An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he was the source who leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program, acting out of conscience to protect "basic liberties for people around the world."Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several US government sources said on Monday.Obama has pledged more transparency on controversial ...

KHANEWALThe CIA police claimed to have confiscated hundreds of litres of poisonous liquor and also arrested vintner red-handed.CIA Police In-Charge Rehmat Ali Chattha while talking to the media here on Saturday said that the CIA Police, on a tip-off, carried out a raid near railway crossing gate in ...

MOSCOW - Russia's security services openly named the alleged US intelligence agency's Moscow station chief Friday in a rare breach of protocol after arresting a purported CIA agent working undercover.Russia announced this week that it had caught alleged agent Ryan Fogle as he prepared to recruit a ...

MELVIN A GOODMAN When congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate intelligence committee to take up three major issues that have been largely ignored.  The committee must investigate the fact that the US presence in ...

MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday said it had detained an alleged American CIA agent working undercover at the US embassy who was discovered with a large stash of money as he was trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer.Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB) identified the man as Ryan C ...

WASHINGTON (DS): A newly-released memo has revealed the extent of the CIA’s involvement in Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden manhunt movie Zero Dark Thirty. In 2012 documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, it is said that Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark Boal ...

KABULAfghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday confirmed that his government received money from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), following reports of cash being handed over in suitcases and backpacks.“Yes, the NSC of Afghanistan has received money from CIA in the past 10 years. The ...

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

MAUREEN DOWDOver the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying killer robots executing targets around the globe. They were starting to realize that, while the American ...

gujranwala The relatives of a man tortured severely by a CIA Inspector staged a protest in front of CPO office here.Reportedly, Ramzan, a resident of Commissioner Road was picked up by CIA Police and was kept in a private torture cell of Inspector Ashiq Bajwa. He was tortured severely in the ...

NEW YORK - A new book claims that the CIA made a deal with Pakistan that allowed the United States to begin its drone assassination programme in exchange for the murder of an enemy of Pakistan.In an excerpt in Sunday’s New York Times, journalist Mark Mazzetti outlined how Pakistan, which was ...

ISLAMABAD - The World Health Organisation (WHO) denounced the running of a fake vaccination campaign to hunt down Osama Bin Laden by CIA that put all immunisation campaigns in Pakistan under suspicion.WHO Representative in Pakistan Dr Ni’ma Saeed Abid condemned the fake vaccination campaign ...

NEW YORK - The CIA-backed secret airlift of arms and equipment from Arab governments for Syrian rebels attempting to bring down the government of President Bashar al-Assad has been "expanded", a leading US newspaper reported Monday.Citing air traffic data, interviews with officials in several ...

LOS ANGELES - The US Central Intelligence Agency is collecting information on radicals in Syria for possible lethal drone strikes against them at a later stage, The Los Angeles Times reported late Friday. Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said President Barack Obama had ...

WASHINGTON - The US Senate Intelligence Committee will delay voting to confirm John Brennan as CIA director as the panel’s Democratic chairperson demanded Wednesday that the White House turn over more details about lethal drone strikes on terror suspects.Committee’s Chairperson Dianne ...

A former FBI agent said that there were indications that President Barack Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan converted to Islam between 1996 and 1999 when he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh, Al Arabiya reported.Agent John Guandolo, who retired from the FBI in 2008, told the US Trento Radio ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AFP) - Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison for leaking the name of a secret agent implicated in harsh interrogations of Al-Qaeda suspects. Kiriakou, 48, pleaded guilty before a federal court in October to having knowingly ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, according to US officials.Hundreds ...

LAHORE – The Kotwali CIA on Monday claimed to have arrested two members of an inter-district gang of robbers who martyred two policemen in the Lower Mall area at a police picket and fled with their weapons two years ago.The arrested also injured police officials in the Shahdarah Town area ...

WASHINGTON  - Acting CIA director Michael Morell said that “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Hollywood take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, exaggerates the importance of information obtained by harsh interrogations. The movie by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow tells the story ...

Zaki KhalidThe image in the article highlights what we’ve been saying all along that the so-called “Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan” (TTP) is actually a poor, distorted duplicate of the Afghan Taliban.As I pointed out in one of my articles, these militants are local recruits, even ...

SIALKOT - The CIA Police busted an inter-district gang of motorcycle-lifters and arrested its ringleader and four other members.DPO Afzaal Ahmed Kausar told the newsmen that a special team of CIA Police led by Inspector Malik Naveed Amjad had also arrested as many as eight notorious proclaimed ...

LAHORE – CIA on Saturday claimed to have arrested three Punjabi Taliban and have recovered explosive materials and weapons from their possession. An officer of CIA told The Nation that the police recovered 7Kgs of explosives, four hand grenades, a Kalashnikov, 100 bullets, Rs 160000 and ...

LAHORE – CIA police on Monday claimed to have smashed a gang of robbers by arresting its four members including the ringleader involved in several armed robberies. According to an official handout, the police also recovered one-kg gold. The police named the bandits as Aftab Ashraf, Abdul ...

LAHORE – The Lahore CIA had traced 1,563 cases of heinous crimes – including 46 cases of blind murder, dacoity-cum-murder and kidnapping for ransom – and recovered Rs160 million from the accused during the past 10 months, an agency spokesperson claimed on Wednesday.The CIA ...

LONDON - Daily Mail on Sunday revealed shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan.A damning dossier assembled from exhaustive research into the strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani policemen. It ...

WASHINGTON - Ahead of Monday night's third and final debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials urged the presidential candidates to focus on Pakistan."The toughest foreign-policy issue our next president ...

WASHINGTON - The CIA is pushing for Obama administration's approval to acquire more drones to add to their inventory, saying that they need to be able to expand quickly into Northern Africa without pulling drones out of Pakistan, according to media reports.The American spy agency is making the case ...

LAHORE – The Crime Investigations Agency (CIA) staged a fake encounter and gunned down two alleged criminals who were in the police custody for the last several days, a police officer disclosed to TheNation on Wednesday. The CIA police staged the fake encounter in the Shadbagh area late ...