March 11, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The United States is validating the claims of $2.1 billion submitted by Pakistan for year 2009 under Coalition Support Fund (CSF) and assured to release the funds at the earliest.
“The US has paid dollars 350 million to Pakistan two weeks ago, as last instalment completing all the validated claims provided by government of Pakistan for the year 2008 under CSF,” said General M Feierstein, Deputy Chief of Mission US embassy here on Wednesday while talking to a local news agency.
Indo-Pak
March 11, 2010
NEW DELHI: Two political parties yesterday withdrew support for India's ruling Congress party to protest against a controversial bill reserving one-third of legislative seats for women, possibly weakening the government's capacity to pass laws.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), two regional parties who account for 26 seats in the 545-seat lower house of parliament, were not part of the coalition government but supported it from the outside.
Indo-Pak
March 11, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his country would not allow its soil to be used against Pakistan, Geo News reported Thursday.
Addressing a joint press conference here with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani after signing the MoU, he said India has gone out of the way to help Afghanistan; but Pakistan is twin brother of Afghanistan, adding without cooperation from Pakistan, there could be no stability.
‘We are fighting against terrorism; I brought message from people of Afghanistan to the people of Pakistan,’ he said.
Indo-Pak
March 11, 2010
LAHORE: The Government of Punjab has clarified that it has yet to recover British boy Sahil Saeed Naqash, who was kidnapped by armed gunmen from Jehlum for heavy ransom.
Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has made this claim as a result of some misunderstanding, according to a statement issued by the Punjab government from Lahore on Thursday.
The statement said that the police have recovered another child Hamza Umad from Sialkot. He was abducted from Rawalpindi.
It further said that Sahil’s recovery is expected anytime soon and his family will soon hear good news in this regard.
Indo-Pak
March 11, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) called the Inspector Generals of Police of Sindh and the NWFP along with a detailed report on police manhandling cases, Geo News reported Thursday.
Justice Javed Iqbal said the conventional thana culture could not be changed with putting an end to the political interference.
The Inspector General said the media quite exaggeratingly showcased police in a manner that they were Indian army.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Javed Iqbal heard the suo motu case of police torture.
Indo-Pak
March 11, 2010
SWAT: Corps Commander Peshawar Lt. Gen Masud Aslam said Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat’s commander Maulana Fazlullah has fled from Swat and he is being chased, Geo News reported Thursday.
Talking to media on the occasion of inauguration of Shu’hada Park here, he said the security forces are giving a chase to Swat Taliban’s chief Maulana Fazlullah, who escaped during security forces operation there.
He said interrogations with all the arrested extremists completed and they would soon be presented to the courts.
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