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CNews BEIJING: China would work with Pakistan to push forward the bilateral strategic and cooperative partnership, said Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping here on Tuesday. Xi made the remarks in a meeting with General Tariq Majid, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Hailing the relations between China and Pakistan, Xi said the two nations enjoyed profound friendship, which had stood the test of time and international changes. China valued the traditional friendship with Pakistan, and was ready to advance relations with the south Asia country, he noted. Echoing Xi's remarks, Majid said Pakistan attached great importance to the relations with China, and would join in China to promote bilateral exchanges and cooperation. Later this day, Majid also met with the Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie. Liang applauded that the two countries have witnessed satisfactory achievement on military cooperation, in accordance with the sound development of bilateral relations. China ...

AMagazine WASHINGTON/LONDON: President-elect Barack Obama and UN chief Ban ki-moon led the global community condemnation of the terror attacks in Mumbai and called on the nations of the world to work together to "root out and destroy terrorist networks". At least 100 people, including Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, were killed when terrorists struck with impunity in Mumbai in coordinated multiple blasts and gunfire in a dozen areas across the city. "These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism," Obama's Chief National security Spokesperson Brooke Anderson said in a statement. "The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks," he said. "We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks," Anderson ad...

Amagazine MUMBAI: Two top police officials were killed while the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was grievously injured as security forces took on terrorists in Mumbai following terror attacks late Wednesday night. Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte and Mumbai Police “encounter specialist” Vijay Salaskar were killed in gun battles following series of attacks in India’s financial capital, police officials said. Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who is heading investigations into several recent cases of terrorist attacks here, was also seriously injured in a gun battle, they said.