Posts Tagged ‘lashkar’

Investigations into the Fort Hood massacre have begun to point to acccused Nidal Malik Hasan’s links with Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Speaker Meira Kumar’s initiative to hold a blood donation camp in Parliament premises on Thursday, on the first anniversary of 26/11, was surely innovative.

The tantalising possibility that David C Headley may have been a US undercover agent who turned rogue is vexing many as US authorities keep the Lashkar jihadi out of the reach of Indian investigators.

The significant manoeuvre is bound to step up pressure on India and other emerging economies to relax their stand at the forthcoming climate-change talks in Copenhagen.

London, Nov.26 (ANI): British intelligence agencies had tipped off the CIA over David Coleman Headley, an alleged Lashkar operative in the U.S. of Pakistani origin, days before he was arrested, sources have revealed.

Lahore, Nov 26(ANI): The collapse of a pact granting immunity from corruption charges to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has abruptly weakened his chances of becoming the first civilian leader in country’s 62-year history to finish a term in office.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that several NATO nations will jointly offer 5,000 more troops for Afghanistan, as London and Washington push allies to take on a greater share of the war burden.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, Pakistan took a decisive step, with an anti-terrorist court formally framing charges against Lashkar commander Lakhvi and six others for masterminding the Mumbai carnage.

Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran’s proxy armies on its borders.

Had it not been for the FBI, the Pakistan-born American of mixed parentage might have laid out a second deadly edition of the Mumbai terror attacks. It could have been on the first anniversary of the carnage.