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$1.5b
Kerry-Lugar yearly aid bill okayed
Zahid Hussain
New York—The US Senate Thursday unanimously
passed the Kerry-Lugar bill, authorizing $ 1.5
billion in economic assistance for Pakistan
annually over five years, President Barack Obama
announced here at a major moot expressing
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UN endorses
resolution on nuclear-arms free world
United Nations—World powers Thursday adopted a
landmark resolution seeking to rid the planet of
nuclear arms at an unprecedented Security
Council summit hosted by US President Barack
Obama. The Security Council resolution, adopted
unanimously, commits member nations to work
toward a world without nuclear weapons and
endorses a broad framework of actions to reduce
global nuclear dangers. Quoting former US
president Ronald Reagan, Obama told the meeting
that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never
be fought.” |
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Pak ready to
release detained Swedish woman, child
Others to face terror charges
Exclusive
Akhtar Jamal
Islamabad—Pakistan has made it known that it was
ready to release at least two of the four
Swedish nationals held here since August 28
after ascertaining that the woman and her minor
kid could not be charged for terror. The four
Swedes were apprehended along with twelve other
foreigners, seven of Turkish-origin, one Russian
and a Persian-speaking man late last month when
they were intercepted near “a sensitive zone.”
Two Swedish diplomats were allowed to meet the
Swedish nationals and were told that no terror
charges had been framed against 19-year-old
Safia Benaouda, and her two and half-year-old
son. Safia told investigators that she was the
fiancé of 28-year-old Munir Awad and that Awad
was the father of her child. |
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Terrorists
greatest threat in South Asia: Musharraf
New York—Former Pakistan president Gen (Retd)
Pervez Musharraf told a gathering at Brown
University in Providence (Rhode Island) that
terrorists were the greatest threat to stability
in South Asian, adding that Pakistan and
neighbouring India and Afghanistan represented a
‘nexus of extremism’. According to a report on
Brown University’s website, Gen (retd) Musharraf
rejected a perception that Pakistan supplied
arms to Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan.
‘It’s quite the opposite. The arms and money
flow into Pakistan from Afghanistan, not the
other way,’ he said. |
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Sugar price Rs
40pk unchanged
SC refuses stay on LHC verdict
Tanvir Siddiqi
Islamabad—Supreme Court of Pakistan has refused
to grant stay on Lahore High Court’s verdict of
fixing sugar price at Rs 40 per kg. However, the
apex court accepted the pleas by the federal and
provincial governments of Sindh, Punjab and NWFP
to be the parties in the petitions filed by the
Punjab Sugar Dealers Association, Pakistan Sugar
Mills Association, Makkah Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd,
Sheikhoo Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd and one Abdul
Quddus Malik. The two-member bench of the
Supreme Court comprising of Chief Justice of
Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and
Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, resumed Thursday
the hearing of identical petitions seeking
suspension of LHC’s suo motu order of Sept 3 of
fixing Sugar rate at Rs 40 per kg. |
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Water traces on
moon
Washington—Water particles have been detected on
the surface of the Moon by three missions,
including an Indian probe. The evidence,
disclosed in new scientific papers, overturns
the long accepted view that lunar soil is dry
and comes just two weeks before a NASA probe is
to crash into the surface near the Moon’s
southern pole to see if water can be detected in
the dust and debris released by the impact. The
new data was gathered by probes equipped with
NASA instruments designed to map the Moon’s
mineral composition. The so-called “Moon
Mineralogy Mapper,” or M3, uses the reflection
of sunlight off the Moon’s surface to determine
soil composition. |
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11 dead in
lashkar, terrorists encounters
Rahmatullah Khan
Peshawar—At least eleven people including seven
members of the peace committee of Bannu were
killed and some others wounded when militants
attacked the vehicle of the committee members
who were proceeding towards Bannu city from Jani
Khel area on Thursday. The members of the
local peace committee were going to Bannu city
and the militants ambushed them and opened fire
killing seven people while some others sustained
injuries. Seven militants were also killed
in exchange of fire with the members of Qaumi
Lashkar but it could not be verified from
independent sources. |
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OIC FMs Contact
Group on Kashmir meets on 28th
Hameed Shaheen
Islamabad—The Organisation of Islamic Conference
(OIC) Foreign Ministers Contact Group on Jammu
and Kashmir will meet in New York on September
28, 2009 to take a comprehensive review of
peace-threatening dispute of Kashmir in South
Asia between Pakistan and India. Kashmir dispute
solution roadmap was devised originally by the
UN Security Council back in 1948 when its
special commission on India and Pakistan (UNCIP)
had secured agreements of both countries to hold
fair and international plebiscite in Jammu and
Kashmir to decide its final affiliation. Since
then the dispute lingers on despite
international, regional and bilateral overtures
to resolve it. It also forms a core part of the
Pakistan-India Composite Dialogue Process
stalled since November 2008 Mumbai attacks. |
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