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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
Alleging that Pakistan has for decades leveraged radical terrorist groups to carry out attacks in India and Afghanistan, a U.S. lawmaker has introduced a bill that proposes to deduct $50 million from the U.S. aid to Islamabad every time an American...
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La Prensa
| 1 year ago
Aided by cable-TV talking heads, Americans are spending too much time speculating over whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have given the order to get bin Laden, and also issuing paeans to President Obama's courage.
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Pakistan 's Prime Minister has again denied that his government was aware that former al-Qaeda chieftain Osama bin Laden had been living in the country prior to his assassination by U.S. commando forces in a town near Islamabad last May. Share This...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
US analysts believe that Osama Bin Laden wrote: 'You may find it suitable to target Americans in South Africa, because it is located outside the Islamic Maghreb.' (Naseer Ahmed,Reuters) Newly released documents seized during the operation in which...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, adding tens of thousands of troops at a cost of many billions of dollars. He committed American forces to a war in Libya, though he had neither approval from Congress nor reason to think events there threatened...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Follow This Blog At War Special Series The New York Times is following the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division during their yearlong deployment. Remembering a Fallen Colleague The New York...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 1 year ago
On the heels of President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan last week, in which he pledged to "finish the job we started" and "end this war responsibly," the American public's support for the 11-year conflict has reached a new low,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Gilani said the reason Bin Laden was able to live undetected for so long inside Pakistan was down to a universal 'intelligence failure'. He also hinted that he didn't know whether Ayman al-Zawahiri, who inherited the al-Qaida leadership from Bin...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Saturday Night Live nixes skit mocking Obama on bin Laden Updated Saturday Night Live apparently developed a skit mocking President Obama for excessive celebration of Osama bin Laden's death, but it did not air. According to a script obtained by the...
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Embassy
| 1 year ago
It has just been revealed by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy in the United States that I am on a very short list of journalists (eight in Western countries, and seven others in India, Pakistan, and Arab countries) to...
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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
02 editor John Brennan, assistant to the US president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaking on April 30 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. acknowledging for the first time the use of Unmanned...
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India Abroad
| 1 year ago
There are indications that Taliban [ Images ] commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar has scrapped his longstanding peace agreement with the government of Pakistan, reports Tahir Ali. The situation in North Waziristan is tense after Sunday's clashes between...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com Throughout the presidential campaign, Fox News will be breaking down the key issues and giving viewers an in-depth look at the positions of President Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Issues series focuses on national...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan , said he will resign from his post this summer after less than two years on the job, amidst worsening relations between Washington and Islamabad. Share This Story The Washington Post re ported that...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama, marking the 10th anniversary of the US military campaign in Afghanistan, said on Thursday that al Qaeda was on the ropes but "enormous challenges" remain to rebuild the country. "In delivering justice to Osama bin Laden and...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Pakistan A police official says gunmen killed a senior anti-terrorism police officer in southwest Pakistan. Hamid Shakil says two men on a motorcycle opened fire on Shah Nawaz Khan on Tuesday outside his house in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
Senior Pakistan policeman shot dead in Quetta A senior police officer in the restive south-western Pakistani province of Balochistan has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen, officials say. Shahnawaz Khan was gunned down outside his home in the...
