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MUMBAI: US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged arch-rivals India and Pakistan to work together to resolve their differences, while pushing Islamabad to do more to tackle extremism.
Speaking to college students in Mumbai, Obama said the US "could not impose" a partnership between the two countries, but added fast-growing India would benefit more than any other nation from better ties with Pakistan.
"I am absolutely convinced that the country that has the biggest stake in

WASHINGTON: Expressing disappointment over US President Barack Obama obvious sidelining of Pakistan in his visit to Asian countries, former president Pervez Musharraf said that "it does not resonate well with Pakistanis."
Musharraf also criticized Obama for not speaking about Kashmir, "Clearly people will take this to mean that United States or its president is not concerned," he said. Obama was en route Friday for Mumbai and New Delhi on a trip aimed at convincing India that he

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan chapter of Transparency International (TI) has no role in compiling the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2010, which has indicated that corruption in the country has increased, as the report has been compiled on the basis of surveys carried out by respected independent international sources.
TI Pakistan chairman Syed Adil Gilani told Pakistan Today that the report was compiled on the basis of international organisations which directly or indirectly

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said US President Barack Obama missed a chance to connect with the Indian people by not denouncing Pakistan for exporting terror to India.
"Obama's first speech at the Taj hotel, which saw the biggest terror attack on India, was disappointing. We were expecting a hard-hitting statement from the US president on 26/11," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, referring to the 2008 terror attack.
Obama avoided any mention of

WASHINGTON: Pakistan's envoy to the United States on Saturday sounded an upbeat note on President Barack Obama's visit to India, voicing hope that it will help bring peace to the region.
"Pakistan looks forward to President Barack Obama's visit in 2011 and hopes that his trip to India will create opportunity for lasting peace in the region," Ambassador Husain Haqqani wrote on Twitter, the micro-blogging service.
For many US experts, it would have been inconceivable for Obama

WASHINGTON: US military commanders want India to formally reject an Indian military doctrine they say is fuelling tensions with Pakistan and hindering the American war in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
But New Delhi denied any such doctrine even existed. However, US officials say they do not expect President Barack Obama to broach the subject of the doctrine, known informally as Cold Start, the daily said.
At the most, it quoted unnamed officials as

KABUL: Afghan security forces have detained three insurgents they blame for an attack on a UN compound last month and believe they have links to the Afghan Taliban leaders based in Pakistan, security officials said here on Saturday.
Four Taliban suicide bombers, dressed as police and women, attacked the United Nations compound in Herat city, a commercial hub in Afghanistan's west, on October 23. All four were killed and there were no casualties among the UN staff.
The attack

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said on Saturday that the government was fostering reconciliation and consensus in the national interest.
Talking to media at the Jinnah International Airport, he said that the government intended to take all coalition partners into confidence on the national issues and it was because of this trust that "the PPP and the Muttahida Quami Movement arranged a peaceful funeral for Dr Imran Farooq," he said.

LAHORE: Pakistan team led by Shoaib Malik lived up to expectations as they overpowered arch-rivals India to win the opener of the Hong Kong Super Sixes event at the Kowloon Cricket Club on Saturday.
Pakistan swept to a 22-run victory over India to be well-placed in the preliminary round Sobers Group on the opening day of the US$150,000 tournament which saw more than three-quarters of the programme cancelled due to rain.
"It's always good to start with a win," a website

LONDON: The probe into allegations that Pakistan cricketers accepted bribes for spot-fixing during the Lord's Test against England gathered pace
on Friday as a second evidence file was passed to prosecutors.
Scotland Yard said evidence that there was a conspiracy to defraud bookmakers will be considered by the Crown Prosecution Service. Detectives interviewed four players under caution and arrested businessman Mazhar Majeed as part of the inquiry.
Majeed is accused of

DUBAI: Opener Hashim Amla hit a fighting century and paceman Morne Morkel took four wickets as South Africa pulled off a narrow two-run win over Pakistan in the third day-night international here on Tuesday.
South Africa, put into bat by Pakistan, owed it to the 27-year-old Amla who carried his bat through the innings with a resolute 119 and helped his team to a defendable 228-9 before surviving another scare by Pakistan who managed 226-9.
It was the bearded right-hander's

KARACHI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern over slow implementation in Pakistan of energy sector reforms and a revised general sales tax, officials said on Tuesday.
Pakistani and IMF officials are meeting to discuss the release of the sixth tranche of an $11 billion emergency loan agreed in November, 2008, which has kept the economy afloat. "Though things are not very good, it is still too early to say whether the sixth tranche is in danger," said a

ISLAMABAD: The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) has given membership accession to Pakistan, paving the way to link the landlocked states with the Arabian Sea ports of Gwadar and Karachi.
Asian Development Bank's Central and West Asia Department Director General Juan Miranda informed this at a telephonic news conference on Tuesday. He said that Pakistan and Turkmenistan were given accession at the ministerial conference of the member states held in Cebu,

DUBAI: A former president of the ICC blamed Pakistan cricket authorities for the state of the game in the country and denied the ICC was picking on Pakistan.
"ICC is not against Pakistan, it's PCB which is against their cricket and has not sorted out their problems, forcing the ICC to take the matters in its hands," Pakistani Ehsan Mani told AFP.
"The way PCB is being run, it is only to protect the position of one person," said Mani, ICC president 2003-2006, without

ISLAMABAD: The governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh on Monday decided to initiate cooperation in counterterrorism, counter narcotics and drug trafficking.
The fifth round of Pakistan-Bangladesh bilateral consultations was held here with Pakistani side led by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Bangladesh delegation by its Foreign Secretary M Mijarul Quayes.
During the three hour-long discussion, including the lunch hosted by the foreign secretary in honour of the foreign

KARACHI: Former cricketers and officials voiced mixed reactions on Sunday after the ICC rejected the appeals of Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer against suspensions over spot-fixing claims. The International Cricket Council code of conduct commissioner heard appeals on Saturday and Sunday before announcing the verdict.
Former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal said the decision was no surprise. "It may be disappointing, but it was expected because the ICC upholding the suspension proves

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday rejected the appeals of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer against suspensions for spot-fixing.
The two, along with fast bowler Mohammad Asif, were provisionally suspended by the ICC over allegations they were involved in spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of England.
All three appealed, but Asif later withdrew his application. ICC code of conduct commissioner Michael Beloff announced the