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New York, Sep.19 (ANI) : Pakistani authorities may have filed cases against Lashkar -e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but Islamabad’s actions are being considered as a mere ‘hogwash’.

The New [...]

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, but a risky sprint for a nuclear weapon, according to American intelligence agencies.

The new intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb, The New York [...]

Washington, Sep.9 (ANI): Though Obama administration officials are reluctant to confirm that there has been wholesale fraud in the presidential elections in Afghanistan, they have recognised that with President Hamid Karzai getting a slim majority, that they will have to keep dealing with him for another five years.

While there are clearly numerous egregious instances of [...]

Washington, Aug.30 (ANI): Top US administration and Congressional officials have accused Pakistan of illegally modifying American-made missiles to expand its capability to strike land targets, a potential threat to India.

Officials alleged that Islamabad has customized conventional Harpoon antiship missiles, which were provided to it by the Reagan administration as a defensive weapon in the cold [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Taliban insurgents have resorted to ‘organized crime’ to generate funds for their militant activities being carried out in the lawless northwestern Pakistan, and the banned outfit has made Karachi their hub for the new ‘business’.

The Taliban is using Karachi, Pakistan’s financial capital, to regroup, smuggle weapons and even work seasonal jobs, [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Reports of widespread fraud in the second presidential elections in Afghanistan have introduced an unwanted strain in the relationship between Kabul and the United States.

Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission said Friday that it had received over 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week’s election.

Karzai’s biggest rival and former foreign [...]

New York, Aug 24 (ANI): American military commanders operating with the NATO led mission in Afghanistan have informed President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke, that they do not have enough troops to do their job, and are being pushed past their limit by Taliban rebels who operate across borders.

The American [...]

Kabul, Aug.18 (ANI): Most of the candidates contesting the August 20 presidential elections in Afghanistan vow to negotiate peace with the Taliban, but appear clueless about how to move effectively in that direction.

Although incumbent president Hamid Karzai has often talked about negotiating with the Taliban, little of note has happened and the government’s reconciliation program [...]

Washington, Aug.9 (ANI): An American counter-terrorism official has said that the infighting within the Taliban could provide an opportunity for both the United States and Pakistan to exploit the rivalries to their respective advantages.

According to the counter-terrorism official, one of those opportunities, from the American point of view, would be the ability to focus its [...]

New York, Aug.9 (ANI): The bodies of three of the nine presumed victims of a helicopter-plane collision over the Hudson River have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Saturday.

NTSB chair Deborah Hersman says the recovery operations have been called off and will resume Sunday morning, due to compromising tides and low [...]

New York, July 5 (ANI): Thursday’s suicide attack on a bus carrying officials of a nuclear establishment in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city has once again raised questions over Islamabad’s claims that nuclear facilities in the country are safe and guarded well enough to counter the Taliban’s increasingly bold assaults against the country’s military complex.

Immediately after the [...]

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), July 3 (ANI) Incoming American forces are likely to continue to face a hostile Afghan population, even as they seek to reverse their military losses to a resurgent Taliban.

So hopeless is the prevailing situation in the landlocked country; that observers say that Afghan civilians are unlikely to take sides or offer unconditional [...]

New York, July 2 (ANI): The goodwill the United States was hoping to garner from the thousands of displaced people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, in return for aid being doled out by it, is being sabotaged by banned outfits such as the Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) and other radical charities.

The United [...]

New York, June 28 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has been boasting of success against the Taliban and other extremists, and claims that it has flushed the insurgents out, besides killing scores of them during its offensive in the Swat and Malakand Divisions, but a closer look at the region where the military operation purportedly resulted [...]

Lahore, June 25 (ANI): A leading US daily bribed the Taliban several times to set free one its staffers and his associate, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan last year, it has been learnt.

According to the ABC News, The New York Times purportedly bribed Taliban guards through a private security agency to free one its [...]

New York, June 24 (ANI): The Obama Administration is giving Afghanistan the attention it requires to rectify the mistakes of the past, in order to check the unprecedented rise in the violence, and strengthen the Afghan [...]

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New York, June 22 (ANI): An Afghan journalist who was held captive by the Taliban for more than seven months along with a New York Times reporter has revealed details of their night time escape./pp
Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin said that the escape plan included weeks of careful plotting, taking advantage of weary guards and dropping [...]

New York, June 21 (ANI): A US journalist kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan last year has managed to escape from the compound where he was being held, The New York Times reports.

David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after [...]

Washington, June 20 (ANI): The Obama Administration has fended off pressure to respond more forcefully to the disputed Iran’s presidential election after a week of swelling protests.

Administration officials said events this weekend in Tehran – when demonstrators plan to rally in defiance of the authorities – would be a indicator of whether President Barack Obama [...]