PAKISTAN

At a trial, David Coleman Headley, the Chicago based Pakistani American who is accused of providing a front surveillance work in India in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has testified the involvement of at least one Pakistani Inter-Services intelligence directorate and a navy frogman, reported Reuters on Monday.

The Pakistan military finally regained control of the Naval air force after a 16-hour gunbattle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who attached the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday.

U.S. President Barack Obama declared solidarity between the United States and economically struggling Ireland with a symbolic gulp of beer and a rousing speech, telling a huge Dublin crowd on Monday: Your best days are still ahead.

President Barack Obama sipped stout and kissed babies as he landed in Ireland, marking the first of many planned events across Europe.

There are conflicting reports coming out of Pakistan and Afghanistan regarding the whereabouts (and very existence) of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reputed head of the Taliban.

The siege in Karachi's naval air station ended on Monday afternoon after the brazen attack storming Pakistan navy’s key airbase in the heart of the port city of Karachi for nearly 12 hours which has left at least 12 soldiers dead, reports on TV channels said.

Pakistani troops have ended a siege by militants and recaptured the naval air force headquarters after a 16-hour battle with militants on Monday.

US President Barack Obama is ready to order more covert operations inside Pakistan, similar to the May 2 attack that killed Osama Bin laden to target Al Qaeda or Taliban leaders in order to protect America and its allies.

Four terrorists killed and four held after a 12- hour gun battle at a naval base, PNS Mehran, in Karachi on Monday.

Afghanistan’s private television channel TOLO television on Monday reported that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan.

A group of heavily armed militants stormed a military airbase, PNS Mehra, in the Pakistani port city of Karachi early Monday morning, killing five security personnel and injuring many. According to various media reports, three militants were killed and four have been arrested.

At least 6 killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack in a police building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials told Reuters.

At least 4 people were killed in an attack that took place in Karachi around 10:30 p.m. at one of Pakistan's naval aviation base on Sunday, reported Reuters.

Since the shocking discovery (and subsequent) assassination of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in early May in a compound in Pakistan, rumors have swirled that authorities in Islamabad have been harboring and protecting the world’s most wanted man all these years.

The U.S. special operation forces were deployed with Pakistani troops on intelligence-gathering missions in Pakistan by September 2009, confidential American diplomatic cables revealed.

Fifteen people have been killed as a NATO tanker carrying oil for forces in Afghanistan has exploded in northwest Pakistan on Saturday.

Police in Pakistan said they have thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting a potential suicide bomber and two of his associates in the city of Karachi.

An unmanned U.S. drone missile strike in the Taliban-controlled North Waziristan province of Pakistan has killed at least six suspected militants on Friday, according to local officials.

In mid 2009, the United States feared that a Pakistani militant group would launch another terrorist attack in India similar to the Mumbai massacre of November 2008 which killed about 170 people, said a report in The Hindu, an Indian English-language daily newspaper.

A powerful blast in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday morning killed at least one person and injured 10 people, including 2 Americans.

A roadside bomb exploded near US consulate vehicle carrying Americans in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing one local person and injuring others, an embassy spokesman told Reuters on Friday.