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Source : "The Dawn"
By Ahmed Hassan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The winner of the US presidential election would be “under compulsion” to maintain good relations with Pakistan, the prime minister said on Saturday, in an attempt to ease apprehensions amidst a torrent of acerbic remarks made during the campaign.
Addressing a news conference at the Prime Minister’s House upon return from Turkey, Mr Gilani said that the whole world was sympathetic to Pakistan for its being a victim of terrorism, and (…)

Dhaka (Press Trust of India): Dismissing as "baseless" reports about suspected involvement of the Bangladesh-based outlawed HuJI militant group in the deadly Assam blasts, the government here has said it would never allow this country’s territory to be used to aid attacks on other nations.
"The allegations are totally baseless and, as in the past, ... (there is) no evidence to back them up," the Bangladesh Foreign Office said in a statement issued on Saturday night.
It said Bangladesh (…)

Source : "Pakistan Observer"
London—The commander of British special forces in Afghanistan, who has in the past expressed concerns about military equipment failures, has resigned, the Ministry of Defense said Saturday.
A ministry spokesman said Major Sebastian Morley, head of the Britain’s SAS forces in Afghanistan, cited only personal reasons when he resigned Friday.
The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, however, reported Saturday that Morley “resigned in disgust” because (…)

The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week.
Many more agents needed, official says
Friday, October 31, 2008 Last updated 2:54 p.m. PT
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND DANIEL LATHROP P-I REPORTERS
"They are bogged down big-time or there would be some indictments by now," said a recently retired bureau official who played a pivotal role in setting FBI policy after 9/ 11. (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Surviving to over age 50 is no major accomplishment, in and of itself. It’s only a chance to see things and experience things, and sadly, most of it for the worse. As a child, playing in the sun was not seen as a danger; the polar ice caps weren’t melting, or at least we didn’t know about it yet. Gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and seat belts were a novelty only required in the front seat.
But I started life on a wholly segregated, post-World War II street, in a (…)

Five Democratic members of the U.S. Congress from the state of Maryland declared their support for “Health Care for America Now!,” (HCAN), on Oct. 31, 2008, at a press conference held at the AFSME headquarters in South Baltimore. Three members of the U.S. Congress, Rep. Elijah Cummings (7th D), Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (2nd D), and Rep. John Sarbanes (3rd D), personally signed onto the statement of principles and also spoke at the event. Rep. Cummings said: Health care is a “life and (…)

source web site: Khabrein Mumbai, Oct. 30: An embarrassed Indian Army admitted Thursday a serving Army lieutenant-colonel suspected of links to other suspects in the Malegaon and Modasa bomb blast conspiracy had "been moved to Mumbai" for questioning by the anti-terrorism squad of the Maharashtra police.
The officer is posted at the Army Education Corps Training College at Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh. While the Army did not disclose his name, sources in Mumbai identified him as Lt. (…)

By Hasan Suroor
Source : "The Hindu"
LONDON: The British government has ordered an investigation into MI5’s role in the alleged torture of a British resident being held at Guantanamo Bay to extract confession from him.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is reported to have asked Attorney-General Baroness Scotland to investigate allegations that an MI5 officer took part in unlawful interrogation of Binyam Mohamed (30), when he was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 on terror charges.
This follows (…)

Risk management depends on information but Google Censors information world-wide – not just for China. The World is acutely at risk from nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats – as indeed is the whole world, according to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (the world’s biggest general scientific organization and publisher of the world’s number 1 scientific journal Science: ).
Dealing with risk involves (a) getting accurate data about the threats, (b) (…)

By Brian McAfee
With now over 300 reported deaths, 500 injured and thousands rendered homeless as a result of the October 29 earthquake that struck Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan a new need for humanitarian assistance presents itself. Many in the area have left their homes because of fear that their homes will collapse due to structural damage from the initial earthquake or the numerous aftershocks that continue to occur.
UNICEF reports that over 70,00o people, 30,000 of them (…)