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British intelligence agency MI6 tricked by fake Taliban leader!

British intelligence agency MI6 tricked by fake Taliban leader!

LONDON:U.S. and Afghan officials have slammed Britain’s intelligence service for allowing an impostor to hold talks with high-level members of NATO and Afghanistan’s government. The London Times reports that the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) paid a man they believed to be Akthar Mohammad Mansour — a former aviation minister in the pre-2001 Taliban government, [...]

Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain

Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain

LAHORE: Misbah-ul-Haq, the middle-order batsman, has been appointed captain of Pakistan’s Test side a day after he was recalled to the squad. Misbah, who was axed following the winless tour of Australia in 2009-10, is Pakistan’s fourth Test captain this year. Shahid Afridi remains the captain of the ODI and Twenty20 squads. Pakistan had announced [...]

US funds for private security contractors in Afghanistan flowed to Taliban insurgents

US funds for private security contractors in Afghanistan flowed to Taliban insurgents

WASHINGTON: US funds for private security contractors in Afghanistan have flowed to warlords and Taliban insurgents, undermining the war effort and fueling corruption, according to a Senate report issued Thursday. The investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the government had failed to vet or manage those hired to provide security under contracts [...]

AQ Khan ordered to refrain from comments on atomic program

AQ Khan ordered to refrain from comments on atomic program

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to refrain from comments on the country’s atomic programme. The court had called for a reply from the federal government on a petition challenging the alleged restriction on the movement of the nuclear scientist in violation of the court order. The court was [...]

India moves Interpol for arrest of Pak armymen

India moves Interpol for arrest of Pak armymen

NEW DELHI: Interpol notified its members on Thursday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pakistani citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an official said. India asked Interpol to issue the so-called ”red corner notices” for the five Pakistanis, said R.K. Gaur, a spokesman for India’s [...]

General Kayani orders probe into execution video

General Kayani orders probe into execution video

RAWALPINDI: Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani has ordered an inquiry into an internet video showing men in military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes. In a statement, General Kayani said a military board headed by a Major General would conduct the investigation to determine the authenticity of the five-and-a-half minute video. Emphasising [...]

Security beefed up in Karachi after shrine attack

Security beefed up in Karachi after shrine attack

KARACHI: Police stepped up patrols in Karachi on Friday to try and prevent renewed violence after angry mobs rampaged through the city in the aftermath of a suicide attack on a Sufi shrine that left eight dead and 65 injured. The attack by two suicide bombers on the shrine was a stark reminder of the [...]

Arif Nizami launches his new English daily “Pakistan Today”

Arif Nizami launches his new English daily “Pakistan Today”

KARACHI: Pakistan Today, an English daily headed by Arif Nizami, the former editor of The Nation, has launched in Lahore and is preparing to launch in Karachi. It has joined the growing list of English dailies the public now has to choose from. Amidst rumours about its style and substance, there is genuine curiosity about [...]

France to probe allegations of kickbacks on arms deals with Pakistan

France  to probe allegations of kickbacks on arms deals with Pakistan

PARIS: France is to probe allegations of kickbacks on arms deals with Pakistan used to fund political campaigns following a suit lodged by relatives of French engineers killed in a 2002 Karachi bombing. Investigating magistrate Renaud van Ruymbeke is to probe allegations that a company set up with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval channelled money from [...]

Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!

Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!

On October 1, the Swiss Parliament passed the historic “Return of Illicit Assets Act” (RIAA)-a significant law that will make it possible for many developing countries, like Pakistan to recover the billions of dollars shifted to the Alpine state by unscrupulous individuals and companies. The rent-seekers and beneficiaries of loan write-offs in Pakistan have shifted [...]

Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked

Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked

LAHORE: Six months after he got married, suspended Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif, who is implicated in the spot-fixing scandal, has finally brought his wife home. The bride, Sana Hilal, and Asif’s ‘rukhsati’ ceremony took place six months after their ‘nikah’ due to the pacer’s commitments with the Pakistan team. “It is a relief to finally [...]

Watch GEO News Live TV Channel Online – Pakistani & Indian TV Channels Free

Watch GEO News Live TV Channel Online – Pakistani & Indian TV Channels Free

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Watch Waqt News Live TV Channel Online – Pakistani & Indian TV Channels Free

Watch Waqt News Live TV Channel Online

Hamid Mir: Taliban’s informer or a journalist (secret audio tape)

Hamid Mir: Taliban’s informer or a journalist (secret audio tape)

Below is a shocking recoded audio call apparently did in the last month between number two of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistan and America’s most wanted man in Pakistan. Hamid Mir is seen talking to the guy and convincing him that Khalid Khawaja is a qadyani (Ahmadi) and is a CIA agent and is worst than [...]

UN report: Benazir Bhutto’s death due to security flaws

UN report: Benazir Bhutto’s death due to security flaws

Pakistan’s former military regime failed to protect ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto despite knowing of numerous threats against her shortly before her assassination

Riaz Sheikh among 736 released under special remission order

Riaz Sheikh among 736 released under special remission order

As many as 736 prisoners undergoing jail terms in various prisons have been freed while over 3,200 convicts benefited

Palestinian official in sex tape scandal, Rafiq Husseini denies he abused his position

Palestinian official in sex tape scandal, Rafiq Husseini denies he abused his position

JERUSALEM: A disgraced senior Palestinian official at the centre of a sex tape scandal claims he was entrapped and says he has not abused his position. Rafiq Husseini, who also holds British citizenship, was dismissed last week as President Mahmoud Abbas’s chief of staff at the end of a long-running scandal. He was shown in [...]

Thai Democrat Party faces ban over illegal donation, pressure on PM to resign

Thai Democrat Party faces ban over illegal donation, pressure on PM to resign

BANGKOK: The Thai prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, is under increasing pressure to resign after the country’s electoral commission ordered his ruling Democrat party be dissolved for accepting illegal donations. The decision – which comes days after the worst political violence in a generation – is a blow to the beleaguered Abhisit, and further complicates Thailand’s [...]

Top US envoy arrives in Kyrgyzstan for talks with interim leaders after revolt

Top US envoy arrives in Kyrgyzstan for talks with interim leaders after revolt

BISHKEK: A top U.S. diplomat arrived for talks with Kyrgyzstan’s interim leaders on Wednesday about defusing a crisis in the Central Asian country, where Washington rents an air base to back its war effort in Afghanistan. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose government has close ties with the interim leaders and sees Kyrgyzstan as part of [...]

Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif

Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif

LAHORE: Additional Sessions judge on Tuesday ordered Ghalib Market SHO to proceed under the law on the application of film and TV actress Veena Malik seeking registration of an FIR against cricketer Muhammad Asif. In a similar development, a civil judge has restrained Veena Malik from using the disputed cheques for initiation of legal proceedings [...]

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