Poison pens pose new threat to Ahmadinejad’s life

September 26th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has once again raised the issue of India being a threat to the country, The Daily Times reports. In an interview to a private television channel, Haqqani said: "India posed the greatest security threat to Pakistan and the Pakistan Army would play its role in this regard." It is worth mentioning here that, in the recent past, the United States has been pressing Pakistan to focus more on the internal threat posed by the Taliban and other extremist groups based on its soil rather than remain in 'war preparedness' against India.

September 25th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - US President Barack Obama has said that militants based on Pakistani soil pose a serious security threat not only to Pakistan and the region, but also to the United States and the whole world. Addressing a meeting of the 26-member Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP), Obama highlighted that America and Pakistan were facing a 'common threat'.

September 20th, 2009 Iran's top leader: US "wrong" on nuke threatTEHRAN,Iran — Iran's supreme leader says U.S. officials are "wrong" about his country's nuclear program and the threat Iran's missiles pose.

September 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Striking a yoga pose has won Malaysian Adriana Zuleika Azmi shopping vouchers worth RM 5,000 ($1,432) that she can spend with award-winning television personality Aznil Nawawi. A participant had to walk into a Ogawa firm outlet and take a picture with any of the Ogawa products.

July 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - While Pakistan has reacted sharply to the launch of India's first nuclear-powered submarine INS-Arihant, saying such a step would only increase arms race in the region and that it is 'detrimental to regional peace and stability', an editorial in a leading Pakistan daily said it was premature to say that New Delhi's big leap forward would really pose a threat. An editorial in the Dawn said Islamabad must not react to India joining the exclusive club of US, Russia, China, France and the UK.

July 16th, 2009 PATNA - Nearly 45 days after an Australian tourist Osborne Michael David was found dead in a guest house here, the police said that he had not been murdered or suffered a drug overdose as suspected, but had killed himself due to penury. An Australian tourist whose body was found in a guest house committed suicide by consuming rat poison.

July 9th, 2009 US worried that freed Iranians could pose threatWASHINGTON — The State Department is worried that release of five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents in Iraq could present a security threat to American troops there. Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters that the U.S.

June 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Defence Ministry has shrugged off a threat from North Korea to wipe America off the map, as silly on the part of the Communist regime of the country. North Korea made the threat as a US destroyer trailed a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of UN sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.

June 13th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israeli Vice premier Shilvat Shalom Saturday stressed the Iranian nuclear "threat" following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in Iran's presidential election. "The United States and the free world must reevaluate the policy on Teheran's nuclear ambitions," Shalom told Israel Radio.

June 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that extremism can not pose a threat to the sovereignty of the country, and claimed that the Swat offensive is fully backed by Pakistan's political fraternity. Zardari said the country's civil society and the political forces would never allow the extremists to carry on their nefarious activities to expand their writ.

May 28th, 2009 LAHORE - The US Central Command chief General David Petraeus has said that Pakistan has now realized the existential threat posed by the Taliban. In an interview to a foreign radio channel, General Petraeus said : "The four major elements of Pakistani society, the government, the opposition, the military and the civilians, realise that Pakistan must oppose and confront the Taliban, who pose a threat to the Pakistani state." He said there has been a major shift of opinion among the people of the country towards the Taliban, as they now realize that the outlawed outfit only fosters oppression.

May 28th, 2009 PHNOM PENH - A Cambodian man accidentally killed his father while trying to poison his wife's lover with a tainted bottle of alcohol, national media reported Thursday. Police said Chhouy Chhim gave the poisoned alcohol as a gift to Chan Sarith, who he accused of having an affair with his wife, the Cambodia Daily reported.

May 6th, 2009 LONDON - Admitting that the Taliban pose an existential threat to his country, Pakistan High Commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan has said that the outlawed outfit is a threat to the mankind as well, and there was an immediate need to eliminate it. Speaking in the House of Parliament, Hasan said the Taliban should not be compared with Islam.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - A former British intelligence has made it "very clear" that Saddam Hussein did not pose a significant threat to the UK, as was being claimed at the time by ministers, and added that tougher enforcement of sanctions could have brought his regime down in Iraq. Carne Ross, who was a first secretary at the United Nations in New York for the Foreign Office until 2004, was at the centre of events in the run-up to the Iraq war revealed yesterday that the government could reveal new information about the legality of the invasion.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama Thursday extended US sanctions for at least another year, saying the Iranian government's policies continue to pose an 'extraordinary threat' to the US. The US enacted tight sanctions on Iran following the 1979 hostage crisis and they have remained in place since.