Gordon Brown’s security advisor warns smartphones pose security risk

September 26th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Flouting claims of a lukewarm relationship between the US President and British PM, Barack Obama held hands with Gordon Brown's wife Sarah when they met in Pittsburgh, US. The Browns, Obama and wife Michelle joked and air-kissed to show that the US-Britain diplomatic relationship is still alive.

September 26th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has once again raised the issue of India being a threat to the country, The Daily Times reports. In an interview to a private television channel, Haqqani said: "India posed the greatest security threat to Pakistan and the Pakistan Army would play its role in this regard." It is worth mentioning here that, in the recent past, the United States has been pressing Pakistan to focus more on the internal threat posed by the Taliban and other extremist groups based on its soil rather than remain in 'war preparedness' against India.

September 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The United States has rejected media reports that its envoy to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, had asked the PPP-led government to issue prohibited fire arms license to a private security company. US embassy spokesman Richard Snelisry, while confirming that the US has hired the private security company, Inter-Risk, to provide security to the US interests in Pakistan, denied reports which said that Patterson had written a letter to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, asking him to grant prohibited bore licenses to Inter-Risk.

September 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Following a raid here early Saturday, the police claim to have recovered 61 illegal guns and nine pistols from the offices of a private security firm providing security to the US embassy. The raid came after it was revealed that the Interior Ministry had issued licences for highly sophisticated assault rifles to the company called Inter Risk, with the prime ministers special permission, Dawnnews.com reported.

September 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police on Saturday raided an office of a private security firm hired by the US embassy and recovered 61 firearms. The police detained two persons from the office premises of the company, Inter Risk, and have also registered a case of fraud against the company, The Dawn reports.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities have issued 86 licenses for prohibited weapons to a security company which has been hired by the US embassy in Islamabad. Interior Ministry sources revealed that the licenses were issued to Inter Risk following Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's approval, The Daily Times reports.

July 29th, 2009 JERUSALEM - US National Security Advisor James Jones was in Israel Wednesday for briefings related to Iran's nuclear programme, in the midst of a week of intense US-Israeli diplomacy. General Jones heard updates from senior Israeli security officials, before scheduled meetings with Israel Army Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the day.

July 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN Security Council has condemned the recent missile launches by North Korea and urged the communist country to fully comply with its obligations and relevant UN resolutions. The Security Council "condemned and expressed grave concern at the (missile) launches, which constitute the violation of UN Security Council resolutions and pose a threat to regional and international security," Uganda's ambassador to the UN Ruhakana Rugunda said Monday.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Taliban operating in Pakistan pose a "real threat" to India, the region and the world, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told Members of Parliament that he will not allow the public access to the government's secret interrogation policy. Acknowledging that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered that the policy be rewritten after receiving a series of complaints, Miliband, however told MPs on the Commons foreign affairs select committee that he has no intention of making public the policy as it currently stands.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Guardian newspaper, which has traditionally backed the Labour party, Wednesday called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down because he had failed in government. "The tragedy for Mr Brown and his party is that his chance to change it has gone...

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - In a felicitation from the world's oldest democracy to its largest, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has congratulated Manmohan Singh on behalf of the British parliament. 'I have sent a message of congratulation - I believe it will be on behalf of the whole House - to Prime Minister Singh, who is very respected not only in the region but throughout the world,' the British leader told the House of Commons, Britain's lower house of parliament, Wednesday.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - All the 10 Pakistani students who were arrested last month from different parts of London on suspicion of plotting bomb attack across Britain were actually part of Al-Qaeda's network, a British official has claimed. Robin Tam QC for the Home Secretary told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London that all the so-called students, who were arrested, had links with Al-Qaeda.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - In an intensely personal Mother's Day tribute, British PM Gordon Brown has spoken highly of his mum, who did secret work breaking German military codes during the Second World War. The leader said he would spend the day thinking about his mother Jessie Elizabeth Brown, who died aged 86 in 2004, reports the Mirror.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - Imagine opening your inbox and a female voice alerting you to a new email and even reading it out for you. Well, it has now become a reality, thanks to a new device called iLane.