Former Official: The State Department Is Screwing Up Sep 4, 2009
On Aug. 17, Judith McHale, my successor as U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, sat down with a Pakistani journalist in a hotel conference room in Karachi. According to a New York Times , the one-on-one meeting was part of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy to convince "the Pakistani people that the United States is their friend.". (Slate)
Former Nepal prince fake note kingpin? Sep 1, 2009
In fact, Rajesh Gupta and Ateeq Ahmad, both Nepalese citizens, alleged that former king Gyanendra Singhs son was working with Pakistans ISI and Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, reportedly hiding in Karachi ... Rajesh Gupta and Ateeq Ahmad, both Nepalese citizens, alleged that former king Gyanendra Singhs son was working with Pakistans ISI and Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, reportedly hiding in Karachi. (India Times)
Pakistan reality TV contestant drowns in challenge Aug 31, 2009
The death came during filming of the show's 10th episode on Aug. 19, but it was not publicized until Khan's body was returned home to the southern Pakistani city of Karachi ... Associated Press Writer Ashraf Khan in Karachi contributed to this report. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Why can't we buy basmati for Rs 40/kg? Aug 27, 2009
So if the average price in Karachi is $900/t, India at $1100/t is par for the course. Three, there is no basmati available in India for $800/t. (India Times)
Typhoid Fever Cases In U.S. Linked To Foreign Travel Aug 27, 2009
D., of Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan and John Threlfall, B.Sc. Ph. (Science Daily)
Cheney Was Right Aug 26, 2009
Gunawan was captured and provided the crown jewels: Hambali had selected a cadre of terrorists to travel to Karachi, Pakistan, for training. There, KSM was to groom them to travel to the United States and unleash attacks. (Human Events Online)
Pakistan: Police Raids Foil Homicide Bombing 'Mayhem' Aug 25, 2009
Aug. 24: Pakistani police officers escort detained militants, faces covered with a cloth, to produce them into Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan ... Police seized heroin and bomb-making material in one bust in the southern city of Karachi, the country's commercial center and a hotbed of extremist activity ... Police in Karachi arrested seven members of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi movement in a raid Sunday in the teeming port city of more than 16 million, police officer Fayyaz Khan said.... (Fox News)
Pakistan Arrests 7 Militants with Bombs, Drugs Aug 24, 2009
KARACHI, Pakistan Police arrested seven members of a banned Al Qaeda-linked group and seized suicide vests, explosives and heroin during a raid in Pakistan's southern commercial center that thwarted plans for suicide attacks, officials said Monday. The raid on a Karachi hide-out of the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi provided rare intelligence on how drug money is transferred among jihadist groups cooperating to fight the Pakistani and Afghan governments as well as foreign troops in... (Fox News)
Saeed saw off Kasab: New dossier Aug 22, 2009
According to Kasabs confessional statement furnished to Pakistan, the JuD chief had n 00004000 ot only met him during his maritime training ahead of the Mumbai strikes, but had also seen off the 10 attackers as they set sail from Karachi on November 22, 2008. The dossier clearly mentions the time-band during which the Mumbai attack accused had met Saeed as well as the date of his presence in Karachi to bid adieu to the LeT module headed for Mumbai. (India Times)
Singh's remarks on terror attacks uncalled for: Pak Aug 18, 2009
KARACHI: Pakistan on Monday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks about terror groups planning fresh attacks on India from Pakistani soil were uncalled for as the two countries were progressing towards better relations. "I think (Singh's) statement was uncalled for and it would have been better if he had not made such a statement because Pakistan and India are moving towards better relations, especially after the meetings (between the Indian premier and President Asif Ali Zardari and... (India Times, India)
Truck bomb kills 7 in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
In the southern commercial capital of Karachi on Monday, supporters of banned Sunni sectarian group Sipah-e-Sahaba rioted after its leader, Ali Sher Haideri, was gunned down in his car that morning. Haideri was killed along with a guard in Khairpur town in Sindh province, about 220 miles (350 kilometers) northeast of Karachi, Officer Pir Mohammad Shah said ... Angered at his death, dozens of Sunni youths torched a bus and a van and threw stones at other vehicles, according to Abdul Majid Dasti,... (USA Today -- News)
'Gift' for U.S. Aug 18, 2009
Also Monday, gunmen assassinated the leader of the banned Sunni sectarian group Sipah-e-Sahaba, triggering rioting in the southern commercial capital of Karachi, police said. Supporters of Sipah spiritual leader Ali Sher Haideri torched a bus and a gas station after he was gunned down in his car. (Fox News)
PCB Council asks Butt to seek more time from ICC Aug 14, 2009
KARACHI: The governing council of the Pakistan Cricket Board has asked PCB chairman Ejaz Butt to convince the ICC to review the security situation in Pakistan early next year before deciding whether the country is safe enough to host the 2011 World Cup matches. A governing council member said that the members have told Butt that when he signs the out-of-court settlement agreement with the ICC over the World Cup dispute, he should convince them to include a special waiver clause. (India Times, India)
Kerala gets email threat of multiple bomb blasts Aug 14, 2009
He added that the e-mail was written by Zakhir Hussain who claims to be the head of the newly formed Malabar Mujahid which has its headquarters in Karachi and has support from ISI (Inter-services intelligence) of Pakistan and LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba). "If their demand for a separate Muslim state is not met, then bombs will be deployed across the state and for that they have already shipped seven kilograms of RDX. The first of the series of bomb blasts will begin with a sample one today (Friday),... (India Times, India -- Community News)
FBI agent bares Pak hand at 26/11 deposition Aug 13, 2009
The FBI forensic expert said that the GPS devices he had examined stored a route from Karachi to Mumbai and back ... The GPS devices reflected way points and a route from the Gulf of Karachi to Mumbai and several points in between ... The points were named by the users as JALA 1 (off Karachi) to JALA 4 (Mumbai), said the FBI official who had examined and analysed five GPS devices and a satellite phone recovered from the terrorists after the attack last year that killed 166 persons, including... (India Times, India -- Community News)
'We will either win Champions Trophy or 2011 WC' Aug 10, 2009
KARACHI: The disastrous tour of Sri Lanka and rumours of discord in the team notwithstanding, Pakistan captain Younus Khan is confident that his mercurial side will either win the Champions Trophy next month or the 2011 World Cup. After his team notched a consolation win over Sri Lanka in the fifth and final One-Day International in Colombo on Sunday, Younus said he had a pool of 20 players in mind who will win either the Champions Trophy this year or the 2011 World Cup. (India Times, India)
FIH may not give India Champions Trophy wild card Aug 9, 2009
KARACHI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) may not give a wild card to India for participating in the Champions Trophy after objections from other member countries. The Champions Trophy is an elite six-nation tournament and the FIH has been mulling over the idea of offering wild card entries to both Pakistan and India in a bid to bring back the two former giants into the fold, reports The News. (India Times, India)
Hizb duo trained in PoK Aug 8, 2009
After completing his training in 2004, he stayed in the camp and visited several places in Pakistan like Islamabad, Karachi and Rawalpindi, besides Muzaffarabad. Javed told interrogators that he came into contact with terrorist elements in 1997 when three militants Riyaz, Tarique and Dilawar motivated him to join Hizb. (India Times)
Qadir suspects match-fixers in Pak team Aug 4, 2009
KARACHI: The ghost of match-fixing has come back to haunt Pakistan cricket, feels former chief selector Abdul Qadir, who suspects that some players might be involved in it considering the "strange" manner in which the team lost the Test and ODI series in Sri Lanka. Pakistan lost the Test series 0-2 and is trailing 0-3 in the five-match One-day series. (India Times, India)
Will the UK Government push the UN to end rape in conflict zones? Aug 4, 2009
Reuters AlertNet - Will the UK Government push the UN to end rape in conflict zones. Mon, 3 Aug 22:13:03 GMT. (AlertNet)
Watch out, your Rs 500 note could be fake Jul 31, 2009
The UP STF suggests most of these notes were printed in the security press at Malir Cantonment in Karachi and three other printing presses in Pakistan. Maharashtra's security agencies, too, believe that the fake notes seized by them were printed in a Pakistan government printing press at Quetta. (India Times, India)
File: Film piracy funding terror: US thinktank Jul 30, 2009
According to sources in the film industry and police, the moment a film is released in Mumbai, the 'D- 00004000 Company' makes camera prints and sends them to Karachi or Kuala Lumpur where millions of DVDs are made and marketed across the world ... The report says the D-Company has got control of Sadaf Trading Company based in Karachi, and thus allowing it to manage distribution network in Pakistan and also acquiring the infrastructure to manufacture pirate VHS tapes and VCDs for sale. (India Times, India)
Guantanamo case Jul 30, 2009
Mr Mohamed, an Ethiopian national who had been living in London, was arrested in Karachi in April 2002 trying to leave the country on a false passport. Dirty bomber. (BBC News -- UK)
Pakistan not to move troops from India border Jul 24, 2009
Earlier this month, Kayani told an officers' commissioning parade of Pakistan Navy in Karachi that the country faced both "external and internal" threats. "While the external threat to Pakistan continues to exist, it is the internal threat that merits immediate attention," said Kayani, according to a military statement. (India Times, India)
Hijack scare on flight: Bomb in a juice can Jul 24, 2009
And then, flashing a can of juice which he said contained the bom 00004000 b, he demanded that the plane be taken to Karachi ... Then he kept repeating that he was a Pakistani and the aircraft should be diverted to Karachi immediately,'' a senior security official said. (India Times, India)
Gunman confesses to role in Mumbai attacks Jul 22, 2009
He said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was the main mastermind behind the case, along with others who engineered the attack and dispatched the gunmen to travel by ship from Karachi by the Arabian Sea to Mumbai. The attackers had to change boats four times in order to reach their destination. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Surviving Mumbai Attacks Gunman Tells of Recruitment Jul 22, 2009
Kasab said Monday that four men some of them known leaders of the Pakistan-based Islamic extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba sent him and other fellow attackers to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan. After spending six weeks sequestered in a safe house in Pakistan, where they were sternly warned not to disobey orders, they traveled by boat to Mumbai. (Fox News)
Kasab confesses, names Pakistan masters Jul 21, 2009
Kasabs confession began right from his journey from Karachi on the Lashker e Toiba-orchestrated terror mission and narrated the entire sequence of events leading up to Mumbai carnage, including terror training of the attackers at Pakistani camps, their boarding the rogue ship Al Husseini from Pakistani waters, hijacking an Indian vessel mid-sea and then landing on the Mumbai coast in a boat along with nine other terrorists. Importantly, he claimed that an Indian named Abu Jindal had taught... (India Times)
How, when & where - Kasab tells all Jul 21, 2009
In a dramatic twist to the 26/11 case, Kasab also recounted how he and his associates undertook the sea voyage from Karachi to Mumbai to strike at 13 locations here on the night of Nov 26, 2008 ... He revealed in the court names of his Pakistani handlers, including Abu Hamza, Abu Jindal, Abu Kafa and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who saw them off when they boarded a ship at Karachi. (India Times)
Kasab gives more details, hearing adjourned Jul 21, 2009
He named LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi as the mastermind of the plot who personally saw off the group at Karachi port ... The 21-year-old terrorist the sole survivor among the 10 who arrived by sea from Pakistan revealed that the gunmen had to sit tight in a house at Karachi for over 45 days after they had finished their training (TOI had reported on how the terror strike was earlier planned to coincide with the Ramzan period). (India Times, India)
Surviving Mumbai Attacks Gunman Admits Guilt Jul 21, 2009
In a calmly delivered statement, Kasab described how the attackers were sent from Karachi, Pakistan, by four men some of them known leaders with the Pakistan-based Islamic extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba ... Before being sent to India, Kasab said he lived in a house in Pakistan's largest city Karachi for a month-and-a-half with 10 other young men. (Fox News)
'Sir, mujhe gunah kabool hai' Jul 21, 2009
We travelled from Karachi in a small boat ... A small boat from Karachi transported us to a big boat, which we used to get on to the high seas ... A month later, we were taken to Karachis seashore from where we were taken in small boats to big ones. (India Times, India)
Airport nightmare Jul 20, 2009
Lessons for Karachi sex workers ... Lessons for Karachi sex workers. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Fergus Walsh - flu advice Jul 20, 2009
Page last updated at 19:07 GMT, Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:07 UK. What is flu advice in pregnancy. (BBC News -- UK)
Fragile future Jul 20, 2009
Page last updated at 23:36 GMT, Sunday, 19 July 2009 00:36 UK. Festivals fear future funds squeeze. (BBC News -- UK)
Burnham under fire on flu advice Jul 20, 2009
Page last updated at 06:55 GMT, Monday, 20 July 2009 07:55 UK. A terminal reserved for the flu helpline at an NHS Direct call centre. (BBC News -- UK)
Kings of Leon pull festival gig Jul 20, 2009
Page last updated at 11:35 GMT, Sunday, 19 July 2009 12:35 UK. Kings Of Leon tried to move their slot to the next day. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Ajmal Kasab is a Pak national' Jul 19, 2009
So far, Pakistan's efforts have been limited as its agencies have raided locations in Azizabad, a Karachi neighbourhood, but picked up low-level entities. The nine-member LeT squad had trained in Karachi for close to two months. (India Times, India)
Pakistan Clears Way for Sharif to Run for Office Jul 17, 2009
The army ousted Sharif's government in a bloodless coup on Oct. 12, 1999, the day Sharif removed Musharraf from his post as army chief and refused to allow the general's plane to land at a Karachi airport while returning from a foreign trip. The army revolted. (Fox News)
US installing radiation detectors at Pakistan ports Jul 17, 2009
"We do work with Pakistan with the Department of Homeland Security, on Secure Freight Initiative, in putting radiation detectors in their ports. One port is done. Karachi is the second port. We're negotiating that type of work," said Thomas D'Agostino, the Under-Secretary for Nuclear Security. Also administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, D'Agostino refrained from giving much of the details at a Congressional 00004000 hearing on Wednesday about what the US is doing in... (India Times, India)
ISI-Hizb may smuggle in fake notes Jul 15, 2009
The consignment of fake currency notes and heroin is said to have originated from the Swat valley and has already reached Karachi ... A subsequent meeting on June 22 by when the consignment had already made its way into Karachi from Swat is said to have narrowed down options to Barmer and Bangladesh. (India Times)
No sporting ties with India right now: Pak Jul 5, 2009
KARACHI: Pakistan sports minister Aftab Shah Jillani does not foresee restoration of sporting ties with India in the near future. "I don't think it is possible to restore bilateral sporting ties with India at this stage and in these existing circumstances," Jillani told reporters at a function in Karachi. (India Times, India)
Militants planning coup in Pak: Report Jul 5, 2009
The newspaper also obtained the names of a dozen British Hizb ut-Tahrir activists based in Lahore and Karachi, or who move regularly between Britain and Pakistan ... Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group's official spokesman in Karachi, said that the group plans to persuade the army to instigate a "bloodless coup" against the present government which he described as "worse than the Taliban". (India Times, India)
Pak cops kill 5 Mehsud aides Jun 28, 2009
KARACHI: Police killed five suspected militants Saturday in an overnight raid on a Karachi apartment housing insurgents loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader blamed for a wave of suicide attacks ... Police killed five suspected militants Saturday in an overnight raid on a Karachi apartment housing insurgents loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader blamed for a wave of suicide attacks. (India Times, India)
Pakistani cleric's murder stokes sectarian tension Jun 20, 2009
"I have no security at home or at my madrasa," he told Reuters by telephone from Karachi, adding that alliance leaders were due to meet on Saturday in Lahore to discuss the danger. A government official involved with security said authorities were providing protection but clerics had to take care. (AlertNet)
MJ Akbar: US advice on J&K is lunacy Jun 16, 2009
Those who have inflicted havoc already in India, and those who intend to do so in future, are safe in their havens in Lahore and Multan and Karachi. Pakistan's ambivalence on terrorism was exposed yet again by the release of Prof Hafeez Mohammad Sayeed, emir of Jamaat ud Dawa, from house arrest on June 6. (India Times, India)
Cowboy Up! Rugged Western Trips for Office Drones Jun 16, 2009
is offering economy class fares from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and New York City (JFK only) at three price levels: round-trip tickets to Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul cost $599; to Singapore, Bangkok, Bali and other cities in Southeast Asia, $699; and to Mumbai, Delhi, Karachi, Sydney and Perth, $899. Book by June 28 for outbound travel from July 1 through Nov. 30. (Time.com)
It’s COW-EAT-a, not cuh-WEET-a Jun 5, 2009
And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration. The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Pakistan Court Orders Release of Mumbai Suspect Jun 3, 2009
Moonis Ahmar, a professor of international relations at Karachi University, said it showed elements within the government were protecting Saeed and his group. "It seems that a section of the establishment keep covering up and patronizing such elements," Ahmar told The Associated Press. (Fox News)
The Curry Cup Jun 1, 2009
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This mag has preserved all letters to their editors May 30, 2009
30 May 2009, 0017 hrs IST, Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN. MUMBAI: We could have just marvelled at its sheer tenacity to survive the vicissitudes of time and moved on. (India Times, India -- Community News)
PHOTOS: Life inside camps May 27, 2009
REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN CONFLICT POLITICS) Internally displaced people, fleeing military operations in the Swat valley region, await a police search of their bus as they enter Karachi May 21, 2009. Pakistan's allies promised $224 million in aid for about 1. (AlertNet)
Pakistan's Mystics In Sights Of Taliban May 24, 2009
In Karachi, the country's biggest city, hundreds remove their shoes each day to climb the steps to the seaside shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, an 8th century saint credited with bringing Islam to the area. Incense fills the air, as families, the young and the old, file past the tomb, pressing their heads against the stone, kissing it and throwing rose petals. (CBS News -- World)
Q&A: 'Many Pakistanis question if this is their war' May 18, 2009
The Binori Masjid in Karachi is another centre of militancy. Why has Pakistan's famed civil society failed to stand up to the Taliban. (India Times, India)
UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk May 17, 2009
Maskrey noted initiatives in several cities, including Bogota, Columbia, and Karachi, Pakistan, to try to improve conditions in squatter settlements and shantytowns. "There are all these factors coming together: urban poverty, climate change, migration to cities from rural areas," he said. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Tarun Vijay: Like a flower in Buner May 12, 2009
This account first appeared in appeared in The News, Karachi, and was later recycled by an Indian magazine. I will comment on the version that appeared in Karachi, for the sake of presenting a Pakistani intellectuals obsession with marginalizing the pains of non-Muslim minorities in their land of Islamic justice. (India Times, India)
TO LIVE OR TO PERISH FOREVER May 10, 2009
But the contact then noted that Pakistanis "feared the actual guys with the turbans and guns." He told Schmidle, "One hundred percent of the people don't want the Taliban in Islamabad, Rawalpindi of even Karachi," mentioning the country's capital, its military center and its largest city in turn ... Ranging from Taliban rallies on the Afghan frontier, to the riot-torn slums of Karachi, then into the homes of Pakistan's top political leaders, Schmidle's experiences relied on a rare knack for... (New York Post -- Opinions)
Can Pakistan's army defeat the Taliban? May 9, 2009
The army has no capacity for counterinsurgency and it's very touchy about collateral damage, said Ikram Sehgal, a defence analyst based in Karachi. Even if the army is successful in Swat, other potentially more significant challenges remain, including how to deal with areas such as South Waziristan where well-entrenched militants have safe haven. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Taliban kidnap 10 troops in NW Pakistan: police May 1, 2009
AFP Troops patrol in Karachi. Taliban militants kidnapped 10 paramilitary soldiers from their local headquarters. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Pakistan still conflicted over battling Taliban May 1, 2009
Elsewhere in Pakistan today, at least 20 people were killed and two dozen vehicles torched in ethnic violence in the southern city of Karachi, officials said ... All the destabilization and anarchy in the region is because of the Americans' aggressive and violent policies, said Nadir Khan, a 41-year-old merchant in Karachi. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Disarray on Taleban threat Apr 28, 2009
Page last updated at 11:32 GMT, Friday, 24 April 2009 12:32 UK. Disarray on Pakistan Taleban threat. (BBC News -- South Asia)
The danger of an Israeli strike on Iran Apr 28, 2009
Islamist fighters from Marrakesh, Marseille, London, Cairo, Karachi, and Tehran would enlist overnight by the thousands and march to Iraq and Afghanistan to wage jihad against the American troops there. Netanyahu is no fool. (Yahoo News)
Indo-Pak CBMs will take time: Gilani Apr 19, 2009
KARACHI: The resumption of confidence-building measures between Pakistan and India will take some time as bilateral ties have been affected after the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday. "We want good relations with all our neighbours, be it Iran, Afghanistan or India. We had very good relations with India but ties were affected after the Mumbai incident. The CBMs between us will have to be started once again (and) it will take some time," he told... (India Times, India)
Spengler and the next Indian premier Apr 18, 2009
Singh was born in Chakwal district, some 90 kilometers south of Islamabad, while Advani was born in the southern port city of Karachi. Both could be runners-up this year, as opinion polls have shown the electorate would prefer a younger prime minister. (Asia Times Online)
Outrage over Taliban flogging of Pakistani girl could threaten peace deal Apr 6, 2009
Pakistan's popular Chief Justice Ifthikar Chaudhry on Friday scheduled a hearing into the flogging incident and ordered the victim to be produced before the court on Monday, while thousands of rights activists took to the streets of Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, and Karachi on Saturday to protest. A slew of high-profile religious scholars branded the flogging of a woman in public as "unIslamic," while women's rights activists in Lahore vowed to continue to voice their anger over the next three... (Christian Science Monitor)
