Obama links Pakistan aid to fight against terror

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - There is no comparison between the additional aid being offered to Pakistan and Afghanistan by the Obama administration, and the bail-out package for tackling the economic meltdown in America, said Pakistan's envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani. "The US's economic packages for Pakistan keep no status in comparison with the bailout package sought for US itself to tackle ongoing global economic meltdown in America," The News quoted Haqqani, as saying.

April 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former US Presidential candidate and Republican Party Senator from Arizona John Mc Gain has said that the US aid to Pakistan may eventually go in vain. Skeptic about Pakistan's utilization of the US assistance, Mc Gain viewed a large part of the aid failing to reach people who are in real need of it.

March 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said US President Barack Obama was being 'unfair' in comparing Pakistan with Afghanistan in the war against terror. 'Comparing Pakistan with Afghanistan would be unfair,' the official APP news agency quoted him as saying when asked to comment on Obama's new AfPak policy unveiled last week.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing sympathies over the terror attack on a Pakistani police academy, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday that both countries should jointly take on terrorists. 'I have always said that India and Pakistan have to face jointly the scourge of terrorism,' he told reporters on the sidelines of the civil investiture ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here.

March 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has said that drone strikes on Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideouts inside Pakistan would be carried out only after consulting Islamabad. President, Barack Obama, in a television interview, said missile hits against terror camps would continue in the future also.

March 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen has confirmed media reports that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has close links with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban network, and is offering logistical support them. "There are certainly indications that's the case," The Dawn quoted Admiral Mullen, as saying.

March 13th, 2009 TORONTO - Canada Thursday jailed its first terrorist - who had links with a terror camp in Pakistan - for ten and a half years under the new anti-terror law enacted after 9/11. Twenty-nine-year-old software engineer Momin Khwaja, who was convicted of five terrorism-related charges last October, was handed down the first-ever conviction under the new terror law by a court in Ottawa Thursday.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has said that his country faced a terror threat from Pakistan. Speaking at the dedication of Abraham Lincoln Hall at the National Defence University, Obama said on Thursday that the 9/11 terror attacks "signalled the new dangers of the 21st century." "We're still at war with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are plotting to do us harm," the Daily Times quoted Obama, as saying.

March 10th, 2009 COLOMBO - Ending speculations in some quarters in Pakistan, Sri Lanka Monday firmly said there was 'no Indian involvement' in the terror attack on its cricketers in Lahore last week but said the Tamil Tigers could be involved. 'There is no Indian involvement (in the attack on cricketers in Lahore),' Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told reporters here.

February 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Monday rejected the Indian allegations of its links with the Nov 26 Mumbai terror strike but said it will take the probe into the attack to its logical conclusion. 'Pakistan will try its best to take the Mumbai attack probe to its fruition, but at this stage the Indian allegations are not proving helpful,' The News quoted a foreign office spokesman as saying.

February 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - Two Indian nationals have been arrested and at least 16 others are wanted for the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks, Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said Thursday evening. 'Some Indians have been accused of giving support to the terrorists, including conducting the reccee of the targeted sites and providing logistics support,' Gafoor told the media at his office here.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In an all-out diplomatic offensive, India Tuesday briefed envoys from across the world on the links between the Mumbai carnage and Pakistan in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says Islamabad is complicit. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon shared the material with envoys of permanent members of the Security Council and seven heads of mission of neighbouring countries.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday handed over to Pakistan the evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the Mumbai carnage and ratcheted up international pressure on Islamabad to eliminate terror infrastructure. 'We have today given evidence to Pakistan of links between elements in Pakistan and the terrorists who attacked Mumbai,' External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here Monday morning.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday handed over to Pakistan evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the Mumbai carnage and intensified international pressure on Islamabad to act against terror outfits in that country. 'We have today given evidence to Pakistan of links between elements in Pakistan and the terrorists who attacked Mumbai,' External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here Monday morning.

December 24th, 2008 DHAKA - Hailing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ruling out war in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack, a Dhaka daily has urged Pakistan to 'go an extra mile' in meeting its commitment to fight terrorism on its territory. '...nothing short of a genuine crackdown on the terrorist organisations will convince the international community that the country (Pakistan) is really serious about combating terrorism,' The Daily Star said in an editorial Thursday.