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SALTA, Argentina: The second semi-final of the BDO Champions Challenge between India and Pakistan being played in Salta, Argentina, turned out to be a classic encounter, as is always the case when the two sides lock horns. In sharp contrast to the more sedate first semi-final between hosts Argentina and New Zealand, which ended in [...]

Pakistan has received the first delivery of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft from Sweden months after India obtained a similarly system from Israel.
The first of four Saab-2000 AWACS planes was handed over to the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the force.
“The aircraft landed at one of the PAF’s [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: An annual security report being released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks.
‘Criminals have been taking note of the large crowds in social-networking sites,’ said Cisco security researcher Scott Olechowski. ‘They steal them with various techniques.’
Tactics used to get into [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Shamsi airbase in Balochistan is being used by American forces for logistical purposes but the government is not satisfied with payments for the use of the facility, disclosed the defence minister.
Talking exclusively to DawnNews, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said that the US was still using the Shamsi airbase, however, the govt is not [...]

CAIRO: Al Qaeda denied Saturday that it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, saying in a new English-language video that such attacks were un-Islamic.
US-born al Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization’s English messages, said the extremist network was being framed by the US and [...]

Facebook has this morning taken down one of the most popular ‘fan-pages’ on its site without offering as much as an explanation to nearly 20,000 of its members.
The page titled ‘SYED ZAID ZAMAN HAMID: OFFICIAL’ has been taken offline for what Facebook calls ‘violation of terms and conditions’, without providing details as to exactly what [...]

NEWCASTLE, England: Amir Khan defeated Dmitriy Salita in just 76 seconds to retain his World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight title here at the Metro Radio Arena on Saturday.
The 22-year-old Briton ended the unbeaten record of New Yorker Salita after flooring the challenger twice before finishing the fight with a left hook to the chin to [...]

In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character of his policy [...]

London—Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani talking about anti-US feeling gripping much of the country, said that Pakistanis now saw the fight against militants as ‘their war’. ‘It is our war that we are fighting, not a proxy war for the US. It’s a war for our own sake,’ Prime Minister said Thursday in an [...]

LONDON: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there is no possibility of Taliban occupation of Pakistan, adding that Pakistan will act against Osama bin Laden if the U.S. and Britain provide substantial evidence about his presence in Pakistan.
The prime minister said that the war against terrorism is in the interest of not only [...]