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About: The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) started its life in 1947 with the independence of Pakistan. Initially it was run through a Trust, but owing to financial bottlenecks, it was taken over by the Government through an Ordinance called; "Associated Press of Pakistan (taking over) Ordinance 1961", on 15th June 1961, to ...

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted Iran was now a nuclear nation on Thursday as he marked the 1979 Islamic revolution, prompting the West to warn his regime would soon be slapped with new sanctions.“One day they said we cannot enrich uranium, but with the resistance of our leader, nation ... and with the help of God, the Iranian nation has become nuclear,” Ahmadinejad said.“They (Americans) want to dominate our region but the Iranian people will never let them do that,” he said in a speech at Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square before a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
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Foreign News: THE American President's Special Envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said that the USA has decided on a roadmap to solving the Kashmir dispute between the two South Asian neighbours, and this will be presented to the two countries soon. Ambassador Holbrooke, in an interview to a US magazine, also disclosed that he would visit both countries soon in order to get the stalled composite dialogue process started once again. Ambassador Holbrooke was also quick to say that the USA recognised that both countries did not want outside interference, but since they were both nuclear-armed, ...

MUZAFFARABAD (Agencies) - At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing that ripped through an Imambargah in Azad Kashmir’s main city on Sunday.
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a Muharram procession in Muzaffarabad. “When the volunteers spotted the suicide bomber and challenged him, he blew himself up,” local religious leader Maulvi Kifayat told a private TV ...

The US used to be a very likeable country till the neo-cons took over in 2001. Its democracy defined by its due process and, somewhat conditional, equal opportunity for all held out a great appeal for the freedom-loving human beings. Despite the democratic dimension, dangerous lobbies mostly dominated its political system with boisterous backing of Mammon. Accordingly a US administration, generally, has to heed horrendous vested interests while deciding its policy. The latter are represented by what President Eisenhower in the 1960s pinpointed as the Military Industrial Complex as well as special-interest groups like the Zionists. Being an advanced society, ...