ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affirs Rehman Malik Saturday directed the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to exercise maximum vigilance and remain in a proactive mode to avert any untoward incident across the country. Presiding over a high level meeting here at the Ministry of Interior the advisor directed the provincial Inspectors General and Home Secretaries not to lower security in their respective areas in view of the prevailing situation in the country. Earlier, the meeting reviewed various security issues currently confronting the country. Besides, the meeting also carried out an appraisal of special industry policy/rules from the security point of view. The meeting was attended by Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah, Provincial Inspectors General of Police, Home Secretaries, senior officials of Ministries of Interior and Defence Production and representatives of Intelligence Agencies.
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WASHINGTON: Commending the measures initiated by India and Pakistan to better bilateral ties, US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has said the two Asian neighbours have come a long way since escalated tensions in the subcontinent had led to a war-like situation in 2001. “Relations have improved a lot. They”ve opened lines of communication in Kashmir, they”ve opened trade and bus traffic. There’’s still a lot of clashes along the line of control which separates Pakistanis and India. But it is a lot better situation than it was in 2001 and 2002,” the Secretary of State said. Recalling the strained relations between the two countries following the terrorist attack on Indian Parliament in 2001, Rice recalled how she had kept her family waiting for a Christmas dinner as she discussed with top US and British officials the way out to prevent New Delhi and Islamabad coming to blows. “In December of 2001, I remember merry Christmas night being on the telephone with Colin Powell, the Secretary of State at the time, Jack Straw, who was then the Foreign Secretary for Great Britain, David Manning, former ambassador here who was Prime Minister Blair’’s foreign policy adviser, and it looked like Pakistan and India were going to war,” Rice recounted. “And I remember it well because my family was downstairs waiting for me to come to Christmas dinner. And we were on the phone just trying to figure out who might go into the subcontinent into South Asia to talk to them to keep them from coming to blows,” Rice told media. Rice also cited External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’’s Islamabad visit soon after the swearing in of the Yousuf Raza Gilani government as a sign of improving relations between India and Pakistan. “Relations between India and Pakistan have been improving for some time. They were improving under President Musharraf. And one of the first places that my Indian colleague, the Foreign Minister Mukherjee, went was Pakistan right after the Pakistani government was sworn in,” she said.
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WASHINGTON/COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France: The IMF warned on Saturday that the global financial system was on the brink of meltdown, while France a
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KARACHI: The Seniors made Pakistan proud by reaching the knockout phase of the in the World Bridge Games, being staged in Beijing, China, as a part of
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Islamabad The Ministry of Education has directed the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to expedite process for enrolment of out-of-school
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ISLAMABAD: Towering inflation is snatching the purchasing power of millions of people as during the first quarter (July-September) of 2008-09, the Con
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KarachiThe Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has announced that no arrears of the increased tariff should be charged from consumers for t
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TORONTO: Geoff Lawson has no plans of stepping down as coach in spite of media reports that the new Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) regime is unhappy wit
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