The many faces of terror

Cleric Mohammed al-Buti. (Reuters) | | A A Nasim Chowdhury Last Update 27 March 2013 2:07 am The images were gruesome, even by recent standards: The aftermath of the suicide bombing at the Al-Eman mosque in Damascus last Thursday which left ...

The gunmen fired at Chaudhry Zulfikar from a taxi and hit him in the head, shoulder and chest, said police officer Mohammed Ishaq. Zulfikar then lost control of his car, which hit a woman passer-by and killed her, said another police officer, ...

Abd al Aziz Awda - 1950, Palestinian, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser - ca. 1947, Saudi, Saudi Hizbullah Abdul Rahman Yasin - 1960, American, World Trade Center bombing in 1993 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah - 1963, Egyptian, ...

UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has held a press conference on the sideline of the 2013 Government Summit. Sheikh Mohammed answered over 40 questions received from citizens, ...

Hurried and ill-planned Summits like the Vajpayee-Musharraf Summit in Agra which preceded the attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001 are best avoided for now, says G Parthasarathy American Independence day on July 4 is invariably an interesting day in Islamabad. It provides an occasion to meet Pakistan’s elite at the American ambassador’s reception. Indian forces had recaptured the high mountain peaks in Toololing and Tiger Hill overlooking the strategic Srinagar-Leh road ...

Emphasizing the Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) clout and survival capabilities in South Asia, Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the US Pacific Command (PACOM), observed, on April 9, 2013, LeT remains one, if not the most operationally capable terrorist ...

Pakistani prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar, who was investigating the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was shot at least 13 times on Friday as he was driving to a hearing related to the case. Mian Khursheed / Reuters Gunmen ...

US military plane catches fire, crashes NRA gears up to continue fight Boston attack first planned for July 4 UK man jailed for selling fake bomb detectors Jail for burning stepdaughter's body Fires evacuate US towns, burn cars ...

It's high time we saw past the nationalist gobbledygook and knee-jerk anti-West diffidence that our External Affairs Ministry feeds us, because what in effect it has done is to give the LeT and the JeM a free ticket to the next attack, a la Mumbai ...