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Pakistan denounces leaked documents as 'skewed'
South Asian Focus
Wednesday July 28 2010

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan denounced leaked US intelligence reports accusing its premier spy agency of supporting Taliban insurgents as "skewed" and inconsistent with realities on the ground, reports Geo News this week.

Tens of thousands of documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released by whistleblowers' website Wikileaks to the New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and Germany's Der Spiegel weekly.

"These are far-fetched and skewed reports, evidently inconsistent with ground realities," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said.

"If anything these betray the lack of understanding of the complexities involved".

"Pakistan's constructive and positive role in Afghanistan cannot be blighted by such self-serving and baseless reports," Basit added.

Meanwhile, according to Dawn News, the US military's top officer Admiral Mike Mullen said in Baghdad that information in leaked documents did not call into question the US strategy or Washington's relationship with Pakistan.

He said he was "appalled" at the leak of 90,000 secret military files on the Afghan mission, but that the information about Pakistan's activities and other details were taken into account during a major strategy review on the war last year.

"Certainly the information that I've seen so far in the documents, there's nothing in there that wasn't reviewed or considered in the strategic review"...

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Khatta Meetha reviews disheartening: Trisha
South Asian Focus
Wednesday July 28 2010
MUMBAI - South India actress Trisha Krishnan, who teamed up with Askhay Kumar in Khatta Meetha, is upset with the media for trashing the comedy.

"I am a big net buff and read everything. The reviews were a bit disheartening. The reviews have...

Bangladesh, India sign power deal
South Asian Focus
Wednesday July 28 2010
DHAKA - Bangladesh this week signed a 35-year power transmission agreement with India aiming to import 250 megawatt electricity from the neighbour, starting from late 2012, reports Star Online.

Representatives of the Power Grid Corporation of...

70kg gold recovered
South Asian Focus
Wednesday July 28 2010
RAJPURA (Punjab) - Nearly 70kg of gold was recovered from a car intercepted by the Punjab Police at a checkpost in Rajpura town, officials said. Four people had been detained.

Officials said they intercepted a bullet-proof Sumo car at a police...



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