‘ANYONE NEED MORE AMMO?’ The U.S.’s policy for Pakistan’s tribal areas is basically: ‘We’re not going to help build schools, hospitals or roads, or do job training, or feed anyone. We want the Pakistani army to get us a respectable body count and we’ll pay for the ammo.’
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Pakistan has won final approval for a $7.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help the front line state in the campaign against Islamist terrorism stave off possible economic meltdown.
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The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $7.6bn (€6bn, £5bn) standby loan for Pakistan to help the country come back from the brink of financial disaster and avoid defaulting on its debt.
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PESHAWAR: A blast has been occurred near a police mobile at Bannu Link Road. According to sources, blast has damaged the vehicle, however, officials remained unhurt.
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Pakistan is prepared to withdraw its first-strike nuclear threat and push to create an economic union with India in an effort to bring peace to south Asia, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, said at the weekend in the warmest overture to his country’s southern neighbour in decades.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 25 (UPI) — Pakistan, facing a balance of payments crisis, awaited approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $7.6 billion bailout package.
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BANGALORE: England captain Kevin Pietersen has urged his team to keep “their chins up” as he attempts to salvage some success amid the ruins of the side’’s one-day campaign in India.The tourists have already lost the seven-match series after slipping to their fourth consecutive loss but with next month’’s two Test matches looming, Pietersen wants England to keep morale high.”Playing in India is completely different to playing in England,” Pietersen said after India won the rain-curtailed fourth match here on Sunday night by 19 runs to clinch the series.”The ball does not swing, seam or bounce here, it is a totally different game.”But what better place to play than in India, where cricket is a religion and we have just got to get our chins up and make sure the rest of this series is competitive.” The England captain wants the fightback to start in the fifth match in Cuttack on Wednesday night.”The boys have been treated well, they have been having a fantastic time and I want their chins up,” said Pietersen. “I do not want to see anybody with their heads down and moping around. We want to come back firing on all cylinders on Wednesday.”We have got to bounce back and make sure we keep this series competitive. We are going to hold our heads up high and get on with trying to win some games of cricket.”England’’s woes increased when left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom was ruled out of the rest of the series with a side strain after having recovered from an earlier Achilles problem.India, meanwhile, hope to test some fringe players in the last three one-dayers as the selectors look to build a squad for the 2011 World Cup in the Indian subcontinent.”You will see a few changes in the side in the next three matches,” said Indian captain Mahendra Dhoni.”Some of the people who have not played in the series so far will play but we will still look to win games. Three more matches to come and we want to win those games too.”After the Cuttack match on Wednesday, the last two games will be played in Guwahati on November 29 and New Delhi on December 2.
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HARARAE: A match reduced to 28 overs produced the series” most compelling game in Harare, and the first performance by Zimbabwe to cause Sri Lanka a headache. Hamilton Masakadza’’s pleasantly carefree strokeplay took Zimbabwe to within touching distance of their target. But in spite of Stuart Matsikenyeri pummelling 19 from 10 deliveries, late wickets cost Zimbabwe the match and, consequently, the series. Nevertheless, after the first two drubbings Zimbabwe received, at least their supporters witnessed a contest this time. Rain and a soggy outfield delayed the start and, if anything, the reduction in overs caught Sri Lanka unawares. Their total of 171 for 7 was far from insurmountable, and with Masakadza timing the ball so sweetly, Zimbabwe were favourites when 28 were needed from the last three overs. Masakadza has shown his potential of late, starring in the Kenya tri-series last month, and for the first time this series he gave Zimbabwe the sort of confident start they so needed, sharing with Vusi Sibanda in an opening stand worth 76. Farveez Maharoof was treated with contempt, mowed over midwicket for two huge sixes before standing tall to cut him away for four. With Sibanda happy to tuck singles, the combination worked beautifully for Zimbabwe, whose fifty came from 41 balls. Thilan Thushara made the breakthrough for Sri Lanka but Masakadza motored onwards, registering his ninth half-century from 49 balls and carving Thushara for two crunching boundaries. However, Thushara got his man in the same over, and Zimbabwe still needed 38. Mahela Jayawardene wheeled Ajantha Mendis back into the attack, whose first four overs had proved expensive, and he immediately had Elton Chigumbura bowled for a duck to redress the balance. Tatenda Taibu was the key for Zimbabwe, and had moved anonymously onto 31 in an innings dominated by the reverse-sweep, but he too fell when he was bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara. Despite the tumble of wickets Matsikenyeri gave Zimbabwe hope with a flat six off Mendis over midwicket, followed by four through point. Ten were needed from the final over. Thushara was due to take the last over, but Jayawardene tossed the ball to Muttiah Muralitharan - a decision which ultimately turned the match in Sri Lanka’’s favour, as Zimbabwe lost Matsikenyeri. With six needed off the final delivery, Sri Lanka had tightened the noose impressively, but only at the very last minute. An encouraging performance from Zimbabwe’’s batsmen, then, but also from their bowlers. Chigumbura struck two early blows, including Jayawardene whose lazy cut smacked of complacency, while Tawanda Mupariwa’’s 4 for 39 helped restrict Sri Lanka’’s strokeplay. Kumar Sangakkara, however, dug deep with a fine 57 from 59 balls. Had Proper Utseya accepted a return catch from him on 16, the match might well have been Zimbabwe’’s for the taking.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Government forces battling al-Qaeda and the Taliban killed 15 enemy fighters yesterday in the tribal areas along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan,…
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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim Leauge-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Monday lamented that the Constitution was still in a mutilated sha
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