As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...
02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Kamra's Minhas air force base is one of Pakistan's most prized installations - part of a string of bases that guard the country's north, it ...
03:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
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"Journalist sabka dost hota hai (Journalists are everybody's friends)," was Saleem Shahzad's response when I asked him about the Taliban connections of a common acquaintance, ...
10:23 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Islamabad: Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, slain two days after he filed a report alleging the possible infiltration of the Pakistan Navy by al Qaeda, had spoken to close friends about relocating abroad with his family after receiving several threats in recent months. The topic of shifting abroad figured in Shahzad's recent conversations with a small group of close friends whom he regularly spoke to, a journalist who was close to...
05:16 PM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: Missing Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was found dead on Tuesday inside his car in Punjab province and his body bore marks of torture, police said. His body was identified by his family. 40-year-old Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan bureau chief for Asia Times Online went missing on Sunday after he wrote about links between the Pakistani navy and the al Qaeda that led to the attack on the...
07:41 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: The car of the missing Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, has been found with an unidentified body inside it. Saleem Shahzad went missing on Sunday after he wrote about links between the Pakistani navy and the al Qaeda - that led to the attack on the Mehran naval base earlier this month. Human rights groups suspected that he has been detained by intelligence agencies for his reports over...
05:49 PM, May 31, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel. Kamran Ahmed, a former personnel of the elite Special Service Group-Navy, was picked up with his younger brother and a friend from Gulberg area of Lahore on Friday, sources said....
04:10 PM, May 30, 2011
Washington: Pakistan is under tremendous pressure and threat from extremist elements in the country which is reflected in the series of terrorist attacks including the latest one on the nation's naval facilities, a State Department official said. "It just illustrates that Pakistan is under enormous pressure and threat from these kinds of groups and they suffer considerably from this kind of violent extremism," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters...
07:36 AM, May 24, 2011
Taliban militants on Sunday attacked and occupied a high-security Pakistani naval facility for 18 hours - an audacious act of insurgent violence that dealt a humiliating blow to the military. Should Pakistan, reeling under a string of internal terror strikes, seek its nuclear-capable neighbour's help in controlling insurgency on its soil?
07:18 PM, May 23, 2011
Beijing: China on Monday denied reports that some its nationals were taken as hostage by militants who attacked the Karachi Naval base on Sunday. "No Chinese nationals were taken hostage in a terrorist attack on an air force base in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi late Sunday night," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement. Jiang said, as a friendly neighbour of Pakistan, China supports the...
04:21 PM, May 23, 2011
CNN's Susan Candiotti gets us reactions from the ground zero. ...
03:48 AM, Jan 22, 2009
The Sri Lankan army has stepped up its offensive on the LTTE strongholds. ...
01:47 PM, Oct 07, 2008
The attack, from a light wing aircraft, took place late on Tuesday. ...
11:34 AM, Aug 27, 2008
The Sri Lankan military confirmed the attack saying, LTTE used about 15 boats, including three 'suicide boats'. ...
03:51 PM, May 24, 2007
On the other side of the security fences of US Naval Base, in Guantanamo town, the sense of peril seems distant. ...
06:11 PM, Jan 20, 2007
