Washington: The ISI facilitated militants to cross the border to carry out strikes on Indian targets chosen by the Pakistan Army, several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility told US interrogators, according to a fresh set of American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The interrogation reports quoted a detainee as saying that ISI "allowed" militants to travel to India where they conducted bombings, kidnappings and killing of Kashmiri people and...
08:15 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: The US is unapologetic about what it claims was a unilateral strike on Pakistani soil. The CIA chief said they feared bin Laden would be tipped off if Pakistani officials knew about the raid beforehand. The White House agreed. Chief counter terrorism advisor to US John Brennan said, "We made a decision early on not to share it with any foreign government, including Pakistan because we wanted to ...
07:27 PM, May 04, 2011
New Delhi: While Congress on Wednesday dismissed WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange's remarks about the Indian black money stashed in Swiss banks, saying it will not join issue with individuals or comment on "hearsay", BJP alleged the UPA government was not making any effort to bring it back despite being pulled up by the Supreme Court. "At the last count, there are 130 embassies and high commissions in New Delhi. If...
04:42 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Boston: 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was warned by a senior Al-Qaeda military commander not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and that he should be "freed" but the American was killed anyway, according to leaked WikiLeaks documents. 38-year-old Pearl, who was the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, was beheaded by his Pakistani captors in February 2002 after being abducted. "A...
01:02 PM, Apr 27, 2011
New York: A 24-country poll found that most people believe WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is not a criminal and should not be charged by the US government for releasing thousands of secret US documents. The poll by Ipsos found 79 percent of people were aware of WikiLeaks and two-thirds of those believed Assange should not be charged and three-quarters supported the group's bid to make public secret government or corporate...
08:50 AM, Apr 27, 2011
New Delhi: In comments that could fuel a fresh controversy over the black money issue, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday said there are Indian names in the Swiss bank data list that are going to be made public. "Yes, there are Indian names in the data that we have already published or are going to publish. I can't remember specifically whether there are Indian names in the coming publication....
04:54 PM, Apr 26, 2011
9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed reportedly told interrogators Al Qaeda has hidden a N-device in Europe. ...
08:48 AM, Apr 26, 2011
Kolkata: A recent report states that the US is keen on Mamata Bannerjee winning the West Bengal assembly elections. After the Wikileaks cable on how a Mamata-led government may be friendlier to the US, the Left is seeing red. "It's very clear that the United States wants Mamata Banerjee to come to power. They want Mamata Banerjee to be the next chief minister," said CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat. The ...
11:29 AM, Apr 22, 2011
New Delhi: All India Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee would better serve American interests as Chief Minister of West Bengal if she wins the 2011 Assembly election in the state, according to an Embassy cable leaked by online whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. The October, 2009 Kolkata Consulate cable, headlined 'Trinamool's Mamata Banerjee: from oppositional street fighter to West Bengal Chief Minister-in-waiting,' advises United States officials to cultivate Banerjee as the likely...
04:15 PM, Apr 21, 2011
Washington: The Obama administration, under criticism for its treatment of the US soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website, is transferring the detainee to a Kansas jail. Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon's general counsel, said on Tuesday that Bradley Manning was being moved from a Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, to a detention facility at the Ft Leavenworth, Kansas military base. "Given the length of time...
09:02 AM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday received support from an unexpected quarter when senior BJP leader L K Advani described as "highly uncomplimentary" some remarks made by Wikileaks editor Julian Assange about him. In the context of the India-related leaked American diplomatic cables, Assange had said that though he didn't have proof it seemed that the Indian Prime Minister was not personally corrupt but "here's a clear attempt...
08:30 PM, Apr 17, 2011
London: Revelations by the WikiLeaks are having a positive impact, believes its founder Julian Assange, who claims that the publication of secret US embassy cables by the Indian media had helped inspire an anti-graft movement in the country. Questioned at a public debate about the whistleblowing organisation's own transparency, Assange told an audience of 700 people, many of them supporters "We are directly supported on a week-to-week basis by you....
05:36 PM, Apr 10, 2011
Singapore: India finds itself bracketed with countries like Philippines and Cambodia, rated as the fourth most corrupt nation among 16 countries of the Asia Pacific region surveyed by leading Hong Kong-based business consultancy firm PERC. The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC) rated India at 8.67 on a scale of zero to 10 with the high end being the worst case of corruption scenario and ahead of the Philippines...
04:57 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Lucknow: Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday rubbished WikiLeaks expose that he was replaced by Murli Deora as Petroleum Minister in 2006 under US pressure. He, however noted that the US was happy that he was removed. It is rubbish that petroleum portfolio was taken from me as the US was unhappy," Aiyar told reporters here in a reply to a question on WikiLeaks reports. He said that...
12:58 PM, Mar 28, 2011
This week on Devil's Advocate, Karan Thapar talks to CPI(M)General Secretary Prakash Karat about the Left's view of its prospects in the forthcoming elections, WikiLeaks and more. ...
06:08 PM, Mar 27, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How does the Left view its prospects in the forthcoming elections? That's one of the key issues I shall explore today with Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat. Mr Karat, Let's start with the forthcoming elections in West Bengal and Kerala. There's a widespread expectation that the Left will lose both. Can you accept that the wind is against...
05:59 PM, Mar 27, 2011
New Delhi: A day after WikiLeaks exposed Arun Jaitley's comments on hindutva, Telecom minister Kapil Sibal has slammed the BJP for using it as an opportunistic issue. Sibal capitalised on the WikiLeaks revelations on BJP leader Arun Jaitley to target the main opposition party. He said the leaked US cables have exposed the BJP's opportunistic stand on hindutva. He said, "Jaitley's statement smacks of double speak. Jaitley should apologise to...
12:54 PM, Mar 27, 2011
Arun Jaitley told an embassy official that Hindu nationalism was just an opportunistic issue for BJP. ...
02:33 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley became the latest target as more details emerged from candid cables sent by diplomats at the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington, which have been released by WikiLeaks and accessed by The Hindu newspaper. One such cable dated May 2005 claims that senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told an embassy official that Hindu nationalism was just an opportunistic issue for the party,...
12:55 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday "denounced" diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks after he came under attack in Parliament over his reported comments in one of them that India would have made more progress if it had only Southern and Western parts. "Don't dignify the cables, but if you want me to comment, I denounce the cables," Chidambaram told outside Parliament House. Opposition members in both Lok Sabha...
02:58 PM, Mar 25, 2011
