By Maqbool Malik ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Security agencies have started investigations to find out whether the arrested Iranian terrorist Abdolmalek Rigi or his Jundallah outfit had connections with self-exiled Pakistani Baloch dissidents, who were allegedly involved in terrorism with aid of the Indian intelligence agencies. Well-placed security sources told TheNation on Friday that the probe had been launched after arrest of Rigi and his two other companions in a dramatic action, which was taken by…
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Omer Farooq Khan in the Times Of India, Mar 6 PESHAWAR: All that the Pakistani Taliban wanted was money and that’s all they talked about, says Gurvinder Singh, one of the two Sikhs from Peshawar who were rescued after 40 days of captivity with the Pashtun-speaking terrorists. The Taliban beheaded the third abducted Sikh trader last month because their ransom demand wasn’t met. Gurvinder’s story blows the myth the Pakistani Taliban has built around itself…
MUZAFFARABAD, March 5: The combined opposition in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly staged a walk out on Friday in protest against the alleged partisan attitude of Speaker Shah Ghulam Qadir, who prorogued the session sine die in the absence of opposition citing its “indifference towards the agenda.” The session was requisitioned by the opposition to debate a host of issues, both political and administrative, and was convened by the speaker on February 25.…
by MUSHTAQ MUGHAL in the Nation, Mar 6 ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani are heading towards yet another friction over choice of new president of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chapter, sources told TheNation. According to sources, the two top leaders of the PPP are having difference over the replacement of the entire incumbent set up of the PPP AJK that has disappointed them…