US should free our diplomats detained in Iraq: IranARBIL - The new US administration has been urged by Iran to release the Iranian diplomats held in Iraq as the first step to realise ‘change’ promised by President Barack Obama, Mehr News reported. Pakistan cocks a snook at the world (Comment)A court in Pakistan Friday passed an order that freed disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qader Khan from the house arrest that he had been subject to since 2004, when the clandestine nuclear Wal-Mart that he had nurtured for decades first came to light. Global capitals ‘regretted’ this audacious judicial decision that made light of the grave nuclear transgressions that Dr. Khan had been guilty of - but to little avail. The Pakistani state appears to have succumbed to domestic compulsions and has decided to play up to the gallery and join the chorus that sees the tainted scientist as a national hero. Five policemen killed in suicide attack in IraqFALLUJAH - A suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint in western Iraq Saturday, killing at least five policemen, the police said. |