Murli Deora, the petroleum minister of India, has reconfirmed his visit next week to Islamabad to pick up the pieces of the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline that faltered amidst a row between the two countries and Pakistan’s internal political strife.
Deora will also announce its formal partnership in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, the Business Standard reports.
“We will meet Pakistan [...]
Mr. Gosney in his Feb. 5 letter to the editor, brought up several points in attempting to debunk the dangers of depleted uranium.
One of them was Judith Hick’s reason for pulling out of Iraq because of the use of DU.
I don’t imagine the U.S. military is going to release information to the public about the [...]
Oil industry services provider Halliburton Co. was upbeat Friday despite a 40 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit, citing heavy demand for its oilfield equipment and personnel and predicting more of the same for 2007.
Earnings fell to $658 million, or 64 cents per share, compared with $1.1 billion, or $1.04 per share, during the same period [...]
The European Union (EU) has joined the international concern at Pakistan’s plans to mine and fence a part of its 2500 km volatile border with Pakistan to check illegal movement of arms, men and drugs.
Joining the UN and Canada, EU’s envoy and German Ambassador Gunter Mulack urged that Pakistan explore ‘other means’ before mining its [...]
Pakistan is likely to drop the idea of mining its border with Afghanistan, but will move ahead with its plan of fencing the shared frontier.
A Pakistani official said on conditions of anonymity that Islamabad was in close contact with the US and other members of the NATO on the border fencing and mining issue and [...]
Pakistan will reconsider a plan to mine areas of its border with Afghanistan to stop terrorists crossing the frontier, after Canada offered to help find alternative controls, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said.
Pakistan is “happy to receive suggestions,” Kasuri said after meeting Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay yesterday in Islamabad, according to the official Associated Press [...]
ManTech International has received a contract worth up to $159 million to help the Army with mine clearing and other work in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.
The Fairfax-based company plans to hire about 100 workers for the contract, which has an eight-month base period and an eight-month option, according to Mark Root, a ManTech spokesman.
ManTech, an [...]
Pakistan will start mining and fencing of its border with Afghanistan next month after addressing all reservations of the United Nations, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao told reporters here.
The proposal has evoked a strong reaction from opposition parties, the NWFP government and others within and outside the country.
Sherpao acknowledged that the Geneva Convention prohibited [...]
From major economic development announcements and projects in terms of two ethanol plants to the nearly completed expansion of the Wells County Library and state accolades to Norwell students, Wells County experienced good times in 2006.
From the untimely and tragic deaths of several Wells County residents to the closing of an Ossian manufacturing plant that [...]
President Hamid Karzai criticized Pakistan’s plan to mine and fence its border with Afghanistan, saying Thursday that it will separate families but not prevent terrorism.
Karzai’s remarks came two days after Pakistan said it would plant land mines and build a fence on parts of its 1,510-mile frontier with Afghanistan.
The Pakistani move was an effort [...]
