Mulla Omar advised US Congress to seek Clinton’s resignation on Lewinsky episode

October 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Even after eight years of intense battle in Afghanistan, the US led allied forces have neither been able to counter the Taliban or restrict them to a smaller region in that country, rather the insurgents, led by Mullah Omar, have made remarkable progress over the last six months. The amazing success with which the one-eyed Taliban chief Mullah Omar has managed to regroup the banned organization after initial set backs, has raised questions whether the Taliban's strategy is capable enough of thwarting the US campaign, or whether it was receiving strategic support from Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

October 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Malik Ammad Khan has assured senators that drone strikes won't be allowed in Balochistan. Replying to senators' concerns about the possibility of drone attacks in Balochistan, he said the government is alive to the situation and is taking effective measures against both the terrorists and other militant elements.

September 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - Describing US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton as "the best public servant our family has produced," former US President Bill Clinton has admitted that his wife is better than him. His praise came during the start of his annual global issues conference in New York, Sky News reports.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a 1995 visit to Washington that Secret Service agents found him a few hundred feet from the White House clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab. He later explained that he wanted a pizza.

September 18th, 2009 SHAH ALAM - Following the whipping episode of the Malaysian model who was sentenced for drinking beer, an unmarried couple is now being subjected to the controversial canning sentence under the country's Sharia law for trying to have sex. Mohammad Shahrin Abd Majid, 29, and his lover Nadiah Najat Hussin, 24, pleaded guilty to attempting to have sex in a car, were fined 5,000 ringgits or 12 months' jail and ordered to be caned six times each, the New Strait Times Online reports.

September 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - Reverend Jesse Jackson offered spiritual solace to Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a new book claims. Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch has made the allegation in his upcoming tome 'The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President'.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces have arrested Moulvi Omar, a senior aide to Baituallah Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban who is believed to have been killed in a US drone attack earlier this month. Quoting official and intelligence sources, Online news agency reported that Omar, who carried a bounty of Rs.10 million, was arrested from a village in the Mohmand agency along the Afghan border Monday night as he was travelling in a car with two of his associates, including Waheed Gull and Hameed Gull.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Maulvi Omar has been arrested, a media report said Tuesday. Maulvi Omar was arrested Monday night from Khuazai village in northwest Pakistan's Mohmand tribal agency near the Afghan border, Express TV reported.

August 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has advised the present government to take the route of justice and not vengeance in the case of former president Pervez Musharraf. The Daily Times quoted Kasuri, as saying that those who referred to Article 6(2) clearly stated that those who helped in the execution or conspiracy of the acts of abrogating or attempting to abrogate or subvert the constitution would be treated alike.

July 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden's son, Omar, has described his father as an evil man in his new memoir. According to the New York Daily News, Omar says that he first realized the depth of his father's evil when his beloved dogs were taken away and gassed in a chemical warfare experiment.

July 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - For their summer vacation, the Obamas are reportedly headed to Martha's Vineyard. The trip, however, could come with some complications for the first family, reports Politico.

June 24th, 2009 WASHIGNTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in talks with one of her familys "staunchest loyalists", former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, to serve as a consultant to the State Department, the New York Times reported said Wednesday. Blumenthal, who worked as an aide to president Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, would work with Hillary Clintons speechwriting team, an administration official told the Times on condition of anonymity because the appointment was not yet public and could still fall through.

May 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged the conservative Alaska governor to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary Clinton, who is now the US Secretary of State. According to the web site Politico, John Coale , a wealthy trial attorney, reportedly made an attempt to forge an alliance between two of the most prominent families in American politics - the Palins and the Clintons.

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Taliban in the Bajaur region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has asked the tribal elders, who had opposed their activities, to seek pardon and give undertakings that they would speak against Taliban's act in future. "Those elders who approach Taliban will be granted clemency.

March 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sherry Rehman's resignation has surprised President Asif Ali Zardari. On receiving the resignation, worried Zardari told Rehman that she had left him in difficult times.