With Pakistan's ruling coalition gunning for President Pervez Musharraf, the United States has said that he made a "number of mistakes" during his eight-year reign including imposing a state of emergency last year.
Terming the 'historic transformation of United States' ties with the rising democratic power India' as among its key strategic accomplishments, the Bush administration has said it will enable Washington to advance its 'interests and values' in the region in future.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has said that the United States should finish the fight against terror outfits Al Qaida and Taliban instead of sending troops to Iraq."We should finish the fight against Al Qaida and Taliban instead of going into Iraq. We need to take more resources and put them in Afghan - at least two additional combat brigades and US$ 1 billion in non-military assistance each year," Obama said.
Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may be the favourite in this year's US general elections but the first-time black-American senator has some hurdles to overcome if he is going to find himself in the Oval Office. A first poll since the end of the Democrats' campaign by The Washington Post/ABC News shows that the presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Senator Obama are running about even with independent voters.
An Indian American businessman was sentenced to 35 months in jail and slapped a US$ 60,000 fine by a US court for shipping restricted military technology to Indian government entities engaged in missile and fighter jet production.Parthasarathy Sudarshan was convicted of acquiring electrical components with applications in missile guidance and firing systems in the US and supplying them to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Bharat Dynamics Ltd between 2002 and 2006.
Over 50 of the over 100 workers, who walked away from their jobs at a Mississippi oil rig company in March this year and now face deportation, chanted slogans and held up enlarged checks they allegedly wrote out to recruiters on a false promise of permanent residency. Justice Department spokeswoman Jamie Hais said the civil rights office will meet workers' representatives next week and officials will reply to the letter.
The US defence department on Thursday insisted that its air strike that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghanistan border was a "legitimate" act after an angry Islamabad summoned the American ambassador to protest against the "unprovoked and cowardly" attack.
Fresh from his victory over Hillary Clinton to clinch the Democratic party nomination to the White House, Obama said the country must invest in the research and innovation to create jobs and industries. Observing that America's challenges on economic front cannot be overcome by building 'protectionist walls', Obama said the country needs to focus on improving plight of the middle-class and investing in education.
Backed by a major American labour organisation, the workers, who alleged exploitation by their previous employer Mississippi shipyard Signal International, said that two more groups of 15 people each were scheduled to join them on May 15 and May 28. The organisers of the strike said that their protest will be moving to the doorsteps of the Indian Embassy in front of the Gandhi Statue starting this Saturday.
"Our message is to the military rulers: Let the US come to help you, help the people. Our hearts go out to the people of Burma. We want to help them deal with this terrible disaster. At the same time, of course, we want them to live in a free society," Bush said. President George W Bush on Tuesday asked Myanmar's military junta to allow the United States to provide disaster relief to thousands of people, who were left homeless by the devastating cyclone,
Addressing a gathering at the National Endowment for Democracy, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte also said that US' national security was more dependent on 'the success, security, and stability of Pakistan' now than it has ever been in the past.
Close on the heels of President George W Bush's remarks linking Indians' food habits to rising global prices of commodities, the United States has now partly attributed the surge in oil futures to the increased demand in India and China.
Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, has ruled out the possibility of becoming the running mate to the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, saying that his focus was on getting his state back on its feet after the debilitating Katrina. Jindal's name has surfaced as a potential running mate to Senator McCain but the Indian American has persistently ruled it out. "I think it'd be presumptuous of me to turn down something I've not been offered," said Jindal.
"It also, however, increases demand. So, for example, just as an interesting thought for you, there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That's bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population." "And when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up," Bush said.
Siegfried Hecker, the co-director for the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, told a Senate Sub Committee on Appropriations dealing with Energy, "India does not view itself as a proliferator but as a legitimate nuclear weapons state." "Indians are actually significantly more capable in nuclear energy technology -- and I believe it will be in our benefit to have nuclear cooperation for nuclear energy with India," Hecker told the Senate.
Expressing concern over the situations in Tibet and Myanmar, President George W Bush has said that the United States is working with India to promote democracy and peace throughout Asia. welcome the recent statements by the Chinese government expressing its willingness to meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama -- precisely what I have suggested to President Hu Jintao do," Bush said. "My administration has tightened sanctions on the military regime in Burma," Bush said.
Buoyed by a ceasefire deal negotiated by Pakistan in 2007, the Al Qaeda has rebuilt some of its pre-September 11 capabilities, leading to major spike in attacks within the country and neighbouring Afghanistan, the United States State Department's latest annual terrorism report says. The ceasefire negotiated by Pakistan in 2007 gave Al Qaeda leaders "greater mobility and ability to conduct training and operational planning, particularly those targeting Western Europe," it said
The state department, in its annual report on terrorism, said terrorist activities along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir are on the decline, but Pakistan-based militant outfits like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in the Valley.
Obama has refused to debate Hillary Clinton,with no moderator, before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
A district court in the United States has sentenced a former schoolteacher for the second time to 15 years in prison after an appeals court directed it to reconsider the original conviction, for providing material aid to terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. The former school teacher was found guilty of acting as an assistant to LeT leader Mohammed Ajmal Khan, during his visits to the US in 2002 and 2003, and helping Khan transfer 50,000 paintball pellets to Pakistan.
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