Former skipper Pakistan cricket team Shahid Khan Afridi has announced retirement from international cricket here late on Monday. According to sources, Afridi’s disagreement with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) over some issues resulted in his early retirement. He said it was hard for him to play under a cricket board, which pays no respect to senior players. “I cannot work with the people who find it
The Taliban have no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, their spokesman told the Wall Street Journal. A larger assault earlier this week by the Taliban on a naval base in Karachi renewed fears that Pakistan’s sizable nuclear arsenal could be vulnerable. Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, dismissed those concerns on Wednesday as America’s “excuse” to pressure Pakistan’s government into
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Thursday claimed that a big change was on the cards in Pakistan as masses are looking towards his party to solve their problems. Talking to politician and traders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who joined the PTI here at the party Central Secretariat, Imran Khan said next few months were crucial, and a big change was about to take place on the national horizon. He
Pakistan has closed three US military intelligence liaison centers in Quetta and Peshawar, a US newspaper reported. The liaison centers, also known as intelligence fusion cells, in Quetta and Peshawar are the main conduits for the United States to share satellite imagery, target data and other intelligence with Pakistani ground forces conducting operations against militants, including Taliban fighters
American officials have met with a senior aide to the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, at least three times in recent months in the first direct exploratory peace talks, officials in the region said, a US paper claimed. The meetings have been facilitated by Germany and Qatar, but American officials have been present each time, meeting with Tayeb Agha, who is a close personal assistant
Pakistan has returned the wreckage of a US helicopter used in the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden early this month, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. "The wreckage of the helicopter destroyed in the bin Laden operation was returned over the weekend and is now back in the United States," Colonel Dave Lapan said. The helicopter was damaged in a hard landing at bin Laden's compound and
Four policemen were killed and 28 others including eight police officials were injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden vehicle into CID police station at University Road in the wee hours of Wednesday. Relief and rescue teams have rushed to the site and initiated their work. The injured are being shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital and Lady Reading Hospital. It is said that the blast
A secret diplomatic cable has revealed that the US forced Pakistan to reject Iran’s concessional oil offer. According to the cable, President Asif Ali Zardari was urged by a US official not to agree to Iran’s concessional oil offer as it would be providing Iran with a foothold in Pakistan. The cable filed on October 22, 2008 by former US ambassador Anne Patterson revealed that Zardari told US Assistant
The IGP Sindh Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari has ordered red-alert across the province in the wake of attack of terrorists at PNS Mehran. According to a statement of IGP office Monday, he directed all the RPOs (Regional Police Officers) of Hyderabad, Sukkur and specially CCPO Karachi to make fool-proof security arrangements at all sensitive locations. The IGP directed that security of all sensitive installations,
It is reported from the vicinity of Pakistan Navy base that four militants blew themselves up, while the security forces have arrested four other militants. It is reported that the arrested terrorists camouflaged themselves with dark dresses and fake cards have been recovered from them. Four security personnel who participated in the operation against militants have come out of the base. During
Exchange of firing between security forces and militants, involved in PNS Mehran attack, is still continuing almost eight hours after the attack began. According to the sources, fresh commandos have reached PNS Mehran on Monday morning and its Zarar company is participating in the operation while helicopter are also being used for surveillance. Fifteen bomb explosions have been heard so far since
The United States has formally apologized Pakistan over drone attacks, Geo News reported on Tuesday. According to sources, the US apologized civil and military leadership of Pakistan over the drone strikes that killed nine people in North Waziristan on Monday. The sources added that these strikes were scheduled before the visit of US Senator John Kerry. The US has stated that it would work together
Scores of militants armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked a police checkpoint before dawn Wednesday, killing two officers and wounding five others, police said. There was no confirmation of casualties among the militants because police said the attackers fled after the furious shootout, which took officers an hour to fend off in the suburbs of Peshawar. The checkpost in Sarband lies next
US troops will be deployed in Pakistan if the nation's nuclear installations come under threat from terrorists out to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Sunday Express can reveal on Sunday. The plan, which would be activated without President Asif Ali Zardari's consent, provoked an angry reaction from Pakistan officials last night. Barack Obama would order troops to parachute in to protect
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha told the joint parliamentary session that CIA contractor and killer of two Pakistanis Raymond Davis was handed over to the US on orders of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, a PML-N MP quoted the chief spymaster as saying. According to The News, Senator Mushahidullah said Gen Pasha stated: “We advised
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, announcing to stage sit-in in Karachi on May 21 and 22 and to block Nato supply line, against US drone strikes, has called upon PM Gilani and President Zardari to immediately step down over Abbottabad incident. In an emergency meeting of PTI’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), Imran blamed army and civilian leadership for Abbottabad incident where
The latest accounts of the US raid on Osama bin Laden's compound reveal the shooting was over quickly, that only one man ever fired on the American commandos and that the Al-Qaeda chief had an AK-47 in his bedroom when he was killed. According to US officials and media reports, here is how the operation unfolded: -- Under cover of night, several helicopters ferry 79 commandos towards Osama bin Laden's
Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lived in a small village close to the Abbottabad highway for more than two years before moving into a larger compound in the Pakistani garrison town in 2005, according to the dreaded terrorist's Yemeni wife who is now in custody. The woman told investigators that Laden lived with his family for nearly two-and-a-half years in the village of Chak Shah Mohammad, a
US officials involved in war policy claimed that the killing of Osama Bin Laden has cleared the way for US exit from Afghanistan and it could pave the way for reconciliation with the Taliban. The paper reported: "Administration officials believe it now could be easier for the reclusive leader of the largest Taliban faction, Mohammad Omar, to break his group's alliance with al-Qaida, a key U.S. requirement
Have a look at these snaps. These are from different areas of Peshawar. I shot these when some of my students wanted to capture images of the deprived kids for a photo exhibition to show them to the rest of the society. Can you describe your feelings after seeing these images? I can't...
China reaffirmed its support on Thursday for efforts by its ally Pakistan to combat terrorism after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces, and urged the world to help Islamabad. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu stopped short of directly criticising the daring raid by US special forces on Pakistani soil that ended with bin Laden's death but said national sovereignty "should
US troops were led to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power struggle, a Saudi newspaper reported on Thursday. Al-Watan newspaper, quoting an unnamed "regional source," said the top two Al-Qaeda men had differences and that a courier who led US forces to bin Laden was working for Zawahiri. The courier was a Pakistan national and
The White House has said that US President Barack Obama reserves the right to act again against top terror suspects inside Pakistan, following the raid which killed Osama bin Laden. Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney was asked whether the president would be prepared to target fugitives again if they were on Pakistani soil, despite Islamabad’s complaints the bin Laden raid was unauthorised and unilateral.
Dramatic pictures have been released of US President Barack Obama watching live footage of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Photographs issued by the White House show the president and other members of his team looking tense as they watch live video of the mission as it happened. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is shown with a particularly anxious expression, with both her hands clasped
US forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border, but in a million-dollar compound, with his youngest wife, U.S. officials said early on Monday. They were led to the fortress-like three-story building after more than four years tracking one of bin Laden's most trusted couriers, whom U.S. officials said was identified by men captured after
Pakistan's main Taliban faction on Monday threatened to attack Pakistan and the United States after the US confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed near the Pakistani capital. "If he has been martyred, we will avenge his death and launch attacks against American and Pakistani governments and their security forces," spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "These
Pakistan on Monday confirmed the death of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an “intelligence-driven military operation” conducted by the US army, in the early hours at Abbottabad. A statement from the Foreign Office said the most wanted terrorist mastermind was killed in an operation “conducted by the US forces in accordance with declared US policy that Osama bin Ladin will be eliminated in a direct
Al Qaeda's elusive leader Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by US authorities, American media reported. US PresidentBarack Obama was to make the announcement shortly. US President Barack Obama would make this announcement shortly, a senior US official said. The official said that Bin Laden was dead, but did not provide details of how his death occurred. Obama was imminently to
