Pakistan’s ‘nests of terrorism’ reason for Afghan crisis: Medvedev

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - India has accused Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of playing a disruptive role in the Taliban insurgency by continuing to provide aid to the Afghan Taliban to complicate the military situation there. "They are a tandem," External Affairs Minister S.M.

September 15th, 2009 Reports: Medvedev wants to meet US 'dissidents'MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he would like to meet with "dissidents" when he visits the U.S. next week. Russian news agencies quote him as telling a group of visiting foreign experts that "I believe there are dissidents in the United States." ITAR-Tass quotes him as saying: "Let them tell me what problems the United States has.

September 15th, 2009 Medvedev not ruling out run in 2012MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he hasn't ruled out running for a second term in 2012. Questions about whether he will run have swirled since his predecessor and mentor Vladimir Putin indicated last week that he was also interested in running for another term.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Developing oil rigs in the Arctic is helping predators prey on nesting birds by providing them with subsidised housing. They nest and den around drilling infrastructure and supplement their diets with garbage and nesting birds, says a new study by Wildlife Conservation Society, US Fish and Wildlife Service.

September 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Reptiles are never the most social of creatures but when it comes to laying eggs they don't mind sharing nests. A new study from the Australian National University (ANU) suggests that this out-of-character behaviour is more common in reptiles than was previously thought.

August 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The US will provide all help to Pakistan to deal with its crushing energy crisis, but it has no "magic solution" to the ongoing crisis, top US envoy Richard Holbrooke has said. "We are committed to resolve the energy crisis in Pakistan.

August 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday termed terrorism as the biggest threat to the country and said his government was committed to eliminate this menace through "determination and courage". I want to reiterate that we are not scared of the terrorists.

July 6th, 2009 Obama, Medvedev agree progress slow in AfghanistanMOSCOW — President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart agree that there hasn't been as much progress as they'd like to see in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan. Their comments at a Monday news conference in Moscow followed a Russian commitment to let U.S.

July 6th, 2009 Obama trusts Medvedev to follow throughMOSCOW — President Barack Obama says he trusts Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE'-tree med-VYEH'-dyev) to follow through on the agreements the two leaders have announced at their summit in Moscow. The agreements include a preliminary deal to reduce both nations' stockpiles of nuclear warheads.

June 16th, 2009 Medvedev calls for new reserve currenciesYEKATERINBURG, Russia — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the world needs new reserve currencies. Medvedev told a regional summit Tuesday that the creation of new reserve currencies in addition to the dollar is needed to stabilize global finances.

June 15th, 2009 Russia, China, Central Asian nations hold summitYEKATERINBURG, Russia — Russia played regional power broker Monday, hosting China and Central Asian nations for a summit that highlights the Kremlin's efforts to maintain clout in former Soviet territory and raise its profile in Afghanistan. Moscow is expected to use the meeting of leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to try to cement the six-nation group as a counterbalance to the U.S.

June 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday said that Moscow was ready to provide all assistance to Islamabad in its fight against terrorism. Condemning Tuesday's suicide car bombing at a hotel in Peshawar that killed 16 people and injured over 50, Medvedev said such terror attacks couldn't deter Islamabad's commitment to defeat the militants.

May 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - About 10,000 security personnel are guarding Pakistans nuclear arsenal and Western fears about the safety of the weapons are unfounded, a senior official has said. Air Commodore Khalid Banuri, director of arms control and disarmament affairs at the Strategic Plans Division (SPD), said that Pakistans command and control structure for the weapons was better than that of many other nuclear-armed states, and many countries had officially acknowledged this, DawnNews reported Thursday.

May 12th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar has said that US can never be Pakistan's friend as it wants is to seize the atomic program by creating unrest here and proving that Pakistan is a failed state. Giving a lecture here in Aiwan Karkunan-e-Tehreek-e-Pakistan, he said the US wants the Afghan war to spill over and spread in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

May 11th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has hinted that he wants to comeback as president of the country in 2012. Putin said there was no decision as yet on whether he or his close ally Dmitry Medevedev, the current president, would run for office when Medvedev's four-year-stint in the job expires.