Pakistan on Thursday sacked the government doctor who had helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down Osama bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad in May last year, amid calls for trying him for treason.
The death of bin Laden on May 2 last year has not removed or diluted the threat of jihadi terrorist organisations acquiring a nuclear capability, argues B Raman.
United States special envoy Marc Grossman on Thursday met Pakistan's top civil and military leadership as part of efforts to salvage bilateral relations following the covert American operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden.
With deepening of India-United States relationship and deterioration in the ties between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan is moving closer to China, a Congressional report has said.
"Pakistan has made very important contribution to international counter terrorism cooperation as well as great sacrifices," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said, as Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, began a key visit to the country, declaring China as his country's best friend.
Commenting on the recent article on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Time magazine, the state Congress on Monday said that not only Modi, but Osama Bin Laden and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain had also featured in the magazine earlier.
With its ally Pakistan under attack for its failure to locate the hideout of Osama bin Laden near its capital Islamabad, China on Thursday strongly came to its rescue, saying the global community should "understand and support" Islamabad's anti-terrorism efforts.
To bolster United States President Barack Obama's image ahead of Presidential election, the Obama Campaign has come up with a video featuring former President Bill Clinton praising Obama's handling of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound last year.
Osama bin Laden's family had entered into Pakistan way back in October/November 2001, just around 9/11 while the then Al Qaeda chief joined them in Peshawar in mid-2002, a media report today said quoting the findings of the Abbottabad Commission Report in Islamabad.
'Pakistan has been successful in convincing the rest of the world that the Pakistani nuclear terrorists are meant to target only India. This is myopia at its worst,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
After the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a Muslim outfit on Saturday protested the shooting of Kathryn Bigelow's film on Osama bin Laden in Chandigarh. The movie is based on the killing of the Al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad (Pakistan). The outfit alleged that shooting of the film will disturb the peaceful atmosphere between the communities in a secular country.
A Pakistani doctor, who was arrested for helping the Central Investigation Agency in its hunt for Osama bin Laden, is being dealt with according to the country's laws, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit has said.
American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has said that he delivered a memo to the former United States military chief last year because the intelligence agencies of four countries had told him of the possibility of a military coup in Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year.
The May 2 raid was conducted only after the Americans got hold of credible and actionable intelligence about the identity of the high value target from a senior ISI official, ultimately killing the world's most wanted terrorist, reports Amir Mir
Following the Taliban ban on Polio vaccination in tribal areas of Pakistan, the United Nations has selected international cricketer Shahid Afridi to boost the anti-polio campaign
A battery-operated toy, which costs Rs 100, features United States President George W Bush riding a battle tank on a plastic rail track to capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
A key American Senator threatened to force a vote on ending United States aid to Pakistan unless a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden, is released from prison.
A Pakistani brigadier harboured Osama bin Laden for years with the full knowledge of Pervez Musharraf at a time when the United States was hunting for the elusive Al Qaeda chief, former Inter-Services Intelligence head Gen Ziauddin Butt has claimed.
Pakistan's military-run Inter-Services Intelligence could have provided protection to slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for a period of time, suggests the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.
Asked by Frank Sesno, former CNN anchor who moderated the conversation, if the story that Pakistan handed over parts of the helicopter that went down in bin Laden's compound -- or gave access -- to the Chinesse before returning it to the US was true, United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta first started shifting uneasily in his seat and then started laughing and said, "this is a very complicated relationship with Pakistan."
President Barack Obama has said that the United States would have had never killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden if he had to seek permission from Pakistan, indicating the sheer lack of trust he has with the Pakistani leadership and its military in particular.
The Hurt Locker filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has been given confidential access by the Obama Administration to make a film on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Amir Mir unravels the complicated web of spy games and covert manoeuvring that United States and Pakistan are playing against each other
The case of Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi took a new twist on Wednesday when a detailed order about his arrest and conviction stated that he has been punished for his links with a militant outfit, not for working with the Central Intelligence Agency and helping it locate Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The order has revealed that Dr Afridi will be produced before another court for the trial over his links with the CIA.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation placed a source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the Al Qaeda leader was looking to finance terror attacks in the United States, according to a media report.
Pakistan's leading rights watchdog on Friday expressed concern at the denial of due process to Shakeel Afridi, the doctor who was given a 33-year prison term for allegedly helping the CIA track Osama bin Laden before he was killed last year.
Strongly reacting to Pakistan jailing a doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency find Osama bin Laden to 33 years, the United States has said there was no basis for the verdict and it will raise the issue with the leadership in Islamabad. "We continue to see no basis for (Shakil) Afridi to be held," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters.
Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani surgeon who helped the US Central Intelligence Agency find Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for 'treason'.
From SRK to Big B, many actors have played a double role in the movies.
The United States would push Pakistan for securing the conviction of Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai attack mastermind, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday, adding that country has not done as much as US and India wanted it to fight terrorism.
"We should tell the Pakistani army leadership that if we learn one of their officers is involved in harboring terrorists, planning terror operations, or tipping terrorist bomb factories off to drone raids, we will make it personal," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and now a senior fellow in the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute
The most nail biting moment in the Abbottabad raid that killed former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden came when the helicopters carrying the Navy Seals left Afghan airspace to enter Pakistan's territory, United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said.
Pakistan on Monday said it will approach Interpol for further probe into the affairs of 'memogate' key figure Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, and asked the United States to take action against him for violating American laws and making false statements about its raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Locked down in his Abbottabad hideout which he never left in six years, Osama bin Laden followed 'absolutely phenomenal operations security', and was taken by surprise when attacked by the United States forces, a top American counter-terrorism official has said.
The United States on Thursday issued an alert asking its diplomatic staff and citizens in Pakistan to take precautions ahead of the first death anniversary of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda's slain leader Osama bin Laden had planned to follow up the September 11 attacks with shoe bombers to blow up American passenger planes, which would have brought the American economy to its knees, a British man convicted on terrorism charges testified in a trial in New York.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said the parliamentary committee on national security will probe the issue of the secret memorandum sent to the United States military seeking help to prevent a military coup in the wake of the killing of Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden.
Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde of giving media statements instead of acting against Dawood Ibrahim, but the Congress brushed aside the criticism.
: Osama bin Laden was a 'ranting chief executive' of the 'increasingly fractured' Al Qaeda terrorist group who argued with his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri over who should be sent to different scheduled missions, the treasure trove of intelligence found at his Abbottabad compound has revealed.
Pakistan's military has initiated a 'cleansing process' and rounded up several people believed to be working for America's Central Intelligence Agency in a move that indicates serious tension between the two countries.
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