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Wikileaks Cable While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) takes seriously the threat of terrorism within Saudi Arabia, it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority. Due in part to intense focus by...

DAWN ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police have arrested an alleged al Qaeda activist involved in the killing of Chaudhry Zulfiqar, prosecutor in Benazir Bhutto murder case, who was killed in Islamabad last month when was on his way to attend the court proceedings of the case. Highly placed sources in...

DAWN NOWSHERA/BUNER, Dec 25: Former Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Tuesday said Pakistani Taliban should be allowed to open an office in the country to clear their position on acts of terrorism. Mr Qazi told reporters after a public meeting here that if the US could allow Afghan...

Express Tribune Fearing a bloody blowback, the authorities seem to have given up the idea of launching a military campaign in the tribal region. Negotiating another peace deal also seems to be out of the question because experience has shown that these deals were only used as breathers by...

ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday warned the country’s military it had set up a “suicide bombers squad” to hit troops if an offensive is launched in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan. In an email message sent to media, TTP, an umbrella...

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said that various parts of Pakistan army and ISI were infected with cancer. During a telephonic address to the MQM General Workers’ meeting, MQM Chief said that the government have not guided the nation correctly. "Pakistani...

DAWN Irfan Husain Often, I am asked by readers or friends abroad what the Taliban want. Why, they ask, are they slaughtering hundreds of innocent people wherever they can? What is their purpose? What is their agenda? The short answer is power. Other excuses for their murderous excesses...

DAWN Kamran Shafi Last week I had asked for complete transparency in the investigation of the Parade Lane mosque atrocity in which so many innocents, even many children, lost their precious lives. Nothing is forthcoming from the army, two weeks down the line. It is important that the...

News Jang Group DIR: A father and his son have been arrested from Dir in connection with their suspected involvement in Parade Line Mosque attack. Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house in Dir and arrested two persons, said to be father and son. They have been identified as Zabehullah...

CHICAGO – A Chicago man accused of planning an armed attack on a Danish newspaper was charged Monday with conducting surveillance on potential targets in the Indian city of Mumbai before terrorist attacks there in 2008 that killed 166 people. David Coleman Headley was charged with 12...

DAWN Kamran Shafi So then, December is upon us, another year has gone by in the Fatherland’s struggle to keep its head above water, to be accepted as another half-civilised country in the comity of nations. The very same terrorists who were running amok during the Commando’s time in...

News Jang Group ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies have captured a top leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from a major city of the Punjab after trailing him for a week. The leader who can only be identified by his initials N.A.Z owing to sensitive ongoing interrogations is said to rank...

Reuters PARIS: Former French investigating magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, author of a new book has provided rare insight both into alleged past army support for the Lashkar-e-Taiba and to the group's connections to a global network linked to al Qaeda. Bruguiere bases the information in...

Musharraf said that he and General Kayani, who had been his nominee for chief of army staff, were still in telephonic contact. He said he didn’t think the Army was capable of mutiny — not the Army he knew. “There are people with fundamentalist ideas in the Army, but I don’t think there is any...

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Munawar Hasan Tuesday criticized the operation Rah-e Nijat as he alleged that South Waziristan operation is the fulfillment of objectives of the USA and India in Pakistan. Talking to the media, Hasan said that thousands of people have been displaced due to...

RIYADH: The chief of ISI Ahmed Shujah Pasha has called on Saudi King Shah Abdullah Abdul Aziz here on Saturday night, Geo news reported. According to sources, ISI chief carried to King Abdullah the message of president Asif Ali Zardari. ---------------------------- Hard to imagine...

Nadeem Piracha Talking to DawnNews, veteran journalist Agha Murtaza Poya called America, India, and Israel an ‘axis of evil out to destroy Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.’ There is absolutely nothing new or original about Poya’s grand ‘geopolitical&#8217...

LAHORE: The mastermind of attack at the military General Headquarters (GHQ) Qari Ishtiaq has been arrested, Geo News reported Tuesday. According to sources privy to intelligence agencies, a huge catch of modern arms and ammunition has been taken in custody from his possession. Qari Ishtiaq...

By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reportedly felt fairly miffed when informed at the eleventh hour that the until recently extremely healthy Mian Nawaz Sharif would be missing out on the COAS security briefing ‘due to bad health’. It may be recalled that the Chief of...

Dawn News ISLAMABAD: The band of armed terrorists that made its way through the outer security ring of the GHQ complex knew they will not be able to come out alive from the heavily guarded military headquarters. Caught in a highly tricky hostage situation, the security agencies may take a...