President Sarkozy has proposed a $40 billion aid package for the countries involved in Arab Spring according to Tunisia's finance minister.
"What President Sarkozy announced is a global package of 40 billion dollars for the region. This package has not been broken down by country," Jalloul Ayed told reporters after Arab and African leaders met their G8 counterparts.
Ayed said foreign and finance ministers from the region would meet before July to break down the programme - designed to kick start economic development and anchor democratic reform - in more detail.
Meanwhile leaders of the G8 said that international development banks could give more than $20 billion to Egypt and Tunisia following the revolutions to overthrow dictators in the countries, which AP reports will go towards the $40 billion total.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Nawaz Sharif Urge For Revolt In Pakistan
Muslim League-N Mian Nawaz Shatrif has said that the national sovereignty being torn to shreds and prompted a revolt for a change to set things right.
Friday, May 27, 2011
U.S. Gave List of Five Wanted Men To Pakistan
United States gave Islamabad a list of terrorist leaders it wants, officials said.
Pakistan Closes U.S. Military Intelligence Liason Centers
Pakistan has closed three US military intelligence liaison centers in Quetta and Peshawar, a US newspaper reported.
The liaison centers, also known as intelligence fusion cells, in Quetta and Peshawar are the main conduits for the United States to share satellite imagery, target data and other intelligence with Pakistani ground forces conducting operations against militants, including Taliban fighters who slip into Afghanistan.
US special operations units have relied on the three facilities, two in Peshawar and one in Quetta, to help coordinate operations on both sides of the Pakistan and Afghan border, senior US officials said. The U.S. units are now being withdrawn from all three sites, and the centers are being shut down.
The decision has not affected the CIA's ability to launch missiles from drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan. U.S. Secretary of state Clinton is visiting Pakistan to smooth relations between the two countries which are all time low. Anti American sentiment is all time high and people of Pakistan want United States to leave it alone.
The liaison centers, also known as intelligence fusion cells, in Quetta and Peshawar are the main conduits for the United States to share satellite imagery, target data and other intelligence with Pakistani ground forces conducting operations against militants, including Taliban fighters who slip into Afghanistan.
US special operations units have relied on the three facilities, two in Peshawar and one in Quetta, to help coordinate operations on both sides of the Pakistan and Afghan border, senior US officials said. The U.S. units are now being withdrawn from all three sites, and the centers are being shut down.
The decision has not affected the CIA's ability to launch missiles from drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan. U.S. Secretary of state Clinton is visiting Pakistan to smooth relations between the two countries which are all time low. Anti American sentiment is all time high and people of Pakistan want United States to leave it alone.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Iraqis Want United States To Leave
Waves of men wearing black trousers and caps chanting the words "I am Iraqi", marched in military-style formation, while others in the rally set fire to American and Israeli flags.
"We will not accept even one American soldier staying," said Adnan al-Mussawi, one of the demonstrators. "Occupation has not benefited us at all, it is our religious duty to kick out every American soldier."
The demonstrators numbered several thousand according to an estimate, but an official in the Sadrist headquarters in the southern city of Najaf said 100,000 were attending.
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