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
Islamabad: Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a Pakistani judicial commission on Thursday 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...
12:41 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
Islamabad: A combative Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief, on Wednesday dared the US to carry out a military raid against him like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, saying he was not hiding and would inform the Americans himself about his whereabouts. Saeed made the remarks while addressing a news conference with other leaders of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) at Flashman Hotel in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, located...
05:26 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The United States on Tuesday announced a bounty of 10 million dollars on Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed. However, there is more to the development than one can see. Saeed is wanted in India for his involvement in the 26/11 carnage. Soon after the US announced the reward, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said, "India welcomes this new initiative of the US. This...
05:11 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Washington: Pakistan's world view is clouded by a perception that they are threatened by India resulting in very mixed messages from Islamabad on fighting terrorism, according to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta. "In some ways we share a common concern and a common threat," he told CBC Television in an interview. "Terrorism is as much a threat to Pakistan and the people of Pakistan as it is to us and...
10:35 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
New York: In one of the most detailed accounts of Osama bin Laden's life on the run, his youngest wife has told Pakistani investigators that the al Qaeda leader lived in five safe houses as he travelled across Pakistan with his family for nine years following the 9/11 attacks. The detailed account of bin Laden's life on the run has been given by his 30-year-old wife Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh,...
11:09 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Lahore: Intelligence agencies detained more than 20 activists of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Lahore on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in making a video that accused Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani of "treachery". Intelligence operatives raided a house in C-Block of the posh Model Town area and detained the Hizb-ut-Tahrir activists, official sources told PTI. The operatives seized computers, CDs and literature from the possession of the detained...
01:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The time is ripe for small budget movies, but, despite that, the money bags are not willing to loosen their purse strings, says Pradhuman Singh, who faked Osama bin Laden in the critically and commercially successful 'Tere Bin Laden'. "Although these are promising times for small budget films, unfortunately companies are still reluctant to put in money if there is no big star cast, despite good content. There...
12:31 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court will formally charge slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's widows and other family members with illegally entering and living in the country next week, a defence lawyer said on Monday. The court is expected to frame charges against three widows and two of Bin Laden's grown up daughters on April 2, lawyer Muhammad Aamir told the media. The Federal Investigation Agency had filed a case against...
08:31 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Sriram Raghavan's film 'Agent Vinod' is banned in Pakistan because it allegedly has derogatory references to ISI. Earlier, films such as 'The Dirty Picture' and 'Tere Bin Laden' were also banned by the Pakistani Censor Board. Actually a permanent ban on Indian films was placed in Pakistan in 1965 which was lifted after 43 years in 2008. However, the lifting of ban didn't change the scenario much as...
03:55 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Islamabad: Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's family members, including his three widows, have been remanded in judicial custody for nine days by a Pakistani court. Bin Laden's youngest wife, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded in judicial custody on Saturday. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by US special forces in May last year. Her...
03:10 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Kolkata: Osama Bin Laden has been resurrected in Kolkata! One of the most controversial characters of world history is now being portrayed on the popular stage theatre of Bengal. The play, christened 'Osama', revolves round the main protagonist Charles the crook, who considers himself an artist and believes that a man can do anything good or evil for his existence and that a human being has the right to trade...
12:28 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden, including his widows, to judicial custody for nine days. The al-Qaeda chief's youngest widow, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded to judicial custody. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by US special forces in May last year. Abdulfattah's brother, Zakarya Ahmad Abdulfattah, has...
04:26 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden, including his widows, to judicial custody for nine days. The al Qaeda chief's youngest widow, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded to judicial custody. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by US special forces in May last year. Abdulfattah's brother, Zakarya Ahmad Abdulfattah,...
11:39 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: In his final days, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report on Saturday. "Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad... Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the US, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against...
10:50 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: In his final days, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report. "Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad...Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the US, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against President Obama and...
07:37 AM, Mar 17, 2012
