Delhi Police has submitted its report to the Home Ministry on the arrest of the alleged Hizbul terrorist Liyaqat Shah. Police sources said Liyaqat was in Kathmandu to meet a Hizbul man and was in close contact with a Pakistani Embassy official. ...
05:11 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The death toll from a suicide bombing on a military check post in Pakistan's North Waziristan region has reached 17, the military said on Sunday. ...
05:00 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The Union Home Ministry will order a probe examining the two version of the arrest of alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah, sources said on Sunday. While the Delhi Police sources said Liaqat was part of the terror plot to strike Delhi around Holi and arms and explosives were recovered at his behest, the Jammu and Kashmir government sources said Liaqat had surrendered and was returning home with his family after...
12:34 PM, Mar 24, 2013
At least five soldiers were killed in a suicide attack Saturday night on an army check-post in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, an army statement said. The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the mouthpiece of the Pakistan military, said that a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the check-post in Miran Shah, the capital of North Waziristan. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 24, 2013
The controversy over the arrest of Liaqat Shah continues. Is he a rehabilitated militant or an active operative planning a terror strike in Delhi? Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wants the NIA to probe the matter. Delhi Police sources Liaqat is part of a terror plot to strike the capital around Holi but the Kashmir government says he is a rehabilitated militant. ...
09:47 AM, Mar 24, 2013
As film stars and politicians join the chorus for actor Sanjay Dutt's pardon, daughter of Zaibunisa Kazi, who is facing similar charges as the actor, questions why her mother should not also get the same support? ...
08:11 AM, Mar 24, 2013
It's Jammu and Kashmir authorities vs the Delhi Police, over the arrest of Liyaqat Shah. ...
10:13 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday spoke to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and demanded that the case of arrest of an alleged Hizbul Mujahdeen terrorist by Delhi Police be transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for a "time-bound speedy probe". The Chief Minister took up the matter with Shinde over phone as the latter was away in Maharashtra with President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
07:51 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A young Lebanese immigrant awaiting sentencing for placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field wrote a letter to the judge saying he drank "all day, every day" for months before the would-be attack. In a seven-page letter to US District Judge Robert Gettleman, Sami Samir Hassoun apologises and insists he has worked hard at becoming a better person, including by taking yoga instruction in jail....
07:32 PM, Mar 23, 2013
In a freak incident, a police officer in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) shot himself dead in front of his family at a restaurant in Thane on Saturday evening. The officer was dining out with his family when suddenly, he pulled out his service revolver and shot himself. The reason for his suicide is not clear. ...
07:00 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The wife of Liaqat Shah, who was arrested by Delhi Police on Friday and was allegedly planning terror attacks ahead of Holi in Delhi, has claimed that her husband is innocent and the police is lying. ...
05:04 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Five persons, suspected to have SIMI links, were arrested by Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) from Seoni district with a cache of crude bombs and firearms. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Indian and Chinese troops may stop tailing each other's patrols on the border. The two neighbouring countries are also expected to finalise a joint counter-terrorism exercise involving both armies. ...
03:08 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Liaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi police on Friday, was allegedly planning terror attacks ahead of Holi in Delhi. Minister of State for Home, Sajjad Kichloo, said the government would wait for the police's response. Sources within the Delhi Police continue to insist that Liaqat is a senior terrorist named in a 2011 FIR for promoting terror from PoK. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Pakistan Taliban on Saturday threatened to assassinate former president Pervez Musharraf when he returns home to Pakistan. It said its suicide bombers and snipers will send Musharraf to "hell" if he comes back. ...
12:36 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Liaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi police on Friday, was allegedly planning terror attacks ahead of Holi in Delhi. The Delhi Police sources insist Liaqat was a senior terrorist named in a 2011 FIR for promoting terror from PoK and he had come to India to carry out recces for fidayeen attacks. ...
08:38 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur who revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi in the national capital. The police said the suspected terrorist, identified as Liaqat Shah, was sent by Pakistani agencies and was being trained in Pakistan. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 22, 2013
There are rising concerns that militancy seems to be staging a comeback after Afzal Guru's execution in Kashmir. Is this a deliberate strategy to divert attention from security forces who's focus is more on law and order? ...
10:57 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur. Sources say he has revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi. ...
09:18 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction under the Arms Act but reduced his sentence from six years to five years in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. ...
08:30 AM, Mar 22, 2013
