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Rawalpindi, Tehreek Taliban has taken responsibility for the killing of Shia Leader in Lahore and said that we start revenge of the incident of Rawalpindi. Commander of the TTP Rawalpindi division has taken the responsibility for the killing of Allama Syed Naseer Abbasi through the phone. In his phone call the Ahmed Ali Intaqami whose Regional Head of the TTP Rawalpindi said that after long investigation we start our action, we found that Allama Naseer was involved in Rawalpindi attack on Madrassa, that’s why we target him and we will target those who’s involved in attack on Madrassa in Rawalpindi....

Peshawar, 8 June 8, 2011, 40 security cops of leavies have leaved the job because of uncertain situation on pak afghan border near dir valley. The reactions come after one week in shaltalo check post, where last week afghan terrorist attack. More then 25 security personal and 15 civilians killed in attack. Shaltalo check has post placed in Dir Bala and near to afghan borders, last week more then 70 afghan militant attacks on check post, after the attack on check post situation most terrible there, local community close the schools and markets because of security situation . Provincial government...

Peshawar, June 2, 2011, an international security alert, has been issued by INTERPOL about the 417 dangerous prisoners, including members of the Taliban, who escaped from an Afghan prison. In security alert Interpol said that Pakistan and Taliban are claimed the responsibility of escaping of prisoner from prison. More then 105 pages alert Interpol said dhtat during the night of 24 April; the Taliban broke out the prisoners from the Sarposa prison in Kandahar through a tunnel constructed from outside the prison perimeter fence into the prison interior. INTERPOL said the jailbreak constituted a major threat to global security. At...

Taliban fighters are shaving their beards to mingle with the civilians fleeing the security forces’ operations in Swat in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, the military said Friday, on a day when the country’s army chief briefed parliament on the offensive. “We request the civil population of Swat to come forward and help the security forces in identifying the Taliban terrorists. We have confirmed reports that these Taliban terrorists, after shaving off their beards and cutting their hair, are fleeing from the area,” an Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) statement said. “We request the people of Swat to identify them by pointing out...

Fighter jets and attack helicopters pounded Taliban hideouts in the northwest on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled the punishing offensive, now into its 17th day, escaping also out of the reach of Taliban fighters who have terrorised the local population in a bloody campaign to enforce sharia law. The air attacks targeted Taliban strongholds across the Swat valley, AFP quoted security officials as saying. Helicopter gunships also swung into action in the neighbouring district of Lower Dir, where the military has been on the offensive since April 26 after Taliban fighters advanced within 60 miles of Islamabad....

As the Pakistani military pressed its campaign to root out Taliban militants from three districts northwest of the capital, a recent poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis did not consider terrorism to be the most important issue facing the country, but instead ranked the economy at the top. The poll was released Monday by the International Republican Institute , a nonprofit group based in Washington that is affiliated with the Republican Party and promotes democracy abroad. The survey also showed that 81 percent of the respondents said they thought that the country was headed in the wrong direction....

A top Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader from Sindh has revealed that the US wants a national government in Pakistan with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif as prime minister and President Asif Ali Zardari to continue as president, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.According to the channel, the PPP leader, asking not to be named, said Nawaz had become the ‘blue-eyed boy’ of the US and the rest of the West. The PPP leader, who is considered close to President Zardari, said the issue might come be discussed during President Zardari’s visit to Washington, the channel said. daily...

Five people were killed and six others wounded when a missile, allegedly fired from a US drone, hit a suspected militant compound near the Pak-Afghan border in the restive North Waziristan agency on Friday. Residents said a pilotless US drone fired two missiles into the compound in Dandi Darpakhel in the outskirts of Miramshah at around 1.30 in the afternoon. They said that one of the missiles did not explode while the other hit the target, razing the compound. “It looked as if nothing had stood there before,” a resident of the area said. The identity of the people killed...

Osama's handling officer was incharge of Benazir's security B Raman According to latest reports, at least 132 persons -- 20 of them police officers deputed to protect former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto [Images] -- were killed in a suspected suicide attack on the convoy by which she was being taken from the Karachi airport to the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the night of October 18. The suicide attack or attacks were clearly aimed to kill her on arrival in Karachi to a triumphant welcome by her supporters, but she managed to escape. Reliable sources say one or...

Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Pakistan Monday for talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan, an official said. Cheney arrived on Monday morning and went straight to Musharraf's office in Rawalpindi, just south of the capital Islamabad, for talks on bilateral and international issues, a senior official in the president's office said on condition of anonymity because he is not an official spokesman. It was unclear if Cheney joined the same talks held Monday between Musharraf and visiting British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett. Cheney praised Pakistan's contribution in the war against...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Wednesday reiterated its concerns over the US-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal, following the approval of a draft bill on the agreement by the American House of Representatives of International Relations Committee. In response to a question about the approval of the draft, the Foreign Office spokesperson said Pakistan's position, especially its concerns on the US-India agreement, were well-known. "We have cautioned the international community about the consequences of this agreement for the shared objectives of stability in South Asia and a strong global non-proliferation regime," the spokesperson Ms Tasnim Aslam, said. "We have already stated that the objective...

LONDON, United Kingdom -- A prominent British Muslim warned lawmakers Monday that proposals for tough new anti-terror laws could undermine the Muslim community's willingness to cooperate in fighting terror. Abdurahman Jafar, a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain, expressed concern about the Terror Bill, which was drawn up in the wake of the July attacks on London's transit system. The bill would extend the maximum 14-day detention for terror suspects without charge to three months, outlaw attending terrorist training camps and make it an offense to glorify or encourage terrorism. Addressing a meeting of Parliament's joint committee on...

EDUCATORS and religious scholars are mostly against letting children watch Shariah court verdicts like beheading, stoning to death, amputation or lashing, a report said Sunday. Exposing children to violent and gruesome scenes may make them aggressive and effect their personality, he said. am of the view that children must be forbidden from watching the execution of Shariah penalties so that we are able to protect our future generations from negative effects, in the same way as some countries that prevent children from watching films with horrifying scenes, Dr. Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Al-Dakheel, Assistant Professor of Social Service in King...

United States President George W Bush has condemned the deadly series of bomb blasts in Delhi and said the "heinous" attacks have yet again showed that terrorists were enemies of humanity. Joining a host of world leaders in deploring the attacks, Bush said, "By targetting innocent civilians making final preparations for holiday celebrations, terrorists have demonstrated yet again that they are enemies of humanity and contemptuous of the values all the civilised world shares. "The United States strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attacks in India," a statement issued by the president's press office Sunday said. "On behalf of the American...

Forcing Hindus into exile   Geoffrey Clarfield National Post Tuesday, October 25, 2005 On Oct. 10, just two days after an earthquake killed tens of thousands in South Asia, Islamist terrorists belonging to Hizb ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar e-Tolba killed 10 Hindu civilians in the Rajouri district of Indian-controlled Kashmir. The attacks were part of an orchestrated campaign designed to cleanse Kashmir of its indigenous Hindus and bring the area entirely under Muslim governance -- either through a union with Pakistan, or as an independent, Sharia-based Islamic state. Apparently, not even the massive devastation wrought by mother nature has slowed the...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - After zooming from anonymity into the hearts of her nation in just 10 months, India's teenage tennis sensation Sania Mirza was caught up in a cultural protest for breaking the mold by being a Muslim athlete. The 18-year-old Mirza has surmounted religious barriers to surge from 206th in the women's world rankings last December to 34th this week. Her rise has not gone unnoticed by radical Islamic clerics in largely Hindu but officially secular India, home to some 130 million Muslims. Mirza was given extra security last month after an Islamic cleric denounced her for wearing...

Ten members of two hindu families were killed by a group of militants in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir early today, police said. The militants first entered the residence of one Munshi Ram in Kandi village of Budhal tehsil, had food and then killed the inmates, including a woman, by slitting their throats, they said. Two of the dead have been identified as Munshi Ram and his son Kala Chand, they said. After escaping from the scene, the militants went to Mohra Gabbar village in the same tehsil, barged into the house of one Kartar Singh and killed five...

Fifteen terrorists killed in Kashmir in multiple incidentsOriginal Article Date: 1/10/2005 Agency: Press Trust of India Twenty-one people, including 15 terrorists and four army personnel, were killed in separate terrorism-related incidents as security forces foiled an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir since Thursday, official sources said on Friday. Three terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Larna area of Qazigund in Anantnag district on Friday evening, the sources said adding the operation was on when reports last came in. Another terrorist was killed in a separate operation by security forces at Wailoo in the district, the...

Jewish World Review Sept. 23, 2005 / 19 Elul, 5765 What did Musharraf actually say? By Gary Rosenblatt Pakistani president's appearance at New York Jewish meeting called 'historic,' but some disappointed by his remarks http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Did Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan, satisfy his audience of several hundred American Jewish leaders in New York on Saturday night in addressing the Mideast conflict and Islamic-Jewish relations? Some praised Musharraf, who heads the largest Islamic republic with nuclear power, for his courage in publicly calling for peaceful means to resolve the longstanding blood wars. Noting that the Israeli and Pakistani...

Nuclear-armed India introduced a bill into parliament yesterday intended to codify New Delhi's policy to prevent the spread of its nuclear weapons and missile technology to non-nuclear states. The introduction of the weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems bill comes almost seven years to the day that India defied international pressure and tested a nuclear weapon. Pranab Mukherjee, defence minister, said: “The provisions of the act apply to export, transfer, re-transfer, transit and trans-shipment of material, equipment or technology relating to weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery.” Defence analysts say the bill has long been...