Pakistani journalist

No info of threat to Rushdie: Police sources

No info of threat to Rushdie: Police sources Mumbai: Adding a new twist to the controversy over Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival, sources in Mumbai Police denied giving any inputs about paid assassins. The sources countered the Booker-winning author's claim that paid assassins were out to get him. The sources told CNN-IBN there were no intelligence inputs about a threat to Rushdie and that they gave no inputs regarding paid assassins eyeing Rushdie. BJP Leader...
12:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012

Shahzad was killed on Pak Army's order: report

Shahzad was killed on Pak Army's order: report New York: The order to kill Pakistani investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad came from a senior officer on Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's staff, The New Yorker magazine said in its latest issue. "In fact, according to the American official, reliable intelligence indicates that the order to kill Shahzad came from a senior officer on General Kayani's staff. "The officer made it clear that he was speaking on behalf...
01:23 PM, Sep 13, 2011

Laptop, mobile data of slain Pak journo missing

Laptop, mobile data of slain Pak journo missing Islamabad: The laptop, mobile phone and email records of slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad have gone missing. This was disclosed to the media by officials of an inquiry commission probing the murder. The panel chaired by Supreme Court Justice Saqib Nisar, which met in the apex court building yesterday, directed the police chiefs of Punjab province and Islamabad to continue their investigation into the crime. Police officials presented the...
02:34 PM, Jul 20, 2011

Pakistan may have okayed Shahzad's death: US

Pakistan may have okayed Shahzad's death: US Washington: The slaying of a Pakistani journalist in late May apparently was sanctioned by elements of the Islamabad government, the top-ranking US military officer said on Thursday, adding that he could not confirm involvement of the country's powerful intelligence service. Admiral Mike Mullen said he didn't have a 'string of evidence' linking the death of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad to a specific government agency, but "I have not seen anything...
07:47 AM, Jul 08, 2011
ISI ordered Shahzad killing: US officials

ISI ordered Shahzad killing: US officials

ISI had directed the attack on the Pakistani journalist in an effort to silence criticism. ...
06:39 PM, Jul 05, 2011

Linking ISI to Shahzad killing a conspiracy: Pak

Linking ISI to Shahzad killing a conspiracy: Pak Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday said the fresh allegations by US officials that ISI ordered the killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad were part of an "international conspiracy" to malign the country's security forces. "There is an international conspiracy to malign the law enforcement agencies and security forces. (These allegations) are part of that conspiracy," Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan told reporters on the sidelines of a SAARC seminar here. She...
06:05 PM, Jul 05, 2011

ISI ordered killing of Pak journalist: US

ISI ordered killing of Pak journalist: US New York: US officials say they have intelligence that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about Islamist militants having infiltrated into the country's military. New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahzad, 40, from the capital, Islamabad, and after the discovery of his mortally wounded body, showed that senior officials of the spy...
06:00 PM, Jul 05, 2011

Shahzad's call record wiped out days before murder

Shahzad's call record wiped out days before murder Islamabad: The call record of slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad's cellular phone has been erased, with the log of the 18 days before his abduction and murder being wiped out from the system, a media report said on Tuesday. The last call made by Shahzad that is reflected in the log was on May 12, seventeen days before his abduction on May 29, according to data obtained by The...
12:11 PM, Jun 07, 2011

Shahzad warned of future attacks on India

Shahzad warned of future attacks on India New Delhi: In one of his last interviews before his murder, Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad told CNN-IBN that even the 26/11 attacks had been sponsored by al Qaeda, but more importantly, that they were originally scripted by a special cell of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. He also said that they might have already planned future attacks on India. "And I suspect that they have already planned something which shall...
08:47 PM, Jun 02, 2011

Slain Pak journalist wanted to shift abroad

Slain Pak journalist wanted to shift abroad Islamabad: Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, slain two days after he filed a report alleging the possible infiltration of the Pakistan Navy by al Qaeda, had spoken to close friends about relocating abroad with his family after receiving several threats in recent months. The topic of shifting abroad figured in Shahzad's recent conversations with a small group of close friends whom he regularly spoke to, a journalist who was close to...
05:16 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Last interview of slain Pak journalist Shahzad

Last interview of slain Pak journalist Shahzad

CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar interviewed Saleem Syed Shahzad days before he was killed in Pakistan. ...
04:59 PM, Jun 02, 2011

Sene men disrupt Pak journos' talk in Delhi

Sene men disrupt Pak journos' talk in Delhi They also demanded that the seminar be immediately wrapped up. ...
05:38 PM, Apr 15, 2009

Journalist covering Taliban in Pak shot dead

Journalist covering Taliban in Pak shot dead Unknown gunmen killed Musa Khan, the journalist covering NWFP for Geo TV. ...
08:27 PM, Feb 18, 2009

Amarinder alleges witch-hunt by Akalis

Amarinder alleges witch-hunt by Akalis Punjab ex-CM Amarinder Singh has accused the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal of indulging in politics of 'witch-hunt' . ...
10:00 PM, Apr 09, 2007
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