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
US President Barack Obama listed out the achievements of his first term, topping that list the improved state of the economy and the end of the America's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden. ...
09:48 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama during his last address before the Presidential elections on Tuesday night said for the first time in two decades Osama Bin Laden is not a threat to US. Obama said, "For the first time in last 9 years there is no American fighting in Iraq." While giving the State Union Address, Obama called for a fair shot economy, where everyone does their fair share. "Last...
07:59 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Islamabad: Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz could fly into a military airbase in Rawalpindi and granted a visa on arrival so that he can testify tomorrow before a judicial commission probing the memo scandal, according to a media report today. Ijaz's lawyer has said he will testify before the Supreme Court-appointed commission that is investigating the memo scandal on Monday. "Arrangements have been finalised for his chartered flight (at Chaklala...
02:48 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Islamabad: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has said the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington was at its lowest ebb, even lower than that after the 9/11 attack. "We're at a very poor level. I don't think they were at this level even before 9/11, when I took over," Musharraf told CNN in an interview to a query on the relationship between Pakistan and the US, reported Pakistan's Online...
11:58 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Washington: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has said that the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington is at its lowest ebb, lower than those post 9/11 attacks on the US. "We're at a very poor level. I don't think they were at this level even before 9/11, when I took over," Musharraf told the CNN in an interview when asked about the relationship between Pakistan and the...
12:49 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan has decided to demolish Osama Bin Laden's hideout so that it isn't turned into a shrine. The Pakistani Army has been planning to destroy the walled compound in Abbottabad with a series of rocket strikes before rolling in bulldozers. Bin Laden had lived in the squalid three-storied house in the military town for almost five years before he was killed by the US Seals last year. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Al-Qaeda continues to preach jihad or holy war through an Urdu monthly magazine that is delivered to homes in cities across Pakistan by post, according to a media report on Monday. The 200-page magazine, Hiteen, is named after the battlefield where Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi defeated the Crusaders and features articles that preach jihad and praise Osama bin Laden. The magazine was started in June last year, a month after...
03:25 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Jerusalem: Pakistan's former President General Pervez Musharraf has denied having knowledge about the al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden living in his country during his tenure. In his first ever interview to an Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, Musharraf insisted on his innocence and said he was 100 per cent sure about himself that he did not know he (Osama bin Laden) was there. "I am very sure about my answer. Especially so...
09:21 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama on Thursday said that the US has delivered justice to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and put his terror group on the path of defeat. "We've decimated al-Qaeda's leadership, delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, and put that terrorist network on the path to defeat," Obama said in his rare appearance at the Pentagon, the head office of the US department of Defense. "We've made important...
12:09 AM, Jan 06, 2012
