Obama to Putin: Cold War is over

US President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the US leader makes his first trip to a Moscow summit.

Days before he departs for Russia, Mr Obama said on Thursday that Mr Putin “still has a lot of sway” in his nation as its nominal Prime Minister. “I think that it’s important that even as we move President Medvedev that Putin understand that the old Cold War approaches to US Russian relations is outdated,” he said. “Putin has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.”

Meanwhile, Mr Putin hit back at a claim by Mr Obama that he has one foot in the past, saying that he was “standing firmly on both legs,” Interfax reported.

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Pakistan using US anti-terror funds to prepare for war against India: Obama

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said that Pakistan is using US aid meant for the war on terror to “prepare for a war against India”. He will hold Islamabad accountable for these massive funds and increase pressure to bust terrorist safe havens if he becomes President, Obama said on Fox News.

“What we can do is stay focused on Afghanistan and put more pressure on the Pakistanis,” Obama said, adding the US was providing Pakistan military aid “without having enough strings attached”.

“So they’re using the military aid... Pakistan... They’re preparing for a war against India.

“What we say is, look, we’re going to provide them with additional military support, targeted at terrorists, and we’re going to help build their democracy.... We’ve wasted 10 billion dollars with Musharraf without holding them accountable for knocking out those safe havens.”

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