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‘Slumdog Millionaire’ gets 8 Academy awards

“Slumdog Millionaire” was the correct answer at the Oscars on Sunday night not once, not twice but eight times. The Hollywood adaptation of a story about a Mumbai slum kid who goes all the way to win the top prize in a popular TV game show swept the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles and gave Indian composer AR Rahman two coveted golden statuettes.

Blighted Garden

Pakistan's deal to quieten the Taliban is just a Faustian pact.

US: Don’t let bad guys take over

Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke says the US is deeply troubled by the Pakistani government's decision to enter into a truce with the Taliban in the Swat valley, whom he compared to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai.

50 die in US plane crash

A Continental Airlines plane crashed into a house in upstate New York late on Thursday night killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground, according to reports from the crash scene in suburban Buffalo.

Kargil expert Bruce Riedel to review US policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan

At a tense meeting across from the White House on July 4, 1999, President Bill Clinton put pressure on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to pull back Pakistani-backed fighters from a confrontation with India that threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.

Obama: Pak hasn’t tried hard to root out Al-Qaida

US President Barack Obama says Pakistan has not made a concerted effort to root out Al-Qaida and the Taliban from safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Obama, speaking at his first prime-time press conference on Monday night, said there was “no doubt” that terrorists were operating in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the mountainous border with Afghanistan.

Mission Pakistan

When Richard C. Holbrooke arrives in Pakistan this week on a fact-finding mission, he will come under pressure to include India and the contentious Kashmir issue among his duties, a prospect that India strongly opposes and Washington has since rebuffed.

U.S. envoy eyes answers from Pakistan, India

When Richard C. Holbrooke arrives in Pakistan this week on a fact-finding mission, he will come under pressure to include India and the contentious Kashmir issue on his agenda, a prospect that India strongly opposes and Washington has since rebuffed.

Khan serious proliferation risk: US

President Barack Obama wants assurances from Pakistan that rogue nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is not involved in the nuclear proliferation activity that prompted his house arrest in 2004. The Islamabad High Court on Friday declared Dr Khan a free man.

I screwed up: Obama

President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he had "screwed up" in trying to make exemptions for Cabinet picks who had failed to pay their taxes. Earlier in the day two of his nominees withdrew their names from consideration, saying their tax problems would distract from the new administration's promise of change.