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US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson announced that the US Government will support $55 million for infrastructure, rehabilitation and construction program in South Waziristan.

It is perplexing as to why the Tamil community of Sri Lanka is not making the best use of the opportunity before them to achieve some of their aspirations. The war is over, the LTTE that held them and the country hostage is no longer there to prevent a just and reasonable solution being found to this national issue, and the two main candidates for the Presidency are both vying primarily for the Sinhala vote, which is the key to winning the election. One is trying hard to make sure his predominantly Sinhala constituency remains intact, and the other is trying to create dents in that and sway them towards him.

Acting on an intelligence tip-off, security agencies have nabbed the Punjab chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khalilullah, along with a trained suicide bomber.

The Liberhan Commission contention that the Sangh Parivar’s pre-planned conspiracy had led to the destruction of the Babri Masjid is absurd. The Commission has provided a better narrative, just like Alif Laila. It has opened a Pandora’s Box, when the wounds had just started healing.