New York, Sept 14 : An American foreign policy expert has reportedly cautioned the US administration against repeating the cross-border attacks inside Pakistan, saying this approach was “not a long-term solution to terrorism”.
“We need to get the Pakistanis to see this as their war, and that''s going to require some major new initiatives on the American side. Commando raids and Predator strikes are not a long-term solution to this problem,” said Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think-tank.
Riedel, a former high-ranking CIA and Pentagon official, said this in an interview with CFR. org, a website publication for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Paris - European aerospace giant EADS will not withdraw from the bidding for a 35-billion-dollar contract for new US air tankers after the Pentagon halted the competition, a company spokesman said Sunday.
New York - US insurer AIG, suffering from a declining share price and facing a possible downgrading of its credit rating, is being forced to extreme measures, including perhaps selling off subsidiaries to extricate itself from billions of dollars in losses, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Sunday.
Washington, Sept 14 : The Bush administration has reportedly proposed new guidelines that would give its investigating agency the FBI more tools to assess national security and foreign intelligence threats.
Miranshah (Pak), Sept 14 : Amid the recent increase in the number of air raids by the US-led NATO forces from across the Afghan border, the tribal elders in North Waziristan in Pakistan have reportedly vowed to defend the country’s frontiers by fighting alongside security forces against any ‘possible American attack’.
