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 ”.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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