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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Manmohan Singh alerts world about A Q Khan’s network

Manmohan Singh alerts world about A Q Khan’s network

WASHINGTON: Without naming Pakistan’s A Q Khan operation, India on Tuesday reminded the world of the dangers of “clandestine proliferation networks” and asked the world to join hands to combat trafficking of nuclear materials. “Clandestine proliferation networks have flourished and led to insecurity for all, including and especially for India,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [...]

Pilots’ lack of Russian led to tragedy – theories swirl over Polish air disaster

Pilots’ lack of Russian led to tragedy – theories swirl over Polish air disaster

WARSAW: Language problems between Russian air traffic controllers and Polish pilots, and pressure from high-ranking plane passengers, may have contributed to the crash on Saturday in which 96 people – including the Polish president – were killed, it was revealed today. The Russian air traffic controller Pavel Plusnin – who was the last person to [...]

Pakistan seeks equal access to civil nuclear technology

Pakistan seeks equal access to civil nuclear technology

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Monday urged non-discriminatory access to civil nuclear technology to meet the country’s exponentially growing

Pakistan-wide protests continue against loadshedding

Pakistan-wide protests continue against loadshedding

KARACHI: The frustration of the people intensifies as the hours of loadshedding increases throughout the country. Protests against prolonged and unscheduled power outages continued throughout the country on Monday.  In Hyderabad, a rally was taken out by members of a business association as protesters blocked the main Jinnah roundabout. Residents of Multan also took to [...]

Pakistan nuclear weapons at risk of theft by terrorists, US study warns

Pakistan nuclear weapons at risk of theft by terrorists, US study warns

WASHINGTON: Pakistan yesterday came under increased pressure over its nuclear arsenal when a Harvard study warned of “a very real possibility” that its warheads could be stolen by terrorists. The rising concern about poorly-guarded nuclear weapons and material was the subject of an extraordinary two-day summit which began in Washington yesterday. Last night, Ukraine became [...]

Dismantling terror network in Pak-Afghan region “singular focus”: Barack Obama

Dismantling terror network in Pak-Afghan region “singular focus”: Barack Obama

NEW YORK: Stressing on the need of establishing peace and a secure environment in Pakistan and Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama has said that dismantling the terror network flourishing in the region is the “singular focus” of his administration. In an extensive interview with the ABC, Obama said rooting out the militant base in the [...]

MQM rape victims & so-called Pak legislations for women

MQM rape victims & so-called Pak legislations for women

KARACHI: A case of rape, attempted murder, corruption and impunity that took place in 2008 and 2009 continues to haunt two girls in

SCBA, LHCBA (lawyers’ mafia) to challenge 18th Amendment

SCBA, LHCBA (lawyers’ mafia) to challenge 18th Amendment

LAHORE: Showing their reservations on certain clauses of the 18th Amendment, the Supreme Court Bar Association and Lahore

Obama & his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev sign nuclear arms treaty

Obama & his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev sign nuclear arms treaty

PRAGUE: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. The treaty commits the former Cold War enemies to each reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 – 30% lower than the previous ceiling. Mr Obama said it was an [...]

PM’s wife, Fauzia Gilani gets another Rs 38m loan written off

PM’s wife, Fauzia Gilani gets another Rs 38m loan written off

ISLAMABAD: The wife of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is one of the main beneficiaries of the recent loan write-off policy of the National Bank of Pakistan. The bank waived a loan of over Rs 38 million loan taken by Pak Green Fertiliser Limited (PGFL) which she owned as one of its main partners, a [...]

AJK president forms parallel Supreme Judicial Council

AJK president forms parallel Supreme Judicial Council

MUZAFFARABAD: A judicial crisis in Azad Jammu and Kashmir took a turn for the worse after AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan

National assembly approves 18th Amendment Bill unanimously

National assembly approves 18th Amendment Bill unanimously

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national assembly on Thursday unanimously approved reforms stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers in a move to bolster parliamentary

Afghan President Hamid Karzai ‘threatened to join Taliban’

Afghan President Hamid Karzai ‘threatened to join Taliban’

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, according to several members of parliament. They said that Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting with selected lawmakers – just days after kicking up [...]

India rejects US call to shun Iran gas talks amid energy priorities

India rejects US call to shun Iran gas talks amid energy priorities

India has rejected a call from the US to shun participation in gas talks with Iran, saying “energy security” is a priority for New Delhi.

Israel closer to death if it attacks Gaza, says Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel closer to death if it attacks Gaza, says Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talk of new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear programme. His defiance came after US President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up global pressure on Tehran to abandon its controversial atomic programme which he said [...]

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