One foreign telephone call is enough to frighten our politicians: PML-Q

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Minister David Miliband has praised Indias work to bring development to embattled Afghanistan. We appreciate and support the impressive development work that India is doing in Afghanistan, Miliband told IANS at a Diwali charity dinner hosted by Indian-born industrialist Raj Loomba Thursday.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - According to a British opinion poll, the public's trust in politicians and business leaders has dipped after the revelation of the MPs' expenses scandal and the multi-billion pound assistance provided to leading banks. The survey by Ipsos MORI found that only 13 percent people believe politicians tell the truth, down from 21 percent last year, while 82 percent think they lie, an increase of nearly 10 percent over last year's figures.

September 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - With President Asif Ali Zardari disclosing that his predecessor General Pervez Musharraf was given a 'safe exit' from the country, it appears, Musharraf may have avoided a high treason trial for his unconstitutional actions, but according to an editorial there is hardly any possibility of the former general returning to Pakistan in the near future. The editorial in The Daily Times said Musharraf may be safe for the time being, but he would hardly be seen playing golf in Pakistan for years to come.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama reportedly blasted British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the phone for his decision to set the Lockerbie bomber free, indicating that the US-Britain relations have hit a new low. During his 40-minute telephone call, Obama made it clear that he was "disappointed" that cancer-stricken Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed, The Sun reports.

September 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - An editorial in a leading Pakistan daily has compared the country's politicians with errant school going kids who seek the counsel of elders to sort things out among themselves. Referring to former President General Pervez Musharraf's recent visit to Saudi Arabia and his meeting with the Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, a Dawn editorial has raised questions over the involvement of foreign countries in Pakistan's internal issues and blamed politicians for inviting 'interference' of foreign powers.

September 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that former President General Pervez Musharraf had left the country after inking a deal with the present government regarding not being prosecuted under high treason charges, and that one call from Saudi government would silence Musharraf's trial seekers. Speaking on a television chat show, Sayed said only a single telephone call from Saudi Arabia would stop demands for Musharraf's trial.

August 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that India's internal politics was the prime reason behind New Delhi's reluctance to restart the composite peace dialogue. Interacting with media persons at the Foreign Office here, Qureshi said it is evident that India's foreign policy was influenced by its domestic politics.

August 27th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Saeeduz Zaman Siddiqui has alleged that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had given millions of rupees to several politicians during former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan's regime. In an interview with a private television channel, Siddiqui said that former ISI Director General Liutenant General Asad Durrani had informed the Supreme Court that he had given money to politicians, apparently 'convince' them to join the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI).

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - New figures have revealed that local councils and police in Britain access telephone and e-mail records of people in the country at least 1400 times a day. According to The Telegraph, this figure is equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults, leading to claims that Britain had "sleepwalked into a surveillance society".

August 10th, 2009 Somali pirates free 16 sailors seized 4 months agoROME —Sixteen sailors, including 10 Italians, whose tug was seized by Somali pirates four months ago are free after the pirates abandoned the ship, Italian authorities said Monday. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told SkyTg24 television news that the Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke notified him of the release in a phone call Sunday evening.

August 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI - Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala will undertake a five-day visit of India from August 10 to 14. Koirala will arrive in the Indian capital shortly before noon Monday.

July 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - No matter how rich former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are, they still cherish gifts and presentations offered to them. Both leaders just adored the numerous gifts, offered to them by various heads of state and other officials during their visit to several countries, and that is why they took all such presentations with them after they stepped down.

June 8th, 2009 DHAKA - The trail of a police probe into activities of international mafia don Dawood Ibrahim has reached the doors of politicians and businessmen in Bangladesh, media reports here said Monday. The authorities refused to disclose the names of the politicians and businessmen but said that Ibrahim, who operates from Karachi and Dubai, helped them expand their businesses and was lavishing money on them to keep his Bangladesh network going.

June 8th, 2009 DHAKA - The trail of probe into activities of international mafia don Dawood Ibrahim has reached the doors of politicians and businessmen in Bangladesh, media reports here said Monday. The authorities refused to disclose the names of the politicians and businessmen but said that Ibrahim, who operates from Karachi and Dubai, helped them expand their businesses and was lavishing money on them to keep his Bangladesh network going.

April 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - A day after declaring an end to the use of heavy artillery and aerial weaponry against the rebel Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), the Government of Sri Lanka has refused entry to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Bildt was to have arrived in Colombo on Wednesday with British counterpart David Miliband and France's Bernard Kouchner to assess the situation in northern Sri Lanka.