Four Pakistanis arrested in Italy for Mumbai attacks

LONDON - Four Pakistani men, including apparently a father-son duo, have been arrested in Italy in connection with last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Italian police said Saturday.

Four Pakistani soldiers killed in Taliban rocket attack

ISLAMABAD - Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack on their camp in the troubled northwestern borderlands, while the forces killed six militants in retaliatory fire, officials said Saturday.

NIA exposes militant-politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus in Assam

GUWAHATI - The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has come up with some startling revelations about the politician-militant-bureaucrat-contractor nexus in Assam with government funds to the tune of millions going to the coffers of a separatist group.

He caught Kasab - only to go away forever, says family (One Year After 26/11)

MUMBAI - They remember his little gestures - a cake one day, a dress on another. They wish their father, assistant sub-inspector Tukaram Omble, hadn’t been so brave on the night of 26/11.

Include Pakistan’s input in Afghan policy, US urged

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad’s input in it.

No plan for military action against Maoists: Home secretary

BHUBANESWAR - Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Friday ruled out military action against Maoists who he described as “terrorists”.

Jharkhand violence rages, train blast kills two (Second Lead)

RANCHI - Maoist guerrillas Friday continued their violence spree in Jharkhand, after blowing up a passenger train overnight that left a woman and an infant dead, police said.

Mullah Omar not in Karachi: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON - Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.

Blame game on over passport to Pakistani spy

LUCKNOW - Policemen and passport officials here are blaming each other for a passport issued by the Regional Passport Office to suspected Pakistani spy Amir Ali, arrested in New Delhi last month.

Catastrophe in the world if Taliban triumphs: PM

NEW DELHI - Emphasising the threat of civil war in Afghanistan if the US withdrew its forces, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned of catastrophic consequences for the world, particularly for South Asia if the Taliban triumphed.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi: Report

WASHINGTON - Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s intelligence service, The Washington Times said Friday.

13 killed in Afghan suicide bombing

KABUL - Thirteen people were killed and 47 wounded Friday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Farah province, an official said.

Roadside bomb kills three policemen in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan’s troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

One killed in Jharkhand train blast, bus and mine targeted

RANCHI - One passenger was killed when a train was blown up while those on a bus miraculously escaped a gun attack and a 20 kg bomb was defused at a SAIL iron mine, police in Jharkhand said Friday as Maoist guerrillas enforced a 24-hour strike in the state.

Cross border terrorism hampering Afghanistan, Pakistan: Clinton

WASHINGTON - Noting that a “cross border fertilisation of terrorism” is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the two countries to work together to defeat terrorism.

One killed, 25 injured as Maoists blow up train in Jharkhand

RANCHI - One passenger was killed and 25 others injured when Maoist guerrillas blew up a train in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, a railway official said Friday.

Headley’s father was a Pakistani diplomat, mother ran a pub in US: report

WASHINGTON - Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley’s father was a prominent Pakistani diplomat while his mother belonged to Philadelphia. Born Daood Gilani, Headley changed his name in 2006 taking on the surname of his mother Serrill Headley, says a media report.

12 injured as train derails after Maoists blast track

RANCHI - Nearly a dozen passengers were injured when six coaches of a passenger train derailed Thursday night after Maoist rebels blew up a stretch of railway track in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, a railway official said.

Pakistan’s former military officer ‘co-conspirator’ of Headley: NYT

WASHINGTON - The arrests of David Coleman Headley and his associate Tawwahur Hussain Rana - the two Chicago men accused of planning a new attack in India - have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, according to the New York Times citing unnamed officials.

10 civilians killed in Afghan suicide bomb attack

KABUL - Ten civilians were killed and many others injured Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, the police said.

Bin Laden’s son wants to join the UN to promote peace

LONDON - The son Osama bin Laden favoured to carry on his work says he would like to work for the United Nations instead — as a peace campaigner.

Evidence building of Headley and Rana’s links to 26/11

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI -Investigators probing David Coleman Headley’s links in India said they were close to nailing the connection between American terror suspect and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana with the larger module that had planned and executed the 26/11 strikes.

Former IB chief in Assam for talks with militant groups

GUWAHATI - Former Intelligence Bureau chief P.C. Haldar, appointed by the central government as interlocutor for advancing talks with separatist groups, arrived here Thursday amid hopes of providing the deadlocked peace process a boost.

Peshawar suicide bombing kills 17 (Third Lead)

PESHAWAR - At least 17 people were killed and 26 seriously injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the main gate of this North West Frontier Province capital’s judicial complex on Thursday in the ninth such attack here in two months.

Did Rana facilitate terrorist entry into US and Canada?

TORONTO - Pakistan-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana, suspected of having had a role in the Mumbai terror attacks, may have used his immigration consultancy service to help terrorists enter the US and Canada.