A Pakistani court conducting the trial of Lashkar-e-Tayiba's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the Mumbai attacks on Tuesday issued a notification stating that a judicial panel would visit India on March 14 to interview key Indian officials as part of the probe into the 2008 strikes.
The Taliban's official spokesman, Abdulqahar Balkhi, claimed responsiblity for the attack on Twitter.
Former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani has been killed in explosion at his house in Kabul on Tuesday evening. He was leading the leading the country's efforts to talk peace with the Taliban.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed has moved the high court in Lahore, asking it to stop Pakistani authorities from taking any "adverse action" against him under pressure from the United States and provide security to him as his life was "not safe" and any "mishap" could happen.
The Pakistan government has informed a court that it cannot extradite former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with a case registered over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a military operation in 2006.
Interior ministry officials in Islamabad say that to act against Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the government needs actionable evidence. It has also said that a respectable Pakistani national can't be prosecuted on the basis of hearsay and that too just to please India. Amir Mir reports
On Thursday, maximum new cases were recorded in Balochistan where the number of infected people rose to 76 from 23. Punjab was the next where the number rose from 33 to 78, Dawn reported.
A day after filing a petition in the Pakistan Supreme Court seeking a probe into the 'memogate' scandal, former premier Nawaz Sharif on Thursday sought its direction to bar former envoy to the United States, Husain Haqqani, from leaving the country till the probe is completed.
Egypt's streets continued to simmer with anger with 10 lives lost over three days, as fuming protesters clashed with the police over its failure to prevent Port Said's unprecedented football violence. Police in Cairo fired teargas and birdshots at protesters who tried to march on to the interior ministry and threw stones at security forces guarding the building on Saturday.
Ilyas Kashmiri, considered one of the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was behind the assassination of Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti earlier this year, according to a media report on Tuesday.
A Pakistani court in Islamabad on Tuesday directed the authorities to release nine alleged terrorists linked to suicide attacks on the Danish embassy and army's Surgeon General, setting aside their detention orders.
Rawalpindi's anti-terrorism court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, Geo TV reported.
The success of Al Qaeda chierf Osama bin Laden in evading detection and arrest by the Pakistani security agencies for nearly six years since 2005 when he lived in a house near the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad was the result of a comprehensive intelligence failure by all agencies responsible for the collection of intelligence inside Pakistan and not the result of a failure by the Inter-Services Intelligence ISI alone.
A fresh probe had uncovered the role of nine men, including the brigadier in whose residence the plot was hatched, The Express Tribune newspaper reported, quoting unnamed sources. The findings of the investigation, conducted under the Interior Ministry's supervision, were deliberately kept under wraps, even from the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party's top leaders, it claimed.
President Asif Ali Zardari will not file a response in the Supreme Court to petitions seeking a probe into the memo scandal, a presidential aide said on Monday, a move that could put him in direct confrontation with the apex court which had said he cannot presume immunity.
Pakistani intelligence officials have arrested Indonesian Al-Qaeda operative Umar Patek, suspected to be involved in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Patek, a member of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, was captured by the Inter-Services Intelligence recently, an unnamed officer of the spy agency told The News.
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Pakistani authorities have declined India's request to send an inquiry commission to interrogate Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects charged with involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. India had sent an official letter expressing its willingness to allow a Pakistani commission to visit India to interview key officials linked with the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror strike that killed 166 people.
Pakistan will again seek access to the witnesses of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks to record their statements and a formal request will be filed with India in this regard, according to a media report on Friday. This will be the second time that Pakistan will be making such a request, unnamed officials of the Interior Ministry were quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper.
At least 21 worshippers were killed and about 80 others wounded when a suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up outside a church soon after the New Year's mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, sparking religious clashes between Christians and Muslims.
The trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was Monday adjourned to Tuesday as a top police general and three other key witness made crucial depositions in a court.
Pakistani security officials have claimed arresting a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan operative who is said to be the mastermind of the suicide attack which targeted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's rally in Karachi in October 2007.
The uncertainty that had loomed over the India-Pakistan football series has finally come to a end with the arch-rivals all set to play a three-match series in England, starting August 25.
The repercussions of the Pakistan Supreme Court's verdict declaring the amnesty law as 'unconstitutional' has started showing effects with the Interior Ministry placing the names of 253 beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, on the Exit Control List. The latest move has thus barred Malik from moving out of the country. The names of other prominent people on the ECL include Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar.
"Defence Minister Abdullah Habibi and Army Chief of Staff Qadam Shah Shahim stepped down with immediate effect," the Khaama Press quoted the Office of the President, ARGPalace, as saying on Monday.
Pakistan has requested the British government to extradite Shamim Khan, the man who reportedly hurled his shoes at President Asif Ali Zardari during an event at Birmingham earlier this month.
Armaments seized included explosive belts used by suicide bombers, assault rifles, ammunition, computers, pre-paid mobile SIM cards and documents, the interior ministry said.
The blast tore through a market building across the street from the heavily fortified embassy compound, leaving rubble and debris strewn across the road, where the Afghan Interior Ministry is also located.
Pakistani authorities have 161 witnesses and 'incriminating' evidence to nail Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the Mumbai terror attack case. Rejecting the defence counsel's objections to the validity of the confessional statement made to Indian authorities by Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested in Mumbai, Special Public Prosecutor Malik Rab Nawaz Noon said it was received through proper channels.
Pakistan briefed visiting Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Robert Mueller on its probe into the Mumbai terror attacks and said it was awaiting New Delhi's response to its 30 questions seeking more information on the incident.
France launched an app to alert users to attacks on Wednesday, two days before the Euro 2016 soccer championship gets underway under a state of emergency imposed after militant Islamists struck Paris in November. The Interior Ministry app, called SAIP, flashes a warning on a user's mobile phone screen if there is an attack close to their location or suspicion of an imminent strike. Users can also request alerts for up to eight geographic areas, including individual districts in the capital. First impressions on social media were mixed.
The court order came after Musharraf and the three other persons did not file representations in the court despite repeated notices issued to them. During the last hearing, the court had also warned that it would go ahead with ex-parte proceedings against three more persons named in Aslam's petition
At least 25 explosive laden vehicles have reportedly sneaked into major cities of Pakistan, following which intelligence agencies have launched a massive search operation.According to sources, intelligence authorities have issued a warning to all four provinces in this regard, and asked them to take precautionary measures.The Interior Ministry has also issued a circular stating that suicide bombers along with the vehicles have entered Peshawar, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad.
The Interior Ministry issued an order on Saturday asking all provincial governments not to carry out any executions in the Muslim month of fasting.
Indian nanny Sandra Samuels, who risked her life to save a two-year-old Israeli toddler Moshe Holtzberg from the clutches of death during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was on Monday conferred with an honorary citizenship by Israeli government for her bravery.
Two suicide bombers, including one in police uniform, set off powerful blasts on Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 27, just a couple of days after the terror attacks on Moscow metro claimed 39 lives.
The Pakistan government has received intelligence inputs about terrorist threats to the Prime Minister and other top political leaders like opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani disclosed this during an interaction with the media at Gilgit in the Northern Areas on Wednesday.
The Interpol's executive committee has 13 members, including president, three vice-presidents and nine delegates. Each member is selected for a three-year term.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday arrived to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Home Ministers' Conference and was personally received by his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik at the Chaklala airbase. Chidambaram arrived at the Chaklala airbase in the garrison city of Rawalpindi by a special aircraft. Malik, who will host his Indian counterpart later on Friday, went to the airbase to personally receive Chidambaram.
The SAARC summit on Interior/Home affairs had a cold start on Thursday when the Indo-Pak interior secretaries had miscommunication in their one on one meeting and the delegates failed to approve few key proposals to cooperate in the fields of police and immigration.
