Tag: US
US aid boosts power plant capacity
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director, Andrew Sisson has said that the project repairing the thermal power station in Muzaffargarh would...
Pakistan not a terrorist state: US
US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday that Pakistan stood with the international community in the war against terror.
Nuland told reporters that...
US moral authority undercut by war on terror
The 9/11 attacks prompted an outpouring of international sympathy and support for the US, but Washington’s subsequent “war on terror” undercut the superpower’s moral...
U.S. considers helping fund Pakistan dam, angering India
Even as Pakistan-US cooperation on anti-terrorism programs is withering, the United States is considering backing the construction of a giant, $12 billion dam in...
Fitch confirms US AAA rating
Fitch confirmed on Tuesday its triple-A rating of the United States but warned the country’s medium-term debt profile appears “at the limit” of what...
Military aid to Pakistan will remain suspended: US
The US has made it clear it will not lift the hold on its $800 million military aid to Pakistan, reiterating that Islamabad needed...
Five US men plead not guilty to jihad plot charges
Five North Carolina men accused of forming a local ring to plot Islamic holy war attacks entered not guilty pleas in federal court on...
Libyan forces fire Scud missile, says US official
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country's civil war, a US defence official said, after...
US debt still safest place for China reserves
The US Treasury market is still the safest place for China to put part of its massive foreign exchange reserves despite a downgrade of...
‘Drug trafficker’ pleads extradition to US
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday re-issued a notice to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general (DG) and interior secretary concerning the...
Super Serena bags Toronto title, boosts US Open hopes
Serena Williams won the WTA Rogers Cup title Sunday, beating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-2 to hammer home her credentials as a US Open favourite...
Obama popularity sinks to 39 percent
US President Barack Obama’s popularity has sunk to a new low, with an approval rating of under 40 percent, according to the latest Gallup...
US links Pakistani aid to performance
The White House has started conditioning the award of billions of dollars in security assistance to Pakistan on whether Islamabad shows progress on a...
KSE in lieu of US rating downgrade
From the onset of current month, bears dictated the terms to local investors as index posted a hefty negative return of 7.62 per cent...
Where we stand amid US debt crisis?
The knee jerk debt crisis of the world’s top economy has caused sleepless nights in the financial grid stations of almost all countries that...
Police draws blank on American kidnap
Police scrambled for leads on an American aid expert, who was kidnapped at gunpoint from his house in Lahore, interrogating his guards and combing...
‘There’s a stereotypical stoner aesthetic to us’
Murtaza Farooq grabbed the chance to catch up with Asadullah Qureshi and Agha Majid of stoner metal band, Myosis from Karachi. Recently they have...
