European Union delegation holds discussion with the  Pakistani leadership. (28k, 56k)

Pak, USA discuss war plan
Islamabad to get aid for refugees: EU
Islamabad, September 25
While his army officers were locked in talks with a US team on possible war preparations today, Pakistan’s military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, was busy with diplomacy, meeting a European Union delegation.

Pak against US-Alliance pact
New Delhi September 25
Apprehending a strategic quagmire for itself, Pakistan is trying to impress upon their American military interlocuters currently in Islamabad that extending support to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan might spell disaster for the Bush Administration in Washington.

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Pakistan on a short leash
Lahore, September 25
General Pervez Musharraf was quite frank when he told the people of Pakistan that he had decided to support the USA in its campaign against Osama bin Laden and his protectors as this was the less costly of the two options available.

Laden stakes claim to Pak N-bombs
London, September 25
Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, hunted by the USA for the Black Tuesday terror attacks, has claimed Islamic rights over Pakistan’s nuclear bombs.

An Afghan child, who survives by collecting garbage, receives free food outside a restaurant on Tuesday in Karachi, where about 100,000 Afghan refugees live. The UN World Food Programme decided on Tuesday to temporarily resume food aid shipments to northern and western Afghanistan wich were suspended after the September 11 attacks in the USA. — Reuters

 

Brajesh Mishra in Washington to discuss India's participation in the war against terrorism. (28k, 56k)

Mishra meets US counterpart
Washington, September 25
National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra yesterday met his US counterpart Condoleeza Rice and other top officials to discuss India’s offer of support to the US efforts to stitch a global coalition to combat terrorism.

Freeze assets of LeT also: India
New Delhi, September 25
A day after the USA decided to freeze assets of Pakistan-based militant outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and 26 others, India today sought similar action against the Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Jaish-e-Mohammad and other Pakistan-backed terrorist groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country.