Hafiz Saeed has moved the Lahore High Court asking it to stop Pakistani authorities from taking any action against him under pressure from the US. ...
02:10 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New York: The Pakistani bomb-maker involved in a foiled 2009 plot against New York city's subways has revealed how he and an al Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres as targets. "We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, subways, movie theatres, I believe buses were mentioned too," Najibullah Zazi said in court on Tuesday at...
02:00 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Kabul: A militant arrested in the attacks on the Afghanistan capital and three other cities has confessed that the 18-hour assault was carried out by the Haqqani network, a lethal group of fighters with ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda, a top Afghan security official said on Monday. Thirty-six insurgents were killed during the brazen, 18-hour attacks that also claimed the lives of eight policemen and three civilians and...
01:34 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the centre of the Afghan capital ended on Monday after 18 hours of gunfire. ...
11:15 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul ended on Monday after 18 hours of intense gunfire, rocket attacks and explosions, police and government officials said. Battles which broke out at mid-day on Sunday gripped the capital's central districts through the night, with explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and surrounding streets. "The latest information we have about the Afghan Parliament...
09:30 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan capital awoke to more explosions and heavy gunfire in the heart of the city and near the nation's parliamentary building. This a day after militants launched an unprecedented attack using rockets and suicide bombers in the Afghan capital and 3 other provinces. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the strikes. Reports said that Afghan security forces have killed at least 19 militants. All Indian embassy staff members...
07:39 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban said they launched a spring offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattling the city. The assault, one of the most serious on the capital since US-backed Afghan forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001, highlighted the ability of militants to strike the heavily guarded diplomatic zone even...
10:56 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Islamabad: Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a Pakistani judicial commission on Friday that the military had not planned a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May last year. "If there was a threat, the ISI would have known about it," Pasha said while deposing before the commission that is investigating a mysterious memo that had sought US help...
08:16 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Washington: The US on Wednesday charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, along with four alleged plotters, vowing to seek the death penalty in a much-awaited military trial. The other four Guantanamo Bay inmates are Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. They will face charges including terrorism, hijacking, conspiracy, murder and destruction of...
04:23 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New York: A mock movie poster warns al Qaeda wants to return to New York City, but authorities say there's no evidence of an actual threat. Investigators learned about the online amateur graphic on Monday. The graphic shows that the Manhattan skyline at sunset with "Al Qaeda" in bold type followed by "Coming Soon Again in New York." Al-Qaeda has been blamed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which...
10:12 AM, Apr 04, 2012
An online post, on a website used by terrorists, has caught the New York Police and FBI's attention. ...
10:01 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Paris: France said on Monday it was deporting five Islamic militants and Muslim clerics in the latest show of strength by President Nicolas Sarkozy as he clamps down on radical elements after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman last month. Police commandos arrested suspected Islamic militants in raids on March 30 in several French cities including in the Toulouse region, where a Frenchman of Algerian descent went...
02:16 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has become one of only four terrorist leaders for whom the US has offered a bounty of $ 10 million, joining the likes of Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar. The only person with a higher bounty on his head than these four terrorist leaders is al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, for whom the US has offered a reward of $ 25 million under its...
12:25 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The US announced a $10 million dollar reward for Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, giving a major boost to India's fight against the plotters of 26/11 terror attacks. Saeed is believed to be the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks and is currently roaming free in Pakistan despite the evidence against him. Saeed is on India's most wanted list. After the 26/11 attacks...
08:00 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court charged former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters with illegally staying in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in jail, their lawyers said on Monday. In practice, that means 14 days in prison because they have been in detention since March 3. Bin Laden's family members will eventually be deported to their home countries, the lawyers said. "They (bin...
05:05 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Haripur: It's an ornate but not lavish two-story house tucked away at the end of a mud clogged street. This is where Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived for nearly a year until he moved into the villa in which he was eventually killed. The residence in the frontier town of Haripur was one of five safe houses used by the slain al Qaeda leader while on the...
10:09 PM, Apr 01, 2012
London: It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan. When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the al Qaeda leader was 'noncommittal' and refused to give his backing. It was not until three years later before he could be brought around and another five years before...
09:51 PM, Mar 30, 2012
London: As Britain prepares to host the London Olympics, some fanatics related to the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda seem to be plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack. Extremists on a website with links to the terror group have posted detailed instructions on how to cause carnage at this summer's Games, the Sun reported Monday. The online plot was uncovered as two convicted Al Qaeda terrorists were released early from jail...
08:43 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 85 French Muslims are being trained by the Taliban in northwest Pakistan, claim intelligence officials. Officials say that the Frenchmen are being trained under the name Jihad-e-Islami - they are likely to avenge the killing of a 23-year-old al Qaeda suspect in southern France earlier this week. Authorities suspect he may have trained at the camp too. Authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman of Algerian...
06:33 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Mohamed Merah, wanted in the killing of three soldiers, three children and a rabbi, died from a gunshot wound to his head after a 31-hour siege. ...
04:54 PM, Mar 23, 2012
