US logos to be erased in Pak

The United States will remove the logos and name of USAID and other development agencies from projects being run in Pakistan’s...

The United States will remove the logos and name of USAID and other development agencies from projects being run in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to neutralise the growing anti-American sentiments sweeping across the restive region along the Afghanistan border. Washington has agreed to Islamabad’s request for not using the United States Agency for International Development logo or name in the USAID-funded projects in the Tribal Areas, official sources said.

Gen to visit Saudi, Sharif issue may crop up

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia shortly for “important discussions” with King Abdullah, a media report said here on Tuesday. Musharraf was to go on a two-day visit on Monday, but it was deferred, The News quoted diplomatic sources as saying. This would have been the military ruler’s first visit to Saudi Arabia since the deportation of former premier Nawaz Sharif in September.

Expressing dissent in a virtual world

With Pakistan’s private TV news channels being blacked out and censorship imposed on the print media, those opposing the emergency have learnt to keep up with developments and express dissent in cyberspace. Sabahat Ashraf, a Pakistani software expert based in Silicon Valley, has created a wiki-page to catalogue and disseminate information on the emergency. The page provides links to sites, which give minute-to-minute updates on the situation in Pakistan, articles by people from across the world and live feeds of the blacked out TV channels on the internet.