Islamabad—Special representative of US President
Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard
Holbrooke on Wednesday assured full US help and
cooperation in war against terrorism and
rehabilitation of ‘internal refugees.
Riyadh—President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi
Arabia on Wednesday on a Middle East (ME)
mission featuring a historic address to the
Muslim world and a new US drive to invigorate
regional peacemaking.
Peshawar—Despite hectic efforts by the law
enforcers as well as the sensitive agencies more
than forty students of the Cadet College Razmak
as well as some staff members continued to be
missing.
Islamabad —Information Minister Qamar Zaman
Kaira has said the disbursement of Rs 25,000 to
each displaced family of Malakand Division will
commence on Tuesday next.
The Swat military operation initiated against
the miscreants, who had challenged the writ of
the government in the region since long, appears
to be heading fast towards its logical end. But
there is no end to the plight of over 2.5
million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who
were rendered homeless in the wake of the
ongoing “surgery” in vast area of the Malakand
Agency. In fact their miseries and sufferings
doubled with every passing day and the chances
of any improvement in their conditions are
minimal.
Srinagar—A strike in Indian-administered Kashmir
to protest against the deaths of two young women
whose families allege they were raped and killed
by security forces paralysed life for a third
day Wednesday.
New York—The United States should be more
forthright about how many civilians die in its
overseas wars, and exercise more caution with
unmanned darone attacks, a United Nations human
rights envoy said on Wednesday.
