Pakistan needs to be strict with terrorists: Kayani (Lead)
August 14th, 2012 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Pakistan needs stricter laws to deal with terrorism, army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said in comments published Tuesday.Addressing a parade at the Pakistan Military Academy ... Read more...
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Put past behind and look forward: Kayani
August 14th, 2012 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes, admitted Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. He stressed: "We will have to put the past ... Read more...
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Egypt’s vice president under Mubarak dies in US
July 19th, 2012 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 19 (IANS) Omar Suleiman, Egypt's vice president under Hosni Mubarak, who announced the president's resignation to the world, has died in a US hospital, CNN reported Thursday.According to ... Read more...
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Peru’s president relieves 22 generals
July 4th, 2012 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Lima, July 4 (IANS/EFE) President Ollanta Humala relieved 22 generals of their commands in an effort to reinvigorate strategically important units of the Peruvian army, a media report said.Personnel changes ... Read more...
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Russian military cadet dies in skydive
April 5th, 2012 - 7:03 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 5 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian cadet paratrooper died Wednesday in a training skydive, the defence ministry said.According to ministry spokesman Col. Alexander Kucherenko, the cadet from the Military ... Read more...
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Osama’s relative in Pakistan to shift family
March 6th, 2012 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 6 (IANS) Pakistan has allowed slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's family to leave the country, and a Yemeni brother-in-law of the militant leader has arrived here ... Read more...
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Rockets fired at Pakistan Military Academy (Second Lead)
January 27th, 2012 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 27 (IANS) Nine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad, a town where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was shot dead in his hideout ... Read more...
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Nine rockets fired at Pakistan Military Academy (Lead)
January 27th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 27 (IANS) Nine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy located in Abbottabad, a town where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was gunned down in ... Read more...
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Rocket fired near Pakistan Military Academy
January 27th, 2012 - 12:41 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 27 (IANS) A rocket has been fired near the Pakistan Military Academy located in Abbottabad, a town where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was gunned in May ... Read more...
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Osama probe panel retraces US choppers’ route
September 14th, 2011 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 14 (IANS) The Pakistani commission probing the American commando raid in Abbottabad to take out Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has flown over the likely route taken ... Read more...
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Trusting Musharraf was a strategic failure: Former CIA analyst
September 8th, 2011 - 10:37 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 8 (IANS) The biggest US mistake in the war against terrorism was to ignore Al Qaeda in Pakistan to invade Iraq after the September 2001 terror attacks ... Read more...
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Overcome difficulties with national resilience: Kayani
August 14th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Pakistani Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said the nation will overcome all the difficulties with national resilience, abundance of resources and a reservoir of ... Read more...
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India praised for not pointing finger at Pakistan
July 15th, 2011 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, July 15 (IANS) Praising New Delhi for exercising caution in not pointing a finger at Islamabad for the Mumbai bombings, the Canadian media Thursday said India realises that Pakistan ... Read more...
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Indian Army chief to visit Bangladesh June 19-23
June 16th, 2011 - 5:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Forty years after he fought in the 1971 India-Pakistan war to liberate Bangladesh, Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh will be on a five-day ... Read more...
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CIA team gets permission to see Osama compound
May 27th, 2011 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 27 (IANS) A CIA team has received permission from Islamabad to examine the compound where Osama bin Laden was gunned down by US commandos in Pakistan's Abbottabad ... Read more...
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Osama met Al Qaeda, Taliban leaders at Abbottabad house
May 15th, 2011 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 15 (IANS) Osama bin Laden was not dependant only on messengers to keep in touch with his terror network. Infact, he had met Al Qaeda and Taliban ... Read more...
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Time to reflect on Pakistan’s jihad enterprise: daily
May 12th, 2011 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) It is time to reflect on "the jihad enterprise the Pakistani state has been peddling for the last four decades", a Pakistani daily said, adding ... Read more...
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Review Pakistan’s ties with US: Nawaz Sharif
May 11th, 2011 - 1:24 pm ICT by IANS
Lahore, May 11 (IANS) Pakistan-US ties should be reviewed following the US raid in Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden, said opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif.US ... Read more...
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Osama intelligence failure is our fault: Pakistani daily
May 6th, 2011 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 6 (IANS) A leading Pakistani daily admits frankly that "we ourselves are primarily at fault" over the intelligence failure on Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who ... Read more...
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Pakistan must come clean on Osama killing: Daily (Lead)
May 5th, 2011 - 4:16 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 5 (IANS) Pakistan must "come clean" over the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos in Abbottabad, a daily said Thursday, warning that ... Read more...
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Humiliated ISI’s ‘good, but not God’ excuse following Osama’s discovery in Abbottabad
May 5th, 2011 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 5(ANI): Pakistan's premier spy agency Inter Services Intelligence is "good, but not God," an ISI official has said, following the huge embarrassment faced by the agency in the wake ... Read more...
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Pakistan must come clean over Osama killing, says daily
May 5th, 2011 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 5 (IANS) Pakistan must "come clean" over the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces in Abbottabad, a daily said Thursday, warning that ... Read more...
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After Osama’s death, India says no change on dialogue with Pakistan (Lead)
May 4th, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) India said Wednesday that talks with Pakistan will continue, even as it expressed concern about the impact on Afghanistan by an early withdrawal of coalition ... Read more...
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BJP describes Pak to be ‘epicentre of global terrorism’
May 4th, 2011 - 8:07 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 4 (ANI): Terming Pakistan to be the 'epicentre of global terrorism', the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday urged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre ... Read more...
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Pakistan either incompetent or involved: CIA chief
May 4th, 2011 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 4 (IANS) CIA Director Leon Panetta has told US lawmakers that Washington is trying to get to the bottom of Pakistan's "troubling" role in its professed ignorance about ... Read more...
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US hardens stance against ‘ally’ Pakistan after Osama killing (Lead)
May 4th, 2011 - 6:15 pm ICT by IANS
Washington/Islamabad/New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Two days after Osama bin Laden's dramatic killing deep inside Pakistan, the US described its ties with Islamabad as "complicated" and said it will take ... Read more...
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Osama was unarmed but killed as he resisted, says US (Lead)
May 4th, 2011 - 5:42 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 4 (IANS) Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was unarmed but killed because he resisted the American forces that stormed his hideout in Pakistan.Giving a most detailed ... Read more...
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Talks with Pakistan to continue, reiterates India
May 4th, 2011 - 4:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Two days after the killing of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, India Wednesday reiterated that talks with Pakistan would continue and expressed concern about ... Read more...
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US envoy asks Pak to act tough on 26/11 plotters
May 4th, 2011 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 4 (ANI): US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer on Wednesday urged Pakistan to act tough on the plotters of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, stressing that the nation ... Read more...
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US says it has ‘complicated’ ties with Pakistan
May 4th, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 4 (IANS) Amid intense speculation that at least some in Pakistan would have known about Osama bin Laden's hideout, the US has said that it has a "complicated ... Read more...
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Musharraf jogged past Osama’s Abbottabad compound during military training
May 4th, 2011 - 3:18 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 4(ANI): Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that he frequently ran by the area in which Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had been living for the last ... Read more...
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US troops were yards away from bin-Laden’s Pak hideout in 2008: Wikileaks
May 4th, 2011 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 4 (ANI): US troops were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan in 2008, the whistleblower website 'Wikileaks' has revealed.The revelation that ... Read more...
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Pak has ‘lots of questions’ to answer following Osama’s death: Cameron
May 4th, 2011 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 4(ANI): British Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Pakistan government has "lots of questions" to answer over how Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was allowed to live near ... Read more...
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Musharraf jogged in area where Osama was found
May 4th, 2011 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 4 (IANS) Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has said that when he was training in the military, he would frequently run through the area where Osama bin ... Read more...
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Deep shame over Osama’s killing in Pakistan, says daily
May 4th, 2011 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 4 (IANS) The fact that Osama bin Laden was living right under the "military's nose" added to the way in which he was killed were matters of deep ... Read more...
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