Obama names another Indian-American to key post
byWashington : President Barack Obama has named Indian-American, Preeta D. Bansal, as a member of an independent agency promoting improvements in the efficiency, adequacy,…
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Decades of army rule should be a bitter lesson: Pakistani daily
byIslamabad : President Asif Ali Zardari’s sudden departure for Dubai over a heart ailment sparked rumours, including one that referred to a coup, said…
Zardari’s condition stable: Doctor
byIslamabad : Asif Ali Zardari, who was undergoing medical tests in a Dubai hospital, was in a “stable” condition, said the president’s physician. Associated…
US discounts Pakistan coup rumours
byWashington : The US has discounted rumours of a “silent coup” against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after reports that he had gone to…
52 dead, 130 injured in triple Afghanistan bombings
byKabul : Fiftytwo people were killed and at least 130 injured in massive blasts that tore through Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan Tuesday,…
34 die in Afghanistan triple bombings
byKabul : Thirtyfour people were killed in massive explosions that rocked Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan Tuesday, a day after the Bonn conference…
Triple bombings rock Afghanistan
byKabul : Massive bombings rocked Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan Tuesday, a day after the Bonn conference that focussed on the strife-ridden nation’s…
Growth slows in US service sector
byNew York : The service sector, which accounts for more than 75 percent of US economic activity, expanded last month at the slowest pace…
‘ISI not in Pakistan government control’
byWashington : Mansoor Ijaz, the man who stirred Pakistan’s ‘memogate’, has alleged that Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), especially its ‘S’ or strategic…
Radioactive water from Japan n-plant leaks into Pacific
byTokyo : Radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant may have leaked into the Pacific Ocean, the plant operator has said. The…