Everything you need to know about Lashkar H.o.: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Lashkar H.o.: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, May 22 (IANS) India has sought from the US access to Pakistani-American 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both found guilty of supporting Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Washington, May 20 (ANI): The four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart Janet Napolitano will begin here today.
Nangarhar, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed Sunday as a roadside bomb went off in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement.
Islamabad, May 14 (ANI): Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington has cast doubt on incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif's overtures to the United States and India.
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Nawaz Sharif's expected return to power in Pakistan bodes well for the future of bilateral relations as his track record with India has been encouraging, former diplomats and analysts have said, but noted that the PML-N leader faces stiff domestic challenges.
Panaji, May 4 (IANS) Pakistan-sponsored terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba has trained militants even in Chechnya, from where the Tsarnaev brothers who have been accused in the Boston marathon bombings hail, former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official Amber Sen said Saturday.
Geneva, May 4 (ANI): Angered over the "pick, kill and dump" policy of the Pakistan Army and its spy agencies in Balochistan, especially their targeting of educated Baloch youth, Noordin Mengal called it a conspiracy to wipe the young generation of Baloch to rule over resource-rich Balochistan.
Peshawar, Apr. 28 (ANI): Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who reportedly helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has gone on hunger strike in Central Jail Peshawar 'in protest against the jail administration's ill-treatment'.
Islamabad, April 28 (IANS) Shakil Afridi, the doctor who allegedly worked for the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden, is on hunger strike at a jail in Pakistan's Peshawar city to protest the jail administration's "ill-treatment".
Srinagar, April 26 (IANS) Four policemen were killed Friday in north Kashmir's Baramulla district after being lured into a village on false information.
Panaji, April 19 (IANS) Goa's beaches were in the cross hairs of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terror suspect Nasir Raizuddin, being tried for the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts, Wikileaks has claimed citing a recently declassified US diplomatic cable.
Islamabad, Apr. 15 (ANI): Political parties in Pakistan have modified their election campaigns as terrorism threats loom large in many parts of the country.
London, April 12 (ANI): A senior Baloch leader has described Pakistan as a rogue state that has and will never serve the purpose for which it was created by the British in 1947.
London, April 12 (ANI): A senior Baloch leader has described Pakistan as a rogue state that has and will never serve the purpose for which it was created by the British in 1947.
London, April 11 (ANI): Pakistan has been using these Islamic fundamentalist groups to quell the Baloch nationalist movement, a spokesman of the UK-based Baloch Nationalist Movement (BNM) has claimed.
Allepey (Kerala), Apr 9 (ANI): Dome of an under construction catholic church collapsed in Alleppey district of Kerala on Monday, in which, one worker was killed and few others were injured.
Washington, April 9 (IANS) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistani militant group that has waged a campaign of asymmetric warfare against Indian security forces in Kashmir for two decades, is now becoming global in its interests and priorities, a new US study warns.
Washington, April 6 (IANS) Raising the spectre of a renewed conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, a US study has warned that Islamabad may well turn to trusted Pakistani militant groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), to do its bidding.
Washington, April 5 (IANS) Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruits from Pakistan's elite, contradicting "a lingering belief that Islamist terrorists are the product of low or no education or are produced in madrassahs", a media report said Friday quoting an exhaustive study.
Lahore, Mar. 31 (ANI): The Lahore High Court has been told by a senior law officer not to rule in favour of giving official legal assistance to Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafiz Saeed in a case filed against him in the United States, as doing so would strengthen the hand of the Indian Government.
Srinagar, March 26 (IANS) More than 35 families of militants who returned home from Pakistan and surrendered under the Jammu and Kashmir government's rehabilitation policy Tuesday staged protests here against the state and the central governments.
Mumbai, March 22 (IANS) Acclaimed writer Javed Akhtar says there is no fixed formula to write superhit films. However, he admits he can clearly tell the ways to write a movie that will bomb at the box office.
Srinagar, Mar 14 (ANI): The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) believes there aresignature signs of the Lashkar-e-Taiba being involved in the attack outside a public school in Srinagar in which five jawans and two militants were killed.
Washington, March 13 (IANS) With the Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), believed to be behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, remaining Pakistan's most problematic militant group, the US fears an Islamabad-linked terrorist attack against India could undo efforts to improve ties between them.
Islamabad, Mar. 8 (ANI): Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has apprised President Asif Ali Zardari about the military's concerns over the rapidly deteriorating law and order in the country, and called for urgent steps to deal with the situation.
Islamabad, March 5 (IANS) Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has criticised the Punjab provincial government for doing precious little to curb terrorism, particularly against banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
Islamabad, Feb. 25 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) have links with each other.
Islamabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Pakistan will ask Interpol to deport Tehrik-e-Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir from Afghanistan, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported Sunday.
London, Feb 23 (ANI): Pakistani authorities have detained the founder and former head of militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Malik Ishaq, at his home in Punjab province.
Islamabad, Feb 22 (ANI): The Pakistan army has denied having links with the banned terror outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) which is responsible for Shia killing spree in Balochistan and other parts of the country.
Washington, Feb 20 (ANI): The security operation announced by the Pakistani government against those responsible for the bombing that killed at least 89 people in Quetta, is just for show, experts have said.
Islamabad, Feb 20 (IANS) A leading Pakistani daily is upset over the cowardice of civilian leaders who don't "name and shame" those responsible for terror attacks.
Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The death toll rose to 84 in the devastating suicide bombing that hit a busy market in the Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials said Sunday.
New York, Feb 16 (ANI): Mumbai terror attacks' mastermind and one of the best known jihadi leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who has a 10 million dollar bounty on his head, is leading an open, and apparently fearless life in Pakistan, a report has said.
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS) President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has listed convicted key Mumbai terror attack plotter David Coleman Headley among five high-value targets that had been captured with US intelligence support.
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) With Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks roaming freely in Pakistan, the US suggested that its $10 million reward for information wasn't a bounty on his head.
Mumbai, Feb 8 (IANS) A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court Friday framed charges against suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Abu Jundal in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Despite a $10 million US bounty on his head, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, whose group attacked Mumbai in 2008, lives openly in Pakistan, the New York Times said Thursday.
Islamabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The Pakistan government has failed to act against abuses by security and intelligence agencies, which allowed extremists to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
Islamabad, Feb.1 (ANI): Pakistan's government has failed to act against abuses by the security and intelligence agencies, which continued to allow extremist groups to attack religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013.
Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) Calling the fight against terrorism an "unfinished business", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday said her country will improve its information sharing and law enforcement cooperation with India to deal with the terrorism threat from Pakistan.
Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) Calling the fight against terrorism an "unfinished business", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday assured India that bringing the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack remained one of America's top priorities.
Lahore, Jan. 27 (ANI): Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has said that Indian superstar Shahrukh Khan can move to Pakistan if he does not feel safe in India.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) The US Friday said its justice department decided against seeking death for David Headley because he cooperated with law enforcement authorities over the 26/11 Mumbai attack.
Despite 35-years of imprisonment to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and key plotter of 26/11 Mumbai Terror activist David Coleman Headley sentenced by a US Court, India Friday reiterates that it would continue to press United States of America to extradite Pakistani American citizen as India in real term was the sufferer...............
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said the sentence handed over to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley by a US court was a "partial judgment" and demanded his extradition to India to face trial.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) India said Friday that it would continue to press for the extradition of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley, sentenced by a US court to 35 years in prison for his role in the 26/11 terror attacks, and would have sought more punishment had he been tried here.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) India said Friday that it would have sought "much more" punishment for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley had he been tried here and that it would continue to press for his extradition.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (ANI): India on Friday made it clear that it will stand by its demand for extradition of Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist David Headley, accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case.
Union External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Friday on commenting upon Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley's punishment said that India would have sought "much more" punishment for the key plotter of 26/11 Mumbai Terror attack if he had been tried here.....................
New Delhi, Jan 25 (ANI): Reacting to David Headley's sentencing, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said on Friday that in India the trial of the Pakistani origin American would have been more severe and would have been given longer term a longer jail term for 26/11 Mumbai attack.
A United States District Court Thursday sentenced to Pakistani-American citizen David Coleman Headley to 35 years of imprisonment without bail in the heinous crime of plotting 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 persons including foreign nationals killed................
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) India would have sought "much more" punishment for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley had he been tried here, External Affairs minister Salman Khurshid said Friday.
Sydney, Jan. 25 (ANI): An American man who admitted to plotting and scouting targets before the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and then co-operated with US authorities to avoid execution has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Mumbai, Jan 25 (ANI): Eminent Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who was instrumental in sending lone surviving militant of 2008 Mumbai attack Ajmal Kasab to the gallows, has termed David Headley's sentence as meagre in comparison to the brutality and heinousness of the crime.
Chicago, Jan 24 (IANS) Pakistani-American David Headley, a key plotter in the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack staged by Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), may avoid life imprisonment when a US court sentences him Thursday.
Chicago, Jan 23 (IANS) US federal prosecutors are seeking 30 to 35 years in prison for Pakistani-American David Headley, a key plotter in the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack staged by Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Islamabad, Jan. 21 (ANI): The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), according to an editorial in a Pakistani daily, is a creation of the establishment.
London, Jan. 17 (ANI): A Chicago businessman who aided Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is blamed for the Mumbai attacks in 2008, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Chicago, Jan 18 (IANS) Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana was Thursday sentenced to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Chicago, Jan 17 (IANS) Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana is set to be sentenced by a US court here Thursday for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Chicago, Jan 16, (IANS) By seeking a prison term of 30 years for Tahawwur Hussain Rana, US federal prosecutors are probably foreshadowing a similar length of imprisonment, if not longer, for David Coleman Headley, a key plotter behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008.
Chicago, Jan 15 (IANS) US federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum 30-year sentence for Pakistan-born Tahawwur Rana for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
London, Jan 12 (ANI): Pakistan's minority Shia community has protested over what it the 'lack of protection' in Quetta, and have refused to bury the people who were killed in a series of blasts.
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) LeT founder and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has "challenged" the Indian government to prove that he was present near the Line of Control a few days ago.
The infamous Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Mohammad Hafiz Saeed Friday warned to India to be ready for uglier violence in Kashmir valley. His comment came when tension between India and Pakistan is simmering after Pakistani soldiers have allegedly killed two Indian soldiers and mutiliated their bodies after crossing the border at Poonch sector in Kashmir on 08 January 2013.............
Islamabad, Jan 11 (IANS) The toll in four deadly blasts Thursday in Pakistan -- three in Quetta city and one in northwest Swat district -- has risen to 116. At least 235 other people were injured in the bombings by extremist Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, media reports said Friday.
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafiz Saeed had recently visited Pakistan-administered Kashmir for some discussions, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Thursday.
Islamabad, Jan. 8 (ANI): The arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed is of utmost necessity in order to improve relations between India and Pakistan, according to an editorial in a Pakistani daily.
Pulwama, Dec 28 (ANI): In a joint operation launched by the police, the paramilitary and the Army, the security forces on Friday morning gun down a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in the Chandgam area of Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Thursday termed as "unacceptable" a conditional truce offer by the Taliban and said militant groups cannot dictate the state, media reports said.
Kulgam/Jammu, Dec 25 (ANI): Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday confirmed the killing of two Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants during a gun battle.
Srinagar, Dec 24 (IANS) Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed in a gunfight with security forces Monday in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said.
Srinagar, Dec 24 (IANS) Two separatist guerrillas and a police head constable were killed Monday in a gunfight in south Kashmir, police said.
Srinagar, Dec 19 (IANS) Exchange of fire restarted Wednesday in a Kashmir village as security forces tried to clear the site where five guerrillas were killed in gun battle a day earlier, police said.
Srinagar, Dec 18 (IANS) Five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrillas were killed Tuesday in a gunfight with security forces near Sopore town in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, police said.
Srinagar, Dec 18 (IANS) Four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrillas were killed Tuesday in a gunfight with the security forces near Sopore town in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, police said.
Sopore, Dec 18 (ANI): In an encounter with the Army, a militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba was killed in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Pakistan is awaiting "substantial evidence" from India to act against Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Sunday.
New Delhi, Dec 13 (ANI): Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who chaired the meeting of the Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament that reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, informed that the Hizbul-Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) continued to be the dominant militant groups.
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Indian Mujahideen are interested in carrying out terrorist violence in India but there are no such inputs about the Taliban, the government said Tuesday.
Srinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) Normal life in Srinagar was affected Monday owing to a shutdown called by the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to protest against a court order sentencing two locals to life imprisonment.
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) India Monday welcomed Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) handing evidence on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to a court in Rawalpindi and hoped "there would be some relief and satisfaction" once the court acts upon it.
Islamabad, Dec. 3 (ANI): The outbreak of an unknown strain of polio virus in Qilla Abdullah and Pishin districts in Balochistan has set alarm bells ringing and has prompted the centre to ask the provincial government to launch an anti-polio campaign in the region within 30 days.
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has requested US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the extradition of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to India, official sources said.
London, Nov 29 (IANS) Pakistani American David Coleman Headley, a key plotter in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, will be sentenced Jan 17, it was reported here Thursday.
Chicago, Nov. 29 (ANI): US-based Pakistani American, David Coleman Headley, who carried out surveillance ahead of the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege, will be sentenced on January 17.
Islamabad, Nov. 27 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the government is willing to give a general amnesty for all proscribed organisations, including the Pakistani Taliban, if they renounce terrorism.
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman said Monday that India's request for extradition of Lashkar?e?Taiba operative David Headley was under consideration and a decision could be taken soon.
Karachi, Nov. 22 (ANI): The security at all functional airports in Pakistan has been put on high alert to avert any possible terrorist attack during the month of Muharram.
Rawalpindi, Nov. 22 (ANI): Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab's execution is likely to further decelerate the already slow-moving trial of seven men arrested in Pakistan for their alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Mumbai/Bhopal, Nov.21 (ANI): Family members of senior policemen killed in 2008 Mumbai attacks expressed satisfaction over the execution of the lone surviving attacker, Ajmal Kasab, saying justice had finally been delivered.
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) It was his father's refusal to buy him new clothes on Eid that forced a miffed Ajmal Amir Kasab to quit home, take to crime and then embrace jihad, leading to his death in India.
Islamabad, Nov. 21 (ANI): A senior commander of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has said that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, who was executed in India on Wednesday for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was a "hero" who will inspire more attacks.
New Delhi/Mumbai,Nov.21 (ANI): Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil on Wednesday confirmed that Ajmal Kasab, the prime accused for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, had been hanged at Pune"s Yerawada Jail at 7:30 a.m.
Pune, Nov.21 (ANI): Ajmal Kasab, the prime accused for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, was hanged at Pune"s Yerawada Jail at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday,after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition.
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The US wants Pakistan to take "additional action" against terrorism so that it is no more a threat to the world, US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell said Monday.
Islamabad, Nov. 17 (ANI): Members of banned Pakistani militant organizations are more involved in incidents of bank robberies and other crimes in Karachi than the Taliban, the nation's CID Functional Crime Unit head Raja Umar Khitab has said.
New Delhi, Nov. 17 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said that action against militant group and alleged conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), would be time consuming and difficult as they enjoy tremendous public support.
New Delhi, Nov. 12 (ANI): Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh on Monday said that India welcomes Pakistan's effort to expedite the trial of the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
