Posts Tagged ‘ afghanistan ’

Troops regain full control of Bajaur

March 2, 2010
By Breaking News

KHAR: Inspector General Frontier Corps Major General Tariq Khan has said that security forces have regained full control of Bajaur besides killing 54 more militants, including seven key Taliban commanders. While ongoing operations in Orakzai Agency and Teerah will also be completed soon, he announced. Meanwhile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) Maj-Gen...
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CM Hoti urges respect for Urdu

March 2, 2010
By Breaking News

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister NWFP said that either Urdu is national language or language of communication but is the most spoken language of the country and deserve respect. He was speaking to media men here after inauguration of a police station.
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James Denselow: Iraqi Elections: Politicians Vs Statesmen

March 1, 2010
By Gulraiz
James Denselow: Iraqi Elections: Politicians Vs Statesmen

The political elite in Iraq have to be willing to sacrifice short-term, sectarian gain for the long-term interests of their country Iraqis will go to the polls again on 7 March to elect 325 members of the country’s council of representatives.
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Rescuers Search For Survivors After Chile Quake

February 28, 2010
By Breaking News
Rescuers Search For Survivors After Chile Quake

Rescuers Search For Survivors After Chile Quake  : A woman sitting in front of a house affected by the earthquake in Talca, Chile, and after the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the country, February 27, 2010 Rescue workers are tearing through the rubble looking for survivors in Chile on Sunday, a day after...
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Jury hearing Aafia Siddiqui case yet to reach verdict

February 2, 2010
By Gulraiz

NEW YORK: The trial of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani scientist charged with shooting at her US interrogators in Afghanistan, moved into the final stage on Monday, with defence lawyers highlighting in their final arguments the lack of coherence in the accounts by prosecution witnesses. After both the prosecution and defence delivered their closing...
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US, Pakistani officials believe Mehsud is dead: report

February 1, 2010
By rajaali

WASHINGTON: Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, The New York Times reported late Sunday. The newspaper said the Pakistani military,...
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US drone strike kills 5 in N Waziristan

January 30, 2010
By Breaking News

PESHAWAR: At least five suspected militants were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’’s tribal area near the Afghan border late Friday, officials said.
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Motorola will ‘broaden the scope’ of Blur, sell a phone through Google this year

January 29, 2010
By Gulraiz
Motorola will ‘broaden the scope’ of Blur, sell a phone through Google this year

Earnings calls tend to be about as exciting as a stale piece of white bread, but every once in a while something juicy falls through — and morsels are filtering out of the earnings call that Motorola held this morning . Here are the biggies: We hope you like Blur , because it’s...
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Taking war to NWA will be Pak decision: Qureshi

January 29, 2010
By Breaking News

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has ruled out the likelihood of meeting with his Indian counterpart Krishna during the London Conference, as India is not displaying seriousness for the Composite Dialogue. In an interview with an Indian television channel, Qureshi asserted “I am not sensing zeal and enthusiasm in the Indian leadership...
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Cricket Helps Afghans Beat War Miseries

January 28, 2010
By rajaali
Cricket Helps Afghans Beat War Miseries

PARIS: World governments meeting on Thursday in London will ponder how to win the war in Afghanistan and cricket could be part of the answer, reported a US news agency.
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