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Pak Committee calls for escalating India's involvement in domestic insurgency to UN

Islamabad, Nov.4 (ANI): Pakistan Parliament's National Security Committee has asked the government to rake up the issue of India's involvement in fanning insurgency inside the country at all national and international forums, including the United Nations (UN).

According to sources, Interior Minister Rehman Malik, during a closed-door meeting with the committee members, tabled evidence regarding New Delhi's involvement in terror activities in the country, especially in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan.

The committee chaired by Senator Raza Rabbani directed the Gilani government to raise the issue with the UN and NATO, and also expressed concerns over the activities of private US security firms operating inside Pakistan's territory.

"The committee also expressed its concern over NATO forces vacating border checkposts after Pakistan started a military offensive against the militants in South Waziristan," The Daily Times quoted sources privy to the meeting, as saying.

Interacting with mediaperson after the meeting, Rabbani said the committee may summon Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to rief it about the steps taken to counter the internal security threat with an emphasis on external involvement. (ANI)

Barack Obama inspires naming craze in US

Washington, Dec 5: US President-elect Barack Obama is yet to take office, but his candidacy has generated a national naming craze and a holiday in one Alabama county.In his 2004 keynote address at the Democratic Convention, Obama had called himself a "skinny kid with a funny name." Now, four years later, that funny name is appearing on public buildings and birth certificates, reports Fox News.It's not unusual for senior lawmakers in Congress to have buildings named after them.....
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