US again expresses concern on Pak-Iran gas pipeline

 

The United States has once again expressed reservations over the proposed Pak-Iran gas pipeline project. Answering a question Tuesday regarding the meeting of Pakistani and Iranian officials a day ago, spokesperson of the US state department, Victoria Nuland said “we are talking to the Pakistanis about it”, as part of the global effort to increase pressure on Iran.

 

“We think this gas pipeline project is a bad idea and Pakistan should stay away from it”, she explicitly stated adding that US was also giving Pakistan alternative options for acquiring sources of energy. She, however, did not reply another question whether the US sanctions on Iran will affect the American assistance to Pakistan, in case the country decides to go ahead with the pipeline deal despite US opposition.

 

When asked to comment on a New York Times report that US was considering an apology to Pakistan on the NATO airstrike to move ahead from the deadlock, she said “we can t talk about all these issues in detail unless and until Pakistan completes its internal review”.

 

“We are waiting to hear from Pakistan so that we can sit down and discuss it. We want to discuss full range of issues and where we go with Pakistan unless their review is complete”, she reiterated, but did not comment on repeated questions whether US was ready to consider an apology to Pakistan

 

On a question about Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani s visit to Qatar, she sdenied that PM Gillani was meeting any US officials in Qatar. She was reluctant to answer whether the said visit was part of efforts to talk to Taliban, as a follow-up of Ambassador Marc Grossman s visit. She only remarked that “Pakistan is supportive of the reconciliation process”.

- Contributed by Awais Saleem, News Trends correspondent in Washington, DC
 

Mohsin Hassan Trusted On Shoaib Akhtar

Pakistan’s fast bowler Rawalpindi express Shoaib Akhtar is still having back of Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Mohsin Hasan Khan. He said that fast bowler still have a potential to win the match for Pakistan despite of his age factor. He added that Shoaib can bowl fast and could trouble ant team in the world cup.

He declared fast bowler as match winner for Pakistan. He added that Shoaib is still fastest bowler in the world and he has an ability to bowl at good length. He added that Shoaib can be dangerous for Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada the other teams in their group.

While talking about Tanvir Ahmed he said that he has a lot of cricket to play for Pakistan and he will be in Pakistan squad when they need him. He added that there is no fitness problem with fast bowlers of Pakistan and when any bowler goes unfit then they will recall his alternative from the 30 men preliminary world cup squad.

He added that Pakistan is concentrating on all three departments of the game. He added that its single player responsibility to get world cup for Pakistan and if each individual understand his duty then it will be all Pakistan win.

Butt was told to reform or be expelled

DUBAI: The prospect of expelling the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt as an ICC director was raised at the ICC board meeting in Dubai last week, a prominent cricket-related website reported.

The report said that Butt was compelled to accept a series of wide-ranging measures to reform Pakistan cricket without protest because the alternative would have been to face expulsion.

The possibility is believed to have been raised by an individual member and not the ICC.

This particular spur, however, is merely part of a much broader canvas of the cricket world’s discontent with Butt.

The focus of the two-day ICC board meeting was on anti-corruption and, in particular, concerns over the health of the game in Pakistan; specifically three broad areas were up for discussion, including an update on the spot-fixing investigations, how the game tackles corruption globally

Butt was told to reform or be expelled

DUBAI: The prospect of expelling the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt as an ICC director was raised at the ICC board meeting in Dubai last week, a prominent cricket-related website reported.

The report said that Butt was compelled to accept a series of wide-ranging measures to reform Pakistan cricket without protest because the alternative would have been to face expulsion.

The possibility is believed to have been raised by an individual member and not the ICC.

This particular spur, however, is merely part of a much broader canvas of the cricket world’s discontent with Butt.

The focus of the two-day ICC board meeting was on anti-corruption and, in particular, concerns over the health of the game in Pakistan; specifically three broad areas were up for discussion, including an update on the spot-fixing investigations, how the game tackles corruption globally

AEDB plans wind power plant

ISLAMABAD: Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) will launch wind power plant with the assistance of US to generate 50 MW of electricity.

Minister of Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf chaired the 20th meeting of AEDB here. The meeting informed that financial issues for the generation of 200 MW have been finalized.

Talking to media after the meeting, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said President House and Prime Minister House will also avail solar energy. He said government is working for elimination of load shedding and positive results will be emerged soon.

Oil below $70, lowest in more than 3 months

SINGAPORE: Oil fell below $70 a barrel on Monday, to its lowest in more than three months, extending a loss of nearly 17 percent over the past two weeks on fears over Europe”s debts, the weak euro and swollen U.S. oil inventories.

The euro sank to four-year lows as angst over Europe”s debt crisis led investors to pull more money from stocks in favor of havens such as gold and Asian bonds.

U.S. crude for June delivery fell more than $1.00 on Monday to as low as $69.82 a barrel, its weakest since February 5. It was trading at $70.12 by 0303 GMT, down $1.49.

The contract settled down $2.79 on Friday, bringing a two-week tumble to $14.54, or 16.9 percent, the biggest two-week percentage loss since the period ending January 16, 2009.

The contract is expected to face volatility ahead of Monday”s June crude options expiry and the May 20 June crude contract expiry.

London Brent crude dropped $1.40 to $76.53 a barrel.

“At the moment all of the markets are on the way of declining further on the euro crisis. I think euro against dollar is possibly to go down to about $1.2, triggering another round of rectification in the market,” said Ken Hasegawa, a commodity derivatives manager at brokerage Newedge in Japan.

“Inventories of crude oil and oil products have been increased in recent weeks, that”s another factor of bearish mood in the market. Inventories are likely to increase again this week,” he added.

Stockpiles of crude at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery hub for the U.S. contract”s West Texas Intermediate benchmark crude, have risen in the last eight weeks to a record of 37 million barrels, pushing front-month U.S. crude down relative to both more distant futures contracts and the alternative global crude benchmark, Brent.

Qatar expects further pressure on oil prices from the uncertainty engendered by the European debt crisis, its oil minister said on Saturday.

“The oil price is not reflective of demand and supply, but psychological (factors) and uncertainty, especially in Europe (and due to the Greece) bailout,” Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah told reporters.

“All this put a lot of pressure on the world economy and the oil price,” he said.

The dollar rose 1.00 percent against a basket of currencies. Gold priced in sterling hit an all-time high at 867 pounds on Monday after the British currency struck a fresh one-year low against the dollar.

A strong U.S. currency makes dollar-denominated commodities, such as oil, more costly for holders of other currencies and tends to damp prices.

WB plans solar energy tube wells for Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) Arif Alauddin said with the assistance of World Bank, 100,000 agriculture tube wells would be operated through solar energy within coming five years.

Talking to Geo News, Alauddin said there are 1100,000 tube wells across the country among which 250,000 tube wells are taking 3,000 MW electricity from PEPCO system. He said World Bank has approved the pilot project under which initially 25 tube wells will be run through solar energy panels. World Bank will provide $ 300 million for the project, he added.

Alexis Pilkington Death

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Kwanzaa 2009 dates

Updates bout Kwanzaa 2009 dates :- Kwanzaa turns 43 year old this year (2009). Kwanzaa,  the alternative to Christmas mainly celebrated by African-Americans, was created in 1966 by Ron Maulana Karenga.

Ron  Maulana Karenga, a political activist and professor was activist in the “Black Power” movement in the 1960s. Karenga helped found the Black empowerment group “US Organization.”

Kwanzaa was originally meant as alternative to Christmas. Karenga, who was also a convicted felon, saw Christmas as a “white” holiday that blacks should reject. Since then Karenga and the celebration he spawned have evolved into a more complimentary celebration, occurring from December 26th – January 1.

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

Latest news and views about 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, 19 October takes place at Home of FIFA in Zurich, with the spotlight focused on the eight European nations who have claimed places in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa qualifying play-offs. The draw for the final eliminators, to be played on a home-and-away basis on 14 and 18 November, will be held at 14:00 local time, with France, Portugal, Russia and Greece entering it as the seeded teams.

France, runners-up at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, are determined to book their ticket to South Africa via the alternative route of the play-offs as they strive for a 13th appearance at the game’s showpiece event. The French were forced to settle for second place in European Group 7 behind a very impressive Serbia. UEFA EURO 2008 semi-finalists Russia are the second of the continent’s heavyweights going into the hat on Monday. The nine-time FIFA World Cup finals contenders, whose best placing was fourth at the 1966 tournament in England, missed out on top spot in Group 4 due to home and away defeats against eventual winners Germany. Live Scores Soccer Source FIFA

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