WASHINGTON - Pakistan took a ‘quantum leap’ into the league of established democracies at the back of last week's historic elections, the outgoing Pakistani ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, said at a farewell reception Friday night, while expressing satisfaction over the improved ...

Glenn Greenwald Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution in a real court, ...

SEATTLE : The website for the Washington State court system has been hacked and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and a million driver's license numbers may have been accessed, officials said on Thursday. The disclosure raises concerns that the information accessed could be used to commit ...

Glenn GreenwaldNews reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer present and ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military will deploy an additional 14 anti-missile interceptors in Alaska in response to a mounting threat from nuclear-armed North Korea, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday.The United States already has 30 interceptors in place in California and Alaska and the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has brushed aside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s decree to rename the Palestinian Authority as State of Palestine, saying it won’t accept the change in nomenclature until a negotiated agreement is reached between Israelis and Palestinians.“Our ...

Pakistan ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has said that Islamabad is striving to build an enduring relationship with Washington based on strong people-to-people linkages and mutual understanding.She was speaking at a reception in honour of outgoing US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and ...

WASHINGTON - Interior Minister Rehman Malik Friday conveyed Pakistan’s concern to senior American officials as he called for a ‘common counterterrorism strategy against the common enemy.”“Our side has conveyed our concerns regarding drone attacks - the people of Pakistan ...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday held a video conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai focusing partly on an unprecedented wave of attacks on Nato troops by their local comrades.The White House meanwhile rejected calls to slow US troop withdrawals in a “strategic ...

WASHINGTON  - A controversy-prone former mayor has landed himself in a soup again, this time for his remarks targeting “dirty” Asian shops in his poor black-majority district, a racial slur that invited all-round criticism.Washington DC Councilman Marion Barry, 76, who just after ...

WASHINGTON  - A top White House official has said despite the tough phase, Washington has been able to ‘sustain’ its relationship with Islamabad. He said the US ‘needs’ Islamabad on the table as it discusses the future of the region.The official told a group of ...

WASHINGTON  - Pakistan Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman held a meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides and convoyed Islamabad’s reservations on the Balochistan resolution.She said Pakistan wanted relations with the US on equal level. Thomas Nides said the US wanted ...

CHRISTIAN CARYLThe government of President Bashar al-Assad is firing tank shells and rockets at unarmed civilians. Thousands of people are dying. The images are horrific. Indignation mounts around the world.Meanwhile, the main Syrian opposition group is still trying to get a proper office in ...

Respected Mr. President,Today I take the privilege of writing to you about Dr. Aafia Siddiqiue, who’s welfare is of utmost importance not only to the people of Pakistan but also to all those living as expatriates throughout the World. Though Mr. President whatever we perceive and then ...

WASHINGTON  - Film director Michael Moore visited anti-capitalist protesters participating in the Occupy Washington movement but said he would not make a movie about the demonstration. "I've been doing movies for 20 years about the subject and now the people know what they need to do," Moore ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama revealed a secret crush and Caroline Kennedy crooned to her namesake song on Sunday at the Kennedy Centre Honours, which celebrated actress Meryl Streep and singer Neil Diamond. The annual awards program, which also honoured singer Barbara Cook, jazz ...

LAHORE Following Islamabads refusal to attend the Bonn conference to be held in Germany on December 5th to protest against NATO attack, Washington is covertly trying to take anti-Pakistan Taliban on board, it was reliably learnt here on Wednesday. Diplomatic sources revealed that senior US ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The dress worn in 1933 by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husbands inauguration ball was slate-blue crepe. Michelle Obama chose a white silk chiffon gown. Both outfits are now on public display. The Museum of American History this weekend opened an exhibition of 26 dresses and over ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday acknowledged 'challenges in relations with Pakistan after a report that Pakistan security agencies have arrested CIA informants who fed information to the US spy agency in the months leading upto the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. But the ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - At 70 years old, he climbs ladders, rolls on the ground and his voice shakes the room: Placido Domingo is Oreste in Iphigenie en Tauride, a performance-style farewell to the Washington National Opera, which the Spanish tenor has led for 15 years. Visibly tired but delighted, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will visit Washington on Monday without the fanfare and celebration he once enjoyed, but with a more hardhearted welcome from a sceptical host and his legitimacy under sharp scrutiny. Karzais partnership with the United States and its Western allies ...

ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the hope that the Fourth Session of Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue scheduled for the next week in Washington D.C. will be successful in achieving the concrete results and tangible goals set forth by both the sides. He identified power ...

ISLAMABAD - As anger mounts in official circles over Ambassador Haqqanis questionable role in the drafting of the KLB, it has been learnt from reliable inside sources that Prsident Zardari has risen to his ambassadors defence. This has prevented his immediate removal despite many powerful ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo subway commuters had a brush with Hollywood stardom Thursday when Denzel Washington briefly played train dispatcher, announcing in his velvet baritone that the train is leaving now. The two-time Oscar winner visited the command centre of a Tokyo underground rail station to ...

WASHINGTON - Yusuf Buch, a former Pakistan Ambassador and a legendary Kashmiri voice, was honoured by the Kashmiri-American Council at an impressive ceremony for his life of courage, conviction and unwavering commitment to the rights of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir. Buch, 85, is an ...

WASHINGTON (APP)- The State Department has said that the US does not encourage any country for attacks against terrorist targets into territories of other nations as it urged Pakistan-India cooperation in investigation into last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. State Department Deputy Spokesman ...

WASHINGTON - Leaders of the Group of 20 nations will meet on Nov. 15 in this capital city to address the global financial crisis -- the first in a series of summits to resolve what experts say could be a prolonged economic downturn, the White House announced. The agenda will include discussion ...

HARARE  - Zimbabwe's government rejoiced Saturday at the failure of a UN bid to impose fresh sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle, but there was exasperation in London and Washington. Particular praise from the Harare regime was bestowed upon South African President ...

WASHINGTON - SCBA President Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and SCBA ex-President Advocate Muneer A Malik, leaders of the lawyers' justice movement, will discuss the Pakistani advocates and civil society's ongoing struggle to reinstate Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and all other ...