On this day in 1861, the first engine in Pakistan chugged out of Karachi to an astonished crowd.
Mark Johanson
May 13, 2011
Osama bin Laden's mansion hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan did not have Internet or phone connections. However it did have a stash of pornography, current and former U.S. officials said Friday.
Elisha Maldonado
May 13, 2011
U.S. officials have spoken to Osama bin Laden’s widows in Pakistan, the White House has confirmed.
Palash Ghosh
May 13, 2011
He initiated the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and was out of office before the mission was accomplished. Now, former President George W. Bush has released his thoughts on the killing of bin Laden, saying that while he is not overjoyed at the news, it is ultimately a victory for the American people.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 13, 2011
The Twitter revolution now includes an unlikely user… the Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Palash Ghosh
May 13, 2011
U.S. drone missiles fired upon Pakistan’s lawless tribal region of North Waziristan have reportedly killed at least seven militants, local officials told Agence France Presse (AFP).
Palash Ghosh
May 13, 2011
Police in Ireland has arrested a converted Muslim man in Dublin on suspicions that he has threatened to kill Barack Obama when the U.S. presidents visits the Republic later this month.
Palash Ghosh
May 13, 2011
Pakistan’s top intelligence official has admitted his organization’s failure with respect to the presence of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the country, according to Geo News of Pakistan.
Palash Ghosh
May 13, 2011
Less than a month after the killing of Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden, the jihadist movement in Somalia threatened the life of Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of US President Obama.
Nagesh Narayana
May 13, 2011
Two suicide bombers from Pakistan’s Taliban branch set off blasts that killed 80 people and wounded over 100 at a Pakistan paramilitary police academy.
Hao Li
May 13, 2011
Less than a fortnight after bin Laden's death, there was indeed a revenge attack on a para-military academy near Peshawar in Pakistan where more than 83 people, majority of them newly trained cadets, were killed.
Nagesh Narayana
May 13, 2011
Pakistani Taliban on Friday carried out its first major strike to avenge the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. security forces in Pakistan earlier this month.
Satya Nagendra Padala
May 13, 2011
“You've got to focus on the US and the West,” Osama wrote in the journal seized during the U.S. raid at Abbottabad mansion. It reveals that the slain Al-Qaeda leader was preoccupied with attacking the United States over all other targets.
Sanskrity Sinha
May 13, 2011
Pakistan militant group, Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the Friday bombings in the country that reportedly killed around 70 people and injured many more.
Monami Thakur
May 13, 2011
Two suicide bombings on Friday morning killed at least 70 people outside a paramilitary force academy in Shabqadar, Charsadda district in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Nagesh Narayana
May 12, 2011
Jokes on dreaded (and deceased) terrorist Osama bin Laden have flooded the Internet ever since U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. special ops forces stormed his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed him. Of the several hundreds of jokes on the Al Qaeda leader, these 20 jokes take the cake.
Surojit Chatterjee
May 12, 2011
The Secretary General of Iran’s Supreme Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said the Al-Qaeda chieftain deserved to have a fair trial rather than face a “unilateral execution” by American commandos.
Palash Ghosh
May 12, 2011
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan will receive an upgrade in security over concerns that the commandos and their families may be subject to threats by terrorists.
Palash Ghosh
May 12, 2011
On his first visit to Afghanistan since the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, India’s Prime Minister vowed his steadfast support for the fledgling new government in Kabul.
Palash Ghosh
May 12, 2011
Osama bin Laden's journal found by U.S. sources who raided his northern Pakistan mansion last week reveals the deceased al-Qaeda leader urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 12, 2011
The Pakistani government has formally filed a protest with the U.S. over the allegedly unsanctioned commando raid by Navy SEALs which resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden and others at a compound in northern Pakistan last week.
Palash Ghosh
May 12, 2011
Osama bin Laden's handwritten journal - obtained during a raid by U.S. forces last week - shows he urged followers conduct attacks in the U.S. on the scale of 9/11 - involving body counts in the thousands - in order to drive Americans from the Arab world, according to a report.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 12, 2011