KHYBER AGENCY: At least six containers were torched in a heavily armed militants’ attack on a convoy of Nato containers at Shiraz in the Afghan bordering areas on Monday, Geo News reported.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will get a fond farewell from his Nato colleagues at a two-day meeting beginning on Thursday, as the alliance faces a difficult withdrawal from Afghanistan and looks for a new supreme military commander.
Panetta, 74, had expected to bow out earlier but his replacement, Chuck Hagel, has had a rough ride so far in the US ..... Read more
WASHINGTON: U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to salvage their surveillance of al-Qaida and other terrorists who are working frantically to change how they communicate after a National Security Agency contractor leaked details of two NSA spying programs.
It's an electronic game of cat-and-mouse that could have deadly consequences if a plot is..... Read more
I am on my seventh trip to India since I first visited the country in 1976. Nothing is the same. The essential Indian narrative has gone from timelessness to disruption; the national icon from the lumbering elephant to the call centre to the high-tech entrepreneur.
The Delhi that I first knew was the gracious city of white bungalows, trimmed lawns, ..... Read more