Islamabad—Minister for Information and
Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira Monday said All
Parties Conference (APC) passed a resolution in
favour of Swat military operation and reaffirmed
its commitment to preserve, protect and defend
the constitution and sovereignty of the state.
Colombo—Sri Lanka’s military declared a final
victory Monday in its decades-old conflict with
the Tamil Tigers, after routing the remnants of
the rebel army and killing its leader Velupillai
Prabhakaran.
Peshawar—Amid claims by the military authorities
keeping the collateral damage at minimum and
Prime Minister Gilani telling the All Parties
Conference in Islamabad that the operation
against the militants in Malakand Division was
going on success fully, the security forces air
strikes in Upper Dir on Monday morning left more
than a dozen people dead and scores others
seriously injured. The victims mostly include
kids and the females and were migrating towards
safer places.
Washington—In confidential congress briefings,
members have been told that despite being racked
by an insurgency, Pakistan is rapidly adding to
its nuclear arsenal, raising doubts on Capitol
Hill’s proposed military aid of billions of
dollars being directed to Pakistan’s nuclear
program, the New York Times reported.
Islamabad—Former defence secretary Donald
Rumsfeld used to mix heavy-handed religious
messages in daily intelligence briefings to
appeal to President Bush’s Christian beliefs, GQ
magazine’s Web site reports.
Lahore—A Pakistani court on Monday issued a stay
order against the relocation of the World Cup
2011 secretariat from the country’s cultural
capital to India on security grounds.
Islamabad—At a time when Pakistan is busy
fighting internal and external terrorists
several foreign satellites are monitoring the
region and taking images of Pakistan’s nuclear
sites particularly that of near Khushab and
exchanging with each others. According to an
authoritative source Indian, American, Israeli
and French satellites have recently been engaged
clandestinely taking images of suspected nuclear
sites of Pakistan in an apparent bids to re-play
Nuclear Card against Pakistan.
