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ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will arrive here on March 10, said a Foreign Office statement on Monday. This will be President Karzai’’s first visit to Pakistan after his re-election last year. During his stay, Karzai will meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani

US To Hunt Failed Plane Attack’s Backers:Barack Obama , Barack Obama Vows to Track down Plane Attack Plotters, US President Barack Obama has vowed to hunt down all those persons behind the attempt to blow up US airline, saying that the perpetrators are present in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai must take “significant steps” to fight corruption, the US military’s top officer said on Wednesday, suggesting Washington was concerned inaction could undercut the campaign against the Taliban.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday and Lula expressed his willingness to talk with world leaders about Iran’s nuclear standoff in an effort to establish a peaceful solution. Lula and Clinton attended a closed meeting and shook hands after the hour-long conversation. Earlier on Wednesday, Lula told reporters that Brazil would support Iran if it used its nuclear technology for peaceful ends and said the international community should not “push Iran into a corner.” On the other hand, after a meeting with Brazil’s Foreign Minister, Clinton said she believed Iran would only negotiate in good faith with the international community after sanctions are imposed

Melbourne: US President Barack Obama will address a joint sitting of Federal Parliament on March 23 during his visit to Australia. According to latest ABC report, Leader of the House Anthony Albanese confirmed that Obama will make his address on his visit to Canberra. The Parliament will be recalled for two days to accommodate Obama’s visit

Amsterdam: Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls on Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed. In the first test of public opinion since the collapse of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s coalition government last month, Wilders’s Freedom Party (PVV) led in the city of Almere and was second in The Hague

Latest Updates News; Roshini Thinakaran travels to countries ripped by war and reeling in its aftermath. But amid destruction, she sees something else: Strong, resilient women with a passion for their people and the difficult work of rebuilding lives and countries. “As a filmmaker, my research has taken me to Sri Lanka, Iraq, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan,” Thinakaran says

The head of the army has warned that British troops are facing a crisis of deteriorating morale on the home front that risks undermining the war in Afghanistan. In a confidential draft memo prepared for ministers, General Sir David Richards, chief of the general staff (CGS), said that recent cuts to the defence budget are having a “cumulative and corrosive effect on our soldiers and their families”. Cuts to housing, shortages of training equipment and even the cancellation of sports events between soldiers’ tours of duty were making them and their families feel “undervalued”, the army chief wrote

An Afghan immigrant pleaded guilty on Monday to planning a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways with Al Qaeda training for what would have been the worst attack on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001