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Include Pakistan’s input in Afghan policy, US urged

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:24:25 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad's input in it.

He made the remarks while speaking to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Leon E. Panetta, who was on a two-day unscheduled visit here that concluded Friday.

Mullah Omar not in Karachi: Pakistan (Lead)

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:41 +0000

Islamabad/Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.

Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit, while speaking to a private TV channel Friday, made it clear that Omar was not in the southern port city, Online news agency reported.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi: Report

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:18:30 +0000

Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan's intelligence service, The Washington Times said Friday.

Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders when they plotted the 9/11 attacks, had been residing in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban shura - or council - had moved from Kandahar after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

US drone attack kills eight in Pakistan

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:08:05 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Eight people were killed in a suspected US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan's tribal area, officials said Friday.

The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles on a house at Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal agency near the Afghan border, officials said.

Roadside bomb kills three policemen in Pakistan

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:16:48 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 20 (DPA) A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan's troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

The casualties occurred when a police vehicle on patrol was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in the Yakka Toot neighbourhood.

Cross border terrorism hampering Afghanistan, Pakistan: Clinton

SindhToday — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:49:24 +0000

Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Noting that a "cross border fertilisation of terrorism" is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the two countries to work together to defeat terrorism.

10 civilians killed in Afghan suicide bomb attack

SindhToday — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:40:27 +0000

Kabul, Nov 19 (IANS) Ten civilians were killed and many others injured Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, the police said.

Nearly two dozen people were injured in the blast at 3.30 p.m. in Dehrawad district.

Karzai sworn in for second term amid tight security (Lead)

SindhToday — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:06:44 +0000

Kabul, Nov 19 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in Thursday for a second term in office amid tight security at Kabul's presidential palace.

Security in the Afghan capital was tightened drastically out of fear of possible attacks by Taliban insurgents wishing to disrupt the inauguration.

Karzai inauguration ceremony begins under tight security

SindhToday — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:18:51 +0000

Kabul, Nov 19 (DPA) Tight security marked the beginning of the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Kabul's presidential palace for a second term in office Thursday.

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain took part in the ceremony.

Zardari, Clinton arrive in Kabul for Karzai inauguration

SindhToday — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:54:54 +0000

Kabul, Nov 18 (DPA) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Kabul Wednesday, a day ahead of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai for a second term, officials said.

Karzai was declared winner of Afghanistan's fraud-marred election after his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of a run-off scheduled for Nov 7.

Pakistan announces 15-day Eid package

SindhToday — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:16:42 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) The Pakistan government Wednesday announced a 15-day special package ahead of Eid under which a total subsidy of Rs.300-400 million would be given on more than 400 commodities. Sugar would be sold at Rs.38 per kg.

Addressing a press conference here, the Managing Director (MD) of the Utility Stores Corporation, Arif Khan, said 102,000 tonnes of sugar would be made available to consumers at Rs.38 per kg through all Utility Stores of the country.

Abolish degree requirement for contesting polls: Pakistani panel

SindhToday — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:37 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) A Pakistani parliamentary panel has recommended that a constitutional provisional that requires candidates contesting elections to have at least a college degree be amended.

This can be done by amending articles 62 and 63 of the statute, the Constitutional Reforms Committee said at its meeting here Tuesday.

Senior PPP leadership wants Zardari to clear misgivings

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:55:39 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Top leaders of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) want President Asif Ali Zardari to deliver an immediate nationwide address to quell rumours and inject confidence into the suspense-ridden and disappointed masses, a media report Tuesday said.

They have also demanded immediate removal of "incompetent persons" from their "highly esteemed and responsible posts" since they were bringing disrepute to the party and ruining its name and credibility among the masses, Online news agency reported.

Zardari to visit Kabul Thursday

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:28:50 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Thursday to attend the oath taking ceremony in Kabul by President Hamid Karzai for his second term in office.

Diplomatic sources told Online news agency that the president will be accompanied, among others, by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Pakistan’s Swat valley Taliban chief escapes to Afghanistan: Report

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:28:30 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 17 (DPA) The leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan.

Fazlullah told the BBC Urdu Service via cell phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that his loyalists would soon "launch guerrilla raids against the army in Swat".

Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists being trained in Pakistan: British PM

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:08:04 +0000

London, Nov 17 (IANS) Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps in that country, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

Girls school near Peshawar blown up

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:56:57 +0000

Peshawar, Nov 17 (IANS) Unidentified militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber tribal region Tuesday, the third such attack in the area bordering Afghanistan this month. There were no casualties.

An intelligence official in the area said the Taliban attacked the government-run school

Militant killed, another held in Kashmir

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:14:04 +0000

Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) One militant was killed and another terrorist, who was trained in Pakistan, was arrested as the army foiled yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Tuesday.

Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army's 15th corps, said: "Terrorists made yet another attempt at infiltration into the Valley in the Keran sector of the LOC yesterday (Monday).

Islamabad police want the aged to help tackle terror

SindhToday — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:36:25 +0000

Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) The police have formed committees, which will include the aged, to tackle terror in this Pakistani capital. The committee members would collect information about tenants and visit schools and colleges to guide students.

The committees comprise the youth, members of senior citizens' committees and personnel of 'Rescue 15' which provides aid to terror victims, a police spokesman said.

US asks Pakistan to step up pressure on Taliban, Al Qaeda

SindhToday — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:32:37 +0000

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) As President Barack Obama prepares to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, his administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the New York Times reported Monday.

As Obama travelled to Asia, his national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, was quietly sent to Islamabad to warn that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan, the influential US daily said citing unnamed American officials.