Pervez Musharraf was Thursday formally arrested by Pakistani investigators over the murder of Benazir Bhutto after an anti-terrorism court directed them to include the former president in the probe into the 2007 assassination.
A letter sent to US President Barack Obama has been tested positive for the deadly poison ricin, federal investigating agencies said on Wednesday.
Kash Patel, the first Indian-American to head the FBI, has traced his roots to Bhadran village in Gujarat's Anand district. Patel's family migrated to Uganda 70 to 80 years ago, before selling their ancestral houses and moving to foreign countries. Patel was born in New York and is a trained lawyer who is an ice-hockey fan.
The National Investigation Agency Saturday arrested a second accused linked to the case of a transnational conspiracy by Myanmar and Bangladesh-based leadership of terror outfits to wage war against India by exploiting the current ethnic strife in Manipur, an official said.
Nine people, including five women, were arrested on Tuesday by Pakistani authorities for their alleged involvement in a visa scam that could have allowed terrorists to sneak into Britain along with the country's Olympic team.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari visited former premier Yusuf Raza Gilani in his hometown of Multan on Friday to allay his concerns about being abandoned by the ruling Pakistan People's Party in the face of several challenges. Zardari visited Gilani a day after the former premier's sons complained in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament that the federal government was not reining in Federal Investigation Agency officials.
In a massive setback to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed his petition challenging his arrest in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam, saying there was no contravention of legal provisions.
Dubbing terrorism as 'an undeclared war' on humanity, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily on Saturday said the Centre was likely to enact a federal law to enable the newly set up National Investigation Agency to fight the scourge.
The IP (internet protocol) address of the sender has been traced to Pakistan, said the official.
Taking note of this, the judge issued a fresh and permanent non-bailable arrest warrant for Musharraf, currently living in self-exile outside Pakistan. The prosecutors also asked the court to issue orders to confiscate Musharraf's moveable and immovable property.
We the people are left in the wind, waiting on the whims of an unengaged president and an oligarch with a nearly bottomless wallet, observes Sree Sreenivasan.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Monday declared former President Pervez Musharraf a "proclaimed offender" or fugitive for failing to cooperate with investigators probing the 2007 assassination of former Premier Benazir Bhutto.
The raids were conducted at the premises of suspects in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, Gir Somnath district of Gujarat, Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh and Kozhikode district of Kerala, leading to the seizure of incriminating documents and digital devices, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to formally arrest Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged excise scam.
On January 1, Anil Sinha, the new Director of the Central Investigation Bureau, gave a 40-minute "inspirational" speech to all his officials, setting the direction for the next two years of his tenure.
Several high-ranking officers of the Pakistan's Military Intelligence and spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence would be quizzed in connection with the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, authorities said.
Twenty-six people were killed when a bomb went off in the parking lot of the Federal Investigation Agency office, while four people, including two children, were killed in a separate blast in Lahore's Model Town residential area.Hours later, unidentified gunmen opened fire at a passenger train here, killing four persons and injuring three others, police said.
Pakistan on Saturday filed the chargesheet on the terror attack in Mumbai in November last year.The chargesheet admits the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's role in planning and executing the terror attack, which claimed 183 lives.The Pakistan government has named top LeT operative Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi as the mastermind of the terror attack.
An investigator on Saturday informed a Pakistani court conducting the trial of seven men charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks how funds were transferred from Pakistan to the US to acquire Voice over Internet Protocol connections that were used by the terrorists who stormed India's financial hub.
The early morning crackdown against the terror group in Ballari and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Amaravati, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Jamshedpur and Bokaro in Jharkhand and Delhi, led to the foiling of a plan by the accused to carry out terror acts, especially improvised explosive device blasts.
A Pakistani investigation team probing the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto is reluctant to record the statement of Interior Minister Rehman Malik though he was her security advisor at the time of her killing in 2007, a media report said.
Former premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by Taliban, a chargesheet filed by Pakistani investigators to an anti-terrorism court has said, while giving clean chit to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf of any involvement in the case.
A Pakistani court conducting the trial of seven terror suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday did not record the statements of two prosecution witnesses after defence lawyers raised legal objections to their testimony.
Nearly three years after she was assassinated, investigators have concluded that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the Pakistani Taliban in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi. The FIA is expected to submit its report on the investigation to an anti-terrorism court on October 30. The FIA's investigation team was initially reluctant to submit the chargesheet to the court because it could not complete its probe regarding the three accused who are absconding.
Pakistani authorities on Saturday directed officials at airports across the country to bar former President Pervez Musharraf from going abroad. The Federal Investigation Agency directed immigration officials at all international airports to stop Musharraf from travelling abroad, TV news channels reported.
The Pakistani police on Thursday pointed fingers at India after three terror attacks in the eastern city of Lahore, but Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there should not be any speculation on the issue without evidence.
Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has claimed to have traced down 20 terrorists, who were wanted in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.The FIA's Special Investigation Group has booked all the wanted extremists, who allegedly provided logistical and monetary support to the ten terrorists. According to sources, the SIG had also gathered photographs of the attackers and several other important information from the arrested terrorists.
A 32-point questionnaire on alleged lapses in security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be sent to Pervez Musharraf following the government's decision to include the former military ruler in the probe into her assassination, Pakistani officials have said.
The Interior Ministry has forwarded the request to the Interpol Secretariat through the global police organisation's representative in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday, quoted sources.
The ED officers are conducting raids at 15 places in the state during the day and Sajahan's house is one of them, an officer said.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has begun an investigation into doping violations after an inquiry led by Richard McLaren uncovered 40 positive adverse analytical findings hidden in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) records.
Five prosecution witnesses on Saturday testified before a Pakistani anti-terrorism judge about the training of the terrorists who carried out the November 2008 assault on India's financial hub of Mumbai, official sources said.
A home ministry spokesperson tweeted that the probe of the case relating to the "barbaric killing" of Kolhe has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency.
The raids in the twin capitals of Srinagar and Jammu along with Budgam in central and Kulgam and Anantnag in south Kashmir led to the seizure of incriminating documents and digital devices connected with the activities of JeI and its related Trusts and more than Rs 20 lakh, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
An Enforcement Directorate team undertaking searches in a cyber fraud linked money laundering case was allegedly attacked in New Delhi on Thursday, officials said.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody for a fortnight by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in Rawalpindi had said that Musharraf should be produced for today's hearing but he was not presented before the judge for security reasons, said Chief Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will conduct a psychological assessment of Sanjay Roy, the accused in a rape-and-murder case of a doctor in Kolkata that has triggered nationwide protests, officials said on Saturday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches against Chennai-based 'lottery king' Santiago Martin, the single biggest donor to political parties with over Rs 1,300 crore in electoral bonds, as part of a money laundering investigation. The action comes after the Madras High Court allowed the ED to proceed against Martin following a police decision to close the initial FIR against him.
A Pakistani anti-terror court on Saturday adjourned for a week the hearing in the Mumbai terror attack case, against Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects, after recording the testimony of an investigator. Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan recorded the testimony of Federal Investigation Agency Inspector Nisar Ahmed Jadoon during proceedings held at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Pakistani authorities have completed all legal formalities for issuance of a Red Corner Notice by Interpol for the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the probe into former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination.Interpol had earlier sent a questionnaire to the Federal Investigation Agency after receiving a request from Pakistan to issue a Red Corner Notice against Musharraf, currently living outside the country in self-exile.
