Dada Darbar Suicide Bomber Indentity Disclosed – Express news
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Jul 02, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
June deadliest month for foreign troops in Afghan war
KABUL:__Dawn__ The deaths of another four Nato troops in an accident in Afghanistan made June the deadliest single month for US-led foreign forces in nearly nine years of conflict, according to an AFP tally Thursday.
The grim landmark followed the sacking of Nato’s commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, which was greeted [...]
Jun 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere
By Jeff Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 24, 2010; A11
The CIA has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source.
The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the source, who [...]
Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border
The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.
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Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmation that an unusually large [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
The Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See: Smuggled Footage From the Flotilla Attack
As a passenger of the Mavi Marmara, the flagship vessel of the humanitarian convoy that Israel attacked in international waters, I am cautiously optimistic about Israel’s announced plan of “easing” the Gaza blockade.
Easing, after all, is not the same as “complete lifting,” and it is yet to be determined what the [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Order to block nine websites with blasphemous material
LAHORE: A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.
Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority to block the websites due to “material against the fundamental principals of Islam and its preaching,” according to a copy of the judgement [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Female suicide bomber kills two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
A woman detonated explosives hidden under her burqa in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers and injuring more than a dozen bystanders. Government officials tell The Wall Street Journal’s Maria Abi-Habib and Habib Zahori that the bombing marks the first suicide attack perpetrated by a woman in Afghanistan, where all suicide attacks were taboo [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Pakistan Sentences Americans for Terrorism
SARGODHA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court on Thursday sentenced five American students accused of contacting militants in Pakistan over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks to 10 years each in prison, the deputy prosecutor said.
The students, in their 20s, were detained in December in Pakistan’s central city of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Gas pipeline project to continue despite sanctions on Iran: Qureshi
MULTAN : Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday defended the gas pipeline project with Iran and said Islamabad will take the project forward despite sanctions on Iran, Aaj News reported.
Qureshi’s comments came hours after U.S. Special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke warned Pakistan against the project with Iran.
The [...]
Jun 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Troop pullout still set for July 2011: US
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration reaffirmed Sunday that it will begin pulling US troops out of Afghanistan next summer, despite reservations among top generals that absolute deadlines are a mistake.
President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said an announced plan to begin bringing forces home in July 2011 still holds.
”That’s not changing. Everybody agreed [...]
Jun 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Russia Cancels S-300 Missile System Delivery to Iran
Russia has announced it is canceling its delivery of the S-300 missile defense system to Iran. The news came as a result of the increased sanctions imposed June 9 by the United Nations Security Council, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Denisov.
Had it been delivered, military intelligence officials said [...]
Jun 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
New Iran sanctions could hit Pakistan: Holbrooke
Pakistan should be wary of committing to an Iran-Pakistan natural gas pipeline because anticipated US sanctions on Iran could hit Pakistani companies, the U.S. special representative to the region said on Sunday. While sympathetic to Pakistan’s energy needs, the US special representative to the region, Richard Holbrooke, told reporters that new legislation, which targets Iran’s [...]
Jun 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Police postpone CCTV scheme targeting British Muslims
LONDON // The introduction of a network of more than 200 CCTV cameras giving blanket coverage of two predominantly Muslim areas of Birmingham is to be postponed after furious protests.
Muslim, civil rights and community groups were enraged after it emerged earlier this month that the cameras were not primarily for crime [...]
Jun 20, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Govt decides to hike power tariff by 7.5 percent from July, 1
Government has decided to raise power tariff by 7.5 percent from July, 1. According to a private T.V channel, finance ministry sources told government was in dire need of financial resources to keep the fiscal deficit within targeted limit of 5.3 percent. In this connection Ittesalat has been asked to make payment of 500 million [...]
Jun 20, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
