Osama Bin Laden Dead

• Kasab asks jail guards about Osama's death

  Ajmal Kasab, who has been sentenced to death for the 26/11 attacks, has asked for details of how Osama bin Laden was killed.PTI reports that Kasab, who is at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail, heard security guards discussing Osama's death. After asking them questions, he reportedly said, "Jihad me uski jaan gayi" (Osama died during jihad).A guard told PTI...

• Osama's family told Pak security personnel about his death: Bashir

  The family of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had told Pakistani security personnel that he had been killed in the "covert" operation conducted by the US Navy SEALs, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said today.Giving an overview of exactly how Pakistan's forces reacted after getting information about the American raid, Bashir said on enterin...

• Geelani calls for funeral prayers for Osama

  Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked people to hold funeral prayers tomorrow for Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda who was shot dead in Pakistan on May 2 by a US Navy team.Geelani has appealed to Imams and people to hold funeral prayers in absentia for bin Laden after Friday prayers tomorrow afternoon, a Hurriy...

• Pak Army's intense discussions about Osama raid

  Pakistan's military top brass is holding "intense consultations" within its ranks and with some important civilian personalities to craft a response to "outside pressure" over Osama bin Laden's killing in a US raid, according to a media report today.Top military officials have been holding marathon meetings in the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi...

• Osama killed by rapid-fire shots in chest and forehead

  A US commando team that fought its way upstairs at Osama bin Laden's compound killed the unarmed Al Qaeda leader with rapid-fire shots to his chest and forehead, US media reports said citing officials.Bin Laden, who the White House said put up some form of resistance, was moving when he was first shot, Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Se...

• Pakistani army, shaken by raid, faces new scrutiny

  The reputation of the army, the most powerful and privileged force in Pakistan, has been severely undermined by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, raising profound questions about its credibility from people at home and from benefactors abroad, including the United States. That American helicopters could fly into Pakistan, carrying a te...

• Musharraf jogged in the area where Osama was killed

  As a military cadet, former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf used to go for jogging next to the place where al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces. The world's most wanted terrorist was killed in a complex in Abbottabad city near Islamabad, where he was living, just yards away from the Pakistan Military Academy. "It surp...

• Police seal off area around Osama bin Laden home

  Pakistan on Wednesday stepped up security in the neighbourhood where Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos, sealing off the area after crowds had flocked to his one-time villa home.Police closed the Bilal suburb of the relatively well-off garrison town of Abbottabad to media and public, where the Al-Qaeda chief had been living in secrecy in a ...

• Pentagon releases satellite images of Osama's compound

  Satellite pictures and a sketched diagram of Osama bin Laden's custom-made hideout in Abbottabad, Northern Pakistan, were released by the US Department of Defence on Monday, providing further detail of the compound where the al-Qaida leader had been hiding for years.The elaborately fortified compound was the scene the US Navy Seals' assault on Frid...

• Karunanidhi decries labelling Laden's extremism as 'Islamic terror'

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, who was killed in Pakistan, 'took to extremism' as a means to establish the theory he was indoctrinated with and the path chosen by him cannot be labelled as 'Islamic terrorism.'"His teacher had taught him that history is written with nothing other than blood; that f...

• 'Courier who led US to Osama hideout identified'

  The unsuspecting courier, who led the US special forces to the Abbottabad mansion of the elusive Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been identified as a Kuwaiti named Abu Ahmad, a media report has said."The courier who was in close contact with Osama bin Laden and who eventually led the United States to him was a Kuwaiti named Abu Ahmad," CNN quot...

• US forces recover crucial Dvds from Osama's hideout

  US special forces came away with hard drives, Dvds and a trove of documents from the Abbottabad safe house of Osama bin Laden which might tip American intelligence to Al Qaeda's operational plan and lead the manhunt to his presumed successor Ayman al Zawahiri.The documents, US officials said could also provide details of Al Qaeda's links to other t...

• US senator Lieberman asks Pak to prove innocence

  Osama bin Laden dead: As Pakistan continues to contradict the official American position on the Osama operation, what is clear is that in the aftermath of his killing the tensions between America and Pakistan are already rising. The US has suspended visa services across Pakistan.

• Osama bin Laden hid behind his wife during US forces raid: White House

  Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who ordered several terror attacks, used a woman, believed to his wife, as a shield when US special forces raided the one million dollar house in Pakistan's Abbottabad where he was hiding, the White House has said."Thinking about that from a visual perspective, here is bin Laden, who has been calling for these attack...

• Hundreds join rally in Pak to honour Osama bin Laden

  Hundreds took to the streets of  Quetta today to pay homage to Osama bin Laden, chanting 'death to America' and setting fire to a US flag. Angry participants belonging to a religious party in Quetta, the capital of southwestern province Baluchistan, were led by federal lawmaker Maulawi Asmatullah. It was the first rally in Pakistan after the U...