without naming Pakistan, highlighted the problem of terrorism emanating from India's neighbourhood against the backdrop of the Mumbai attacks. He strongly pitched for developing a "coordinated", "effective" and "focussed" response among the Asian nations to defeat the menace.
Terrorists are becoming sophisticated and developing networks threatening the world, Krishna said, addressing the meeting which was also attended by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Krishna later said Qureshi, during the conference, condemned terrorism and claimed that Pakistan has been a victim of terrorism. Qureshi said Pakistan was ready to join hands with others to fight the specter of terror, Krishna added.
"It's all very well for
the people to say that somehow India's interest compromised by few words on a
piece of paper that is not a legal document," said Tharoor. While speaking of
reports in Pakistani media Gilani had handed a dossier containing "proof" of
India's involvement in "subversive activities" in Pakistan to Singh, Tharoor
said he was unaware about it.
"I have not seen the dossier myself. If
there is the dossier, then I am sure that the competent colleagues in my
ministry are looking at it and when they have studied it, we will have a
suitable response."
On the "preposterous charges" made in the
Pakistani media report — quoting official sources to suggest that India
had a hand on the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers and a police academy on the
outskirts of Lahore — Tharoor delivered a sharp rap: "We don't believe
that (putting) responsibility for things that are happening in a dysfunctional
state to their neighbours, who have conducted themselves very differently, is a
very healthy practice."
According to the minister, India did not
"conduct our relations with neighbour as a zero sum game". He said, "We want to
see a stable, prosperous Pakistan. We have no interest on anyway in
destabilising Pakistan. Destabilising neighbours has been somebody else's
policy, not ours." The clearly combative note could indicate that the government
is scrambling to recover the ground it lost in Egypt.
Tharoor's
colleague in the foreign ministry Preneet Kaur also spoke on the issue and
defended the reference to Balochistan in the joint statement. "It was only
mentioned that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani voiced some concern
that the PM said that he had no problem in addressing, since we had everything
in an open book. And we certainly have not been doing anything (there)," she
told reporters
On the other hand,Ahead of a meeting of its
top leadership to discuss the escalating controversy about the India-Pakistan
joint statement signed in
Janata Party (BJP) was trying to extract political mileage from the issue.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of the
party's core committee Friday evening to discuss the issue. It is scheduled to
be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee,
Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel, among
others.
Refuting the BJP's allegation that the inclusion of
Balochistan in the joint statement amounted to conceding that India was
responsible for problems in the province, Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed
said: "This is completely wrong, in fact we want a peaceful neighbourhood. BJP
is trying to take political mileage by opposing the joint statement and making
such allegations."
Ahmed added that a final view on the statement
would be explained by the official government spokesperson.
The
joint statement was signed after Manmohan Singh met Pakistani Prime Minister
Yousuf Raza Gilani in Sharm-el-Sheikh last week.
"Prime Minister
Gilani mentioned that Pakistan has some information on threat in Balochistan and
other areas," the document states.
It was the first time that
Balochistan has been referred to in any joint declaration by the two countries.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad had said on Thursday that the
inclusion of Balochistan would enable Pakistan to hold India responsible for
problems in the province.
"By one stroke you have given some kind of
culpable legitimacy to the government of Pakistan to allege in the international
forum that India foments problems in Balochistan," Prasad said.
Prasad also said the joint statement would have a long term impact
on India's prestige in the international community.
Kargil made India discuss Kashmir with Pak: Musharraf
Terming Kargil as a "bigsuccess", former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said India agreed to
discuss Kashmir only because of
"Yes, indeed, it
was a big success because it had (an) impact even on the attitudes of the Indian
side. How did we start discussing the Kashmir dispute? How was it that the
Indians agreed that we will discuss Kashmir and there must be a negotiated
settlement? Before this there was no such thing at all," Musharraf said in a TV
interview.
Making a strong defence of the controversial Kargil
Operation, he said before that "Kashmir couldn't be spoken. Kashmir must not be
mentioned even in United Nation's speeches by our leaders. This was the Indian
side. (So) how did the Indians come on the negotiating table on Kashmir?"
On asked whether he would repeat the Kargil Operation, knowing that
it ended up raising question marks about him personally, Musharraf replied: "I
don't want to comment".
He also accepted that forces from the
Pakistani Army's Rawalpindi Corps and Force Command Northern Areas were involved
in the Kargil Operation - contradictory to the country's earlier claim that
Kargil was conducted by alleged freedom fighters and the army was not involved.
As written in his book "In the Line of Fire", he said, they were
"second line forces" but accepted they were commanded by the army's Rawalpindi
Corps and FCNA.
"What I have written is final. I am not going to get
into the details at all," Musharraf said.
Claiming the Kargil
Operation ended with Pakistani forces in a "very favourable" position, he said
"Because if you are talking about India-Pakistan, Indians had moved all their
forces against Kargil and there was (as a result) weakness elsewhere.
"So we knew what the Indian forces are capable (of) and what we are
capable (of)...the situation was very favourable in Kargil, in Kashmir and on
the entire border. We were capable of responding to any Indian action," he said.
Asked why he left the decision to Nawaz Sharif and didn't argue
against a ceasefire, he said, "One, there was a ground military position, the
other is that there was a lot happening internationally. Internationally there
was the United States element putting a lot of pressure on the government to
stop or whatever.
"And then there was the (domestic) political
pressure. Whether the political situation was good enough to sustain that
pressure. I, therefore, decided to only talk of the military (situation)," he
said.
The former president said even though his decision to dismiss
the Chief Justice was absolutely constitutional and legal, the handling of the
situation was "shabby".
"I don't blame myself because I don't get
into the nitty gritty of which Deputy Superintendent of Police was rude to him,
some cars were taken (away) or something of that sort. Now I am not passing such
orders at all," Musharraf said.
Questioned about reports that he had
a secret understanding with the late PPP leader Benazir Bhutto which facilitated
her return to Pakistan in October, 2007, he admitted for the first time that
there was "an understanding".
He claimed that if Benazir had lived
to be prime minister he would still be president of Pakistan today. "There was
an understanding. I did talk to her, yes. I had been talking to her twice. She
was not supposed to come back before the elections," he said.
Commenting on the political situation in Pakistan, Musharraf agreed
that it has become a more complicated country today. "Yes it has. A lot of
complications (are there) - political, economic and law and order," he said,
adding the Asif Ali Zardari government was much weaker.
Musharraf
also agreed with US President Barack Obama's comment that Zardari's government
was fragile and unable to deliver services effectively to the people.
"At the moment yes. That is correct. That is happening," he
said.
| Sharif's PML-N threatens to lodge case against Mush | ||||
| 24 Jul 2009, 1839 hrs IST | ||||
Close on the heels of being slapped with summons by the Supreme Court over his actions during emergency, Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf faced more troubles as opposition PML-N threatened to lodge a fresh case against him for alleged high treason. Adding to the woes of the beleaguered former President, his arch-foe Lord Nazir Ahmad of the UK also announced that he would move a London court against Musharraf, currently in Britain on a lecture tour, for alleged "war crimes" PML-N Chairman, Senator Raja Zafar ul Haq, said that his party has begun consultations with legal experts to invoke Article 6 of the Constitution to bar "free movements" of Musharraf, also former army chief. The Article 6 stipulates that any person who abrogates or attempts or conspire to subvert the Constitution by use of force or show of force or by other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason. It also underlines that Parliament shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason. "A formal case will be lodged against the ex-President (Musharraf) thus consultations with our legal experts are underway to come to a conclusion," Haq told Online news agency in an interview. The PML-N is headed by ex-Premier Nawaz Sharif, who was toppled by Musharraf in a bloodless army coup in October 1999. Haq said Sharif is a national leader and there was no justification to oust him from Parliament and the country's politics. Haq also termed as a "national loss" the slaying of Balochistan's prominent leader Nawab Akbar Bugti -- who was hunted down and killed in his cave hideout by Pakistani army in a crackdown ordered by Musharraf. On the recent meeting Sharif and his brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz, had with President Asif Ali Zardari, he said it will prove to be a milestone in the days to come. Without elaborating, he said Zardari promised to do a lot of things during the meeting held in a cordial and friendly manner amid presence of other party leaders. Haq said PML-N and Zardari's PPP renewed their commitment to the principles laid down in the Charter of Democracy, signed by the two parties in the past, to democratise the Constitution and rid it of all undemocratic clauses including the 17th amendment giving overriding powers to President to dissolve Parliament and dismiss Prime Minister. Meanwhile, Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham has stepped up his campaign against Musharraf, saying that "war crime charges" would be brought against him, 'The News' reported. Pakistan occupied Kashmir born Lord Ahmed said he was approached by "a number of families" who suffered due to Musharraf's policies during his nearly nine-year rule. "These affected families from FATA, Balochistan, Waziristan and Lal Masjid and other parts of Pakistan feel war crimes have been committed against them." Earlier on Wednesday, Pakistan's Supreme Court issued a notice to Musharraf to explain and defend his actions of imposing emergency on November 3, 2007 and sacking of over 60 judges. |
| Jindal popular than Obama in Louisiana: poll | ||||
| 24 Jul 2009, 1841 hrs IST | ||||
Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is more popular than US President Barack Obama in his state and majority of the people there like the charismatic Republican to continue in the post rather than running for the White House in 2012, according to a new poll. Fifty-five per cent of the state's voters approve of the job Jindal is doing, 11 points higher than the grade they give for Obama. A state-wide survey by Public Policy Polling revealed Jindal continued to be popular in Louisiana even as his numbers are far below the approval ratings he enjoyed after his first year in office. As many as 55 per cent of Louisiana voters approve of Jindal’s job performance, ranking him third for popularity among 17 Governors the Public Policy Polling has looked at across the country so far this year. On the other hand, Obama gets overall negative ratings in Louisiana. Obama had lost Louisiana by 20 points last November. According to the poll, 44 per cent of voters approve of his work so far, while 50 per cent disapprove. When it comes to potential 2012 Presidential candidacy, voters gave mixed messages about Jindal, the poll results showed, according to which 61 percent say he should not run, while only 27 percent say he should. Jindal is the rising star of the Republican Party and is widely believed to run for the 2012 Presidential elections, though he has dismissed such reports. |
| Charges against Gates dropped | ||||
| 24 Jul 2009, 1403 hrs IST, AGENCIES | ||||
The white police sergeant accused of racial profiling after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates in his home was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling. Friends and fellow officers - black and white - say Sergeant James Crowley is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly described as racist. Gates accused the 11-year department veteran of being an unyielding, race-baiting authoritarian after Crowley arrested and charged him with disorderly conduct last week. Crowley confronted Gates in his home after a woman passing by summoned police about a possible burglary. Gates was trying to open the front door of his house which had got stuck. The sergeant said he arrested Gates after he repeatedly accused him of racism and made derogatory remarks about his mother, allegations the professor challenges. Gates has labelled Crowley a "rogue cop," demanded an apology, and said he may sue the police department. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas, in his first public comments on the arrest, said on Thursday (July 16) that Crowley was a decorated officer who had followed procedure. |
| Obama: Police acted "stupidly" | ||||
| 24 Jul 2009, 1353 hrs IST, AGENCIES | ||||
President Barack Obama criticized Massachusetts police after arresting a prominent black Harvard University professor at his own home -- weighing in on an escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by police. Answering the last question of his prime-time news conference -- President Barack Obama criticized Massachusetts police after arresting a prominent black Harvard University professor at his own home -- weighing in on an escalating debate over the treatment of minorities by police. US President Barack Obama said, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof they were in there own home." Last Thursday (July 16), returning home from a week's travel, Henry Louis Gates -- a renowned expert on race whom Obama described as a friend -- couldn't get his front door open and pushed his way into his own home. A woman in the neighborhood thought it was a burglary and called police. Confronting Gates inside his home, police claim he exhibited quote "loud and tumultuous behavior" -- including accusing police of racism. Gates was detained for alleged disorderly conduct -- a charge that was quickly dropped. |
Iraq PM hints at longer US role
 Mr Maliki paid tribute to fallen US soldiers |
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has hinted that US forces could stay in Iraq beyond the current deadline of 2011.
In
a speech at a Washington think tank, he reiterated that the troop
presence is due to end on 31 December 2011, under a bilateral
agreement.
"Nevertheless, if the Iraqi forces required further
training and further support, we shall examine this then at that time,"
he said.
US troops pulled out of Iraqi cities and towns at the end of June.
The
move was seen as a major step in the transfer of security control to
government forces in Iraq, which has been plagued by sectarian strife
since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Mr Maliki was speaking at the US Institute of Peace, during a four-day visit to the country.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi leader met US President Barack Obama, who said the US would stick to the withdrawal deadline.
Mr
Obama, who pledged during his election campaign to pull US troops out
of Iraq, warned there would be violence ahead, but said it would
ultimately fail.
Later on Thursday, Mr Maliki later laid a
wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arlington National
Cemetery, in honour of the US soldiers who have died in Iraq.
He observed a minute's silence during a military ceremony at the site.
Sectarian divisions
There
has been a marked drop in violence in Iraq in recent months, though
attacks increased in June in the run-up to the American pull-back.
 There are still regular bombings and attacks in Iraq |
Iraqi troops now take the lead security role in Iraq's urban areas,
and analysts say the latest attacks are a sign that insurgents remain
intent on destabilising the country.
Mr Maliki said on
Wednesday that Iraq's armed forces were now "highly capable" and were
already successfully policing towns and cities.
Mr Maliki faces
a general election in Iraq in January in which he is staking his
reputation on being the man who oversaw the transfer of military
control from US to Iraqi hands.
But the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse
in Baghdad says that, behind the optimistic talk about withdrawal,
reduced violence and the increased capabilities of Iraqi security
forces, lie two facts - there are still around 130,000 American troops
inside Iraq, and fatal attacks remain an everyday occurrence.
The
question remains how to extract American forces from Iraq by the end of
2011 without the security situation getting any worse, our
correspondent says.
Iraq's Shia, Sunni Arab and Kurdish groups
are divided on a number of issues, including how to share Iraq's oil
wealth, the authority of the central government, and political
power-sharing.
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he bottom line behind India-U.S. 3.0
Siddharth Varadarajan
| In between lobbying for American arms sales and nuclear reactor parks, Hillary Clinton spent barely two hours out of five days in official discussion with her Indian hosts. |
On July 8, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described India as
an “emerging” global power. Ten days later she dropped the adjective,
India’s entry on the world stage coinciding with her own moment of
arrival on Indian shores. Ms Clinton was well advised. There is nothing
the Indian elite likes more than having its great power ambitions
stoked in this manner. But along with great flattery comes greater
responsibility. And having declared India wort
hy of global power status, American commentators have been breathlessly
asking whether the country is “ready” to step up to the plate and play
ball. “India wants to be seen as a major world power,” a New York Times
editorial noted condescendingly. “For that to happen, it will have to
drop its pretensions to nonalignment and stake out strong and
constructive positions.”
The purpose behind Ms Clinton’s visit was twofold. First, to build
new structures of engagement that might bring Indian thinking on major
global issues like climate change, trade and disarmament in line with
the “strong and constructive positions” the U.S. takes and away from
the alternative consensus India is trying to build at different forums
like BRIC, IBSA, G-20, G-77 and NAM. This she did by proposing a
strategic dialogue consisting of “five pillars,” ranging from
non-proliferation and climate change to trade, investment and
agriculture. The second purpose was transactional: how to translate the
strategic partnership with India into commercial gains for American
businesses.
On both counts, Ms Clinton’s five-day visit was an unqualified
triumph. The new strategic dialogue architecture was unveiled, and a
strong foundation laid for nuclear and military sales. Both sides
pretended to exchange views on burning international issues. But with
barely an hour set aside for her official meeting with External Affairs
Minister S.M. Krishna, it is obvious that Ms Clinton was not
particularly interested in hearing what her Indian hosts had to say on
Iran and other subjects. Especially since she had already heard the one
thing most important to her — end use.
Setting aside the publicly and privately expressed reservations of
its armed forces, the United Progressive Alliance government agreed to
an end use monitoring (EUM) agreement providing for the physical
verification of defence items purchased from the U.S. None of India’s
major defence suppliers imposes such a condition, though of course it
may welcome the opportunity to do so in the future now that the country
has shown a willingness to open its doors. India also gave in to the
U.S. request to identify the two nuclear parks where American-supplied
reactors will be installed. This at a time when Washington is
attempting to renege on its commitment to facilitate full civil nuclear
cooperation with India by getting the Nuclear Suppliers Group to
introduce an NPT-only rule for the sale of enrichment and reprocessing
items.
Much has been said about how the U.S. insists on EUM arrangements
with all its defence customers and that India cannot expect to be given
a waiver from a requirement that is embedded in American law. Chapter
4.5.7 of the Pentagon’s Security Assistance Management Manual (SAMM)
spells out the EUM condition for foreign military sales: “Sales and
assistance may be made to countries only for purposes of internal
security, legitimate self-defense, for preventing or hindering the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and of the means of
delivering such weapons, civic action, or regional or collective
arrangements consistent with the United Nations (UN) Charter, or
requested by the UN… Proper use of U.S.-origin items is a joint
responsibility of the recipient and U.S. personnel. U.S.
representatives have primary responsibility until items are physically
transferred to the recipient. The recipient then assumes this
responsibility, based on agreements under which transfers are made,
including transfer to a third party or other disposal or change in
end-use.”
As the CAG discovered during his scrutiny of the Jalashva (formerly
USS Trenton) landing dock ship India bought from the U.S. a few years
ago, American weapons contracts come not just with potentially
intrusive inspections but also with a “legitimate self-defence” end use
requirement whose interpretation is bound to be contingent on wider
political equations. For example, Israel has used U.S.-supplied
aircraft and munitions in nakedly aggressive acts against its
neighbours countless times but Washington has never held these to be a
violation of the self-defence condition. But tomorrow, if India uses an
American-supplied jet for an anti-terrorist operation outside its
borders that the U.S. does not approve of, the end-use language of SAMM
4.5.7 may well be invoked against New Delhi. The Trenton was sold to
enable India to deploy troops for humanitarian missions in the region
that the U.S. may be unable or unwilling to undertake. If India tries
to use it for “offensive” purposes, however, it may well have to
contend with U.S. protests.
Every country that sells arms abroad does so for commercial gain.
Many countries also use arms sales as a tool of foreign policy. But
only the U.S. uses these sales as a tool of military policy as well.
Arms transfers help build interoperability. And they also help shape
the way the receiving military operates. What is on offer, therefore,
is not an off-the-shelf sale but a comprehensive package whose
components are not available for cherry picking. After the EUM
agreement will come the Communications and Information Security
Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and a Logistics Supply Agreement
(LSA). It is not a coincidence that almost all of America’s customers
for advanced military hardware are either formal alliance partners,
major non-Nato allies or client states, none of whom has a problem with
providing U.S. inspectors access. Before it plunges headlong into a
closer military relationship, India needs to carefully consider what
this entails.
Part of the problem has to do with mistaken assumptions and flawed
understandings in India of what its strategic partnership with the U.S.
involves. India assumes that American interests and strategies in the
region are congruent with its own. India also believes a strategic
partnership means the Americans will understand and share its concerns
and priorities on most big issues and, at a minimum, not act against
Indian interests wherever there are divergent views. For the U.S., on
the other hand, the partnership is all about shaping India’s choices
and priorities. It is about ensuring that India does not bandwagon with
other rising powers. And acting against Indian interests (as it is now
doing at the G8 and NSG) is not seen as a contradiction. That is why
Indian apprehensions about President Barack Obama’s commitment to the
strategic ties established by George W. Bush were so misplaced. This
partnership helped open the doors of nuclear commerce for India but
also led to a number of Indian doors being opened for the American
side. Surely it would be most un-American for the new administration to
not seek entry.
If India-U.S. 2.0 was all about laying the groundwork for
cooperation in a variety of fields, India-U.S. 3.0 is where Washington
gets to cash in. The U.S. intends to ensure that India honours the
Letter of Intent it gave last September promising to place orders for
nuclear reactors capable of generating at least 10,000 MW of
electricity. The American arms industry — which lobbied hard for the
passage of the nuclear deal through Congress — also intends to collect.
And the Pentagon, which, in many ways, spearheaded Washington’s
outreach to India in the 1990s and again after 9/11, would like to ramp
up military-to-military cooperation using common equipment as a
springboard.
In the weeks before the Hillary visit, U.S. officials not only
worked out the agenda that was to be covered but also announced their
intentions loud and clear. It is not a coincidence that the “five
pillars” were identified not in the joint Indo-U.S. statement but in a
separate “fact-sheet” issued by the U.S. embassy. Sadly, very little of
this ideation and articulation took place on the Indian side. If India
had a positive, proactive agenda of what it hoped to get out of the
visit, this was kept a tightly guarded secret. Certainly, there was no
public expression of it. When difficult issues arose in the public
domain — like the attempt by the Obama administration to get the G8 to
ban ENR sales to India — these were ducked and a senior Minister
fielded to tell Parliament that the government was not unduly
concerned.
India’s engagement with the U.S. is one of the most exciting and
challenging aspects of the country’s foreign policy today. But unless
this high-stakes game is handled properly, with planning, foresight and
determination, it could well turn out to be dangerous.
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Probe 2G spectrum allocation, demands OppositionTimes of India - 19 hours ago NEW DELHI: Opposition on Thursday demanded a probe into the allocation of 2G spectrum to mobile operators by the telecom ministry, terming it the "biggest loot of public money". Karat asks PM to inquire into Abhaya case chargesheetTimes of India - 5 hours ago NEW DELHI: CPM politburo member Brinda Karat has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to inquire into the CBI chargesheet in the Abhaya murder case that uses "obscene, vulgar and unscientific" language against an accused Sister Sephy. |
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White House downplays delay in health care billAFP - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON - The White House Friday downplayed a congressional delay in voting on a vast reform of the creaking US health care system, which has been viewed as a blow to US President Barack Obama. Police stand by officer who arrested GatesReuters - - 32 minutes ago CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police union officials on Friday rallied around the white officer whose arrest of a prominent black scholar sparked a heated debate on race relations in the United States. guardian.co.uk - Boston Globe - FOXNews - Wikipedia: 2009 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest by Cambridge police Britain to oppose IMF loan to Sri Lanka over plight of Tamil refugeesTimes Online - 1 hour ago Britain was poised tonight to take an unprecedented stand against a US $2.5 billion loan being extended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Sri Lanka because of fears over the humanitarian situation in the county. Chloe Smith, a fresh face but straight out of the David Cameron mouldguardian.co.uk - 42 minutes ago Chloe Smith laughs with parents David and Claire after winning the Norwich North byelection. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters David Cameron tried to butter up the Tory old guard this week by suggesting that he would give ministerial jobs to grandees ... Hard-liners increase pressure on Iranian presidentThe Associated Press - - 43 minutes ago TEHRAN, Iran - Fellow Iranian hard-liners stepped up pressure on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday to obey the supreme leader's order to dismiss his top deputy, warning that continued defiance would undermine his legitimacy and alienate his ... Ousted Honduras leader asks troops to let him returnCNN International - 12 minutes ago ESTELI, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya on Friday asked police and soldiers to let him back into his country as he held a news conference in Nicaragua near the border he has vowed to cross. Iranian airliner skids off runway killing 17The Associated Press - - 50 minutes ago TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway during its landing in northeast Iran and crashed, shredding the cockpit into a tangled mass of wreckage and killing 17 people, the state news agency said. Extra troops set for AfghanistanBBC News - 1 hour ago An extra 125 servicemen and women are to be deployed to Afghanistan to replace troops who have died, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has announced. GOP Sen. Cornyn to vote against SotomayorThe Associated Press - - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party's Senate campaign arm, said Friday he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, siding with GOP leaders and conservatives who are lining up against President Barack Obama's ... Kyrgyz leader re-elected amid charges of widespread fraudTimes of India - 2 hours ago BISHKEK: Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has won a landslide second term in office, bagging nearly 90 per cent of a little over a quarter of the vote counted so far, the election commission announced. Musharraf to defend his controversial decisions before Pak SCTimes of India - - 2 hours ago ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is not going to give up easily and will fight a legal battle to prove his innocence in a case related to appointment of judges of the higher judiciary after imposition of emergency on ... Officials: 6 dead in Croatia train crashThe Associated Press - 1 hour ago RUDINE, Croatia - A two-car train carrying about 90 passengers derailed in a remote area of southern Croatia on Friday, killing six people and injuring at least 55, officials said. New Jersey scandal highlights cycle of ongoing corruptionguardian.co.uk - 2 hours ago FBI agents lead arrested suspects from their headquarters as part of a corruption investigation in Newark, New Jersey. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP The hapless state of New Jersey was absorbing yet another blow to its reputation today following the ... Silvio Berlusconi digs himself a bigger holeguardian.co.uk - 3 hours ago Silvio Berlusconi. Failure to report an archaeological find can bring 12 months in jail. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters The Silvio Berlusconi tapes released this week have focused, not surprisingly, on lurid discussions of threesomes, ... Defense delivers closing argument in Suu Kyi trialReuters - - 6 hours ago YANGON (Reuters) - A court in army-ruled Myanmar heard closing arguments for the defense on Friday in the trial on security-related charges of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the prosecution will have its say next week. Goodwill dash gives reason to smileMelbourne Herald Sun - 2 hours ago ANGELINA Jolie has visited a settlement for displaced Iraqis in northwest Baghdad as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR. The UN refugee agency says the actor met four families who could not afford medical treatment and whose children could not go to ... Canada's Via Rail hit by strike, cancels trainsReuters - - 5 minutes ago OTTAWA, July 24 (Reuters) - Via Rail, Canada's national passenger rail service, said on Friday it was shutting down service after mediated talks with the Teamsters union failed to resolve a contract dispute, and locomotive engineers ... Shielding Taliban? Pak refuses to move troops from Indian borderTimes of India - 19 hours ago NEW DELHI: After a beguiling interval when Pakistan seemed prepared to see its internal challenges as more serious than those on its eastern border, Islamabad has flatly refused to move troops from the Indian front in what looks like a bid to protect ... Fires engulf southern Europe as temperatures expected to riseTelegraph.co.uk - - 17 minutes ago Fierce wildfires swept across Europe on Friday trapping hundreds of holidaymakers as firemen struggled to contain the flames that have killed at least seven people so far. Russia Warns of Sanctions Against Arms Sales to GeorgiaNew York Times - - 53 minutes ago TBILISI, Georgia - As Georgia's president proclaimed Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s visit to this country a “major diplomatic victory,” a top Russian diplomat announced sanctions against foreign companies that sell weapons to ... |
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Pakistan ambiguous on dossierHindu - - 20 hours ago ISLAMABAD: Pakistan chose on Thursday to remain ambiguous about whether or not it had handed over a dossier to New Delhi detailing the evidence of an ... Sri Lanka-Pakistan third Test drawnHindu - 6 hours ago Colombo (AP): Sri Lanka and Pakistan have drawn the third and final test, giving Sri Lanka a 2-0 series victory. Sri Lanka required a world record 492 runs ... Pakistan wants to strengthen cooperation with Thailand: FMXinhua - - 5 hours ago Qureshi said Pakistan wants to further strengthen bilateral cooperation with Thailand particularly in the economic field. Both sides agreed to hold Joint ... Pakistan battles 'kill 21 militants, soldier'AFP - 4 hours ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 21 militants and a soldier were killed Friday during an ongoing military offensive designed to eliminate the Taliban from ... Shielding Taliban? Pak refuses to move troops from Indian borderTimes of India - 19 hours ago NEW DELHI: After a beguiling interval when Pakistan seemed prepared to see its internal challenges as more serious than those on its eastern border, ... Musharraf to defend his controversial decisions before Pak SCTimes of India - - 2 hours ago ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is not going to give up easily and will fight a legal battle to prove his innocence in ... Taliban dismisses US claims about death of Osama's sonHindu - 9 hours ago Islamabad (PTI): Taliban on Friday dismissed US claims that one of the sons of al-qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden may have been killed in airstrikes in Pakistan ... Kasab's trial to proceed despite confessionDaily Times - 20 hours ago Evidence from the Mumbai trial could theoretically be used in Pakistan against five members of Islamist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT), prosecutor Ujjwal ... Kargil a big success: MusharrafEconomic Times - 8 hours ago ISLAMABAD: Defending his Kargil misadventure, former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf has described the 1999 Kargil conflict as a "big success" ... Pakistan stocks fall on delay in rate cutReuters India - 7 hours ago The State Bank of Pakistan said on Friday it was delaying the the announcement of its monetary policy for the July-September quarter to Aug. ... |
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