Washington, Sept 15: The ongoing US’ military strikes targeting the Taliban and Al Qaeda were “risky” but must continue, as over the past six years the Bush administration’s reliance on Pakistan to combat the militants only “strengthened the Taliban and Al Qaeda networks in FATA”, said an editorial in the Washington Post.
It said that the Pakistan forces alone lacked the capacity to eliminate the extremists.
According to it, the US strikes in Pakistan were necessary and were long overdue. “They must continue,” it added.
Washington , Sep 15 : Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s credentials as a reformer were brought into question by a former adversary who said the Alaska Governor can’t claim to be a credible agent of change since she kept federal highway money allotted to Alaska even though the so-called ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ project had been cut from the list of the state’s earmarked projects.
Wana, Sept 15 : An attempt by US troop
Washington - The embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers was expected to file for bankruptcy before the start of trading later Monday, hours after financial services firm Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself to Bank of America.
Washington, Sept 15 : Amid a series of strong statements emerging from Islamabad that the ongoing US strikes might prove counter-productive and could lead to straining of US-Pak ties, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard A. Boucher Monday said there was “no rift” in relations between Pakistan and US.
Lahore, Sept 15 : The US forces deployed along the Pak-Afghan border are facing around 10,000 insurgents on the Pakistani side of the border, said a US commander manning around 19,000 troops in Afghanistan.
