WASHINGTON – The United States has again questioned Pakistan’s efforts to combat terrorism, while asserting that it wants to work with India and other countries in the region to combat the menace. “We obviously work closely with India on counterterrorism efforts in the region as we do with Pakistan, and we’ve been very clear publicly and privately about our concerns about Pakistan’s efforts to combat terrorism in the region and the need for it to…
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WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain has given Pakistan a clean chit as far as Afghanistan’s troubled state of affairs is concerned, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Chairman of the United States Armed Services Committee said that the responsibility of trouble in Afghanistan and the failure to resolve it did not lie with Pakistan or President Ashraf Ghani but with President Barack Obama. He criticised Obama’s policies while talking about the region. According to the…
The United States added al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, a regional branch of the global extremist network, to its terror blacklist on Thursday. The State Department designated AQIS a “foreign terrorist organization” and its leader, Indian-born Asim Umar, a “specially designated global terrorist.” Al Qaeda, the extremist movement founded by the late Osama bin Laden, has long been a banned group, but Thursday’s order singles out a relatively new offshoot. Bin Laden’s successor, Egyptian…
Islamabad: There are renewed efforts behind the scenes between Pakistan and the United States to resolve the issues of the sale of F-16s. In this respect, a delegation of influential US lawmakers is set to arrive in Islamabad soon. A well placed source told Pakistan Today that a four-member US delegation under the leadership of Senator John McCain is likely to arrive in Pakistan on July 2. Senator McCain is a Republican and a former…
RAWALPINDI: The ownership of a sealed temple in Gawalmandi has become the subject of a dispute between the Hindu community and the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), following alleged attempts to convert the place of worship into a commercial plaza. The Swami Narayan Temple, located in Gawalmandi’s main square, is a single-storey building spread over more than 10 marlas, with three open sides. It is located in front of the local Jamia mosque, near the…
KARACHI: A Hindu reporter for a state-run news agency says he is being pressured into retracting his allegations about facing discrimination by colleagues on the basis of religion. Sahib Khan, a Grade-III reporter for the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), had earlier alleged his boss had asked him to “use separate utensils to eat and drink in at work” after his colleagues found out he was a Hindu. But after the issue was brought to…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan yesterday told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that no wedge could be drawn between the civil and military leadership of Pakistan as the latter was committed to supporting the democratic process. Modi had said earlier it was hard to decide who to speak to in Pakistan for peace between the two nuclear armed neighbours, whether to the democratically elected government or ‘other actors’. He had added: “That is why India will have…