Tag: Osama bin Laden

US offers $1m reward for Bin Laden’s son

WASHINGTON: The US has offered a reward of up to $1 million for information about the son of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama...

Trump criticizes war hero for not capturing bin Laden sooner

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicising the military by faulting a war hero for...

PM Imran gets tough, snubs Trump

--PM says US should assess its own efficacy in Afghanistan instead of blaming Pakistan for its failures --Says Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties in war on...

They don’t do a damn thing for us, says Trump on...

--US president claims Islamabad helped shelter Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad   United States (US) President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed Pakistan “for doing nothing” for...

India blames Pakistan for talks failure

--Sushma Swaraj tells UN 'Pakistan’s commitment to terrorism as an instrument of official policy has not abated one bit'   NEW YORK: India’s Minister for External Affairs...

Dr Shakil Afridi moved to Sahiwal Jail

PESHAWAR: Security personnel on Sunday moved Dr Shakil Afridi, a doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound,...

Osama bin Laden was ‘brainwashed’: al Qaeda leader’s mother speaks for...

Nearly 17 years since 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s family remains an influential part of Saudi society – as well as a reminder of...

Germany holds suspected former bin Laden bodyguard pending deportation

BERLIN: A Tunisian man suspected of being an Islamist radical who once served as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard is in detention in Germany pending...

Shakeel Afridi shifted to ‘safer place’ after US plan to get...

--Amjad Shoaib urges immediate action in wake of CIA plan to get Afridi released ISLAMABAD: Dr Shakeel Afridi, a doctor who contributed to the CIA operation...

Ex-OBL aide roaming freely in Pakistan: report

ISLAMABAD: He is crisscrossing Pakistan championing a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, forbidding militant violence inside the country. But the mere fact that Fazlur...

Judges irked by govt’s failure to bring Hussain Haqqani to court

--CJP summons foreign and interior secretaries on Wednesday, says court will reach out to Interpol for bringing former envoy to Pakistan   ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of...

‘The Looming Tower’ brings 9/11 mishaps to TV

NEW YORK: Published 12 years ago, the best-selling and Pulitzer-prize winning book The Looming Tower remains a definitive account of US intelligence failures that littered...

Doctor Shakil Afridi who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten

ISLAMABAD: Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to...

Namesake grandson of Osama bin Laden is dead: reports

NEW YORK: Osama bin Laden has died – this time the grandson and namesake of the notorious 9/11 mastermind, according to a report. Little Osama...

Osama shifted to Afghanistan to supervise assasination plot of Benazir: report

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) revealed regarding the December 2007 incident that Osama bin Laden, the former chief of al-Qaeda, was supervising the assassination plot...

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...

Chaotic, leaderless Middle East favourable ground to spread ideology: OBL on...

A journal made public by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and apparently handwritten by one of Osama bin Laden's daughters offers a glimpse into how the...