The United States and other countries worldwide have now pledged a total of more than 700 million dollars towards flood relief in Pakistan, a senior US official said Monday. The United Nations General Assembly meeting last Thursday was a real galvanizing moment in terms of contributions from other countries, said Dan Feldman, the deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the hike in US casualties in Afghanistan was expected and that people are too quick to say the war is going badly. Gates tells a US TV channel the war is a ‘tough pull’.
The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said Sunday. Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed last month in his hotel room in what Dubai police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency. The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillize Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website
MUNICH: Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasul said ties were improving with Pakistan and curbing terrorism and militancy is a difficult task. In an interview with foreign news agency, improving ties with neighboring countries is top priority of Afghan government
WASHINGTON, The US Congress’ both the houses have passed a 680-billion-dollar defense spending bill for fiscal year 2010 which sets tough new restrictions on military aid to Pakistan. The US Senate voted 68-29 in favor of a 680-billion-dollar defense budget for fiscal year 2010, which sailed through the House of Representatives by a 281-146 margin on October 8 and will now go to President Barack Obama
The Obama family portrait was released today and the First Dog is missing!, The family portrait itself is beautiful. It’s the all-American family
LONDON: A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts in January or February of this year.
TEHRAN: Preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami condemned on Saturday the International Atomic Energy Agency’s anti-Iran resolution, saying the move was “political and non-technical.” Ahmad Khatami, speaking at a Tehran University prayer service to mark the holiday of Eid al-Adha, warned world powers that Iran will not be cowed by threats or swayed by “bribery” to give up its right to nuclear technology. He was responding to a resolution adopted on Friday by the IAEA demanding that Iran halt its nuclear programs