Lahore: Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has launched a movement against what he called ‘Indian designs to obstruct flow of rivers towards Pakistan’.

A new body “Movement for Saving Water Resources of Pakistan” has been established by JDP with the sole aim of lodging protest against “Indian water aggression”.
“India is in the process of constructing several dams on Chenab, Jehlum and Indus rivers in a bid to completely stop flow of water towards Pakistan,” Hafiz Muhammad Saeed told The News here on Sunday. He said this act has catastrophic …

Islamabad: Afghanistan has demanded Pakistani government to handover Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik, adding that we will review the situation after a formal request.

Talking to the media here on Wednesday, he said that the draft has been finalized for handing over the terrorists. Malik disclosed that during his meeting with his Afghan counterpart, the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s two children was also discussed.
Both the countries have decided to constitute four task forces for border security and anti-narcotics.
He said that drugs worth nearly five billion …

Marjah: U.S.-led NATO troops launched a major offensive on Saturday against the Taliban’s last big stronghold in Afghanistan’s most violent province, a test of President Barack Obama’s troop surge strategy.

The assault, the first since the U.S. president ordered an extra 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in December, is the start of a campaign to impose government control on rebel-held areas this year, before U.S. forces start to withdraw in 2011.
Detecting multiple layers of insurgent defenses encircling the city, Cobra helicopters fired Hellfire missiles at tunnels, bunkers, and other defensive …

Rawalpindi: Commander International Security Assistance Forces, Afghanistan General Stanley A. McChrystal, on Friday visited General Headquarters and called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The visiting dignitary remained with the COAS for some time and discussed matters of professional interest.

Both top defence officials lauded role of Pakistani security forces in the fight against terrorism.
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WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his greatest concern was not Afghanistan, not Iraq, nor the Iranian nuclear crisis, but Pakistan.

“I think it’s a big country. It has nuclear weapons that are able to be deployed. It has a real significant minority of radicalized population,” Biden said in an interview with CNN.
“It is not a completely functional democracy in the sense we think about it, and so that’s my greatest concern.”President Barack Obama’s administration has called on Pakistan to see greater urgency in the fight against extremism …

Islamabad: There is no room for compromise with hardcore Afghan Taliban but the Afghan government and its allies hope to lure away many of the up to 80 percent of Taliban who joined for economic reasons, a British minister said.

At a conference in London last week, Afghanistan’s allies backed its efforts to start talks with the Taliban and donors promised hundreds of millions of dollars for a fund to pay fighters to lay down their arms.
The luring away of militant foot-soldiers is referred to as reintegration while efforts to make …