minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have the street and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems pertaining to terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the street and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives no answer people have been placed

there estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's or all. involvement in afghanistan from the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing the. two solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed as far as treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular case not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter because pakistan continues to. spout the sun continues to lose in terms of economic cost in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in many many ways but the rule that is put on pakistan. is rule which is understandable which defies logic so

to speak because if the first country to benefit from is stable one stone is pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable understand is also pakistan so pakistan stick a very high and that is what is commonly believed that yes pakistan sticks are very high but pakistan sticks are very high in having stability in that one is not instability in the understand so we have maintained and we stated very clearly that it is really for the one people to determine what course of action they want to take in any way possible whether they want to have strategic alliance with country a country b. it's a sovereign country we must respect them as that but pakistan's rule in any way can only be there to support of i think seeing that pakistan is cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is an imaginary blame it is an imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions to real problems have to be

faced you know on the ground now as we all know that the united states has been taking on a lead role in this military operation. why do you think with all its military power and the resources that are invested into this campaign a white anything. results are not that impressive as a few i think i'm not the right person to answer that question it should be somebody from the us administration i want to question to be right i don't think it is important whether the u.s. is succeeding or is winning in the understand not what is important is whether of one the stand is winning one not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries which operate in of understand is to make of understand when if i may come back to the issue of american criticism for just one question president obama said in a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the

pakistani authorities allegedly are not in control of that own land and my question is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are hitting targets on pakistani land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the. loss of life among the pakistani citizens this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our successes in our view. not only completely illegal and under full and have north resolution to be used within the due means of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and extremism because if one strike leads to getting a new target number one or target number three to be you're creating five more targets and more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the for doing that it

gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks we are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences of what you know many other problems of the world decided to do in the region to rid itself of the. a challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the mission of one star not in trying to deal with act you have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody. so again do we want to repeat the mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is illegal under full counterproductive other any seen your view reasonable vanny is that pakistan could take in case of drone attacks beyond forcing its concern or distraction my question to you is it just an issue of some countries allow

a greater freedom and greater perth or off foreign policy tools than others that would be a very unfair world and i hope that's not a world that we are moving towards and therefore the questions of illegality and unlawful tools is extremely important one. is the compromise in pakistan if you look as i've said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for review of today and pakistan as a country which considers itself to be a sovereign country it considers to be an independent country has therefore decided . the whole terms of engagement because it is very clear that this is not part of the terms of engagement now if that clarity is required the parliament will be in its right to be able to define it but please mr approach there. is no doubt of a confrontation the proved to be taking is that all for doing the partnership which

is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest just last week. and her reports was leaked to the media that pakistani security forces among taining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was. an allegation that they're supporting them financially. is this true first of all this is not a new to report we were told by need to italy. that this is a. single person not need to report but is single country and a single person pretty much. all the bottle because this is not an accusation or allegation that has been made and part of the specific context a dimension where with the taliban of all turning teligent agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in the one cemented with one group or the other and all of them at some level and this does

are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to this but i think just creating you know this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly the united states is expected to withdraw its troops from afghanistan and a matter of a few years is pakistan looking forward to that. but you see again the game here with some goals and objectives we would hope that most of those goals and objectives are met or at least partially met and we would hope that when they leave in the understand afghanistan is a better place than when they first came but the long term presence of foreign troops in the region is always always counterproductive yes but we would also be very very mindful of what is the situation on the ground when they leave because instability more instability is clearly something that this region cannot afford i'd like to switch gears a little bit and ask you about iran you know the west. piling its pressure on that

country which is your neighbor and long time partner. how pakistan of us born in the case of military strike against iran we would strongly. countries to desist from any option which is military because this region has already seen too much and we do not want any further destabilization we feel very strongly that these things can be settled on the negotiation table that there should be flexibility and that dialogue should be considered to be don't leave your forward and it would have disastrous let me go to pakistan feels it would have disastrous results for the region what about syria do support their military intervention against assad's regime we support no military intervention against any regime because we feel that independent sovereign the integrity of the country are important aspects and there in trying to in many many places what we need to ensure

the international community is that violence from any side is not given lunch is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for a time minister thank you. from

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but the bathroom where rush. has claimed bronze in the main speciate race at the eighth what cup stage in control up to finland the twenty four year old athlete makes only twice on all before shooting ranges mulisch last autumn a tough a lot of fronts by five seconds at the finish but took silver with mrs well goal down to the legendary old ana be on silent you know with his closest rival by eighteen seconds and had to mrs jury in shooting. staying with winter sports where in. the course crew has won the world cup in the four men competition the russian team led by the pool finished third at the final stage in calgary but that result was enough to talk over old times of the day belonged to germany as a crew of much similar amount of wonder stage the sport eventually second in the

final standings team germany two led by one of the shelter finished second on the night and third overall. but some moved to the ice what russia has failed to win the third stage of the euro haka to this swedish games soon to log in as many happy public on the final day of the competition for mail in sunday's other games hosts wouldn't take one reigning world champion to fill in the signs of the election the latest poll there is no milk in the first periods remember the winner of that encounter will win the entire tournament. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been displaying their talents in an all star battle the amateur showcase put the best of the east against the best of the west and it was the west which came from behind to win its second challenge cup title in a row which was an out was that. these men are all about twenty years old but they

will regain the skills he sure the young. hopefuls represent a youth hockey league they might chill at tellme factory producing players for your strongest league the kid chill holding an all-star game tradition once a year at the peak of them a chill eastern conference plays the best from the west in a so-called challenge cup with every move showing this is far from just an exhibit game no end of skill from the very beginning to the joy of the packed middle corrina in one of russia's main us hockey centers the gorst it was these what to believe on couple of spall play go three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead on said gollum of turning the shootout effort into goal with confidence to make it two nil nevertheless the pick of the west proved to have wanted to to produce

a stunning comeback inspired by their skipper to be off and continued by maxime creature. two two by the second in their mission. and the comeback turned into triumph of scored his second on the night to give his side to three to lead the eastern star sward giving their best to cool eyes but it was the western netminder or months media again who stole the show in then and producing to him a zing saves and them to net their advantage setting the final score of four two. everybody was cheering for the east but the crowd support did not help their team we didn't have time to build any sort of chemistry with some of my teammates before the challenge cup but we still pulled out an emotional comeback win so the league of the young has showcased its biggest airlines with the western conference team

lifting the twenty twelve challenge cup although it's a. bet these image will stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them. robert carlin yon r t the new drug lords. in football reports in both the russian and british press claim the former england manager fabio capello could be in line for a move to the russian premier league with expanders he's already in moscow capello resigned from his job as manager of the free lions this week after the english football association went against his wishes and st john terry of the captaincy and reports claim the telling could be in line to replace manager euro krisna at the club with the russian season resuming next month and table six point eight champions league sport that club's general director says if has already been sacked feeling speculation could be next and all spent is expected to be made on monday.

in the meantime preparations are taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final ivory coast will be overwhelming favorites when they take on in get born. their place in the final with a one zero victory over mali in the samis on wednesday the great tournament favorites haven't reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six forward solomon pollute says the elephants team spirit can be the secret to their success. be on the team spirit working together and you can see with every game we played even destro came down. you know. the defense so i think that the spirit does what we're looking for we want to win to give. the motto was go. most importantly is to google we do to feel that's where

we are. well rich the third final surprise one nil win over ghana. huge underdogs ahead of the game despite their victory which the final twice before finishing runners up in one nine hundred seventy four and nineteen ninety four. in the english premier league match to united have lit rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over lupul at old trafford double from wayne rooney will now for the victory of the girls came in the second half in the forty six and forty ninth minute so as to pull one back for the visitors. the rebels are now at a point about city in the table with roberto mancini's side aston villa later on sunday a victory stablished a two point vantage meanwhile at the wolves have a chance to hold themselves away from the relegation zone if they're able to beat

local rivals west brom. the latest score that won all and it went through the second half a head of city's trip to the park mention admits his team's away form will have to improve to win the title. i did that is impossible to ignore. the disease. noise defeat is very difficult for us for. humanity for. team but we have seven games away and we need to win three or four games the way it should. well the world's rather racing nowhere finish dr lot for has claimed this grand prix over this season not for who was leading at the world of sweden after the previous two days managed to parry his advantage until the end he drove sunday's six stages accurately enough to secure the top support overcoming his compatriot make a minute by sixty eight seconds but we didn't know until the completed the polder

finishing thirty nine seconds behind the winner rushes you get it no kid came in fifth above the eight time world support from the front it was six in the final standings. to a finish where we started with winter sports chinese athletes dominated in the freestyle skiing what's their home countries event and the best competition pull clean his first win of the season as he reported. it to his countrymen so young. let's talk things over while the world cup leader of canada braun's result is laid over two three points in the overall standings. being the women's event thing type went to china johnson came first but she was the only place to break the one hundred point one in the final managed second place to

claim for what's called victories in a row at previous events chang to bronze over ten points adrift of the west. is still on top with one hundred point gap over china. ok up to date no more sports news from around the globe for into all this time hey not the weather is next stay with us. fifty. first. resistance is not of politics but a culture. is

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the arab league. stability back to syria as pressure on the regime with speculation that western states could actually be propping up al qaida through their support of the opposition. please because for you here very familiar. crowds gather outside the greek parliament to. face with a tough choice between an impoverished population or simply a bankrupt country. and iran promises to reveal major. nuclear program. peaceful energy purposes despite a long list of western sanctions imposed against.

with the top headlines of this week and all of this today you're watching the weekly with me rory sushant the arab league is mulling over what further action to take on the crisis in syria with reports of further escalate in violence meanwhile the head of the group's observer mission has resigned just as a proposal is being considered to again send monitors from the league and the u.n. to the country. reports from cairo now whether. body is convening as we speak the violence in syria has been escalating there are claims by the. opposition saying it more than a hundred more than one hundred people have been killed just over the past week the claims from the opposite.