NEW YORK - A New York federal judge has set the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for January after defence lawyers said US budget cuts would make it hard to prepare by an earlier date. Judge Lewis Kaplan issued an order signed Tuesday fixing a January 7 start date for the trial ...

ISLAMABAD – Formed 18 months ago to probe the events surrounding the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, a five-member commission, led by justice (retired) Javed Iqbal, finally on Thursday handed its report to Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf; though it is yet to be made ...

PARIS (AFP) - A football fan who had a Paris Saint-Germain replica shirt printed with the name of Osama Bin Laden on the back found himself in court, charged with defending terrorism. The 21-year-old, who bought the shirt in the club store on the Champs-Elysees, was arrested after a shop assistant ...

United States says their assessment concludes that there is no evidence that Pakistani government knew about Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden's location who was killed in an operation in Abbottabad in May 2011.This was stated by the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command William H. McRaven in ...

Washington  - For the first time, the general public will be able to see a number of the 6,000-plus documents seized in last year’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point said it will release the material online Thursday at 9 a.m. ET.John ...

ABBOTTABAD - A year after Osama bin Laden’s death, little is known about what the Pakistani authorities knew of his presence, allowing wild theories on what “really” happened to flourish.Sitting on a rock by his garlic patch in the Bilal Town district of Abbottabad, around 80 ...

ISLAMABAD - As reported by TheNation two weeks ago on April 3 that the family members of slain Osama bin Laden will be flying to their home countries on April 18, the authorities have prepared documents and finalised other formalities to deport the unwanted guests in the wee hours of ...

KARACHI - Bin Qasim industrial zone holds great potential for attracting foreign and local investment due to its unique location, being adjacent to the port having most modern shipping facilities.These views were expressed by the speakers at Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industry’s ...

WASHINGTON  - Reports that Osama bin Laden’s body was flown to the US - not buried at sea, as the official account said - have been denied by a senior US State Department official. The Pentagon considers ‘’false and fairly ridiculous’’ the information contained in ...

NEW DELHI - Hindu activists on Friday disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan. Members of the hardline Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stormed the set in Chandigarh - the northern ...

JAKARTA  - Suspected Indonesian bombmaker Umar Patek’s stay in the same Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed in a US raid was a coincidence and the pair never met, his lawyer said on Monday.Patek, 45, faces six counts of murder, bomb-making and illegal firearms ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - The Punjab Forest Department Saturday received 430 deer as a gift from Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Palace located in the district.Reportedly, the male and female deer including the breeds of Chinkara and Black Buck have been sent to Lal Suhnara National Park. The total number of deer ...

WASHINGTON - The US military and CIA are probing claims that classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden was given to Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, a Republican lawmaker said Thursday.Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said he requested an ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has released a video message in which the groups leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, heaps praise on his predecessor Osama bin Laden for his superior morals and loyalty to his comrades. In the half-hour tape titled Days with the imam, Part One a bespectacled Zawahiri, who ...

A teenage defendant angered a judge - by urinating into his waste paper bin in court. Corey Webb, 17, relieving himself shortly after the jury had left the courtroom in Tyler, Texas, reports The Sun. Local TV footage shows him smirking as he unbuckles his belt before walking over to the bin. The ...

Last month, Ron Paul said he would not have ordered the military action that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden. In his view, It was absolutely not necessary. Never mind that the raid by Navy SEALS fulfilled what had been a stated US foreign-policy objective since 2001, tracking down and ...

Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize the power of the Web to spawn an army of online followers who will prolong Al-Qaedas war against the West ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON - In what may be an attempt to completely destroy Osama bi Laden's image, US official claimed Friday that the big cache of computer files taken from OBLs compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos. The officials, who were not named, would not ...

LONDON (AFP) - FIFA presidential hopeful Mohamed Bin Hammam launched a blistering attack on rival Sepp Blatter on Thursday, accusing the Swiss official of sullying the organisation "beyond compare". Bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, criticised Blatter's decision this ...

Weve got him squealed a waitress as I walked into a coffee shop in Washington state. It took me few moments to realise she was referring to US President Barack Obamas triumphant declaration of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2. In no time, a full crowd had gathered to ...

DUBAI (AFP) - An Islamist website has accused the United States of releasing a fake tape of an ageing Osama bin Laden watching images of himself on television, and posted a video on YouTube it says offers proof. Shoumoukh al-Islam, the main website that broadcasts Al-Qaeda videos, posted a video ...

ABBOTTABAD (AFP) - In a madrassa close to the house where Osama bin Laden lived and died, young students are furious over the death of the Qaeda chief they considered a religious hero. Venting their anger over a US raid a week ago in which commandos killed bin Laden, reportedly in front of his ...

ABBOTTABAD (AFP) - Three women, 12 children, cows, rabbits and chickens all hid behind the high wall where Osama bin Laden carved out a family life, set to the gentle rhythm of changing seasonal crops outside his gate. Mobile phone video footage taken Tuesday by a Pakistani soldier offered a final ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistans spy agency should have known Osama bin Laden was hiding not far from its capital, Afghan officials said on Wednesday, the first direct comments from Kabul. The case also raised questions about Pakistans ability to protect its nuclear weapons adequately, said Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information & Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Wednesday in the Senate elaborating the governments position on the killing of Osama Bin Laden said it was a unilateral action of US forces while the lawmakers termed the statement evasive, incoherent and apologetic. Later, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - An IT consultant in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad was an Internet celebrity on Monday after unwittingly providing a real-time account of the attack that killed Osama. Sohaib Athar, who tweets under the name ReallyVirtual, began sending Twitter messages complaining about ...

Another cache of intelligence nasties has emerged, blinking, into the mainstream media daylight by way of WikiLeaks. This time, the information is drawn from official Guantnamo reports on detainees, drawing on information gleaned over the years of enhanced interrogations. One case that caught my ...

KARACHI - Bin Qasim Industrial Zone holds great potential for attracting foreign and local investment due to its unique location, being adjacent to the port having most modern shipping facilities. These views were expressed by the speakers at Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industrys annual ...

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea threw its support Tuesday behind Mohammed Bin Hammam in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as the head of world football's governing body FIFA. Chung's comment came a day after FIFA confirmed the candidacies of incumbent president Blatter and Bin Hammam. The vote will be ...

SANAA (AFP) - Osama bin Laden's ex-driver, Salim Hamdan, has been set free in Yemen where he returned in November after spending seven years at the US detention camp of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a relative said Monday. Hamdan arrived at his family's home on Thursday on being released by Yemeni police ...