Jaipur: Dr Khaleel Chisty, the 78-year-old Pakistani virologist, hopes for an early release from the Ajmer jail, even as the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries held talks in Islamabad. Dr Chisty, who is serving a jail term for murder in Ajmer, Rajasthan, has a chance of being released, as a goodwill gesture. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said she was hopeful of an early release of Dr Khalil Chisty. "India is...
10:44 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: A serving brigadier of the Pakistani Army has been detained for suspected links with banned terror group. Dawn News reported that Brigadier Ali Khan was detained on May 6, 2011. Brigadier Khan was serving at the Pakistani Army General Headquarters for the past two years. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Public Relations has confirmed that the Brigadier has been detained. The news comes just weeks after Pakistani-American David Headley, a...
05:26 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Jaipur: Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention just days before the Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, 78-year-old Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishty, who is languishing in Ajmer jail, may finally be released. Serving a life term for a 1992 murder, his mercy petition has been cleared by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, after the PM asked Home Minister Chidambaram to examine the request of Supreme Court judge...
09:33 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India's failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there. In a response to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram's remarks on Wednesday that confidence between the two countries cannot be restored till Pakistan takes action...
11:41 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Islamabad: The call record of slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad's cellular phone has been erased, with the log of the 18 days before his abduction and murder being wiped out from the system, a media report said on Tuesday. The last call made by Shahzad that is reflected in the log was on May 12, seventeen days before his abduction on May 29, according to data obtained by The...
12:11 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: In one of his last interviews before his murder, Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad told CNN-IBN that even the 26/11 attacks had been sponsored by al Qaeda, but more importantly, that they were originally scripted by a special cell of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. He also said that they might have already planned future attacks on India. "And I suspect that they have already planned something which shall...
08:47 PM, Jun 02, 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
CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar interviewed Saleem Syed Shahzad days before he was killed in Pakistan. ...
04:59 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court has asked the government to respond to a petition asking it to direct authorities to take steps for the early release of Pakistani scientist Khaleel Chishti, who has been languishing in an Indian jail for nearly 20 years. The petition, filed by leading lawyer Syed Iqbal Haider on behalf of Chishti's daughter Shoa Jawaid, All Pakistan Women's Association and Legal Aid Call Centre, asked the apex...
05:42 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistani Journalist Salim Shehzad has been reported missing from Islamabad and human rights groups fear he's being detained by intelligence agencies for his reports over the Mehran base attack. This comes just days after he authored an article which alleged that the Al Qaeda had attacked the Mehran naval base after talks with the Pakistan navy to release personnel detained on suspicion of Al Qaeda links failed. Local ...
09:31 AM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan has not yet conveyed to India when its judicial commission will visit here to take the statement of the magistrate who had recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of 26/11 attack, to pursue the case there. During the Home Secretary-level talks held in New Delhi in March, India agreed to a Pakistani proposal to host a judicial commission of that country...
06:26 PM, May 30, 2011
Peshawar: A car bomb in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday targeted a US consulate convoy but caused no American deaths or serious injuries, said US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez. One passerby was killed and 10 Pakistanis were wounded, said a hospital official. One American was slightly wounded in the attack in the northwestern city. The two consulate vehicles were heading to the consulate when one of the vehicles...
12:01 PM, May 20, 2011
Mingora: Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager on Monday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said. Alam Zeb, 19, was charged in Florida along with his mother and a family friend. He is the grandson of the imam of a Florida mosque who was arrested in the United States along with his two sons on Saturday on the...
09:01 AM, May 17, 2011
Islamabad: A majority of Pakistani's surveyed in a poll appeared to be aggrieved over the death of Osama bin Laden, with 51 per cent describing their emotions as "grief" though one-third said they were unconcerned by the incident. The nation-wide poll was conducted by Gallup Pakistan during May 7-10, less than a week after bin Laden was killed in a raid by US special forces in the garrison city of...
05:51 PM, May 16, 2011
Miami: The imam of a Florida mosque and his two sons, one also a Muslim spiritual leader, were arrested on Saturday on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban, US officials said. The three Pakistan-born US citizens were among six charged in a US indictment that accused them of "supporting acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming in Pakistan and elsewhere" carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, which Washington calls...
08:36 AM, May 15, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects in the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Saturday adjourned the case for a fortnight after hearing arguments on the government's proposal to send a commission to India to interview key officials. Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed of the Rawalpindi-based court was told by defence lawyers during the in-camera proceedings that the prosecution's application for sending a commission to India had little...
03:08 PM, May 14, 2011
Pakistani PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani addressed Parliament over the killing of Osama bin Laden. ...
10:38 AM, May 10, 2011
Islamabad: As US investigators comb through a treasure trove of computer data and documents seized from Osama bin Laden's home, Pakistani officials face a more domestic task, What to do with three of the slain terrorist leader's wives and eight of his children. Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Sunday that government officials were still holding the wives and children for questioning and that so far, no country had sought their...
05:21 PM, May 08, 2011
