Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
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SriLanka Vs Pakistan [Pakistan vs Sri lanka] Live Highlights Video Online World cup 2011 -26th february 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011Pakistan will be playing their first big match of the world cup against hosts SriLanka. Pakistani cricket fans are getting nervy, they do not have confidence in their team and fear loss before every encounter.
Team Pakistan and it’s fans should remember only one thing they have beaten Sri Lanka in each of their six encounters in the World Cups and have won their previous five games at the R Premadasa. The fans of Pakistan team and the cricket pundits have been a bit nervous regarding their bowling combination, the form of Shoaib Akhtar and the lack of pace of Abdul Razzaq has been the main concern.
The newly laid pitch at Premadasa stadium has so far been a bat first- low scoring track, the average score at this track has been 225. I think Pakistan still has enough fire power in their bowling even if they don’t make a change they should not drop a batsman against SriLanka as Srilanka is a good bowling side. They can play Riaz in place of Akhtar if he is not fully fit but thats about it.
Play the match like any other match no need to get nervous this match will have little or no consequences on Pakistan’s chances to qualify for the QF, so Afridi & CO should play their natural game and should not take any pressure at all for this match. The pundits might not respect Pakistan team but in my opinion this team has all the firepower to beat any team in this tournament.
All we need is that our key players should play the match with their natural flare. We lose matches when we take pressure and self implode. Pakistan has beaten this SriLankan team on many occasions, they will have a home advantage and a knowledge of the newly laid track to their advantage but if Afridi led the team calmly it will be tough for SriLanka to beat Pakistan team.
What Afridi should realize is that tough matches in the initial round develop or destroy the confidence of the teams, regardless of the result Afridi will have to show calmness as a leader and should continue to encourage his players through thick and thin , he will have to make his players believe that they are the best.
Pakistan (probable): 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Ahmed Shehzad, 3 Kamran Akmal (wk), 4 Younis Khan, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Umar Akmal, 7 Shahid Afridi (capt), 8 Abdul Razzaq, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Abdur Rehman, 11 Shoaib Akhtar
Sri Lanka (probable): 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Upul Tharanga, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Kapugedera, 6 Thilan Samaraweera, 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Thisara Perera, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Ajantha Mendis, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan
U.S. seeks to ease India's Afghan fears, backs Pakistan
Thursday, July 22, 2010
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India Wanted to Be Just a Holiday: Mahmood Qureshi
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, making the situation complex and it seems that he is not willing to go to New Delhi by then, unless all exceptional issues with India, Pakistan, "meaningful, beneficial and result - oriented 'talks Not ready to become.
Qureshi joint press conference with Britain's Minister after Saiyada Warsi said,’ I just want to go on holiday to celebrate the tour of India. And if they created the perfect environment I fully ready meaningful, constructive and result - leaning dialogue would go for. ''He was responding to reporters asking the question whether the Indian government given the in progress trend will be New Delhi for talks.
Qureshi in Islamabad last Thursday after gathering with Foreign Minister SM Krishna had declared that his Pakistani matching part to visit India for the next round is invited. Qureshi reiterated that Krishna had come to Pakistan with limited goals.
He said,’ I said in the discussion between us that they, "take the issue of terrorism, provided that their priority, because it is a concern for us. You Mumbai can take, but our own concerns. ''Qureshi said Pakistan's concerns Jammu - Kashmir situation where about curfews and deaths are phenomenon.
Qureshi claimed that India and Pakistan expressed its concerns about the concerns of 'selective' is done. He said, ''if you (India) are accountable to their people on terrorism, we are in democracy and we have to satisfy our people.''
Pakistan's foreign minister said he had no issue risen that the Composite Dialogue is not part of the eight components. He did so because it did not want Pakistan Composite Dialogue were held in four years efforts go wasted.
Pakistani doctor missing since the terrorist to treat
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Lahore .. Recent terrorist attacks on Ahmadi mosque in Lahore hospital, a doctor treating a terrorist of the past three days L
Apato and police have registered a case of kidnapping in this regard.
According to FIR, Ali Abdullah on Sunday night was kidnapped while returning home from duty. Riding on the motorcycle was returning home.
Amir Abdullah alias Moavieo Moaj a wounded terrorist was treated on May 28 Ahmadiya mosque that was caught during the attack.
Two Ahmadi mosques being targeted by terrorists more than 95 people were killed. Abdullah's mother, police said quoting the doctor had sent SMS to his mother from his cell phone which was said to make food.
Sarfraz said Abdullah's father - when he came home so I had the ring on his cell phone which was locked. He then contacted the Jinnah hospital staff who have been told by the hospital.
SP Abdullah Abdur Rab said that the police is trying to find.
Apato and police have registered a case of kidnapping in this regard.
According to FIR, Ali Abdullah on Sunday night was kidnapped while returning home from duty. Riding on the motorcycle was returning home.
Amir Abdullah alias Moavieo Moaj a wounded terrorist was treated on May 28 Ahmadiya mosque that was caught during the attack.
Two Ahmadi mosques being targeted by terrorists more than 95 people were killed. Abdullah's mother, police said quoting the doctor had sent SMS to his mother from his cell phone which was said to make food.
Sarfraz said Abdullah's father - when he came home so I had the ring on his cell phone which was locked. He then contacted the Jinnah hospital staff who have been told by the hospital.
SP Abdullah Abdur Rab said that the police is trying to find.
US could label Pakistan-based militants 'terrorists': NYT
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Terrorists, a go that could make difficult an Afghan following settlement, say a explanation Wednesday.
The new commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, introduce the idea of blacklisting of the Haqqani system in the previous week in gathering with head Barak Osama’s older advisor of Pakistan benefit Afghanistan, "The New York era account so as to organization bureaucrat.
The explanation quotes them as proverb that the thought "was gravely careful."
Haqqani leaders base in Pakistan. Shaped by Afghan warlord Jalaluddine Haqqani and sprint by his son, Sirajuddin compilation is solitary of the majority horrifying U.S. enemies in Afghanistan and is supposed to contain shut ties to Pakistani Cleverness repair.
Pakistani safety officials have supposed they are eager to help agent peace in Afghanistan by drama as a viaduct flanked by the Kabul administration plus the Haqqani system.WASHINGTON: U.S. General David Piraeus press the top best of a rebel collection chosen
Pak suicide attacks death toll jumps to 104
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Peshawar: The bereavement toll in a devastating suicide attack on a administration place of work in Pakistan's ethnic area belt areas on Saturday rose to 104 after more than a few of the wounded succumbed to their injuries and rescue personnel dug out 36 more bodies as of the shell of buildings misshapen.
They hypothetical extra than 110 public were injured in the assault plus dozens were motionless life form treated in hospital in Mohamed organization and Peshawar.
The organization had the history said so as to nearly 70 public were killed when two suicide bombers struck the office of the helper political agent in Yakaghund village in Mohamed association.
Peshawar, July 10 (PTI) The death toll in a overwhelming suicide attack on a administration office in Pakistan's tribal areas belt today rose to 104 after more than a few of the injured succumbed to their injuries and rescue workers dug out 36 more bodies from the ruins of misshapen buildings.
The influential explosion shattered dozens of homes and shops in a marketplace close to the office. Additional than 30 prisoner escaped from a jail in the wake of the assault.
One of the bullets seemed attractive small, other than the additional was large, officials said. At smallest amount one bomber was on a motorbike.
Huge blast' in Pakistan tribal village kills 10
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Information said more than a small figure of populace had been killed by the explosion in rural community in Mohamed ethnic area.
It is not recognized what caused the explosion, but a Pakistan TV station said it was a suicide assault.
Mohmand is part of Pakistan's lawless ethnic belt, where Taliban and al-Qaida is hypothetical to exist physically powerful.
Peshawar, Pakistan - A suicide bomber on a motorbike struck outside a administration office in a tribal region where Pakistani army has fought the Taliban, killing at least five populace and wounded almost 100 others on Friday.
The attack showed that militants remain a potent force in Pakistan's ethnic areas belt areas adjacent Afghanistan despite facing military offensives. The U.S. has praised Pakistan to take on Islamic extremists, who use tribal region to diagram attacks on Western forces crossways the edge, other than the militants have often retaliated on Pakistani earth.
in order supposed the bang struck a gainful region plus shops and cars were upset. A prison plus a number of administration offices are close to.
"Following the explosion, I saw obliteration. I saw bodies all over the place. I saw the injured crying for help," Khan told the Associated Press the main northwest city of Peshawar, where he helped escort some of the wounded to hospitals.
Strike in Lahore to protest Pakistan shrine bombing
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Shops and offices were shut in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in a protest strike over suicide attacks on an Islamic shrine which killed 43 people.
Police said they have "apprehended" several people in their investigation into Thursday's bombings, which left a trail of carnage at a packed Sufi shrine, but have made no formal arrests.
Police also said they had uncovered 20 suicide bombing vests and two dozen police commando uniforms during a raid in Lahore late Friday.
Angry protesters had taken to the streets in Pakistan on Friday, burning tyres and blaming Taliban extremists for the latest bloodshed in the city, a major military, political and cultural hub.
Raghib Naeemi, a leader of a Sunni Muslim council that called the strike, said a major rally was being planned on Saturday evening.
"We will continue our protest till the government takes some concrete actions to curb terrorist activities," he said.
Investigators said they had yet to identify the two suicide bombers who blew themselves up among crowds of worshippers at the shrine to Sufi saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, capital of Punjab province.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's bombings and the Pakistan Taliban, which has been blamed for a wave of bloody attacks over the past three years, denied it was involved.
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India, Pak agree to share intelligence report
Saturday, June 26, 2010
slamabad: On a two-day visit to Pakistan to attend the SAARC summit, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram held crucial meetings with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi here.
Coming out of denial, Pakistan said Saturday that it will act against the Taliban and terror groups based in its Punjab province. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that his meeting with Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram was positive.
He said that both sides have agreed to the meeting between the Intelligence chiefs of the two countries and that it was a positive development.
Other than that, Qureshi also said that Pakistan has no problem handing over voice samples of those who India accuses of perpetrating the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
"If there is a special request, we will consider it," Qureshi told CNN-IBN. He also added that the atmosphere has been completely changed for the India-Pakistan ties.
Meanwhile the trial of seven suspects accused of involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, including Lashker-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, has been adjourned for a week.
The next hearing is scheduled for July 3 now. Reports say this has been done apparently due to concerns that any adverse developments in the proceedings could impact ongoing talks with India. The official explanation though is that Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan is on leave.
Chidambaram got a gracious welcome from the hosts, but that didn't stop him from talking tough on terror and demanding immediate action against the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
"There is a mountain of evidence now; the mountain is only growing thanks to the new information gathered recently. Therefore, I would expect that Pakistan acts on the information given and brings to book the real masterminds and the handlers," Chidambaram said.
His list of demands includes action against Jamaat-ud-Daawa chief Hafiz Saeed, a mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
"Of the seven on trial in Rawalpindi, I would put no more than two as frontline actors. There are many others who played a more important role in planning 26/11. That has been shared with Pakistan," he added.
And, although the meeting between Chidambaram and Malik may have been tough on substance, it was cordial enough to leave room for speculation that they could have another bilateral exchange before he leaves for India.
"Well I would be happy if I leave with the conviction that Pakistan has acknowledged the gravity of what have been brought to the table and given us enough assurance that it will take action," Chidambaram told CNN-IBN.
Malik said the talks started "positively" and expressed hope that it would continue. After the morning together at the SAARC interior minister's meeting on Saturday, they will also meet at the reception hosted by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari.
Pakistan media reacts
The mood in the Pakistan media has been quite mixed. On Saturday, most of the leading newspapers wrote extensively on Indian Home Minister's visit to their country.
On Chidambaram-Malik talks, The DAWN newspaper writes very clearly saying – 'Pakistan-India talks make a wary start'. It is a start that will open up possibilities of more meeting among home ministers of the two countries.
The Nation on the other hand quotes Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik and writes 'Lets exchange hearts not dossiers'. The newspaper carries Pakistan's official position on the issue that it is time to move ahead and build confidence.
Another leading newspaper, the Daily times, quotes P Chidambaram saying – 'India asks pak to punish 26/11 perpetrators.'
Clearly the tough message that Chidambaram is carry is not lost on anyone in Islamabad.
Read Mores ibnlive.in.com
Kolkata: Cargo vessel for Karachi carrying arms detained

The Indian Navy is onboard the detained vessel laden with explosives that was bound for Pakistan, sources told TIMES NOW.
Kolkata Police detained Pakistan-bound ship off the coast of Kolkata. The ship was carrying a consignment of arms and ammunition and was detained at Diamond Harbour in West Bengal's South 24 Paraganas district. The cargo ship has not declared the kind of explosives it was carrying.
According to the Navy sources, preliminary inspection was over yesterday and it was declared that ammunition has been found. Navy Sources tell TIMES NOW that this military material is linked to the UN mission in Liberia. Navy has started investigating about the owner of the ammunition and where it was routed to.
Pakistan-bound vessel travelling from Bangladesh was registered in Liberia. The cargo onboard vessel included explosives like anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and smoke bombs. The vessel was also carrying nearly 5 tonnes of military cargo, and was to unload some part of the cargo at Kolkata.
The vessel was detained at the Diamond Harbour in West Bengal.
Surajit Purkayasta, IG (Law and Order), said, "A ship registered in Liberia has today been seized in diamond harbour. We had reports of certain consignment which we checked and found two containers, containing some military hardware like rocket launchers. Senior police officers, customs officials, coastal security will check whether the consignment is authorised or not, also their documents will be checked. We are still investigating whether there was any deviation of route and whether the declarations were in place or not. Then only our further course of action will be determined."
The coast guard has handed over the probe of the explosive laden vessel to the customs departement officials.
'D.C. Five' jailed in Pakistan on terror charges
Thursday, June 24, 2010
slamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Five Americans arrested on terror charges in Pakistan have been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison, the deputy prosecutor general said Thursday.
The men, dubbed the "D.C. Five," will also have to pay a fine of 75,000 Pakistani rupees ($878), public prosecutor Nadim Cheema said.
They have the right to appeal to the Lahore High Court, he said.
Each man was sentenced to 10 years for criminal conspiracy and five years on an anti-terrorism charge, specifically contributing to a banned organization for the purpose of conducting terrorist attacks, Deputy Prosecutor General Rana Bukhtar Ali said.
It was not immediately clear whether the sentences must be served concurrently or consecutively.
Cheema said the court had seen strong evidence such as incriminating e-mails and the suspects' confessions.
The five Americans -- Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam -- used to worship together at a mosque in Alexandria, Virginia, until they went missing in November and turned up in Pakistan. They were arrested in December in Sargodha, about 120 miles south of Islamabad, after their parents in the United States reported them missing.
Pakistani authorities have described the men as college students intent on waging a holy war against "infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world."
The men had said they were innocent and claimed they were tortured in jail. They pleaded not guilty to the charges, according to their attorney, Hassan Dastgir Katchela.
Pak to examine dossier before Foreign Secretary level talks
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry will examine the eleventh dossier handed over to Islamabad by India on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks ahead of a crucial meeting of the Foreign Secretaries to bridge the trust deficit between the two countries.
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India not to discuss substantive issues with Pak, for now
Thursday, June 10, 2010
New Delhi India is not not going to discuss substantive issues like Kashmir with Pakistan in the proposed rounds of dialogue but is only attempting to create the "right atmosphere" for removing the trust deficit for a broad dialogue later.
read full story at expressindia.com
Attackers Torch NATO Supply Convoy in Pakistan | Voanews
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Gunmen have attacked the means of transportation stop outside of the U.S. property assembly of tankers and trucks bound for Afghanistan, NATO troops torching.
Pakistani officials said 10-15 armed men store the bullets began to shoot at least 30 trucks just before 10 km from Islamabad on Tuesday. He said the attackers fled, cars and bikes.
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Making sure that Pak not using military aid against India: US
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
To meet one of India's biggest worries Obama administration point man in South Asia, said that the U.S. has taken the necessary steps to ensure that armed support Pakistan has not been second-hand in India.
This was discussed last week the planned dialogue bordering India and U.S., led by Commerce Secretary SM Krishna and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"I believe they (India) to understand that we are trying to build Pakistan's counterinsurgency capabilities, and we are trying to quit the program to ensure that weapons are not used in parallel with India," Assistant Secretary of State South and Central Asia, "said Robert Blake in response to the question whether the State Title Blog meeting.
This is the first time the U.S. has revealed that the group of people required to ensure that their armed hold up in Pakistan will not be used next to India.
There has been one of the biggest concerns of the Indian crop cream, which was in fact a sign of their U.S. counterpart last week in a strategic dialogue was held in the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign relationships.
Blake says India and U.S. have a common interest in stabilizing Pakistan and New Delhi tau U.S. Pak policy.
"They think we have a common draft to help stabilize Pakistan, and they are probably well aware that the spiral downward would not be India's interest, Mr. Blake said in an interview is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Forum blog.
Participation in the blog forum, Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia Program, CSIS - Washington-based think tank, says the United States, India and Pakistan share the interest in Pakistan's government raised more than terrible, it should be sideways.
"That does not mean that India and Pakistan agreed to complete many things. But beneath it all is so much undivided interest in common is that we must not forget," she supposed.
Cyclone "Phet" leaves 15 dead, thousands homeless in Pakistan
Monday, June 7, 2010
The terrible cyclone "Phet" converted to plain Strong wind force as it slipped into India Rajasthan coastal desert area on Monday after taking a toll on more than 15 lives and injured dozens and thousands were on the streets in the coastal belt in southern Pakistan .
"The cyclone is over," says Director of Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry. "It is reduced to a wind pressure."
"Now the fishermen sailing in the ocean to catch fish," said Chaudhry, declare the coastal waters safe for navigation, while eliminating the possibility of further rain in the southern Sindh province. But he said the eastern Punjab province would get rain the next 24 hours.
Heavy rain and wind lashed Karachi and other coastal cities Sunday, killing at least 15 people, most of them electrocuted, and injured several others, when cyclone swirling along its coast.
Life is paralyzed in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, 15 million inhabitants, and in Hyderabad, the second largest city in Sindh province, and in smaller cities like Thatta and Keti Bandar along the coast of Pakistan in Sindh and Balochistan southwestern province.
Coastal Stock Route in Baluchistan have been washed away, freezing of moving traffic while the network in Sindh has also been eroded by heavy rains that unleashed as "Phet" brim brushed Pakistan at the weekend.
In a country experiencing break the power crisis, life in the cities turned bad as most of the areas are without light for the last 20 to 36 hours, according to local media. While the 2-3 feet in standing water in the streets presenting a river scene that the delicate drainage system was seriously damaged. Medical experts fear that it would generate epidemics.
Results of both sank in the ocean's natural coastal harbor newly built Gwadar in Balochistan.An early warning moored majority of fishing boats in both provinces, which struck the livelihood of hundreds of families.
Over 100,000 villagers have been rescued to safety in relief camps in the two provinces, while a battalion of Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue operation in Balochistan, where intense rainfall of 300 millimeters washed away hundreds of homes. Some areas in Karachi received rainfall of up to 128 mm, while the rest of Sindh experienced from 1940 to 1986 mm rainfall, according to Pakistani media.
Three battalions of the military were called Sunday, which is engaged in rescue in the worst affected coastal areas of Sindh has declared to the red zone from Thatta to Umerkot of Sindh province government.
A Pakistani military C-130 aircraft and two helicopters involved in rescue and relief operations in Balochistan, "said a spokesman for the Army Inter-Services Public Relations on Monday.
The fatal spinning "Phet" generated in the Indian Ocean a week ago and queue to a category four cyclone, but reduced to Category 2 before hitting Oman to take 16 lives on Saturday. It further reduced to a category that narrow Baluchistan. Further reduction to a tropical storm status it brushed the port city of Karachi before met in Sindh's coastal areas on Sunday.
In 1992 a cyclone killed 450 people and displaced 200,000 people in Thatta, about 100 km east of Karachi. In 1999, around 700 people missing and hundreds of coastal villages were flooded east of Karachi, when a storm hit Pakistan. A tropical storm floods destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in Baluchistan in June 2007.
Pak coastal areas brace for Cyclone Phet
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Pakistan's profitable capital Karachi braced itself for the cyclone Phet as meteorologists warned that it could create chaos and disturb life in coastal areas near the city and in Sindh region.
The Pakistani people fishing forum long-established that at least 150 trawlers and boats were gone and lost contact with Naval Control Room, the meteorological section warned that the storm was gaining strength, and is 900 kilometers from Karachi.
Navy helicopters have launched search operation for the gone astray fishermen.
Meteorological Department warned the fishermen come to the open sea and led them to back up as quickly as possible.
The meteorological subdivision has forecast heavy rain, thunderstorms and floods, if the cyclone affects the coastal areas and declared a state of emergency in the coastal areas of interior Sindh.
According to Met Department, is a cyclone assumes more anger, 900 km southwest of Karachi.
The violent tempest would land in Pakistan's coastline after 24 hours, so it is likely to access the Sindh coastal areas during the night between Friday and Saturday.
Under the influence of tropical cyclones formed in the Arabian Sea, Widespread rain associated with strong Strong winds are also expected in Sindh including the Makran coast between Thursday to Saturday.
Phet is a Thai word distinct as pets, which means "Diamond."
In focus-person Disaster Management Committee Fayyaz Abbasi said control is recognized in all districts of Thatta and Badin.
DPO Thatta, he said schools along the coastal area have been twisted into relief camps.
Qamaruz Zaman Siddiqui, director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department said that a clear position on the strength of the cyclone appears tomorrow morning.
"If we expect it will be stronger, and take off from Karachi, then it will be a strong thunderstorm, and hard-hit coastal areas in the interior areas in particular," said Zaman.
Krishna in US, Indo-US strategic talks tomorrow

India and U.S. are set to hold their first strategic dialogue here in the morning where the two sides are expected to discuss the Afghanistan-Pakistan situation and bilateral cooperation against terror.
Foreign Minister SM Krishna, who came here last night for the strategic dialogue with his U.S. counterpart Hillary Clinton, leading a high-power delegation, including HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Minister for Science and Prithviraj Chauhan Technology and Foreign Minister Nirupama Rao.
Other members of the delegation, special secretary for internal security UK Bansal, the environment secretary Vijai Sharma and Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar.
The strategic dialogue will formally open tomorrow
a joint meeting of the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State
Department, headed by Krishna and Secretary
Clinton.
The questions come up is expected to include Afghanistan-Pakistan situation, India's role in Afghanistan and counter-terrorism cooperation between the two parties.
Prior to the Krishna-Clinton speaks during the State Secretary for Political Affairs William Burns and Foreign Minister Nirupama Rao would hold foreign policy meeting at the Foreign Ministry, which officials said will set the tone for tomorrow's dialogue.
In his first public engagement here, Krishna will deliver keynote address at the 35th Anniversary of US-India Business Council - the lead U.S. business legal world to do business in India, reflecting the emphasis of U.S. business and
their role in the U.S. and India.
Separately, USAID Administrator Raj Shah and under secretary for management Robert Hormats D will keep the Indo-US Agriculture Dialogue with Ahluwalia.
Sibal, who already had a series of meetings here yesterday, will continue their discussion with U.S. authorities.
Hours before Krishna's arrival here, "said Burns, the strategic dialogue has elevated India to the ranking of the best global partners.
"Our strategic dialogue this week raise India to the rank of our most important global partners, gives us the opportunity to discuss and coordinate policies of global importance, including the future shape of the international economic system and what we can do together to promote human development in other parts of the world, "he said at the Council on Foreign Relations - a Washington-based think tank.
US asks Pakistan to act against LeT, other anti-India groups
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Expresses its gratitude to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's readiness to take political risks to resume a dialogue with Pakistan, the United States has once again asked Islamabad to take effectual action against Indian terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
"We do not differentiate between terrorists or violent extremist groups operating from Pakistan. This means that works efficiently against groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, too," said U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns said Tuesday before the first India-US strategic dialogue begins Wednesday.
The U.S. official, who leads the official level conversation with Indian Foreign Minister Nirupama Rao, also declared Washington's interest in a rapprochement between India and Pakistan, but said: "We will not bring us over, as they split the two governments, with the exception of India and Pakistan ask for our help.”
And we will continue to urge Pakistan to take decisive action against the violent extremists who intimidate their own interests as much as they do for the security of India and America, "Burns said in a speech to the Council on Foreign family members, a Washington think tank.
"To say in simple, he said," the only "dash" that we will continue with respect to our relationship is what connects the United States and India. ”
He noted that Manmohan Singh had made it clear the significance he attaches to India and an effective Pakistani action against terrorists, predominantly those responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Pakistan has also declared, "That they will pursue the matter of the suspects in the Mumbai attack energetically" Burns said. "It was important not only for the U.S., but for the rest of the international community to see it happen and watch taken effective procedures against violent extremists who threaten not only India but Pakistan's own security."
Pointing to the theatrical expansion of U.S. law enforcement and counter-terrorism cooperation with India after the Mumbai attacks, he said: "It certainly reflects the very strong U.S. promise to fighting violent extremists in this part of the world."
"I think it also helps create an atmosphere where India and Pakistan can move forward," Burns said when asked what the U.S. did to help the reconciliation between the two South Asian neighbors.
Pakistan court orders Facebook access restored
Sunday, May 30, 2010
A Pakistani court Monday prearranged the establishment to restore access to Facebook, nearly two weeks after the popular social networking site was blocked nationwide in a row over profanity.
Justice Ejaz Chaudhry in Lahore High Court has given directives to reverse a May 19 order on the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to block the Facebook of "profane" cartoons of Prophet Mohammed on the spot.
"Restore Facebook. We do not want to block access to in order," Chaudhry told the court.
A competition organized by a Facebook user urged people to draw the Prophet Mohammed to promote "free speech" caused a great blacklash in the conservative Muslim country of 170 million.
Islam strictly forbids depiction of the prophet as blasphemous and even moderate Muslims were deeply offended by the drawings that were displayed on a Facebook page in response to the obligation of an "All Day Draw Mohammed".
A group of Islamic jurists petition Lahore court had ordered Facebook blocked until 31 May, PTA, and then banned YouTube and limited access to other sites, including Wikipedia.
Chaudhry Monday asked the government to develop a system to block access to "profane" content on the Internet, which he said was already in place in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
"It is government's job to take care of such things as spark anger among the people and bring them on the street. They should take measures to prevent any foul language on the Internet," said Chaudhry.
The court adjourned to Monday, June 15 appeals from the Islamic jurists.
Mudassir Hussain, an official from the Information Ministry, told the court that all links to the "blasphemous" content on the Internet would remain blocked in Pakistan.
Pakistan last week again access to YouTube - which, together with Facebook is up 25 percent of Internet traffic in Pakistan - but 1200 pages "wicked" happy was blocked by Thursday.
Islamic activists and students took to the streets, shouting "Death to Facebook" and burned American flags, air rage on the "All Day Draw Mohammed".
But even caricatures universally destined in Pakistan, criticized the Internet-savvy urban elites in general ban on websites.
It's About 2.5 million Facebook users in Pakistan and demonstration of the argument does not spread to other Muslim countries.
Pakistan also briefly banned YouTube in February 2008 in a similar protest against the "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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