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SEOUL: The top US military officer accused China Wednesday of ducking its responsibility to curb its close ally North Korea in the wake of the North's "inhumane" and deadly attack on a South Korean island.
Admiral Mike Mullen also announced plans for more joint military exercises with South Korea and said the South has the right to respond as it sees fit to any future attacks.
Asked at a press conference in Seoul if he had asked the South to exclude the option of air strikes

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided that a letter with serious reservations would be sent to the federal government about the delay in the transfer of assets and funds of the five departments transferred to the provinces by the centre.
The decision was made in a meeting at the Chief Minister's House headed by Qaim Ali Shah. The meeting reviewed various matters related to the transfer of the five departments from the federal government in accordance with the 18th

ISLAMABAD: Prof Khurshid Ahmad, senator and Naib Amir of the Jamaate Islami Pakistan, on Tuesday said that he had serious concerned about the activities of US Ambassador Cameron Munter.
In a statement Khurshid said that Munter's visit to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Headquarters and his statement that "if GST is not enforced it would be a blow to the international community's efforts made to bolster Pakistan economy" and that "enforcement of GST is the key-condition of the IMF"

BEIJING: China does not want to "replace" the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China's rise, the country's top diplomat wrote in an essay.
State Councillor Dai Bingguo said that China would not engage in an arms race, as the country's resources were better spent on development and ensuring its people had enough to eat. "The notion that China wants to replace the United States and dominate the world is a myth," Dai wrote in the

PARIS: The cholera outbreak ravaging Haiti began at a camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, according to an expert report submitted to the French foreign ministry, a source close to the matter told AFP Tuesday.
Respected French epidemiologist Professor Renaud Piarroux conducted a study in Haiti last month and concluded the epidemic began with an imported strain of the disease and broke out at the Nepalese base, the official said.
Foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero

LAHORE: The role of Inter-Services Intelligence's (ISI) political wing is questionable but ISI's role in anti-terrorist activities has been found reliable, Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah said while responding to a 'Call Attention Notice' moved by Chaudhry Zaheer in relation to the suicide blast at the shrine of Baba Fareed in Pakpattan. Sanaullah categorically stated that Inter-Services Intelligence is the best intelligence agency of the country and

LAHORE: Khalid Mahmood, Chairman Provincial Mohtasib and Moulana Zafar Ali Khan Trust, has praised the planning and efforts behind Pakistan hockey team's gold medal win in the Asian Games.
Khalid Mahmood specially visited the Pakistan Hockey Federation offices and congratulated PHF President Qasim Zia, Secretary Asif Bajwa and the team for their achievement.He said the win has come as a ray of light for the Pakistanis in dusky conditions.
Later he presented a bouquet to

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said on Sunday that he hoped Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's Kabul visit would help enhance Pak-Afghan economic ties.
Basit said the main objective of Gilani's visit was to increase mutual trust, as it was in the benefit of both countries. He said a lot of progress was made in trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan during the last two years, which had raised the masses' expectations of cordial and friendly bilateral

ISLAMABAD: A new WikiLeaks diplomatic cable has revealed the details of the Saudi Arabia-backed reconciliation process to bring peace in Afghanistan, quoting Afghan president's brother Abdul Qayyum Karzai saying that Mulla Omar could not survive the talks' process, as he had no role to play and exile was perhaps an option for him.
"I see no way for Mullah Omar to survive the process - he didn't have the intelligence or popular support to emerge on top. He (Omar) and Mulla Barader

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Environment has finally formed the long-awaited National Climate Change Policy. The policy framework, however, is not without the loopholes.
A ministry official while talking to the Pakistan Today on Sunday said, "The forthcoming National Climate Change Policy of Pakistan fails to give an adequate provision for implementation of the policy. He said the policy appeared to be superficial and he dubbed it as 'CUT-PASTE work' done by the ministry.