US, UK, India criticize Pakistan as terror haven

Pakistan's top spy agency is coming under increased pressure over its alleged links to and sponsorship of terrorists and Taliban insurgents, as the fallout continues from Sunday's leak of tens of thousands of documents on the war in Afghanistan.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, India's foreign ministry, and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff have all expressed concerns about Pakistan's spy agency in the past two days.Pakistan is ostensibly cooperating with the US in an effort to squeeze Al Qaeda terrorists and their allies in the remote mountainous regions along the border with Afghanistan.
But Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has long been suspected of playing a double game, with some elements in the spy agency allegedly having links to the Taliban and other terror groups targeting India and other foreign interests.

Pakistan has serious counter-terrorism deficiencies: US official

According to a top US official, Pakistan has tremendous deficiencies in counter-terrorism, a point consistently raised by the Financial Action Task Force. Pakistan, hence, needs to
take actions, especially on the issue of raising and moving funds for UN-designated terror organizations. The remarks come just 2 days after Pakistan was put on the FATF's grey list. 

Afghanistan: press Pak on terror havens

Afghanistan is anticipated to utilize the most recent round of wide-reaching talks on its expectations Thursday to move up strain on Pakistan over aggressive safe havens ahead of the disappearance of foreign troops.
Previous year, US military Chief Admiral Mike Mullen described the network as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence organization.

According to Najib Mahmood, a political science lecturer at Kabul University I believe the Afghan government will seize the opportunity in this conference to put extra pressure on Pakistan to contract with this difficulty more critically. Pakistan established that Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar would be present at Thursday's meeting and reiterated it was doing all in its control to battle terrorism and Islamist fanaticism.

Gilani says Cameron's remarks against Pak can affect war on terror

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the issue of hostile statements made by British Prime Minister David Cameron would be taken up at a diplomatic level, and warned that such statements could adversely affect the war against terrorism. "Such statements could affect the war against terrorism," The Dawn quoted Gilani, as saying.

The Prime Minister further referring to Pakistan's role in the war on terror, pointed out that the country had suffered more casualties and deployed more forces to fight terrorism than the entire US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

"Pakistan has never claimed to be a super power, but is currently undertaking efforts against terrorism in its best capacity," he added. Cameron has provoked a diplomatic row with Pakistan, when he accused Islamabad of "exporting terrorism".

U.N.-listed terror front' group leads flood relief in Pakistan

A militant Islamist group linked to the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai, India, is openly distributing aid to victims of the floods in northwest Pakistan, according to members of the group.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which the United Nations listed as a terrorist front group in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, is working across the flood-hit areas, its spokesman told McClatchy. In Charsadda, a town in the northwest that suffered some of the worst flooding, JuD could be seen distributing food and running an ambulance service. The group claims to be involved purely in charity work.

Pakistan's ambivalent attitude toward violent Islamist groups, including the Afghan Taliban, has alarmed Washington and other Western allies. Last week British Prime Minister David Cameron accused Pakistan of promoting the "export of terror."Concern centers on groups such as Jamaat-ud-Dawa, widely thought to be a front for extremist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has links to al-Qaida and is now said by U.S. officials to have global ambitions. More than 160 people were killed when a group of Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen attacked Mumbai.

THREE suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mourning procession in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore

It was the first major attack in Pakistan since devastating floods engulfed a fifth of the volatile country over the past month in the nation's worst-ever disaster.

The string of blasts ripped through the crowd at the moment of the breaking of fast in the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, and led to an outpouring of fury as mourners tried to torch a nearby police station.
Police fired tear gas shells to force back the surging crowd.Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3300 people in three years.

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3,433 killed in 215 suicide hits since Lal Masjid operation

The suicide bombings that rocked the four provinces of Pakistan in the wake of the Lal Masjid episode touched alarming heights in 2007, averaging more than one hit a week as the country’s military and intelligence establishment gradually lost control of the extremist jehadi networks and their leaders.

Terrorism experts say Pakistan has been turned into the suicide bombing capital of the world, especially in the aftermath of the Lal Masjid action, with the security forces, especially the Army and the police, frequently being targeted by human bombs.

While Benazir Bhutto’s tragic murder on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi was the most high-profile suicide attack that year, the people of Pakistan suffered 56 suicide hits between January and December, mostly targeting the security forces.

Pakistan pays for terrorism

The world sympathizes with Pakistan for the series of terrorist attacks it has suffered in the recent past. The worst were the attacks on two mosques in Lahore on Friday in which over 70 people were killed and several more injured.

That the mosques belonged to the Ahmadi sect whose motto is ‘Love for all, hatred for none’ makes the senseless killing all the more poignant. The attacks are believed to be the handiwork of Sunni fundamentalists for whom the Ahmadis are a proscribed group which deserves no mercy.

There are many inbuilt provisions in the constitution and the laws of Pakistan which are discriminatory in nature to this sect, which originated at Qadian in India’s Punjab. It is the conditions created by the state that had emboldened the Islamists to mount Friday’s attack.

Osama bin Laden 'living comfortably in Pakistan'

Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence services, according to a senior Nato official.

According to a senior NATO official Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan.

The latest assessment contradicts the belief that the al-Qaeda leader is roughing it in underground bunkers as he dodged CIA drones hunting him from the air. "Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," according to an unnamed Nato official quoted by CNN.

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UK: Al-Qaeda Terrorist

A man described by a tribunal judge as a serious threat to the national security has won his appeal to stay in Britain. Abid Naseer has been arrested in April last year, along with several other men, on suspicion of being a ring leader planning a terror attack in the UK.

Two terror suspects, Abid Naseer and Ahmad Faraz Khan, firmly appealed against deportation to Pakistan. A special immigration court said that Naseer was an al-Qaeda operative, but neither man should be deported.

The two men were among those 10 Pakistanis who have been arrested last April as part of a massive counter-terrorism operation in Liverpool and Manchester. The security services believed that the men were planning to attack within days of their arrest, but neither was charged.

Finally the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) said it believed Mr Naseer, 23, posted a serious threat to national security. It found that he had been sending e-mails to an “al-Qaeda operative” in Pakistan – the e-mails were said to be at the heart of a plot to bomb targets in north-west England. Also it said Ahmad Faraz Khan, 23, had been a “knowing party” to the attack plan. But in both cases, Mr Justice Mitting said it would be wrong to send back the men to Pakistan.

Efforts to track down Osama bin Laden: Pakistan

One year since discomfiture of Bin Laden's Abbott bad death, Pakistan is moving itself quicker to centre of actions. For about a year, Pakistan's safety establishment has been in a state of deep anger and discomfiture over the murder of Osama bin Laden. A former US official confirmed there had been some joint operations in the long-ago, mainly in Chitral, but was unaware of the specific experience.

According to Bruce Riedel, a former senior CIA analyst and expert on Islamist militancy ISI's three preceding attempt to net Bin Laden almost certainly looked like untamed goose chases from Washington's perspective. However its annoyance, US diplomats note, has not been aimed at at how the world's most required man could have lived inside the nation for so long, but rather at how a US team could have got in and out of its territory unnoticed.

No terror camps exist on 22 locations

Pakistan has said that it has examined the 22 pin locations of alleged training camps shared by India but found no such camps exist. A statement by the Pakistan Foreign Office said
they have examined the 22 pin locations of alleged training camps shared by India and said no such camps exist. "Pakistan is willing to allow visits, on request...

Lashkar-e-Jhanavi Attack in Quetta

Quetta - Pakistan

Sitting on 10 January 2013, a number of bombings took place in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and in the northern Swat Valley, killing a full of 130 people and wounded as a minimum 270. The Quetta bombings commanded to complaints by the city's Shia Muslim community.

Lashkar-e-Jhanavi  -- Attacker

The bombing was in charge for the first demises of journalists in Pakistan in 2013.
Two were from SAMAA TV, Imran Sheikh had been a camera man for five years and the third camera operator for the channel who was slew while covering a bombing occurrence and Saifur Rehman was a journalist. Also killed in the assault was Iqbal Hussain, who was a journalist from the news agency News Network International. Rehman at first outlived the explosion but died later at a hospital from his wounded, while the other two died on the spot.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf reacted by sacking the Chief Minister of balochistan, Aslam Raisani, and returns him with Zulfiqar Ali Magsi.

Nikki Haley warns Pakistan for harboring terrorists

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is on a visit to India, has reassured India about America's stance against Pakistan-based terrorism. "We cannot turn a blind eye to those
harboring terrorists. Communicating to Pakistan that this cannot be tolerated," she said while delivering a lecture at an event. Further, she said nations must do more to fight terrorism.

Locals disgruntled with military presence around CPEC in Pakistan

The CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) is facing backlash from locals ahead of general elections in Pakistan. Reports claim, a heavy military presence around the
CPEC's development region disrupts civilian life to a large extent. According to Richard Atwood of the International Crisis Group, this could become a major issue during the elections.

Pakistan Kidnapped former Pakistan agent Colonel Imam pleads for life

The former Pakistan intelligence agent known as the godfather of the Taliban emerged in a video today pleading for his life, four months after he was captured by an Islamic extremist group.

One of the most famous former officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Colonel Imam said his life was in danger unless the authorities meet his kidnappers demand to free a number of prisoners held for terrorism.Imam,
whose real name is Sultan Amir Tarar, worked alongside Afghanistan's mujahideen to defeat the Soviet occupation.In the mid-1990s, as an ISI agent in the country, he spotted the potential of the then emerging Taliban movement and helped nurture it. After 2001 he was forcibly retired from the ISI after being considers too radical.

Pakistan measures to halt terrorist attacks on airports

On December 15 Azam Tiwana, director general of the Airport Security Force (ASF), said that,”Authorities have taken special measures at Pakistan’s airports to prevent terrorist attacks using small aircraft, Brig”.

Addressing listeners at the ASF head office and academy in Karachi, he said terrorists could attempt to replicate the now-defunct Tamil Tigers terrorist group’s attacks on Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka, Jang reported.

He said the ASF has taken special measures and has equipped its staff with anti-aircraft guns, media reported.

Petraeus wants Taliban in Pakistan on terror list

The new military commander in Afghanistan and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee are urging the State Department to add to its terrorist list some Afghan insurgent commanders who operate from hiding places in neighboring Pakistan.

Commander of NATO forces Gen. David Petraeus wants some leaders of the Haqqani network added to the list, a senior U.S. Defense official in Washington said Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to describe internal administration discussions.On Tuesday, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., urged the State Department to take the same action. Levin is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Both asked for sanctions against the al-Qaida-linked group, led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Siraj. The Haqqani network launches attacks against U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan from the Waziristan tribal region in Pakistan.

Pakistan's survival threatened by terror and flooding, says president

A suicide bomber rammed a pickup truck laden with explosives into a police station in the north-west of the country killing 19 people. Among them were four children.It brings the total of people who have been killed in a wave of terrorist attacks since Wednesday to 109 amid signs the Pakistan Taliban is trying to capitalise on the disarray caused by the floods.

President Zardari acknowledged the dire threat in a statement released to coincide with Defence of Pakistan Day."On September 6 this year the nation is confronted with an existential threat from fanatics, zealots and extremists on the one hand and from the
material devastation caused by the history's worst floods on the other," he said."While the former is testing our will to survive and live in accordance with our values and ideology, the latter is testing our ability, resourcefulness and resilience to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of a natural disaster."

Pak hub of terrorism

Pakistan is a "hub of terrorism" in South Asia and beyond and its "cynical" attempts to spread a false narrative about Kashmir have always been unsuccessful, India has said
at the UN. India's remarks came after Pakistan again brought up the Kashmir issue in its Right of Reply. The representative of Pakistan said that the High Commissioner ...