Obama tags anti-terror terms to Pakistan aid package

October 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Defending the Kerry Lugar Bill, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the controversial aid package as a 'big success' of his government. Addressing a meeting of government coalition partners, Gilani said the United States has assured all help to Pakistan.

October 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - With the Obama Administration pushing the Pakistan government to take more steps against the Taliban amid reports that the top commanders of the banned outfit have taken refuge in Quetta near the Afghan border, anti-US sentiment in Pakistan is rising. The United States is trying hard to reduce the anti-American feeling with the approval of an aid package of 1.5 billion dollars a year for the next five years, however, the terms and conditions attached with the aid are being seen as an insult by the Pakistanis and they believe that it impedes the nation's sovereignty.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - US lawmakers were forced to attach strict terms and conditions in the Kerry Lugar aid bill over fears that Pakistan was not doing enough in the fight against terrorism and nuclear proliferation. While the aid bill has now been sent to President Barack Obama for his final nod following the approval by the Congress, American lawmakers were skeptical over Pakistan's sincerity in carrying out operations against the extremists operating from its soil, during the final drafting of the bill before its approval.

September 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have attached the world's smallest satellite tags to the members of the rare and rapidly declining Kittlitz's Murrelet seabirds, in order to track them. Most of these birds are found in remote, glaciated regions of Alaska, but their wintering grounds have long been unknown.

September 1st, 2009 Politician won't apologize for 'Obama tags' remarkBOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Rex Rammell said Tuesday the hoopla over his remarks about hunting President Barack Obama has been a boon to his campaign, and he again refused to apologize for what he called a joke. "This country needs to lighten up," the GOP gubernatorial candidate said during a press conference in a Boise park Tuesday.

September 1st, 2009 Politician says 'Obama tags' good for campaignREXBURG, Idaho — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell says his remarks about buying hunting tags for President Barack Obama have been a boon to his campaign. The former elk rancher also blames Democrats and the media for overblowing his comment and being too defensive.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women terrorists are being trained in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir for anti-India activities, parliament was told Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken told the Lok Sabha that reports "indicate that women are being trained in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir for terror activities".

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's nine Law Lords have passed a ruling that has left the ruling Labour Party's anti-terrorist control orders in disarray. The Law Lords blasted the use of "secret" evidence to slap tough restrictions on terror suspects, and said three suspects can appeal against their control orders because they do not know what evidence is being used against them.

May 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - External Affairs minister S.M.Krishna on Friday said that peace process with Pakistan could only resume if Pakistan dismantled terror aiding set-ups functioning on its soil. Addressing media persons here, Krishna said Pakistan is expected to take certain step to show India and the rest of the world that it is actually serious about fighting terrorism.

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 - While the Obama Administration is mulling plans to dispatch at least 1.5 billion dollars in aid to Pakistan, Democrat Senator Carl Levin has said that Pakistan must be made accountable for all the help it receives, and that it should prove its willingness to curb the increasing extremism inside its territory. Talking to reporters here, Levin said stability could not be bought in the region unless Pakistan acts sincerely against terror camps based on its soil.

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 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 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.

January 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As police gunned down two suspected Pakistani terrorists in Noida near here early Sunday, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma reminded Pakistan to fulfill its commitment of fighting terrorism. 'Terror groups operating in Pakistan are trying to destabilise India,' Sharma told the Times Now news channel.