Islamabad: Notwithstanding Taliban's insistence that militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, senior Pakistani military authorities in South Waziristan tribal region are still reluctant to confirm that he was killed in a US drone strike over a year ago.
"We, on our own level, did some investigations but could not find any clue that could prove his death in the drone attack. We knew that he had arrived in Wana a few days before the June 4 drone attack (last year)," an unnamed Pakistani army official told The News daily.
Pakistani Taliban militants, particularly those considered close to Kashmiri, who was linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, claim that he was injured in the drone strike at Shokai Narray village, located near the towns of Karikot and Ghwakhwa, on June 4, 2011.
They claim he subsequently died in another drone strike conducted a week later at Danna village near Wana....
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10:48 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Washington: Terror groups like Haqqani network and LeT continue to enjoy safe havens in Pakistan due to the country's inability to control its own territory though killings of big-wigs like Osama bin Laden and Ilyas Kashmiri have put al Qaeda on path of decline, a US report said on Tuesday. The 'Country Report on Terrorism 2011', released by the State Department, said portions of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),...
04:21 AM, Aug 01, 2012
United Nations: Almost a year after key 26/11 suspect Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a drone strike, the United Nations has updated his status as "reported dead" in a sanctions list of individuals and entities associated with al Qaeda. The UN Security Council al-Qaeda Sanctions committee amended on May 10 the information related to Kashmiri in its comprehensive 'Al Qaeda Sanctions List'. The updated information reads Kashmiri "reportedly deceased...
12:39 PM, May 20, 2012
Chicago: A Pakistani-American, charged with sending money to the now-believed-to-be-dead al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, has pleaded guilty before a court here for providing money for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalised US citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, resolving charges that...
05:11 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Islamabad: Al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri, who was reported to have been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt in June, is still alive, according to a media report on Saturday. Kashmiri, the chief of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami is still alive and active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Dawn News channel quoted its sources as saying. Security officials of the US and Pakistan...
11:22 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Islamabad: Slain al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri 'may also have been part' of the Mumbai attacks but India's claim that he may have been supported by Pakistan is misplaced, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said. Malik claimed he had confirmation that Kashmiri had been killed in a US drone attack on June 3. Malik said the Mumbai attacks were carried out by non-state actors and 'used against Pakistan'. Specially...
07:02 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Washington: Despite Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's reported assertion that Washington has confirmed the death of Ilyas Kashmiri, the United States has declined to do so. "I don't have any confirmation of that," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Monday when asked about Gilani's statement about the killing of a key plotter of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in a US drone strike in Pakistan. Kashmiri, the...
10:38 AM, Jun 07, 2011
London: US and Pakistani authorities disagree sharply over claims that senior al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a recent missile strike, officials from both countries said on Monday, suggesting sharp strains persist between authorities in Washington and Islamabad. Two days ago, intelligence officials in Pakistan claimed that Kashmiri, a figure in both al Qaeda and a Pakistan-based affiliate, was killed by a US drone-borne missile in northwestern Pakistan....
07:13 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani law enforcement agencies have been put on alert in the federal capital and northern parts of the country to prevent possible suicide attacks to avenge the killing of al Qaeda-linked terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri in a US drone attack. The National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Interior Ministry sounded a general alert to law enforcement agencies in Islamabad and Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces after receiving an intelligence report...
02:48 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that he was "98 per cent sure" senior al Qaeda figure Ilyas Kashmiri had been killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan border. US officials in Washington said however they were highly sceptical of reports that Kashmiri, seen by them as one of the world's most dangerous militants, was dead. "All ground intelligence shows that he is dead. What...
07:35 AM, Jun 06, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber attacked a bakery in Pakistan's northwest on Sunday, killing 18 people, and another bomb in the volatile region left six others dead. The attacks were the latest in a wave of bloodshed to hit Pakistan since the US raid that killed al Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden. A Pakistani security official also said on Sunday that authorities are nearly certain that a recent US missile strike...
07:20 AM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: Maulana Illyas Kashmiri or Muhammad Illyas Kashmiri is an Islamist militant who fought with the Afghan Mujahideen, Kashmiri terror groups and with the al-Qaeda-Taliban against the international forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani forces in Pakistan and Indian forces in Kashmir. Leader of the 313 Brigade group, a breakaway from Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Kashmiri is held responsible by Pakistan of masterminding the audacious attack on the naval base of PNS Mehran...
02:00 PM, Jun 04, 2011
