Pakistan On Al-qaida

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday listed Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under its ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

India on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council, saying that Islamabad has been disrupting the peace process in Afghanistan by helping terror groups like Al-Qaida, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - launch violent attacks in Khorasan Province (ISIL-K) in the neighbouring country.

Osama bin Laden left a will indicating that he had about $29 million in Sudan, with detailed instructions to "spend all the money I have left" continuing the global terror campaign he had led, according to newly released documents recovered by the United States from the compound in Pakistan where the al-Qaida chief was killed in 2011.

An American who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 before losing his nerve testified on Thursday how he encountered Osama bin Laden and the terror group's spokesman at a safe house - and that bin Laden hinted that a suicide attack on US soil was in the works.

A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed Al Qaeda's second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed on Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the controversial bombing campaign and the biggest setback to the terror network since the death of Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 13 people in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said. Sunni militants with ideological and operational links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have carried out scores of bombings and shootings against minority ...

Though terror groups continue to strike in their country, a majority of Pakistanis still consider India as a major threat, view America as an enemy and are far less concerned about Taliban and al-Qaida.While Pakistanis express serious concerns about the US, they have also deep worries about neighbour and long-time rival India than extremist groups ...

Contradicting CIA's assertion that it has no intelligence on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden since 2003, leaked secret US military documents say the Al-Qaida chief personally attended a recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2006.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday dismissed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's assertion that Osama bin Laden is in the country as "speculations", saying Washington should not doubt Islamabad's intention to act against the Al-Qaida leadership."This is not the first time that this has been said and our position has bee...

They were never routed, no matter what Pakistan claimed. Instead, the Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters have merely relocated. They're still near the Afghan border.

Two Pakistani officers and a government official said on Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with Al-Qaida had been captured.

The US has stepped up military aid to boost Pakistani forces capability to take on Taliban and Al-Qaida militants in remote tribal areas.

A man purported to be a US-born al-Qaida member on Saturday denied that the militant organisation was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that killed hundreds of civilians, saying in a new English-language video.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday asserted that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is not in Pakistan.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday listed Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under its ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

India on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council, saying that Islamabad has been disrupting the peace process in Afghanistan by helping terror groups like Al-Qaida, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - launch violent attacks in Khorasan Province (ISIL-K) in the neighbouring country.

Osama bin Laden left a will indicating that he had about $29 million in Sudan, with detailed instructions to "spend all the money I have left" continuing the global terror campaign he had led, according to newly released documents recovered by the United States from the compound in Pakistan where the al-Qaida chief was killed in 2011.

An American who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 before losing his nerve testified on Thursday how he encountered Osama bin Laden and the terror group's spokesman at a safe house - and that bin Laden hinted that a suicide attack on US soil was in the works.

A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed Al Qaeda's second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed on Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the controversial bombing campaign and the biggest setback to the terror network since the death of Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 13 people in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said. Sunni militants with ideological and operational links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have carried out scores of bombings and shootings against minority ...

Though terror groups continue to strike in their country, a majority of Pakistanis still consider India as a major threat, view America as an enemy and are far less concerned about Taliban and al-Qaida.While Pakistanis express serious concerns about the US, they have also deep worries about neighbour and long-time rival India than extremist groups ...

Contradicting CIA's assertion that it has no intelligence on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden since 2003, leaked secret US military documents say the Al-Qaida chief personally attended a recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2006.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday dismissed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's assertion that Osama bin Laden is in the country as "speculations", saying Washington should not doubt Islamabad's intention to act against the Al-Qaida leadership."This is not the first time that this has been said and our position has bee...

They were never routed, no matter what Pakistan claimed. Instead, the Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters have merely relocated. They're still near the Afghan border.

Two Pakistani officers and a government official said on Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with Al-Qaida had been captured.

The US has stepped up military aid to boost Pakistani forces capability to take on Taliban and Al-Qaida militants in remote tribal areas.

A man purported to be a US-born al-Qaida member on Saturday denied that the militant organisation was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that killed hundreds of civilians, saying in a new English-language video.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday asserted that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is not in Pakistan.