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The United States on Thursday denounced North Korea for threatening a third nuclear test and imposed new sanctions, in an early showdown for President Barack Obama s second administration. HT Image North Korea, which defiantly put a sat
stanley cup ellite into orbit last month, had responded furiously to a unanimous vote at the UN Security Council that expanded the number of entities on an international blacklist. White House spokesman Jay Carney criticized the North Korean statement as needlessly provocative and said that a nuclear test w
stanley cup ould be a significant violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Further provocations would only increase Pyongyang s isolation, and its continued focus on its nuclear and missile program is doing nothing to help the North Korean people, Carney told reporters. Outgoing defense secretary Leon Panetta said that the United States was fully prepared for a test from Pyongyang. We remain prepared to deal with any kind of provocation from the North Koreans. But I hope... they determine that in the end, it is better to become a part of the international family, Panetta told reporters. The United States has no outward indications that North Korea would carry out a test imminently, he said, but he cautioned that much about the totalitarian state was opaque. They have the capability, frankly, to conduct these tests in a way that makes i
stanley cup t very difficult to determine whether or not they are doing it, Panetta added. North Kore Ghee 7 killed, 30 hurt in northern Afghanistan quake
To justify its military operations in Balochistan, Pakistani government is making allegations about Indian interference in the province, leading Baloch nationalist leader Shahzain Bugti has said. HT Image
jordan Bugti, president of the Jamhoori Watan Party, speaking at a seminar in Lahore yesterday said the federal government should prove its allegations about Indian interference in Balochistan, if it had any evidence. We are accused of being pro-India. We would have voted for inclusion of Balochistan in India in 1947, if we had been in favour of India, he said at the seminar on the theme of Threats to National Security and Our Responsibilities . The issue of alleged Indian interference in Balochistan came into limelight after a joint statement issued following a meeting last month between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh at Sharm-el-Sheikh mentioning Pakistan s concerns regarding unrest in the province and other areas of the country. India has denied the charges
stanley cup of interference. Bugti, the grandson of tribal chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti who was killed during a military operation ordered by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2006, said the federal governm
stanley cup ent had always wronged Balochistan. Baloch people were asked to come down from mountains in 1960 and hanged. Nawab Akbar Bugti was assassinated and Gwadar was snatched from Balochistan, he said. Bugti said allegations of the targeted killing of Punjabis in Balochistan w
