The president is likely to decide on the details of a U.S. troop increase in Afghanistan in the coming days, Gates says. The Obama administration plans to complete its overhaul of U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan by April, before a crucial NATO summit, the White House said Tuesday in announcing the new head of its review.
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WASHINGTON: US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday moved to block a “midnight action” by the administration of George W. Bush, which tried to push through the sale of offshore exploration leases to oil and gas companies. “On January 16, the last business day of the Bush administration, the adminstration proposed a new five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing,” Salazar told a news conference. In his second reversal in a week of a last-minute proposal pushed through by the Bush administration, Salazar announced that he was extending until September the period for public comment on the plan to develop the outer continental shelf, and taking other steps to block what he called “a midnight action.” The Bush administration had tried to move forward from 2012 to 2010 the creation of a new energy development plan that would affect some 300 million offshore acres on the outer continental shelf, from the US eastern seaboard to the Pacific Ocean off California, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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Inside the warm welcome and promises of a “new beginning” that Pakistan extended U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke yesterday was a warning that Pakistan expects more from the United States in return for its cooperation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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FORT MYERS, Florida: President Barack Obama has ordered an interagency review to examine US policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan before a Nato summit in
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ISLAMABAD: An al-Qaeda commander has warned India of more attacks like the recent assault on Mumbai if it retaliates against Pakistan, the BBC reporte
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KHAR: Seven militants were killed during the ongoing military operation in Khar and Mamond Tehsils of the Bajaur Agency on Tuesday. Sources said the s
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Since gunmen stormed Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel in November, Pakistan has arrested leaders of the militant Lashkar-e-Taiba and seized some of the group’s assets. But the militants’ popular support and close ties to the military establishment have raised questions about whether Pakistan’s government is willing or able to crush the organization before it strikes again.
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FAISALABAD: A minor boy and a young girl died while a youth was sustained injuries in an attempt to catch a strolling kite in Ali housing area in Faisalabad on Tuesday, police sources said.According to sources, a minor boy, trying to catch a strolling kite, received electric shocks as he touched a high voltage electric wire. Meanwhile, a young girl and a youth, in a bid to rescue him, also received electric shocks, leaving two former dead and later injured.Dead, identified as Shahbaz (11) and Aamna (20) died on the spot while Qamar (22) sustained burnt injures and was moved to hospital for medical attainment.People in the area, in protest against the loss of precious lives, asked government to make electric wires safer.
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Najamuddin Khan here on Tuesday said the government would soon establish the Bena
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LAHORE: Exporters have urged the government to arrange insurance cover for their export proceeds due to uncertainty about receiving export earnings if
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