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ISLAMABAD: Despite the serious challenges the country was facing President Zardari has achieved significant success particularly in the war against terror. An editorial in the weekly ‘The Friday Times’ pointed that the President during his short stint in power managed to change the perceptions of the media from treating ‘the Taliban as anti-American heroes into bloodthirsty and ignorant villains.’ ‘A second is in persuading the Pakistan army to go after them as the ‘enemy within’ rather then continue to obsess about India as the ‘enemy without’, the editorial said. The third achievement was in explaining to America that the route to Kabul goes through Islamabad and to persuade it to rearm the military to put down the Taliban, inject funds into the economy, to provide jobs and education and health, help stabilize the polity for the sake of continuity and restrain India from adventuring across the border into Pakistan whatever the provocation. ‘These are no mean achievements. If some of...

The suicide bomber rammed his explosives-filled car into two Italian Lynx armoured vehicles, killing paratroopers from the elite Thunderbolt regiment and wounding four others. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed 10 Afghan civilians and wounded around 50 others. It was the latest reminder that even heavily guarded central Kabul is vulnerable to insurgent attacks as the Taliban take the fight beyond their stronghold in southern Afghanistan. It took place on a road between the American embassy and the airport, a short distance from the diplomatic enclave housing many Western missions, including the British embassy. The Afghan capital has been hit several times in the past two months. Last week, a Taliban suicide bomber blew up a car outside the main gate of a military base used by Nato troops inside Kabul's airport. In August, a suicide car bomber struck outside the main Nato headquarters in the diplomatic district. The latest bombing was the deadlies...

Thursday, September 17, 2009 LONDON: The number of people out of work in the UK has risen to its highest level in 14 years, official figures have shown.Unemployment increased by 210,000 to 2.47m in the three months to July, taking the jobless rate to 7.9%, the Office for National Statistics said. Claims for unemployment benefit in August grew by 24,400 from July to 1.61m, the highest since May 1997. And one in five people aged between 16 and 24 is now looking for work, the highest on record, the data showed. The number of jobless in this age group rose from 928,000 to 947,000 - edging closer to the landmark of one million and adding to fears of a new "lost generation" of young people. Work and Pensions Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the government was targeting investment to help young people find jobs. "Young people are always more heavily affected by recession because, it's the easiest thing for employers to do, to put back recruitment for a year," she told me...

Thursday, September 17, 2009 CALIFORNIA: Jennifer Aniston has revealed she used to clean toilets to make extra cash.The former Friends star - who now rakes in big bucks for her movies - told Parade magazine she wasn't well off as a child so scrubbed people's loose to boost her pocket money."I made my allowance as a kid cleaning toilets - I'm actually pretty good at it," said the actress.But Jen, who also worked as a waitress and sold time-shares before hitting the big time, said she was perfectly happy in whatever job she did."I struggled for a while, but I was happy with my life whether I was making this amount of money, or that amount of money," she said.When acting jobs started to boost her bank balance Jennifer splashed out on a Mercedes - which she's still never driven.She laughed: "I bought an antique Mercedes for 20,000 dollars that never has been ridden in or driven by me, however long that's been. I got a lemon. I bought it off Mel...

Thursday, September 17, 2009 WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Olympics.If Chicago wins its bid, Obama says the city "will make America proud and America will make the world proud."Obama held an Olympic event at the White House today, along with Olympic athletes and Mayor Richard Daley. (To read the president's remarks, please scroll down.)The International Olympic Committee will choose a host city during an Oct. 2 meeting in Denmark. First lady Michelle Obama will attend the meeting. This morning, in advance of the White House event, Daley said he had not gotten assurances that President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen Oct. 2 when the International Olympic Committee chooses from among four cities competing to host the Summer Games."If there's ever a possibility, he would do it, but I cannot speak for the president," Daley said.The mayor, addressing reporte...