Pakistan expresses serious concern over Indian Defence Minister 'resolve' to use terrorism to counter terrorism

Pakistan has reacted sharply and expressed serious concern over the statement made by Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar that India will use terrorism to counter terrorism from other countries.

Adviser to Pakistan's prime minister on national security and foreign affairs said that the statement amply confirms Islamabad’s apprehensions about India’s involvement in terrorism in Pakistan.

It may be recalled that Indian Defence Minister had asserted that terrorists have to be neutralised only through terrorists. “India will take proactive steps to prevent a 26/11 type attack,” Press Trust of India quoted him saying.

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Netanyahu speech an insult to US Intelligence, says Nancy Pelosi

The recent speech of Israeli prime minister has drawn a mixed reaction from the people and people-who-matter in the USA. 

A visibly disturbed Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is reported to have dismissed a speech Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as full of “condescension” and an “insult to the intelligence of the United States.”

The California Democrat was visibly upset during Netanyahu’s address on the House floor, in which the Israeli leader urged Congress to take a more aggressive line against Iran as part of ongoing negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Pelosi and other congressional Democrats were critical of the brash language Netanyahu used to describe those negotiations.

Read more at POLITICO

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France and Germany furious over claims US bugged EU offices

Ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden is said to be the source of the leaks

France and Germany have reacted very sharply to news that US has been bugging EU offices and are urging the United States to come clean over claims that its intelligence services have been spying on key EU offices.

The reaction comes after a report published in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine said European Union offices in the US and Europe had been bugged.

Other "targets" included the French, Italian and Greek embassies in the US, according to leaked documents later mentioned by the Guardian newspaper.

Fugitive ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden is said to be the source of the leaks.

Read more about it at: BBC
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Syria reacts to Israel air strike

Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli air strike, and its ally Iran said the Jewish state would regret the attack.

Syria sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general stressing the country's "right to defend itself, its territory and sovereignty" and holding Israel and its supporters accountable.

It may be added that U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel launched a rare air strike inside Syria on Wednesday targeting a convoy carrying antiaircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.

A U.S. official said the air strike targeted trucks containing sophisticated Russian-made SA-17 antiaircraft missiles. The trucks were next to the military research facility identified by the Syrians, and the strike hit both the trucks and the facility, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the operation.

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Pakistan urges US to rethink about concept of free speech

The vising Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has urged the US to  rethink about its concept of free speech. Th statement comes in the wake of anti-America protests in many parts of the world over an anti-Islam film, including Pakistan.

“It is not good enough to say it’s free speech, it should be allowed. I think if this does provoke action against American citizens or Americans anywhere else in the world, then maybe we do need to rethink how much freedom is OK,” Khar told the CNN in an interview.

Khar was responding to questions on violent anti-US protests in cities across Pakistan against the film made in the US.

Though the Obama Administration has termed the video as “disgusting” and said that the US has nothing to do with this video, it refused to ban such a movie arguing that freedom of speech is enshrined in its constitution.

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PLO spokeswoman slates Gingrich for anti-Palestinian remarks

[ Al Arabiya News ] 11 Dec

While the US presidential candidate Gingrich is under fire for 'invented' Palestinians jab, as already reported in Imposing Headlines, now it tis the turn of the Palestinion Liberation Organization (PLO) to deplore the statement and stronglt condemn it.

Provocative statement aimed at appeasing Israel by Gingrich (L) forces PLO  leader Ashrawi  (R) to react strongly

Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO executive committee and the organization’s spokeswoman, slammed statements made by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich about the Palestinians being an “invented” people and “terrorists.” 

“Looks like Gingrich has lost all touch with reality,” Ashrawi said in a radio interview. “His statements reveal ignorance and racism as well as a cheap attempt to woo pro-Israeli voters at the expense of Palestinian rights and peace in the region.”

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NATO Slammed on Pakistan

The Moscow Times 29 Nov

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last week, said Monday that a nation's sovereignty should always be upheld, even when hunting "terrorists."

"The Russian foreign minister emphasized the unacceptability of violating the sovereignty of states, including during the planning and carrying out of counter-terrorist operations," the ministry said in a statement.

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