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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 [...]
ISLAMABAD: A DNA test has proved that Maryam Khan is the biological daughter of Dr Amjad Khan, Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s former husband, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. Talking to reporters after meeting Dr Aafia’s sister Dr Fauzia, Malik said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – already on a US visit – will hold [...]
KABUL: US special forces commander visited a family in rural Afghanistan to plead for forgiveness after finally admitting that his troops killed five innocent people in a raid. Vice-Admiral William H. McRaven went to Paktia to the home of family who lost two sons, two pregnant women and teenage girl when the US special forces [...]
WASHINGTON: US air marshals subdued a Qatari diplomat on a flight to Denver Wednesday in a bomb scare triggered after he reportedly smoked a cigarette and joked he was trying to light his shoes, officials said. There were no reports of an explosion on the plane, which landed safely at Denver International Airport from Washington’s [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s campaign against the country’s Maoist insurgency suffered a major setback on Tuesday when rebel fighters ambushed a paramilitary unit on patrol in an isolated forest region, killing at least 73 officers. The authorities described a carefully executed surprise attack in which the Maoists opened fire as the patrol entered an area seeded [...]
RIYADH: Muslim scholars from around the world who met this week in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Medina have denounced “terrorism” and appealed to “extremists” to repent, a statement said on Thursday. The four-day Islamic conference, sponsored by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz and organised by the Islamic University of Medina, drew some 500 [...]
NEW DELHI: India blames Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for an attack that killed seven of its citizens in Kabul on February 26, a government source said Thursday. “The LeT is responsible. We have no doubt about that,” the source told reporters on condition of anonymity. He said the group, which India also holds responsible [...]
KARACHI: Pakistani police said Monday they arrested three militants from the country’s most feared sectarian group on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Karachi prison to free jailed comrades. Three members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were arrested in a raid on a house in Rerhi, in the suburbs of Karachi, senior police official Umer Shahid told [...]
MOSCOW: At least 37 people are reported to have been killed in two explosions on the Metro system in central Moscow. The first blast happened at the city’s central Lubyanka station killing 25, reports quoting security sources said. A second explosion less than an hour afterwards happened at the Park Kultury station killing 12, Russian [...]
KARACHI: The encounter between police and criminals proved futile as Razzaq Commando, a notorious gangster manages his escape from Mawach Goth area of the Kemari Town, Karachi. Earlier in the day Police and rangers launched an operation against an active gang in Machh Goth, Karachi. The area has been cordoned off and all the entry-exist [...]
ISLAMABAD: Police said Monday they had arrested two men who were masterminds behind a bomb attack on a UN office that killed five people in the capital Islamabad in October. Acting police chief of Islamabad Bani Amin Khan said both men belonged to the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and were planning more attacks, including strikes on a [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muttahida Kissan Mahaz (PMKM) has demanded of the government to move a resolution in Untied Nation (UN) through its attache on the water terrorism launched by India. Addressing a gathering at Rampura Moza Ghwind, a village situated at zero line of Pakistan-Indian border, the PMKM President Ayub Mayo and PMKM Punjab President [...]
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has cancelled thousands of prohibited bore arms licences fraudulently issued in violation of the rules, and ordered the arrest of officials involved in the scam. Sources told our correspondent that the orders were passed by Interior Minister Rehman Malik in line with directions of the Supreme Court at a meeting chaired [...]
KABUL: Arrests of Taliban leaders have had a “negative impact” on efforts by the Afghan government to broker a peace deal with the insurgents, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Saturday. The arrests in Pakistan of the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and others in the Islamists’ hierarchy, had slowed down Afghan government [...]
LONDON: Former UN special representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has accused Pakistan of arresting key Taliban leaders in a deliberate move to stop secret peace talks
CHICAGO: The charming Pakistani-American man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a Chicago court. David Coleman Headley, 49, admitted to using a friend’s immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark on behalf of two [...]
LONDON: Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has warned that the Pakistani army’s offensive in the tribal areas is pushing the country to the brink of “civil war”, in comments published in a newspaper. He also blamed US-Pakistan military attacks in the areas bordering Afghanistan for creating the Pakistan Taliban, in the comments in London’s Evening [...]
WASHINGTON: Another terrorist attack in India could reignite India-Pakistan tensions in 2010, increasing the risk of miscalculation between two nuclear states, warns commander
JERUSALEM: Riots broke out in Jerusalem and the West Bank yesterday as Palestinians staged a “day of rage” in protest at Israeli plans to build 1,600 new homes in the disputed east of the city. The announcement of the planned construction caused the worst diplomatic crisis in decades between Israel and its most important ally, [...]
KARACHI: A lawyer for the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) chairman, two MQM-H workers and a taxi driver were shot dead on
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
