Warren Weinstein, the first American citizen to be taken hostage by Al Qaeda linked terrorists in Pakistan since Daniel Pearl, is also a Jewish American like the ill-fated journalist. Amir Mir reports
The Pakistan government will not defend Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed before a United States court in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The government stated this before the Lahore high court in reply to Saeed's petition seeking a direction for the Pakistan government to defend him before a US court, which has issued summons to him, along with top Pakistani intelligence personnel, in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai terror siege.
Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs said that the violation of Pakistan's sovereignty is "completely unacceptable" and warned of serious consequences.
Karzai said that Pakistani government wants the Afghan government fail so that it can use the Taliban to turn Afghanistan into a colony of Pakistan.
India seeks information from Spain on arrested Pakistani
It is time the political leaderships in this country arrived at a common ground over issues of foreign and security policy concerns. There has to be a greater communication between the government and the Opposition leaderships for the nation to present a unified face against the rest of the world, advises N Sathiya Moorthy.
Pakistani combat jets pounded militant bases in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region, including the home of Taliban commander Adnan Rashid, and killed 25 terrorists in retaliation for a string of attacks on security forces.
Intelligence reports submitted to the interior ministry say that jihadi elements, including the al-Qaeda, are planning abductions of senior officials and top leader to seek the release of detained militants.
Faisal Sheikh, a prime accused in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai, has confessed to police that he had gone to Pakistan in 2002 and attended a training camp near Muzaffarabad.
An advisory was sent to Army personnel last month to make them aware of the 'trap'.
Disgraced diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of passing sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence officials, on Friday alleged before a Delhi court that the jail authorities in the national capital were harassing her. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja sought a response from Tihar jail authorities on an application filed by the Indian Foreign Service Grade-B officer. "Tihar jail authorities are harassing me and threatening to implicate me," she said.
A Delhi court on Saturday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who has been arrested for allegedly passing classified information to Pakistani intelligence officials.
A senior leader of the Haqqani network, blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, was among the three militants killed in a United States drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region. Jalil Haqqani, a close relative of Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, was among those killed, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The drone fired two missiles at a compound in a village north of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency.
'The target for all our counter-terror operations ought to be Pakistani Punjab's population,' argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said the arrest of Kurulkar is a "very serious matter" and alleged that it exposes the "anti-national face" of the RSS.
The United States on Thursday (local time) evaded a question on whether Pakistan held prior consultations with Washington, DC before conducting retaliatory air strikes on Iran.
A report in Herald magazine said four of Pakistan's top sectarian outfits have effectively regrouped and are operating their networks as openly as before. The report quoted Pakistani intelligence reports.
The team's movement would be restricted only to the area of the engagement between security forces and the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists.
Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court-martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel.
One of the big arrests in Pakistan is that of an Egyptian national who was a member of an Al Qaeda cell known as Islambouli group.
Iran has presented evidence to Pakistan that shows there are links between Pakistani intelligence services and the Jundallah militants group, a senior Iranian official has said.
Disgraced diplomat Madhuri Gupta alleged before a court on Wednesday that she was being harassed by authorities of Tihar Jail, where she is at present lodged on the charges of supplying secret information to Pakistani intelligence agents.
Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned that the local Taliban, the Jandullah group and other banned militant groups have plans to target foreigners, embassies and Shia clerics and worship places in major cities in Pakistan, including capital Islamabad.
LeT commander Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil was named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the Department of State.
Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned that militants might target places of worship belonging to the Muslim community in Lahore.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the army, the terrorists attacked the security post in Dera Ismail Khan's Daraban area bordering the South Waziristan tribal district in the early morning hours.
Gupta, who was posted as IFS- Group B officer in the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, was arrested on April 23 for allegedly violating The Official Secrets Act.
Pakistan has handed over Al Qaeda linked terrorist Umar Patek, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, to Indonesia, more than six months after he was arrested in the garrison city of Abbottabad.
Mohammad Naeen Noor Khan was being used by Pakistan in a sting operation against the Al Qaeda.
The couple stayed in a Hotel in the month of March this year and booked the room under fake names, the owner of the hotel confirmed.
Harsh V Pant says if India stands on the verge of a catastrophe in Af-Pak, it has only itself to blame.
'The Pakistanis were not the mujahids or terrorists as claimed initially.' .'They were trained soldiers who held state of the art anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down our airplanes.'
Islamabad also summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires here and issued a strongly worded condemnation of Iran's "violation of its airspace", the Foreign Office said.
Pakistani intelligence officials are tracing links between Times Square bombing plot suspect Faisal Shahzad and banned terror group Jaish-e-Muhammad, led by Maulana Masood Azhar. This search has led investigators to the sprawling, marble-floored Batha Mosque and a religious school in a crowded neighbourhood of Karachi, which was once the provincial headquarters of the JeM and was visited by the elusive Azhar, who was released from prison in 1999.
Sources told rediff.com that during her interrogation, Gupta came as across as a very determined person who had no qualms about her actions. Gupta said she was humiliated in service by her higher ups at every posting. Even after her arrest, she asked, "What has taken you people so long to get to me."
Pakistan on Friday announced it will release former Afghan Taliban deputy chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Saturday, meeting a long-standing demand of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to advance peace efforts in the war-ravaged country.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition and 'war-like stores', including AK-74 rifles, Pakistani-origin hand grenades and balloons with 'I Love Pakistan' markings, were recovered along the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri Sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, an Army officer said on Friday.
Ansari was attacked and injured three times over the last couple of months and shifted to the hospital for treatment, the counsel added.
