Taliban denies Mullah Omar is dead (Night Lead)
May 23rd, 2011 - 9:48 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul/Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) The Taliban's legendary one-eyed leader Mullah Omar has been killed in Pakistan, Afghan officials and media said Monday, only to backtrack hours later. The Pakistani ... Read more...
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Mullah Omar dead? Taliban denies it (Fourth Lead)
May 23rd, 2011 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul/Islamabad/New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) One-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been killed in Pakistan, an Afghan TV channel said Monday. The Pakistani Taliban were quick to deny this ... Read more...
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Mullah Omar dead? No, says Taliban (Third Lead)
May 23rd, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul/Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) The legendary one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been killed in Pakistan, an Afghan TV channel said Monday. The Pakistani Taliban promptly denied it."Mullah Omar ... Read more...
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Wrong to say Pakistan harboured Laden: Ex-ISI chief
May 2nd, 2011 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 2 (IANS) Former chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Hamid Gul Monday said it was wrong to say that the Pakistani establishment "harboured" Osama bin Laden, ... Read more...
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Don’t free Davis, warns ex-spy chief (Lead)
February 10th, 2011 - 4:55 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 10 (IANS/AKI) Former army officers will "take action" against the government if Pakistan releases US official Raymond Davis who shot dead two Pakistanis, ex-spy chief Hamid Gul has warned."If the ... Read more...
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Ex- ISI chief Gul claims US making him a scapegoat for Afghan-war defeat
December 1st, 2010 - 4:15 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Dec 1 (ANI): Former chief of the Pakistan spy agency ISI, Hamid Gul, has been accused in several of the leaked documents, posted by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, of regularly ... Read more...
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Zardari says ‘everybody in ISI completely accountable to him now’
August 9th, 2010 - 3:01 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Aug 9(ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he now has full control over the country's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, which has long been suspected of lending ... Read more...
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Afghan war ‘lost cause’ for US: Gul
August 7th, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug.7 (ANI): Describing the US led war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as a "lost cause", former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul has said that Washington ... Read more...
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US military documents leak, an ‘orchestrated campaign against Pak’: Envoy to UN
August 3rd, 2010 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Aug 3(ANI): Pakistan's Ambassador the United Nations (UN), Abdullah Hussain Haroon, has denounced the leak of classified US military documents, saying that their authors were mostly fed wrong information ... Read more...
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‘Pak working effectively to contain all terrorists’, says Pak envoy to US
August 2nd, 2010 - 5:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 2(ANI): Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, has said that his country does not share Taliban's ideology, and it is working to contain the threat posed by the ... Read more...
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ISI-Taliban links “a concern” to US, says Gates
August 2nd, 2010 - 2:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 2(ANI): The United States has acknowledged that the allegations that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is guiding the Taliban were "a concern"."There's no question about it (ISI-Taliban link concern), ... Read more...
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Afghanistan not surprised by Pak support for Taliban
July 27th, 2010 - 2:11 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul/Washington, July 27 (ANI): Afghan leaders and citizens are not surprised by the Taliban-Pakistani connection made in the Afghan war reports released by the web site WikiLeaks.org.Kabul's view has long been ... Read more...
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ISI runs, controls network of suicide bombers in Afghanistan
July 26th, 2010 - 12:30 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Jul 26 (ANI): Pakistan's military spy agency, the ISI, has been accused of running the networks of suicide bombers that emerged as a sudden, terrible force in Afghanistan in ... Read more...
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Kayani’s ‘rare’ three-year extension only second in Pak history
July 23rd, 2010 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 23 (ANI): The three year extension in Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's tenure is only the second such incident in Pakistan's history when a civilian regime has increased ... Read more...
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Obama will pull out of Afghanistan for economic reasons: Gul
July 17th, 2010 - 12:44 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 17 (ANI): A former director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has said that U.S.President Barack Obama will pull out American troops from Afghanistan for economic reasons rather than for ... Read more...
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India-Pak talks being held under duress from the US: Hamid Gul
June 25th, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, June 25 (ANI): He has been referred to as the 'man who knows too much'. A former ISI chief, India and US hater, there are many epithets attached with Hamid Gul's ... Read more...
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US slams ex-ISI chief for blaming it for Bhutto’s assassination
April 22nd, 2010 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Apr.22 (ANI): The United States has strongly objected to statements made by former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul, who had blamed the US for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's ... Read more...
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Pakistani militants threaten to kill hostages
April 20th, 2010 - 11:52 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 20 (IANS/AKI) Asian Tigers, a formerly unknown militant outfit from Pakistan, has threatened to kill three hostages they had kidnapped last month in North Waziristan region near the Afghan ... Read more...
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PoK ‘terror meet’ calls on Pak govt. not to create hurdles for Kashmiri jihadists
February 5th, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
Muzaffarabad, Feb.5 (ANI): The Pakistan government has been urged upon not to create hurdles in the way of 'freedom fighters' struggling for the cause of an'independent Kashmir'.Speakers at a Kashmir-centric conference here, ... Read more...
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India concerned over ‘terror’ meet in PoK
February 4th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb.4 (ANI): While India and Pakistan are preparing to tone down the heightened tension amid them during the forthcoming SAARC summit, in which Home Minister P.Chidambaram is likely to take ... Read more...
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Anti-India jehadi rally held in Pakistani Kashmir
February 4th, 2010 - 2:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) An anti-India jehadi rally to express "solidarity with Kashmir" was organised Thursday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir by the Jama'at-ud-Dawaah (JuD), a banned frontal organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ... Read more...
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Former ISI chief admits key role in formation of IJI
January 5th, 2010 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Jan. 5 (ANI): Former ISI chief Hamid Gul has admitted that he played a vital role in the formation of political coalition, the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), which was set ... Read more...
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India has destructive designs to destabilize Pakistan, says former ISI chief
August 15th, 2009 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug. 15 (ANI): Former Inter Services Intelligence chief Lieutenant General Hamid Gul has blamed India for creating trouble and fanning unrest inside Pakistan, saying New Delhi has destructive designs to ... Read more...
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Pak security officials, elite in state of denial: Expert
March 8th, 2009 - 3:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 8 (ANI): The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team last week points towards the Punjabi terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which most independent analysts think carried out the attacks in ... Read more...
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Gilani confirms arrest of two Lashkar members
December 10th, 2008 - 4:58 pm ICT by ANI
Multan, Dec.10 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani confirmed on Wednesday that two senior members of Lashkar-e-Taiba have been arrested.
"The two have been arrested and an investigation is under way," ... Read more...
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LeT commander arrested in Pakistani crackdown: reports (Lead)
December 8th, 2008 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 8 (IANS) Apparently acting under international pressure, Pakistan has cracked down on the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that India has blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks and arrested the group's commander Zakiur ... Read more...
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LeT commander Lakhwi arrested, says Dawn
December 8th, 2008 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 8 (IANS) Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, the commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) whose extradition India has sought for his organisation's alleged role in the Mumbai terror attacks, has been arrested by ... Read more...
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Rice says Pakistan must take action
December 8th, 2008 - 12:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec.8 (ANI): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Pakistan must take action against militants on its territory who may be linked to the Mumbai attacks, and added ... Read more...
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Pakistan agrees to 48-hour timetable for action against LeT: Report
December 6th, 2008 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 6 (IANS) Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the US to formulate a plan to act against Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) and to arrest at least three ... Read more...
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Ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul says Benazir implicated him in Karachi blasts on US direction
October 18th, 2008 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Oct 18 (ANI): Former ISI chief Hameed Gul has revealed that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had named him in the October 18, 2007, Karachi blasts better known as Karsaz ... Read more...
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Ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul says its most disciplined spy agency in the world
August 2nd, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad , Aug 2 (ANI): Amid accusations that ISI was hand-in-glove with tribal militants along Pak-Afghan border and was behind the July 7 suicide bombing on Indian embassy in Kabul , ... Read more...
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ISI has been interfering in Pak politics, says PPP leader
July 29th, 2008 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore , July 29 (ANI): A senior PPP leader has reportedly said that the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) was one of the most efficient spy agencies in the world, but it was ... Read more...
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Retired Pakistani generals to march against Musharraf
May 20th, 2008 - 1:23 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, May 20 (IANS) Retired Pakistani Army generals, including some who mentored President Pervez Musharraf, are planning a long march and a sit-in before the Army House in Rawalpindi to force him ... Read more...
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Ex-Army pals plan sit-in dharna to force Musharraf to vacate Army House
May 20th, 2008 - 12:07 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, May 20 (ANI): Former top Pakistani army generals who were once close pals of President Pervez Musharraf, have reportedly planned a protest march and a sit-in dharna outside the Army ... Read more...
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Murree Accord good omen for Pak but bad news for US, says Gul
March 10th, 2008 - 2:21 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Mar 10 (ANI): The signing of Murree Accord by PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif was a good omen for Pakistan but a bad news for Washington, ... Read more...
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