Washington

WASHINGTON - The United States is reportedly developing a new technology to safeguard its ports from being attacked by terrorists and smugglers.

WASHINGTON - Pakistan's financial managers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission are set to start the much-awaited fifth review of the economy on Tuesday (today), upon whose successful completion Pakistan would receive 3.6 billion dollars- the remaining portion of the 11.3-billion-dollar Stand-By-Arrangement (SBA).

WASHINGTON - Most participants of the US-Pakistan Leaders Forum, which was convened by the US-Muslim Engagement Initiative- a non-governmental, non-partisan collaboration of four US-based organizations, agreed that the Pakistani media was "guilty of churning out a steady diet of anti-American conspiracy theories and rhetoric," noted South Asian affairs analyst Lisa Curtis has said.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reportedly taking the help of a private spy network operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate the killing of 10 medical aid workers in northern Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON - Republicans in the United States have been given a reality check about the 2012 elections in that President Barack Obama will be a lot tougher to defeat this year as compared to last year.