Though terror groups continue to strike in their country, a majority of Pakistanis still consider India as a major threat, view US as an enemy and are far less concerned about the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

The United States has said that it is fully prepared to hold talks with Iran anytime on the nuclear issue and hoped for high-level parleys soon along with five other world powers on the matter.

Notwithstanding the concerns the US has about the continued links that some elements of the ISI has with terrorist outfits like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the Obama administration has said that Islamabad in the last one year has made strategic shift in the war against terrorism.

Chelsea Clinton’s marriage on Saturday is the hottest ticket in town, but US President Barack Obama would have to give a miss to what is being called the Wedding of the Decade and of the Century as he hasn’t been invited.

As lawmakers increasingly questioned the continued presence of US forces in Afghanistan, America’s special envoy for Af-Pak region Richard Holbrooke has warned that a “return” of Al Qaeda and the Taliban to the war-torn country would have regional repercussions extending from Beirut to the Himalayas.

Angelina Jolie has finally joined the social networking site Twitter, it has emerged.

Pakistan’s obsession with India is leading it to “dig its own grave” as the ISI’s “destructive role” now stands exposed in the wake of the revelations by classified intelligence documents, a leading US lawmaker has said.

Downplaying the WikiLeaks revelations about links between Pakistan’s spy agency and terrorist groups, the US has said there are no blank cheques for Islamabad and it must do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens.

Thousands of secret US military records leaked by a whistleblower site reveal that Pakistan’s spy service the ISI was actually aiding the Afghan insurgency with a wing
operating against Afghanistan and India given broad functional autonomy.

Wikileaks’s decision to post on its website more than 92,000 classified documents related to the Afghan war is a breach of federal law and an investigation is on the leak of secretive Pentagon documents, the White House said on Monday.