New Delhi: The US special operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad town in May last year that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout appears to have been "unlawful" in the absence of clarification from the US, human rights group Amnesty International has said. "The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the US's theory of a global armed conflict between the US and al Qaeda, in which...
08:03 AM, May 25, 2012
Washington: US senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious," said Senator Richard Durbin after the unanimous 30-0 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee. "It's outrageous that they...
02:02 AM, May 25, 2012
Peshawar: A Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason on Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos...
05:56 PM, May 23, 2012
London: No effort was spared by the US military before its Navy Seals raided al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, shows a detailed scale model of his Abbottabad city-located compound. Every tree and bush was mapped out identical to those surrounding his home and even the rubbish bins were included, The Sun reported Thursday. The model was built months ahead of the operation by the...
11:17 PM, May 17, 2012
London: Admitting that there had been "ups and downs" in the relationship with the US, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani nonetheless hopes to improve relations given the "importance of the United States". Gilani, who was in London on a five-day visit, said in an interview that he wanted to improve relations with the US following the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year. "There...
08:21 PM, May 12, 2012
London: Weeks into new dialogue with the US on resetting relations, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said his nation was still operating on a trust deficit with Washington. "There's a trust deficit between both the countries, between both the governments," Gilani, who is in London on a five-day visit, said as his fate at home hangs in balance. "That is the reason we are wanting to work for...
06:17 PM, May 10, 2012
London: Insisting that Pakistan had no role in providing shelter to Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has attributed presence of the slain al Qaeda leader in his country to universal intelligence failure. Gilani, who is on a five-day visit to Britain, denied in an interview to 'The Guardian' that bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad was secretly known. He said: "There is no complicity. I think it's an...
08:01 AM, May 10, 2012
Kolkata: Al-Qaeda's new chief Ayman al-Zawahiri is in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Kolkata on Monday. Egyptian cleric al-Zawahri, took over the organisation after Osama bin Laden's killing on May 2 last year by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan's Abbottabad town. Clinton said: "We want to disable Al Qaeda. We believe Zawahiri is in Pakistan." Speaking at an interaction, she said, "You have to go over...
11:23 AM, May 07, 2012
Cuba: US prosecutors and defense attorneys for five defendants in the September 11 attacks dug in on Sunday for a long legal battle that one lawyer said may never be resolved. The military tribunal is not expected to start for almost another year and if Saturday's 13-hour arraignment was an accurate preview, the trial will be chaotic and drawn out with continuing disputes about torture and whether a military trial...
10:55 AM, May 07, 2012
London: American treasure hunter Bill Warren has claimed to have located Osama bin Laden's body bag deep under the Arabian Sea, 320 km west of Surat in Gujarat, and hopes to start his mission on June 1. "I've located where they threw him away," Daily Mail quoted him as telling Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information," he said. With the help of the recent photos...
08:01 AM, May 05, 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
Some of the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden were released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTS) on Thursday. Osama was killed by the US forces a year ago in Pakistan. The earliest letter is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011. Following are the English translations of 17 letters made available by the Combating Terrorism Center: ...
09:02 PM, May 03, 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...
08:20 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Osama bin Laden seemed frustrated with the local jihadi groups that caused sufferings on the Muslims and urged them to abort such attacks and instead focus on the US, documents seized by US forces from his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan a year ago reveal. "He (bin Laden) is at pain advising them to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and focus on the United States, 'our...
07:50 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: Pakistani singer-turned-actor Ali Zafar will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke academy award here on May 3. The 31-year-old actor made his acting debut in Bollywood in 2010 with a small budget film 'Tere Bin Laden', which was a surprise hit at the box office. His next outing 'Mere Brother Ki Dulan' alongside Katrina Kaif and Imran Khan, was a hit. His last release was 'London Paris New York', which also...
05:05 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who all his life boasted that he would go down fighting and would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ever he came near Americans, offered no resistance when US commandos cornered him in his Abbottabad hideout a year ago, claims a new book. "For all his bluster that he would go down fighting and his bodyguards would shoot him if he were...
02:45 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who all his life boasted that he would go down fighting and would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ever he came near Americans, offered no resistance when US commandos cornered him in his Abbottabad hideout a year ago, claims a new book. "For all his bluster that he would go down fighting and his bodyguards would shoot him if he were...
02:05 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's refusal to act against anti-US militant groups mirrors its position on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, ranging from outright denial, to obfuscation and silence. Slowly but surely it appears that Pakistan is obliterating all evidence of Osama bin Laden's presence in that country. The Abbottabad compound where the al Qaeda chief and his family lived for many years has been demolished. The doctor who confirmed Osama's presence in...
09:56 PM, May 02, 2012
Mumbai: After earning applause for his performance in his Bollywood debut Tere Bin Laden back in 2010, surprisingly Ali Zafar's role in the sequel to the film has been drastically reduced to just a cameo. 'Tere Bin Laden' that won him several awards incidentally was banned in his home country Pakistan. Pradhuman Singh, who played the titular role, will be seen playing a meatier character in the sequel. The film's...
12:00 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Shortly after a surprise visit by US President Barack Obama to Afghanistan early on Wednesday morning on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, serial bomb blasts and a suicide car bomb attack rocked Kabul killing six people including one Gurkha guard. The blasts occurred near the foreign military bases in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed it in a...
07:49 AM, May 02, 2012
