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Pakistan holds anti-US protest rallies By Hasan Mansoor (AFP) sponsored KARACHI — Several thousand Pakistanis Tuesday held protest rallies across the country lashing out at American demands for action against Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militants. There is growing unease in Pakistan about US pressure to take on the Haqqani network or face the consequences, with the military saying it is too over-stretched fighting local Taliban to open a new front against a US enemy. Having accused the network of orchestrating recent attacks on its embassy in Kabul and a NATO base in Afghanistan, with Pakistani intelligence involvement, Washington now says it is considering branding the network a terror group. Any such move could complicate future efforts to negotiate a settlement in Afghanistan and, given US claims about government ties to the network, risk Pakistan being branded a state sponsor of terror, local analysts warned. Hundreds of protesters from the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) held a ra...

Pakistani students develop promising projects Suhail Yusuf November 6, 2010 Biomedical engineering students of 2004-10 batch of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology developed innovative projects with practical application. – Photo by SSUET. KARACHI: The students of Biomedical Engineering Department of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology developed some remarkable projects with commercial potentials. Students from the 2006-2010 batch developed the projects which included a head-controlled wheelchair, hypo-hyperthermia machine, voice operated wheelchair, and an incubator.

A Hina Rabbani Khar said: 'If I began recounting Pakistan's sacrifices and Pakistan's suffering, I would keep you here until next September.' Photograph: David Karp/AP Pakistan 's foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, has robustly defended Islamabad's record in fighting terrorism in the wake of US allegations that the Pakistani intelligence service is closely linked to Afghan extremists and has facilitated attacks on American forces. Khar made only passing references to the US in an address to the UN general assembly. But her calls for unity in fighting terrorism, and for there to be no recriminations, was prompted by deepening suspicion in Washington at what are seen as double dealings by the Pakistani intelligence service and military in Afghanistan , particularly since Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding in Pakistan. "Given the volatility of the situation, it is perhaps understandable that there is a high level of anxiety and emotion. But we must not l...

Electricity load shedding in Pakistan only due to defective policies The electricity load shedding in Pakistan would have not been a big problem to cope with but its made much bigger by adopting the defective policies. One of the causes of load shedding is called the circular debt, which means the private electricity generation companies keep generating the power but they do not get the money for the electricity they have provided, in that case they can generate the electricity for limited period and after that when the outstanding amount to be paid by government to these companies cross a limit, by being not able to fuel costs these companies stop the production till they have get paid back by government. This have been happening very much lately, current approach from government is they let the circular dept build up and while companies stop production they are paid back after many months and mean while that halt brings in more shortage and more electricity load shedding subsiquently...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence likely has ties to terrorist organizations around the world, including the Haqqani network, the Pakistani foreign minister said. U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in prepared remarks Thursday before the U.S. Senate Armed Service Committee, said the militant Haqqani network was "a strategic arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency." U.S. officials blamed the Haqqani network for orchestrating a 20-hour siege on Western targets in Kabul recently. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, in the United States for the U.N. General Assembly, said during an interview with al-Jazeera that the CIA's hands were probably stained as well. "If we talk about links, I am sure the CIA also has links with many terrorist organizations around the world, by which we mean intelligence links," she said. "And this particular network (Haqqani), which (Washington) continues...

More than 2 million affected this year In 2010, millions of Pakistanis were forced to leave their homes as torrential rains and flooding forced the rivers to burst their banks, uprooting houses and property in the country. Those floods claimed 2,000 lives and affected 18 million people, more than a tenth of the population, leaving 11 million people homeless. Aid agencies estimate that some 800,000 families are still without shelter from those floods and around 1 million people are in need of food. Compounding that problem, floodwaters swept through much of Sindh Province in August and September – from the fertile land to the desert of Thar – destroying thousands of small villages across the southern province in their path. The result is a bleak picture. Poor villagers and tent villages line the roads. Floodwater is everywhere. Those who couldn't get proper tents have built makeshift structures with wooden planks and plastic sheets donated by relief workers. Children swat away flies...

Pakistanis Tied to 2007 Border Ambush on Americans By CARLOTTA GALL ,nytime.com KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of American military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis . Maj. Larry J. Bauguess Multimedia Pakistan’s Spy Agency Is Tied to Attack on U.S. Embassy (September 23, 2011) An American major was killed and three American officers were wounded, along with their Afghan interpreter, in what fresh accounts from the Afghan and American officers who were there reveal was a complex, calculated assault by a nominal ally. The Pakistanis opened fire on the Americans, who returned fire before escaping in a blood-soaked Black Hawk helicopter. The attack, in Teri Mangal on May 14, 2007, was kept quiet by Washington, which for much of a decade has seemed to play down or ignore signals that Pakistan would pursue its own interests, or even somet...