Islamabad: Pakistan's interior minister says Osama bin Laden's three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in the country. The three have been in detention in Pakistan since May last year, when US commandos raided the house where they, bin Laden and several children were staying. The commandos killed bin Laden. Malik said on Thursday the three had been charged in court, but he did not say when...
09:38 AM, Mar 09, 2012
London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....
07:28 AM, Mar 08, 2012
London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....
08:10 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Tuesday. A Yemeni brother-in-law of bin Laden has arrived in Pakistan to take away his two Yemeni widows, the mass circulation Urdu language Jang newspaper quoted official sources as saying. Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in an early...
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Chandigarh: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protestors stalled the shoot of Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's biopic on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad killing. VHP activists were upset with the fact that the market at Sector 15 was converted into Lahore for the film, with all shop hoardings in Urdu and autos showing Lahore number plates. Local traders were protesting against the market being out of bounds for the public for 11 hours. Traders...
03:34 PM, Mar 02, 2012
London: Slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden kept two copies of the Bible where he wrote secret clues to future terror attacks to be conducted across the globe, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The two copies of the Bible were found hidden at the house in Pakistan's Abbottabad city, close to Islamabad, where the world's most-wanted terrorist was killed by US Navy Seals in May last year, The Sun...
11:20 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Ali Zafar is not the first Pakistani actor to try his hands in the Hindi film industry. From Mohsin Khan and Javed Sheikh to Meera and Veena Malik, Bollywood has given many Pakistani actors a chance but none of them capitalized the breaks offered. Ali Zafar is one of the rare Pakistani actors who got the opportunity to play the lead role in a big budget Bollywood film....
12:11 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Abbottabad: Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by US commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men. Workers completed the demolition job in the garrison town of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan on Monday. The al-Qaida leader moved into the three-story house in 2005. Acting on intelligence gathered by...
12:12 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Portland: A 19-year-old from Saudi Arabia who authorities say forced a plane to make an emergency landing when he lit an electronic cigarette, mentioned Osama bin Laden and tried to hit fellow passengers pleaded not guilty to interfering with a plane crew. A lawyer for Yazeed Mohammed A Abunayyan told a judge on Friday that his client suffers from unspecified mental health issues that require care at the Multnomah County...
09:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Abbottabad: Local residents say Pakistan has started to demolish the compound in the northwest city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by US commandos in May 2011. Two residents say the government brought in three mechanized backhoes on Saturday afternoon and began destroying the tall outer walls of the compound after sunset. They set up floodlights to carry out the work. The residents spoke...
10:47 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have finalised arrangements to record via a video link from London the testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz regarding a mysterious memo that had sought US help to stave off a possible coup last year. Zahid Bukhari, the lawyer of Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, and two of his associates were issued British visas on Tuesday to go to London to cross-examine Ijaz. Haqqani...
08:30 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Washington: An architect regularly employed by the ISI worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden sheltered for years in Abbottabad and the slain al Qaeda chief communicated regularly with LeT from his hideout, a media report said on Saturday. Though the original property records for the compound near the elite Pakistan Military Academy have disappeared, the architect who worked on the structure was regularly employed by the ISI,...
07:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Islamabad: Former president Pervez Musharraf knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad and the Pakistani intelligence itself had made the safe house that sheltered him, a former ISI chief has alleged, according to a media report. Former CIA official Bruce Riedel quoted ex-ISI chief Gen (retired) Ziauddin Khwaja alias Ziauddin Butt, as saying that Musharraf "knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad". In an article...
02:26 AM, Feb 16, 2012
London: Slain al qaeda chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get good education, his brother-in-law has revealed. Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister was Osama's fifth wife, said the al qaeda chief did not want his children and grandchildren to follow the same path of terrorism like him, the Daily Mail reported. "He told his own children and grandchildren, go to...
10:35 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....
07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) sources on Tuesday said that July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blast accused and Indian Mujahideen member Haroon Naik met slain terrorist Osama bin Laden in August 2001 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. "Naik was part a group of operatives who were addressed by Osama in Bhawalpur," said the sources about the Indian Mujahideen member who was arrested for possessing fake currency notes. The sources said that...
07:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani was on Monday permitted to travel abroad by the Supreme Court, which is probing a memo sent to Washington saying President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military take over in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing last year. Haqqani's counsel, Asma Jahangir, had pleaded for allowing the former envoy to travel abroad. The nine-member bench said that Haqqani will...
11:55 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Davos: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there was 'no chance' of a military coup in Pakistan ever as all stakeholders including the army, desires democracy and stability in the country. "I don't think there will be a coup in Pakistan ever. There is no threat to democracy," Gilani told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos in Switzerland. No state institution, including...
02:40 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Washington: The Pakistan-US relationship is certainly not going through "normal" times, Islamabad's ambassador to Washington Sherry Rehman has said. Rehman further asked the Pakistani-American community for their support to bring the two countries closer. The relationship has never been as important, yet the tensions have never been so grave, Rehman was quoted as saying by the Online news agency. "This embassy is not going to work alone in Washington. It...
08:26 PM, Jan 28, 2012
