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US in back-channel talks with Afghan Taliban

By: dustgeer

 After fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan for more than eight years, the United States appears to have undertaken a re-think of its policy and has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn here on Monday. ‘We have started ‘engagement’ ...

8 days ago

Losing the moral war

By: anonymous81841

A week ago, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court once again took up the issue of missing persons in Pakistan. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry along with Justice Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Rahmat Hussain summoned law-enforcement officers in response to a camp set up on Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue. The bench asked the law-enforcement ...

20 days ago

illigal American,Swiss detained at Torkham border

By: ashrafuddin

LANDIKOTAL: Pakistani border authorities at Torkham Tuesday detained two foreigners along with a Pakistani translator,while crossing border into Afghanistan with out valid travel documents,border officials said. Khasadar force personnel at Torkham border on the suspicion stopped three travellers,including an American,Swiss national and a ...

1 day ago

Italian Prosecution Highlights Inaction of US Justice Department

By: chnarendra

 The verdict expected Wednesday in a landmark case may present a historic legal challenge to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today.   The trial in Milan of 26 Americans in absentia and seven Italians for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam began in 2007.   The ...

28 days ago