
Ameer is all set to start his next. The director whose 'Aadhi Bhagavan' is yet to release, will commence his forthcoming venture soon. If sources are to be believed, it has been titled 'Jihad'. "Though the title is Jihad, the movie will have no controversies. It will not hurt anyone's sentiments. It will be a clean entertainer with a nice message," say sources, adding: "Besides wielding the megaphone, Ameer will...

02:22 PM, Jun 04, 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

Washington: Al Qaeda's English online mouthpiece 'Inspire' has returned proclaiming that it is "still publishing America's worst nightmare" despite the killing of its two top editors in a US drone strike. Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has produced another issue of the magazine, despite the killing in September of two of top editors, Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. The ninth edition of 'Inspire', which appeared online on Wednesday, mixes...

06:15 PM, May 03, 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

New York: Muslim groups are calling for New York's police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say paints their religion and its adherents in a bad light. About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticised Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie 'The Third Jihad'. The movie uses dramatic footage...

09:31 AM, Jan 27, 2012

Bangalore: Expressing grave concern over the luring of teenaged girls under the guise of 'Love Jihad', the Karnataka government On Friday said it would initiate a probe into the matter. Love Jihad refers to the incidents of young non-Muslim girls allegedly being lured into marriage and then converted to Islam. When some ruling BJP members in the state Assembly drew the attention of government to incidents of Love Jihad, which,...

05:02 PM, Dec 16, 2011

New Delhi: Hundreds gathered outside the American consulate in Karachi in Pakistan to protest against a NATO air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jamaat-e-Islami have called for jihad if the US does not vacate the Shamsi airbase in 15 days. The US has said that that it will conduct its own investigation into the matter. Afghanistan and NATO officials have debunked Pakistan's claim of it being...

08:40 AM, Nov 28, 2011

Islamabad: Several banned jihadi groups, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, on Thursday opposed Pakistan's move to grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Leaders of the groups, including Muttahida Jihad Council chairman Syed Salahuddin, told a gathering of hundreds of supporters at Aabpara Chowk in Islamabad about their movement to "liberate" Jammu and Kashmir. "We will continue our struggle on the political, diplomatic and, most important of all, jihadi...

06:30 PM, Oct 27, 2011

Boston: A Massachusetts man was arrested on Wednesday and accused of plotting an assault on the Pentagon and US Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives - the latest of several terrorism cases to spring from federal sting operations. Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham after undercover federal agents delivered materials he had allegedly requested, including grenades, six machine guns and what he believed was 24 pounds of C-4 explosive....

08:08 AM, Sep 29, 2011

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) brought two boys arrested in Kishtwar for allegedly sending the terror e-mail claiming that Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) was behind the Delhi High Court blast on transit remand on Wednesday. The two boys who are in NIA detention, have been brought to Delhi by the NIA team led by DIG Mukesh Singh, for further questioning. The due was taken on a transit remand after which...

01:27 PM, Sep 21, 2011

Washington: A private intelligence monitoring service says al Qaeda is marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an hour-long video, just released on Jihadist websites. Site Monitoring Services says the video features an audio speech by the new leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, as well as previously unreleased footage of former leader Osama bin Laden. The 62-minute video, titled 'The Dawn of Imminent Victory', was posted on jihadist...

08:23 AM, Sep 13, 2011

Afghanistan/Norak, Pakistan: New Yorker Danny Sjursen's Afghanistan war ought to be personal. It's anything but. The US Army cavalry captain, from a family three generations deep in the New York City Fire Department, needs two hands to count the friends who died rescuing people from the wreckage of al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001. But too much time and two wars have...

12:44 PM, Sep 09, 2011

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

Washington: Militant groups under the banner of the Taliban in Pakistan as well as those operating in South and Central Asia pose the 'greatest threat' to Islamabad's nuclear infrastructure, a report by a US think tank has said. As Pakistan continues to build up its stockpile of nuclear weapons, the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said there is a broad appreciation of the danger of them falling into the...

12:56 PM, Jun 30, 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