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President Barack Obama announced that he plans to spread the money that accompanies his Nobel Peace Prize among 10 different charities. Obama was awarded the prize based on the hope that his presidency would bring about a change in American foreign policy, had decided soon after being notified of the award that he would donate the $1.4 million award to charity. The prize money would be distributed amongst non-profit organization which include organization that provides housing for families of those receiving medical care at major military and Veterans Affairs medical centers.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai would arrive in Pakistan tomorrow on a two-day visit. Karzai would be visiting the country for the first time after being elected as president for the second term

US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke has said that misconceptions created on Kerry-Lugar bill have been removed; where as now the relations with Pakistani government are better. During a press briefing in Washington, he said that Pak-Afghan coordination is continuing in order to maintain peace in the region

WASHINGTON: The United States is looking forward to a stable relationship between India and Pakistan, especially as they resume peace talks next week, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robert Blake said.

US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet today to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban. The meeting in the secure White House Situation Room also comes after the reported capture by US and Pakistan spies of the Taliban’s top military commander, in what was apparently a huge blow to the Afghan insurgency

WASHINGTON: Pakistan had to do more to combat terrorists on its soil if it wanted to continue to receive substantial US aid, says John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate.

NEW DELHI: Relations with Pakistan, which have been frozen following the Mumbai attacks in 2008, will improve only if Islamabad cracks down on terrorism, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told a Gulf paper in an interview.

Hailing Pakistan for its all-out support to Kashmir cause, leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has called upon the Indian government to review its stance regarding the dispute and do away with its traditional stubbornness. Kashmir Solidarity Day, Mirwaiz thanked Pakistan on behalf of Kashmiris for taking up the dispute at all levels, adding that the said issue was both political and public and urged the Indian government to fulfil the commitments it made to the Kashmiris.

TAMPA, Florida: The US military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen.

Mike Mullen for Revisiting Af-Pak Terror Strategy, US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has called to revisit Af-Pak terror strategy, saying that US was fed up of getting its troops killed over there. Mullen stated this while addressing hundreds of students at the Naval War College in Newport