Pakistani security forces arrested senior al-Qaeda official Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub (alias Abu Suhaib al-Makki) in Karachi on Tuesday. Muhammad Ali is believed to have worked directly with al-Qaeda operatives on the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Al Qaeda’s Yemeni link Abu Sohaib al-Makki, who was arrested by Pakistani security agencies, was a “key courier” between the organization’s former head Osama bin Laden and second-in-command Aiman al-Zawahiri, a report said.
Unconfirmed reports say Egyptian militant Saif al-Adel has been chosen to lead the global terrorist group al Qaeda following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a raid on May 1 in Pakistan by US Navy SEALs.
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Pakistan security forces have arrested a senior al-Qaeda official in Karachi on Tuesday, suggesting that Islamabad may finally get serious about cracking down on terrorists operating within her borders, two weeks after the spectacular killing of Osama bin Laden by US commando forces.
As if tensions weren't high enough between the United States and Pakistan, new internal Pentagon documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal reveal that the U.S. has been denying 40 percent of Pakistan's expense claims.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan has hailed China as his country’s “best friend” amidst deteriorating relations with the United States.
In his first informal comments After Osama’s death, Bush said that the news of Laden’s death didn’t make him “overjoyed”.
The Pakistan military had filed a “strong protest” with NATO after helicopters from the western alliance attacked and wounded two Pakistani soldiers in the lawless border region of North Waziristan.
Pakistan has agreed to return the tail of a U.S. helicopter that was damaged during the raid that brought an end to the terror leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month.
The death of a Saudi diplomat in Karachi on Monday was part of a conspiracy to ruin the relationship between Islamabad and Riyadh, says Jamaat-e-Islami party.
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will visit Pakistan for “strategic” talks, although no date has yet been established.
In an attempt to bring new life to relations with Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry is in Islamabad this week. And as an act of goodwill, Pakistan has agreed to return the tail of the U.S. military helicopter that malfunctioned during the Osama bin Laden raid, Kerry said.
The arrests of three people charged with providing material and financial support to the Pakistani Taliban came as a result of a three-year investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports.
More than 51 per cent people in Pakistan are “grieved” by Osama bin Laden’s death, according to a latest poll.
After two weeks of Osama bin Laden’s death, now comes word from pollster John Zogby that one out of five Americans believe that Bin Laden is not dead.
U.S. Senator John Kerry has issued a list of “specific demands” to the head of the Pakistani army with respect to Washington’s suspicions that top officials in the South Asian country had been harboring al-Qaeda terror chief Osama bin Laden for years.
United States officials have charged six people with providing financial aid to the Pakistani Taliban.
American intelligence officials in Pakistan have revealed that, apart from the three hostile widows of Bin Laden, some of his daughters were also among those quizzed by US officials in Pakistan under the watchful eyes of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Although they were interviewed as a group, only Khariraih Sabar, who is believed to be Laden's third wife and the eldest of them all, spoke up.
Federal authorities have announced an indictment, Saturday, charging six people with supporting Taliban militants in Pakistan. Three were arrested while 3 are still at large.
At least six people have been killed by a roadside bomb that struck a passenger bus near Kharian, a garrison city about 75 miles southeast of Islamabad, Pakistan, according to local police officials.
Pakistani Taliban leaders sometimes visited with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, according to documents and computer files captured by U.S. officials.