Hangu Bazaar Suicide Attack Kills Dozens
27 May 2011
At least 28 people, four policemen among them, were killed and 55 injured when a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint in Hangu bazaar on Thursday. Officials said the pick-up was laden with 450kg of explosives. It was detonated by the bomber as soon as he reached the police post. The nearby official residence of the district coordination officer, offices of the Hangu police chief and the special branch, the city police station, 17 shops,...
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Mumbai Attack Co-Accused Claims He "Attended Over 50 Training Sessions" with ISI Handler
27 May 2011
Mumbai attack co-accused David Headley on Thursday told a U.S. court that a Pakistani Navy man was present during discussions with his Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) handler Major Iqbal on landing sites and arrival of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists by sea. Headley also said he had attended over 50 training sessions with the powerful Pakistan's intelligence agency and that he always briefed Iqbal first during his visits to Paksitan. Iqbal was...
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Overview of Most Recent Pakistan-US, bin Laden Developments
27 May 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there is no evidence senior people in Pakistan knew that Osama Bin Laden lived so close to Islamabad. But she said that the US and Pakistan needed to do more to battle Islamist militancy and that bilateral relations had reached a turning point. Mrs Clinton said any peace deal in Afghanistan would not succeed unless Pakistan was part of the process. She expressed Washington's "strong commitment" to relations...
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