WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe Biden, saluting courage of Pakistani army and people’s nerve in combating war on terrorism, said Pakistani people and army have put up excellent show in stamping out terrorism within last two years, Geo news reported. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and US VP Joe Biden held one-on-one meeting here in Washington on Thursday. During the meeting, US VP, lauding Pakistan’s role in terror war, assured Pakistan of US’s all-out support and cooperation in further extending war to counter insurgency. Earlier, FM Qureshi met with US National Security Adviser General James Jones. The meeting was also attended by Pakistani envoy to United States Hussain Haqqani, Federal Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani. Later, Qureshi and US VP Biden held one-on-one meeting, which lasted for 30 minutes.
Written on March 26, 2010 | Posted in
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DUBAI: Osama bin Laden, in a fresh audiotape, threatened to execute any Americans taken prisoner by al Qaeda if accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed, al Jazeera television reported on Thursday. Bin Laden said in a new audio message that the day the U.S. takes the decision to execute Sheikh Mohammed and his co- inspirators, al-Qaida “would also take the decision that any of you falling into our hands will be executed.” Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington that took nearly 3,000 lives, which sparked wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and prompted former U.S. President George W. Bush’’s war on terror. The alleged architect of terror was captured in Pakistan in 2003.
Written on March 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Every Pakistani knows Dr Aafia Siddiqui , a pakistani national has been detained by American and tortured while she was just few hundred kilomiters from our border, She was being tortored by american in Kabul, and our so called GOVT knew nothing ?
U.S. authorities say Dr. Siddiqui received a biology degree from the Massachusetts Institute [...]
Written on May 2, 2009 | Posted in
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