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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - After spending half his life in a Pakistani jail, Tahir Mirza Hussain is scheduled to hang on his 36th birthday for killing a taxi driver _ even though a court acquitted him 10 years ago. Hussain, a British-Pakistani, claims he is innocent. He was cleared by a secular court but retried and found guilty in an Islamic one. He now faces execution June 1 unless President Gen. Pervez Musharraf intervenes. His muddled case, spanning two decades, is emblematic of Pakistan's corrupt and bifurcated legal system, described by a leading rights activist as "flawed" and in desperate need...

Surgeons Remove Two Fetuses From InfantBy PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 22 minutes ago A doctor pumps oxygen to two-month-old Pakistani girl Nazia after she went through a major surgery at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Surgeons operated on Nazia to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb. The chief doctor who performed the operation said 'Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other'. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl...

The President and the first lady concluded their far east tour on Saturday and returned to the White House on Saturday evening. As is there usual practise they attended church on Sunday Today the President sent to Congress line item veto legislation that is designed to rein in wasteful spending, reduce the budget deficit, and improve accountability. Click here for more details The President also participated in the Swearing-In of CEA Chairman Edward Lazear. He also participated in a drop-by meeting with the Academic Competitiveness Council in the Eisenhower Executive Building Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a reception for...

Kabul — President Hamid Karzai has handed intelligence to Pakistan that indicates Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taliban regime ousted by U.S.-led forces, and key associates are hiding in Pakistan, a senior Afghan official said Friday. The intelligence was shared during a visit by Mr. Karzai to Islamabad last week, and comes after a wave of suicide attacks that have fueled Afghan suspicions that militants are operating out of Pakistan. Afghanistan also provided information about the locations of alleged terrorist training camps along the border and in Pakistani cities, said the official, who is familiar with the...

Muslim protesters infuriated by cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad raised the diplomatic stakes last night as Iran's best-selling newspaper announced it would retaliate by running images satirising the Holocaust. The decision by the rightwing Hamshari daily to launch an international competition to find the most suitable caricatures came as demonstrators hurled firebombs and stones at the Danish embassy in Tehran and the Iranian government imposed a formal trade ban on Danish imports. Last night mobs were attempting to storm the Danish compound.(...)

Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson airport Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state. Khadr is the eldest daughter of a family that has...

Abdullah Khadr at large: Brothers were caught in Afghanistan, father is wanted for aiding Osama bin Laden The federal government released secret intelligence documents yesterday revealing that an al-Qaeda training camp in eastern Afghanistan was under the command of a Scarborough man whose two brothers are captives in the war on terrorism. Abdullah Khadr, 22, is described in a Privy Council Office intelligence report as a suspected al-Qaeda member who is thought to have "commanded an extremist training camp in Lowgar Province in Afghanistan." He is the fourth member of the Khadr family to come to the attention of Canadian...

Seism in Pakistan: from 30.000 to 40.000 died, according to the UNICEF and Islamabad ISLAMABAD - Out of 30.000 to 40.000 people were killed by the seism which struck Saturday Pakistan, indicated Monday to AFP the UNICEF and a Pakistani official person in charge. "the government indicated to us that between 30.000 and 40.000 people had been killed" by the seism, affirmed with AFP Julia Spry Leverton, spokesman of the UNICEF with Islamabad. "Between 30.000 and 40.000 people were killed in Pakistan and more than 60.000 wounded", with AFP a high person in charge for the Pakistani authorities under...

Magnitude 7.6 PAKISTAN Saturday, October 08, 2005 at 03:50:38 UTC Preliminary Earthquake Report U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred about 95 km (60 miles) north-northeast of Islamabad, Pakistan at 9:50 PM MDT, Oct 7, 2005 (Oct 08 at 8:50 AM local time in Pakistan). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. No reports of damage or casualties have been received at this time; however, this...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 24, 2005 – The Tripartite Commission, comprised of senior military and diplomatic representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States, held its 12th meeting in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, today. This meeting was the first in which Afghanistan and Pakistan were represented by four-star generals, according to a release from Combined Forces Command Afghanistan. Delegates included Gen. Bismullah Khan, chief of the General Staff of the Afghan National Army; Gen. Ahsan Saleem Hyat, vice-chief of the Army Staff of the Pakistani army; and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, commander of Combined Forces Command Afghanistan. The session began with...

UK diplomats attacked, Pakistan scientist's kin held A son-in-law of Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan was being held in custody after an assault on two British diplomats in Islamabad, police said on Friday.A spokesman for the British High Commission (embassy) said the two diplomats, a man and woman, suffered a "vicious and unprovoked attack" by several men as they were walking home at night in a posh district of the Pakistani capital.The attack took place in the early hours of Sunday morning, and the two victims required medical treatment, he said. A motive for the attack had not...

The world's Terror Network has been given a new weapon. It can overcome the most stringent of airport and airline security checks. Far more lethal than Semtex, it can be smuggled with virtual impunity from one country to another, one terrorist cell to another. For the 80 terror groups listed on the computers of the CIA, MI5, MI6 and Germany's BND, the weapon once more tips the scales in their favour. It is a new type of plastic explosive that was used by the two young British radical Muslims in last week's suicide bomb attack on the club in Tel...

New Questions About Al Qaeda Training Camps in Pakistan (ABCNEWS.com) By ABCNEWS Original Report June 8 — The arrest of two suspected al Qaeda agents in Lodi, Calif., today raises new concerns about the existence of al Qaeda training camps inside Pakistan. According to an FBI affidavit, one of the suspects, Hamid Hayet, admitted to attending an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan for six months in 2003 and 2004. His father, Umer Hayat, also in custody, told agents that he had visited other operational training camps around Pakistan. "Wiping out the training camps in Afghanistan was one of the...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani intelligence agents have foiled a new plot by Al-Qaeda militants to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, security officials told AFP. Seven conspirators were arrested in a number of raids in central Punjab province in late April, one week before the capture of alleged Al-Qaeda number three Abu Faraj al-Libbi in a northwestern region, the officials said. "This is a spectacular achievement by Pakistan's security agency," said a top security official. "First we smashed the gang plotting a new attack on Musharraf and then a week later we netted two Arabs including al-Libbi." The group included Mushtaq Ahmed,...

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Pak nets bomb cleric Islamabad Dec. 3: Pakistani security forces today arrested a suspected militant and recovered 10 bombs from his custody in Sheikhpura town, near Lahore. Local police officials said security forces arrested Muhammad Aslam, who is the chief cleric of a mosque in Sheikhpura, during a raid. The police said Aslam is a member of the outlawed Sunni militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi but did not give any details. President Pervez Musharraf had banned five militant outfits in January 2002 as part of the government’s drive to curb sectarianism and track down extremist elements in the aftermath of the September...

Jason Fuchs reports in Tuesday's Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily that "spectacular" attacks against targets in the West and particularly the United States, prior to the U.S. elections on November 2, are the subject of "intense strategic discussions" involving Islamist-jihadist groups along with their chief state sponsors, Iran and Syria. GIS sources report that, on the question of a major Islamist offensive, "[Government officials in] Damascus and Tehran, and Islamist leaders in Islamabad are engaged in the debate and having "major input." "Damascus and Tehran, and [Islamist leaders in] Islamabad are in on the debate and are having major input."...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A loud explosion shook windows throughout the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said. The cause of the blast was not clear. The explosion came as the government prepared to swear in a new Cabinet in the presidential palace, and just hours after the announcement of the arrest of two al-Qaida suspects in the southwest of the country. Murwat Shah, the police chief in Islamabad's sister city, Rawalpindi, said it was not clear if the explosion was caused by a bomb. He said he could see smoke billowing from an area between the neighboring cities, which...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/10/04 -Baghdad, Tehran, Syria, Islamabad, New Delhi, Kabul BREAKING: Baghdad - Islamic terrorist attacks on Christians continue unreported BREAKING: Baghdad - Terrorists taken after the firefight with US and Iraqi security forces BREAKING: Tehran - Mullahs refuse to stop nuclear weapons goals BREAKING: Syria - Helping Baathists and Iran BREAKING: Islamabad, New Delhi - Rockets of July BREAKING: Kabul - Afghanis, FREED BY THE USA, prepare for elections QFN ==== YE OLDE QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS Exclusive to FReerepublic PICTURES YOU PROBABLY WILL NEVER SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ========= Baghdad ========= In Baghdad,...

WASHINGTON : Presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry today announced he has offered Johnny Depp first refusal of the coveted VP spot in his Democratic bid for the White House. I first saw Johnny in that scissors movie, Kerry told reporters, and I’ve wanted to run with him ever since. A source close to the Kerry campaign stated that Kerry believes Depp’s charm, charisma and intense global popularity is just the thing needed to sway voter support of post-teen females, twenty-something housewives, every woman in middle-aged America and that ‘certain section of guys’ towards the Democratic ticket in November....

A London accountant has described how Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan visited the West African state of Mali on three occasions between 1998 and 2000. Abdul Ma'bood Siddiqui accompanied A.Q. Khan on three mystery trips  between 1998 and 2000. Their final destination was Timbuktu, a remote outpost in the desert that has always been a magnet for explorers and adventurers from around the world. The mystery behind the visits has deepened following recent revelations that Khan is also the owner of a small hotel in the town that he has named after Hendrina, his Dutch-born wife and...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The suicide bombers who tried to kill Pakistan's leader last week belonged to an outlawed militant group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, three intelligence officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The bombers were part of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a group that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf banned in 2002 as part of a drive to purge Pakistan of terrorism, said the officials, who are all intimately involved in the investigation and who spoke on condition of anonymity. One of the attackers was from Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region that is divided between Pakistan and India....

A few scientists associated with Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme used German go-betweens to sell their secrets to Iran, according to a high-level source in Islamabad quoted in the Sunday Times. This makes sense if one recalls that a few Pakistanis had been detained in Munich quite a few years ago when allegedly caught carrying stolen fissile material from Russia. Later, it was said the German Intelligence officers had caught them during a sting operation. The Times report also said the scientists were " motivated entirely by money". Two Sri Lankan businessmen based in Dubai helped the scientists when they passed...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/15/03 - Angor Adda, Islamabad, Shah-e-Kot, Waziristan BREAKING: Waziristan, Pakistan, Angor Adda - al Qaeda taken BREAKING: Islamabad - Terrorist Rampage BREAKING: Shah-e-Kot mountains, on the trail of the al Qaeda terrorists QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS and FRepublic COMMENTARY BREAKING: HUNTING TALIBAN and AL QAEDA ========= Shah-e-Kot mountains ========= Near Gardez, Afghanistan, on the trail of the al Qaeda terrorists, United States Army and Canadian heroes search in the Shah-e-Kot mountains. ========= Pakistan ========= At the Pakistani-Afghan border of Chaman, 78 miles from Quetta. In Pakistan, near the Afhanistan border terrorist-hunting in...

ISLAMABAD: Police arrested four suspected terrorists and seized five rocket launchers and two assault rifles on Wednesday near Islamabad, police said. The men, all Pakistanis, were caught after a high-speed chase on the city's outskirts, police and interior ministry officials said on condition of anonymity. "At this stage we only know that they were in a car and wanted to enter Islamabad," a senior interior ministry official said. It was not immediately clear where they were going or what they planned to do.

ISLAMABAD: Police found grenades and shell casings near a church in Islamabad on Wednesday, possibly thwarting a plot to carry out a Christmas attack on the church. Police found a shopping bag with what appeared to be handmade grenades and 20 shell casings about 100 meters (yards) from St. Thomas's Protestant Church, Pastor Rev. Irshad John said. Pakistani security officials confirmed that police in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, had seized some munitions near the church, but said they doubted it was part of any planned attack on the church. Rev. John said the bag was found in nearby bushes and...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/13/02 - Bagram, Ganj, Islamabad, Kabul, Kandahar, Kikambala, Mahagir, Mazar-e-Sharif, Mombasa BREAKING: Bagram mine field clearing BREAKING: Ganj, near Kandahar winter coming BREAKING: Islamabad, Pakistan, RAWA rally BREAKING: Kabul, Kandahar BREAKING: Kikambala, Kenya perp BREAKING: Mahagir, Afghanistan BREAKING: Mazar-e-Sharif, Spann memorial ========= Afghanistan - Freed by the USA after the 911 Atrocities ========= ========= Bagram ========= In Bagram, heroes of the 769th Engineering Army on MCVs. In Bagram, custom air cushioned 'moon boots' for demining. ========= Ganj ========= In Ganj, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, winter fast approaches. ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, on...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/31/02 - Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Solo BREAKING: PROTALIBAN TERRORIST RELEASED BREAKING: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TAKEN BREAKING: BALI PERP SKETCHES RELEASED THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Azam Tariq of the pro-Taliban Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan party released Solo, Java, Abu Bakar Bashir taken to Jakarta ========= Sulaymanyah, free Iraq ========= THE GOOD In Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK, women fight for their freedom. ========= Barda Qaraman ========= In Barda Qaraman, ~22 miles south of Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK are refugees who...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/13/02 - Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul, Islamabad, S-A3, Tel Aviv, Sanchez Strike Video S-A3 Launcher, Spoon-rest Radar Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul, Islamabad, Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal, Jamaat-e-Islami party, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv attack quenched, Sanchez brothers ========= Baghdad ========= Attacks on the US have continued. In response: STRIKE VIDEO Background The STRIKE VIDEO IS HERE: 15 megabytes. An S-A3 Launcher and a Spoon-rest Radar In Baghdad, on the first week of August 2002, the Iraqi National Assembly declared "Down with America", even wrote it on the ground. Today, in Baghdad, Iraq, at Parliament, smug terrorists expect the...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/20/02 Kabul, bakery, Independence Day parade, National Museum, Little League baseball, Kandahar, Zhare Dasht, Bagram, bakery, Shiberghan, Red Cross, Islamabad, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Haq, Teerat, Pakistan, Karachi, Shamzai, Washington, legal action ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the Independence Day parade. commemorating Afghanistan's independence from the British in 1919. Some crowd control, some men dancing with guns. In Kabul, at the parade, both women and Afghan bodybuilders, freed by the USA, took part. at the Kabul National Museum, Buddhist statues. They have been hidden and recovered from smugglers. The Taliban broke or stole ~...

FBI on the lookout for 2 Arab women ISLAMABAD, June 05 (PNS): A special team of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is searching for two Arab women in the federal capital, who are believed to be wives of detained Al-Qaida men, who could provide useful information about Osama Bin Laden and other Al-Qaida fighters. Investigation carried out by PNS revealed that FBI had recently detained two fugitives of Al-Qaida from Chinese province of Sinkiang and Karghiztan. During investigation, both Al-Qaida men informed FBI about the presence of their wives some where in Islamabad. Well-informed sources disclosed that...

Pakistani police on Sunday found the bodies of three foreigners believed to be African nationals in an apartment in Islamabad's diplomatic area, a spokesman said. The cause of death was not yet known, police officer Mohammad Abrar told AFP. "Two of them were bleeding from the nose and mouth," he said, adding that the bodies had been sent for post mortem examination. "It could be murder or they may have been poisoned, we don't know until we have the post mortem report." Abrar said the bodies were found in a room in the Unique Plaza apartments, behind the United States...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 17 (UPI) -- Investigators probing the grenade attack on a Protestant church in Pakistan Sunday said they believe it may have been orchestrated by Muslim extremists opposed to the extradition of a suspect in the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. The wife and daughter of a U.S. diplomat were among the five people killed in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, Sunday when two unidentified men threw grenades inside the city's main Protestant church. At least 45 people were also injured, seven of them seriously, the city's police chief Nasir Durrani said. More than 70 worshippers -- attending...