New York, Jan 31 : A landmark US bill that provides for 15 billion dollars in economic assistance to Pakistan, as a US frontline ally in combating terrorism over the next
10 years beginning 2009, is legally dead even before it was debated and voted by either chamber of the US bicameral legislature.

Washington, Dec. 12 : Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is unlikely to call Bill Clinton to testify at his wife''s confirmation hearings.