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Report: Pakistani president suspected of graft in submarine sale South Asia News Nov 10, 2009, 10:56 GMT Paris - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the 1994 sale of three French submarines to the Pakistani Navy, the daily Liberation reported Tuesday. In addition, investigators believe that the non-payment of the full amount of the agreed kickbacks may have led to the deaths of 11 French nationals in a 2002 terror attack in the city of Karachi. In the report, Liberation says it acquired documents that allegedly show that Zardari received...

Zardari took 'massive secret commissions' for securing French submarine deal: Report 2011-01-15 16:00:00 Official Pakistani documents, detailing how President Asif Ali Zardari benefited from massive, secret payments connected to the sale of French submarines to Pakistan, have been seized as evidence by a Paris magistrate investigating a suspected widespread scam surrounding the deal. The documents, published by Mediapart, show that the payments to Zardari and others took place on the fringes of the sale of three Agosta-class submarines by the French defence contractor, the DCN, to Pakistan in the 1990s. The French sale, which succeeded against rival offers by Swedish...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An Islamic militant said Wednesday that he bought and prepared the car used in a suicide bombing that killed 11 French engineers in southern Pakistan. Bashir Ahmed, speaking one day after police raided his hide-out and arrested him, told reporters he was in the car until shortly before it crashed into a bus carrying the French engineers in Karachi in May. He also said he had fought in Afghanistan and that his greatest regret was that he never met Osama bin Laden. Sitting in a Karachi police office, Ahmed said he had met a man in...

KARACHI: Pakistani police said on Saturday they had detained three members of a radical Islamic militant group for the May suicide car-bombing that killed 11 French engineers and three Pakistanis here. Three suspected members of Harkat ul-Mujahideen al-Alaami, an offshoot of the Harkat ul-Mujahideen, are expected to face police charges in the coming days over the bombing outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. "We believe the three suspects are involved in the Sheraton Hotel blast in which 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis were killed," an officer said. He declined to identify the suspects. "A police anti-terrorist wing is interrogating them...