 NEW DELHI: Japan and India struck a $15 billion currency swap deal Wednesday that could bolster the sagging rupee as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made a lightning 36-hour trip to New Delhi. The currency swap was part of a host of agreements signed by India and Japan, which is seeking to forge closer partnerships in the Asian region as a counterweight to China’s growing ... Read more » |
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ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistani and Indian officials agreed on Tuesday on extending pacts on reducing risks of nuclear accidents and pre-notification of ballistic missile tests. < ... Read more » |
 PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday said that the decision of the courts are being dismissed and national security is at stake, while national security institutes are being closed one after another, DawnNews reported. While addressing the Provincial Council Meeting of Muslim League-N in Peshawar, Mian Nawaz Sharif said that, former president Pervez Musharaf i ... Read more » |
 KARACHI: Pakistan’s former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan brought at least 100,000 people into the streets of Karachi on Sunday in a massive rally that increases pressure on the civilian government and cements his standing as a political force. Khan is riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who co-chairs the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and is facing challenges from the military, the supreme court and political opponents after a year of cascading crises. ... Read more » |
IT’S been a tough autumn and the opening months of 2012 look set to be equally difficult. Finally, however, it’s Christmas and most of Europe is taking a much-needed break from work, stress and professional obligations. Most European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are locking up the office, leaving their woes behind and heading off on holiday with family and friends. Having been in the eye of the euro storm for the last year, Merkel certainly needs the break. B ... Read more » |
 KABUL: The Taliban are willing to open an office in an Islamic country, a step towards holding face-to-face peace talks with Afghanistan, a member of the Afghan government’s team of negotiators with the group said on Sunday. After a series of failed attem ... Read more » |
IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER: The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait Sunday, nearly nine years after launching a divisive war to oust Saddam Hussein, and just as the oil-rich country grapples with renewed political deadlock.The last of roughly 110 vehicles carrying 500-odd troops mostly belonging to the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, traversed the border at 7:38 am, leaving just a couple hundred soldiers at the US embassy, in a country where there were once nearly 170,000 troops on 505 bases. It ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead, many more wounded, and 1.75 million Iraqis displaced, after the US-led invasion unleashed brutal sectarian killing. ... Read more » |
KARACHI: The mystery surrounding President Asif Ali Zardari’s departure earlier this month came to an end on Sunday when he arrived back in the country in the early hours of Monday as suddenly as he left.
The plane carrying the President landed at Air Force’s Masroor Base in Karachi past 1am, from where he was taken to his residence, Bilawal House.
By Sunday evening, the rumours about his arrival back in the country were headlines. That the rumours had emanated from the presidency were evident from the fact that most of his aides were hinting at his return, but refused to either confirm it or speak on the record.
Reports of security being bolstered at Bilawal House in Karachi were cited to prove that he wo
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KARACHI: Amidst a rapidly-shifting and charged political scenario, President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday called the Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to discuss ‘security situation’ and the memogate issue, DawnNews reported.
According to reliable sources the overall security situation of the country including memogate issue came into discussion in their first contact after Zardari’s illness.
President’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the army chief inquired president’s health, conveyed his well wishes and prayed for early recovery from illness.
Both military and political leadership agreed not to let memogate issued used for spar between the state’s institutions.
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