Tag: Osama

I was called ‘Osama’ by Australia player during 2015 Ashes: Moeen...

LONDON: England all-rounder Moeen Ali claims he was subjected to a racial taunt from an unnamed Australian player during the first Test of the...

Pakistan was not aware of Osama bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad:...

NEW DELHI: Former United States president Barack Obama said that there is no evidence that the Pakistan government was aware of the presence of...

Osama wanted to re-brand al Qaeda, says White House

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden wanted to re-brand his group to identify it more closely with Islam as he was frustrated over its...

No evidence about Pakistan in knowledge of OBL presence: Munter

WASHINGTON Former US envoy to Pakistan Cameron Munter has dismissed the notion that Pakistan knew about Osama bin Laden hiding within their borders and said...

Sikh professor attacked in possible hate crime in US

A Sikh professor at ColumbiaUniversity has been allegedly attacked by a group of men who called him "Osama" and "terrorist" in an assault which...

Osama hunt movie banned in Pakistan

Cinemas in Pakistan would not be showing Zero Dark Thirty after distributors decided not to risk the wrath of the country’s censors, military and...

Senators press CIA for information on ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

The Senate Intelligence Committee wants to know exactly what the CIA told the makers of a controversial movie about the hunt for Osama bin...

ZERO DARK THIRTY

Zero Dark Thirty is military terminology for half past midnight, the time at which the pivotal raid to capture Osama bin Laden was scheduled...

Abbottabad Commission given green light to submit report to PM

The Law Ministry has finally given a green signal to the judicial commission probing the raid on al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden by...

Pakistan had no knowledge of Osama

A US assessment after the Abbottabad raid concluded there is no evidence that the Pakistani government knew the whereabouts of al Qaeda chief Osama...

First film on bin Laden raid pulls 2.7 million viewers

About 2.7 million viewers watched television premiere of the first movie about the US commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the National Geographic...

Osama film to debut two days before US election

A film dramatising the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is set to debut two days before the US presidential election. The film,...

US court throws out bin Laden driver conviction

A US federal court threw out Tuesday the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, once jailed at Guantanamo Bay, saying material support for...

US had planned air raid to target Osama hideout

The US was initially planning a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden but chose...

Osama shot ‘as he peeked from door’

A book by a member of the US commando team that killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistani hideout contradicts some details of the...

Army denies it tipped off US about Osama Bin Laden

The Pakistan Army has rejected the claim made by a US journalist in his book that a Pakistani intelligence official tipped off the US...

‘ISI colonel provided vital help in locating Osama’

An American journalist Richard Miniter in his latest book has claimed that a colonel from Pakistan’s spy agency had helped the US in providing...