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: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
12:44 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai was on Friday sentenced to two years in jail by a US court on charges of illegally working for Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir. 62-year-old Fai was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release by a court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. Judge Liam O'Grady also asked Fai not to...
10:39 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: Separatist Kashmiri leader and Chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI, a US Attorney has claimed before a court. Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of the scheduled sentencing of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai who had set up an organisation Kashmiri American Council in the US to promote the separatist cause....
06:24 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai, who was arrested last year on charges of being a paid agent of the ISI, has lied to the court on his doctorate degree, which he does not possess, a US Attorney has said. "Fai has no doctorate degree," US Attorney Neil MacBride informed the court on Wednesday in a foot note, of the 10-page submission to the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia....
01:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: A US court is set to sentence Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai on Friday on charges of illegally working for the Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir. Sentencing of Fai, 62, is scheduled before a court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. He was arrested by the FBI on July 19 last year and had subsequently pleaded guilty before the court to the...
12:39 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chicago: A Pakistani-American, charged with sending money to the now-believed-to-be-dead al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, has pleaded guilty before a court here for providing money for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalised US citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, resolving charges that...
05:11 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Jammu: Veteran writer and poet Agnishekhar on Saturday turned down award for best book announced by Jammu and Kashmir government's State Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (SAACL) as a "protest against exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley". "I reject the Best Book Award carrying a cash reward of Rs 51,000, a memento and a shawl to be conferred on my fourth poetry collection 'Jawahar Tunnel' by the Academy...
08:30 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: American-born terrorist David Headley's return after the Mumbai terror strikes of 2008 was to give final touches to synchronised terror strikes on Jewish houses located in five cities, including the national capital on instructions of al-Qaeda operative Illyas Kashmiri. Piecing together the 293-day trail of Headley, the NIA, which submitted its 60-page charge sheet before a special court on Saturday, said that during his visit to India in...
02:50 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Srinagar: Noted Kashmiri poetess Naseem Shafaie has been chosen for this year's Sahitya Akademi awards for her poetic collection, becoming the first Kashmiri woman to get the prestigious literary award. Her poetic collection titled 'Na Thsay Na Aks' (Neither shadow nor reflection) has been listed for this year's Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri literature, the announcement for which was made in New Delhi on Wednesday. The award function will be...
08:49 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Washington: US-based Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai has claimed that he met several Indian ministers on a regular basis during last two decades of his activities in Washington and had 'a channel of communication' opened with the Indian embassy. 62-year-old Fai, who last week in a US court pleaded guilty to the federal charges of being an ISI agent, said in a statement that meeting these Indian officials was part...
10:38 AM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: After showcasing Punjabi wedding celebrations in his films 'Jab We Met' and 'Love Aaj Kal', filmmaker Imtiaz Ali has shifted his camera's focus to Kashmiri Pandit wedding rituals for his forthcoming release 'Rockstar'. The director, who wanted to keep the movie's screenplay as authentic as possible, shot the scene featuring a Kashmiri Pandit wedding complete with all its rituals and traditions after a lot of research, a statement...
11:55 AM, Oct 16, 2011
Srinagar: Meaningful autonomy, speedy development and a massive economic package - central interlocutors may have suggested all this as a balm for insurgency-hit Jammu and Kashmir, but common Kashmiris, separatists and mainstream parties in the valley mince no words to say they are disappointed. Even though the complete contours of their report are yet to be made public, the man on the street says no amount of economic stimulation can...
11:07 AM, Oct 15, 2011
London: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been charged with being an undeclared agent of ISI in the US, was also a director of a UK-based organisation, promoting Pakistani interest on Kashmir, a media report said. Fai, who heads the Washington-based Kashmiri American Council (KAC) was arrested by FBI for allegedly collaborating with Pakistan's spy agency by "clandestinely" funneling hundreds and thousands of dollars to change the view of...
05:19 PM, Aug 14, 2011
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