Naveed Musharraf, the president's brother, and Irum Bilal Musharraf, his daughter-in-law, have reportedly given donations to Obama instead of Bush's Republican Party's presumptive candidate Senator John McCain.
India thrashed China 9-0 to stay in the hunt for top spot in the round-robin league competition of the fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Kuantan, Malaysia on Tuesday.
The national selection committee ignored senior Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal for the coming one-day series in Sri Lanka.
An Iraqi doctor, who along with his Indian accomplice attempted to set off massive car bombs at the Glasgow airport and a London nightclub, was on Wednesday jailed for a minimum of 32 years after he was convicted of trying to kill hundreds of people in the botched attacks in June 2007.Bilal Abdulla, 29, was found guilty on Tuesday by the Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
British nationals-- Duncan Grant and Allen Waters and the Indian William Desouza--were acquitted on Wednesday by the Mumbai high court of charges of molestation and indulging in paedophilia at Three Children's Shelter Home run by them.
The head of the Pakistani police team probing former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination on Sunday accused Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud of planning and financing her killing.
The tourists were left on 20-2 after seven overs going into the second day.
They were caught before they executed the attack on January 26.
In a massive relief for Mohammad Amir, a Pakistan court rejected a petition against the inclusion of convicted spot-fixer in the national team.
Top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Saddam Padder is also believed to be among the slain terrorists.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by the state government to stay the acquittal order of two Britons and an Indian in a paedophilia case.
Sources said that there could be similarities between the explosives used in Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in May this year and Satudrday's explosion.
Fifteen-year-old Aitezaz Shah, who was arrested from Dera Ismail Khan town of the North West Frontier Province, identified the bomber as a man named Bilal who belonged to the South Waziristan tribal region, Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah said.A team of investigators has gone to South Waziristan to meet Bilal's family to get more information about him. Reports said that the investigators had shown a photograph of the suspected bomber to Aitezaz Shah, who identified him.
Although the role of Shahid Bilal is not ruled out in the Uttar Pradesh blasts, the police say that the serial blasts were conducted under the supervision of Sabah Hijaji, another commander of the HuJI.
A Special Operation Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police and the Central Reserve Police Force launched a joint operation in village Ararth in the central Kashmir district of Badgam early on Monday morning.
The conspiracy was hatched by Shahid and his friend Khaja, both residents of Moosarambagh here, police sources said quoting a confessional statement.
Villagers alleged that the youth had been killed by the CRPF trooper without any provocation. CRPF officials said that the trooper had a heated verbal exchange with a group of youths on Wednesday. The CRPF trooper has been taken into custody.
The IB said they have informed all those involved in investigating cases pertaining to terror not to take such news seriously and go about their investigation in a routine manner.
'We are trying to empower teachers in the entire country because online teaching is very, very, complicated.'
The father of suspec ted terror mastermind Shahid alias Bilal in an exclusive interview.
The investigation into the three bomb blasts at Hyderabad has taken a new turn with the narco analysis test of an accused revealing that fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim funded both the Mecca Masjid and twin blasts in Hyderabad earlier this year. The revelation that Dawood spent crores of rupees on the blasts was made by Majid, the youngest brother of Shahid Bilal, the HuJI operative, who is a prime suspect in the blasts.
India's total medal count stood at 252 (132 gold, 79 silver, 41 bronze), leaving behind hosts Nepal and Sri Lanka behind. Nepal has won 165 medals (45 gold, 44 silver, 76 bronze) while Sri Lanka have collected 197 medals (36 gold, 68 silver, 93 bronze).
Abdullah, 27, was the passenger of the burning explosives-laden jeep, which was allegedly driven by Indian Kafeel Ahmed into the Glasgow Airport last Saturday.
A letter to the state government from the Union Home ministry last month said that it would not hand over the case to the CBI as per its request because it thought "no case was made out" against the Assistant Inpector of Police Nikhil Kapse and his team. The division bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A P Deshpande wondered how the Home Ministry could exonerate police without conducting a probe.
A civilian was killed in a firing incident at Ganowpora, while two others sustained injuries, a police official said.
Harkat-Ul-Jihadi Islami commander Shahid alias Bilal was the mastermind behind the August 25 twin blasts and May 15 Mecca Blasts in Hyderabad, which claimed over 50 lives, his brother Majid confessed to the police.
Chennai City FC, whom Real Kashmir had beaten twice this season, are leading the table with 30 points from 14 matches.
Task Force personnel picked up Maqsood Ahmed alias Maqsood, 26, at a bus stand on the high-security Raj Bhavan Road.
The IB says that Hamza was the man behind the murder of Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003.
Every time an act of terror is committed in Hyderabad, suspicion falls on Shahid, alias Bilal alias Abdul Rehman.
The arrest came hours after prosecutors revealed that Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in an apartment in another part of Brussels earlier this week following a raid in which a suspected IS militant was killed.
According to police sources in Hyderabad, Quadri, who runs a watch repair shop, was in constant touch with Shahed alias Bilal, the alleged mastermind behind the masjid blasts.
The Hurriyat delegation, also comprising Abdul Gani Bhat and Bilal Lone, was slated to return on January 24.
The 32-year-old suspected militant was running a handicrafts shop in front of Virupaksha temple at Hampi for the last five years.
Two boys were seriously injured when an improvised explosive device hidden by militants near a stream went off.
Two AK rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the slain militants whose identity is being ascertained, the sources said.
The Indian leggie claimed 3 for 83 as Northamptonshire were restricted to 347 in the first innings on day 1 of the County match.
Malik's escape from Pakistan back to the valley via Nepal led him into the dragnet as police had prior information about his movement.
Supporting the India-Pakistan talks and peace process, he said dialogue was imperative but there should be the world community's involvement at a certain level to reach a solution acceptable to all the parties concerned.
'Patience, hard work and perseverance are the three simple things that one needs to pass in the UPSC exam or for that matter any exam.'
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