of defense s office made his own call on the 6th of january that actually was prescheduled. it was the kind of routine call the penlt tagon expects to do i advance of any transition touching base saying don t worry, everything is going to continue to be sort of consistent even as we go through this transition period. now, i also spoke to chris miller today and he told me that in fact, he s not concerned about the january call. he said that look, that milley is perfectly within his authority to do that. what we ve seen is what began as a story of allegations of insay bored nation is a story of bureaucratic protocol. thank you very much. appreciate it. i want to go now on the back of alex and katy s reporting to jon meacham who has written extensively about u.s. presidents and the military and
world leaders had also pushed for it during a virtual call with the president earlier this week, but a large reason that we were told privately was a driving factor in when president biden decided against having an extension earlier this week was primarily because of what we are seeing right now, his concerns about security threats on the ground and potential terrorist attacks that would put u.s. troops and these vulnerable afghan allies waiting outside the gates in harm s way. of course, unfortunately, that worst nightmare has been realized outside the kabul airport. so it is an urgent decision facing president biden, and it remains far from clear which way he is going to go. of course, he has been huddling with his top national security aides all morning. so i think those are the questions about what is going to be the next steps that they take. i think right now they are still very much in the information-gathering mode here at the white house given it is an attack that happened whi
KARACHI: The partial lockdown in the country has forced Pakistan Netball Federation to postpone Men’s and Women’s National Netball Championships by nine days on request of participating.