Tag: Terror

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday told the US that it was taking decisive measures for eliminating terrorism. The assurance was given during a meeting between the US Congressional delegation and Interior Minister Rehman Malik at the Ministry of Interior.
They discussed bilateral issues in detail whereas Malik said Pakistan was taking critical measures for elimination of terrorism and it had given great sacrifices to root out militancy from the country. The US Congressmen appreciated

ISLAMABAD - Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble Thursday said that a terror bid was thwarted when a terrorist planning to target the ongoing cricket World Cup 2011 was arrested. He said the arrest was made in Maldives and the suspect was on his way from Karachi to Sri Lanka. He was addressing a joint news conference after meeting Interior Minister Rehman Malik here. The Interpol secretary general said that the Interpol managed to nab the terrorist with the assistance of Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has made it clear that no compromise would be made on national security, adding that, government would fulfill the needs of country's armed forces for fight against terrorism. The president expressed these views while talking to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the sideline of the reception hosted in the honor of award winners at Presidency on Wednesday, sources informed Online.

LAHORE - Commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus has said that many terror groups based in the region were eyeing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, India's NDTV television channel reported.
"There are certainly other elements in Pakistan, the Taliban and several other varieties of elements who generally have symbiotic relationships, the most extreme of which might, indeed, value access to nuclear weapons or other weapons that could cause enormous loss of

ISLAMABAD - The OGDCL Officers Association and CBA (Mazdoor Ittehad Union) office have expressed their solidarity and determination against Thursday's coward attacks on OGDCL convoy in Dera Murad Jamali and landmine blast on OGDCL vehicle at Pathar Nala Dera Bugti. In a meeting in Islamabad on Saturday, OGDCL MD/CEO M Naeem Malik said the workers would not surrender to terrorism. Saeed Aslam Malik, President OGDCL Officers Association, Muhamamd Aqleem Khan, General Secretary, CBA also

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Sunday urged the US administration to expedite the payment of the Coalition Support Fund, saying the delay was impacting the country's efforts against extremism and terrorism. The demand was made during a meeting between Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and the new US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman here.
"The finance minister told the US envoy that suspension of aid to Pakistan owing to a row between Islamabad and

LAHORE - Three suspects were arrested in Shahdara for plotting terrorist activities in the provincial metropolis, official sources told Pakistan Today. One of the suspects was identified as Abubakar, a resident of Lahore, while the others were identified as Sher Dil and Saad Khan, residents of North Waziristan.
According to the sources all three had been under surveillance for a week. Sources claimed that the suspects were arrested in Shahdara by a special team late on Friday

TRIPOLI - Terrified residents on Saturday braced for bloody battles in an eerily quiet Tripoli after Moamer Gaddafi's forces prepared to defend the city from a rebellion controlling much of the rest of the country.
UN Security Council envoys embarked on tough negotiations over how to sanction the Libyan leader for his deadly offensive on opposition protesters. The escalating revolt to overthrow Gaddafi, which a Libyan diplomat to the UN said has killed thousands, has seen

PESHAWAR - Mardan, considered a sensitive and important military centre, has been under terrorist attacks for the last several years. The Punjab Regiment Centre (PRC), commonly used for training recruits, was the latest target of militants.
Another sub-training camp of PRC at Dargai Malakand had also been a target in 2006. On September 3, 2010, a suicide attack in Mardan killed at least one person. On June 5, 2009, a roadside bomb ripped through a security force convoy, killing

WASHINGTON - US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Wednesday that the threat of terrorism against the United States was in some ways 'at its most heightened state' since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.
In addition to the threats by al Qaeda, Napolitano said the country faced new threats from those inspired by the group and those already inside the United States.
"The threat continues to evolve and in some ways the threat today may be at its most heightened

PESHAWAR - United States acting Consul General in Peshawar Constance Arvis said that US people and the government was determined to help the terrorism-stricken people by reviving their living sources.
"Terrorism has not only taken precious lives but it has crippled the economy and destroyed the infrastructure," she said, while addressing the tools distribution ceremony among the terror-ridden families at Peshawar on Saturday. The ceremony was part of US Agency for International

LAHORE - Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that terrorism has adversely impacted the economies of the developing and the developed countries. Terrorists have no religion. The phenomenon of terrorism has not appeared suddenly out of nowhere.
Rather it has evolved through the phases of radicalism and extremism and terrorists are used as fodder for the cannons of the masterminds of this evil. He said that there are five phases through which terrorism passes. Radical and

LAHORE - India on Thursday said Pakistan has to root out terrorism that has turned out to be a Frankenstein monster for Islamabad, Hindustan Times reported. "Pakistan has created the Frankenstein.
They will have to deal with it," Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao was quoted as telling a group of Afghan journalists, ahead of next week's bilateral talks in Thimphu.
"The sickness is there. They have to cure it. They have to root out this evil," the paper quoted her as saying.