WASHINGTON: The United States is conducting a comprehensive strategic review of the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to information available with the Centre.Sources said the US was carrying out the review from the military and political points of view which is likely to be unveiled at the NATO conference in April. Besides, the US State department is conducting a separate review. “All this will give fresh input to the American policy direction on Pakistan,” said sources. President Asif Ali Zardari blinking first and reinstating the Supreme Court chief justice was one such direction, they said adding, “What they (US) did in Pakistan speaks for itself ”.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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