US government is still deliberating whether it can be compelled to release the photographs and video showing the dead al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. ...
11:31 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Peshawar: Pakistan's Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, plans to attack American targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, said one of it's senior leaders. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, has delivered on threats to avenge the killing of bin Laden by US special forces in a Pakistani town on May 2. It bombed an American consulate convoy, laid siege to a...
08:47 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Peshawar: A bomb attack near the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least six people on Sunday, police said. "The blast took place at a bus stop and it seems the bomb was planted," said Raheem Khan, a police inspector. Ten people were wounded. Pakistan's Taliban militants, who have close ties to al Qaeda, have carried out a series of attacks to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by...
01:25 PM, Jun 05, 2011
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Not only is the Pakistani public angry, but this is the first time in the country's 63 years that the Army chief and the head ...
10:13 AM, May 23, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has visited headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to congratulate the top spy outfit for its role in killing of the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "Today I've returned just to say thank you, on behalf of all Americans and people around the world, because you carried on. You stayed focused on your mission. You honoured the memory of your fallen colleagues. "In...
09:09 AM, May 21, 2011
Washington: A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the US commandos who killed him, current and former US officials said on Friday. The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity. The officials said they were not yet...
10:13 PM, May 13, 2011
Washington: Though hunted and in hiding, Osama bin Laden remained the driving force behind every recent al Qaeda terror plot, US officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid. Until Navy SEALs killed him a week ago, bin Laden dispensed chilling advice to the leaders of al Qaeda groups from Yemen to London - Hit Los Angeles, not just New York, he wrote. Target...
02:00 PM, May 12, 2011
Washington: Notwithstanding Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's strong words on Osama bin Laden, the US said it still had serious questions over the safe hideout of the slain al Qaeda leader deep inside that country for over five years and that it was waiting for a response. "We have been pretty clear that we've asked some serious questions of the Pakistan government about what kind of possible support network may...
12:24 PM, May 10, 2011
Comedian Pete Dominick talks to a group of comedians to see how they are finding humor in one of the world's biggest stories, Osama bin Laden's killing. ...
09:20 AM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: The US may now get a chance to question Osama bin Laden's wives. 'Bloomberg' reports that Pakistan has agreed to give US investigators access to the three wives who were with Osama in the compound during the raid. But a specific timing of the access wasn't set. Pakistani authorities have said they found the three wives and nine children at the site. In addition to Osama, three men...
08:08 AM, May 10, 2011
Islamabad: Despite Pakistan's strong criticism of the US unilateral action in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden, the White House still refuses to admit that it was a mistake. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "We obviously take statements in concern with the Pakistani government seriously, but we don't apologise for the action we took." "If there's an opportunity to bring Osama to justice and he's on Pakistani soil,...
07:36 AM, May 10, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility "of us finally getting our man" following a decade of frustration, he said in a Sunday broadcast interview. The helicopter raid "was the longest 40 minutes of my life," Obama told CBS' "60 Minutes," with the possible exception of when his daughter Sasha became sick with...
10:48 AM, May 09, 2011
Washington: The killing of Osama bin Laden in a covert operation in Pakistan last week has provided an opportunity to defeat al Qaeda in the Af-Pak region, US President Barack Obama has said. However, he said that bin Laden's death was not an end to the war against terrorism. "We have done a great job even before we got bin Laden in degrading their capacity. And we now have the...
10:30 AM, May 09, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has no schedule, at this moment, to go to Pakistan this year, his National Security Advisor has said, as the diplomatic fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden intensified. "There's not a visit on his schedule at this point, right, to go to Pakistan," White House National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told the NBC news channel in an interview. "But there wasn't, at this...
10:09 AM, May 09, 2011
Islamabad: The US may have released five home videos of Osama bin Laden to end all speculation about operation Geronimo that killed Osama, but in Pakistan hardly anyone is buying the story. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will finally break his silence and make a statement in the Assembly on Monday. From shock to embarrassment to denial, within a week of operation Geronimo, ordinary Pakistanis are questioning every part of...
07:30 AM, May 09, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani military has denied reports that Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha is quitting over the debacle of Osama bin Laden being killed by US forces in the garrison city of Abbottabad and that he travelled to Washington to explain Islamabad's position. Seeking to scotch reports that Pasha may be made the 'fall guy' and asked to quit, the military came out with a brief three-line...
10:48 PM, May 08, 2011
Suhasini Haidar gets the reaction of Pakistani newspapers on the five Osama bin Laden videos released by US. ...
12:15 PM, May 08, 2011
On 'The Week That Wasn't', Cyrus brings you the funny side of Osama bin Laden's killing and other top news. ...
11:03 AM, May 08, 2011
Washington: Osama bin Laden was actively engaged in directing his far-flung network in plots against the United States from the compound in Pakistan where he was killed, a senior US intelligence official said as new video images of the al Qaeda leader were released on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said information carted away from the compound by US forces after Monday's raid, represented the largest trove...
08:46 AM, May 08, 2011
New York: Extensive surveillance of Osama bin Laden's hideout from a nearby CIA safe house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy SEAL operation, US officials said, a revelation likely to further embarrass Pakistan's spy agency and strain ties. The US officials, quoted by the Washington Post, said the safe house was the base for intelligence gathering that began after bin Laden's compound was discovered last August, and...
12:50 PM, May 06, 2011
