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Gayle, Afridi join Sydney Thunder for Big Bash

Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition starting December 7 will witness the likes of Chris Gayle and Shahid Afridi. ...  

Will stop terror groups if elected PM: Imran

Islamabad: Pakistani opposition leader and Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan said that that terror groups will have no place in Pakistan if his party comes to power. Speaking exclusively to Karan Thapar on Devil's advocate, Imran added that for Indo-Pak ties to improve, the Kashmir issue should be put on the back burner for a while. Here's the transcript from the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the second part...  

Ilyas Kashmiri is alive and active: sources

Islamabad: Al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri, who was reported to have been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt in June, is still alive, according to a media report on Saturday. Kashmiri, the chief of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami is still alive and active in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Dawn News channel quoted its sources as saying. Security officials of the US and Pakistan...  

US declines to confirm Ilyas Kashmiri's killing

Washington: Despite Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's reported assertion that Washington has confirmed the death of Ilyas Kashmiri, the United States has declined to do so. "I don't have any confirmation of that," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Monday when asked about Gilani's statement about the killing of a key plotter of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in a US drone strike in Pakistan. Kashmiri, the...  

Pakistan has become a battle ground: Haqqani

Washington: Observing that Pakistan has become a battle ground, country's envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani has said that there may be elements in the Pakistani Government who are responsible for the criminal behavior. "Pakistan today is a nation brutalised by the arrogance of some who impose their ideology on the country," Haqqani said at a meeting organised at the National Press Club in memory of the slain Pakistani investigative...  

Pak on alert following Ilyas Kashmiri's killing

Islamabad: Pakistani law enforcement agencies have been put on alert in the federal capital and northern parts of the country to prevent possible suicide attacks to avenge the killing of al Qaeda-linked terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri in a US drone attack. The National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Interior Ministry sounded a general alert to law enforcement agencies in Islamabad and Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces after receiving an intelligence report...  

Pak minister says Kashmiri is very likely dead

Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that he was "98 per cent sure" senior al Qaeda figure Ilyas Kashmiri had been killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan border. US officials in Washington said however they were highly sceptical of reports that Kashmiri, seen by them as one of the world's most dangerous militants, was dead. "All ground intelligence shows that he is dead. What...  

Pak media ridicules army after naval base attack

Islamabad: Pakistan's military was ridiculed and accused of complicity in the media on Tuesday after a small group of militants laid siege to a naval air base, holding out for 16 hours against hundreds of commandos and rangers. As few as six militants infiltrated the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistan's naval air wing, on Sunday night, killing 10 security forces and wounding 20. "Our mujahideen...  

Pak under pressure and threat from terrorists: US

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...  

UN investigators seek facts on Osama death

Geneva: UN human rights investigators called on the United States on Friday to disclose whether there had been any plan to capture Osama bin Laden and if he was offered any "meaningful prospect of surrender and arrest." Principles of engagement in such operations require the possibility of surrender, firing warning shots and if necessary wounding a suspect, rather than killing him, they said. Failure to comply could amount to a...  

US identifies Armyman who leaked war documents

Bradley Manning, arrested in May 2009, is believed to be the main suspect who leaked the information to Wikileaks. ...  

Pak claims Taliban is out, different ground reality

The military says it has finally pushed the Taliban out of a strategic area. ...

PPP leader Zardari likely to be next Pakistan President

Nawaz Sharif's PML is likely to pull out its ministers from the ruling coalition. ...  

Dictatorship has become a tale of the past: Gillani

Pakistan celebrated its 61st Independence with a civilian PM. ...  

Musharraf would be removed when people want: Zardari

Birmingham: Rain had the final say as the third and final Test between England and West Indies ended in a draw at Edgbaston here on Monday. In a match where three days out of a possible five were washed out, it was no surprise neither side had got in a position to force victory. And, after yet more rain, the umpires finally called the game off shortly before 3.15pm local...