A Pakistani man, Mohammad Saif Ur Rehman Khan, detained with suspicious chemical residues at the US Embassy in Chile was charged with possessing explosives, and then set free pending further investigation. He was ordered to stay in Chile and check in with authorities once a week. Prosecutors have three more months to develop their case, Judge Maria Carolina Herrera ruled.
Defense attorney Gabriel Carrion said the judge declined to charge Khan with associating with terrorists for lack of evidence. Khan, who maintains his innocence, made a victory sign with his hand …

Pakistan Cricket team advanced to the semi finals of the ICC T20 word cricket cup as good luck helped the side. Pakistan defeated South Africa by 11 runs in a crucial match of Super Eight round. As a result, South Africa was eliminated from the Twenty20 Word Cup.
Thanks to the superb performance by England cricket team that defeated New Zealand and knocked the team out of the Twenty20 World Cup. Pakistan with the best run rate compared to South Africa and New Zealand though tied at points was …

Senior US officials “jumped their gun” on the Times Square suspect Faisal Shahzad when they claimed that he was a trained member of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, The Washington Post wrote. In a regular column titled ‘Spy Talk,’ which reports on the activities of the US intelligence community, the Post named two senior officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and White House terrorism adviser John Brennan, who it believed rushed to judgment on this issue.
“The attorney general’s remarks, echoed by White House terrorism adviser John Brennan … smack of politics,” wrote columnist …

A Libyan Airbus crashed as it tried to land at Tripoli airport early on May 12, 2010, killing 103 passengers and crew aboard. According to officials the only survivor is a ten years old Dutch boy. Libya’s Afriqiyah Airways flight 8U771 was flying from Johannesburg in South Africa to Tripoli. The plane was approaching the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli when it crashed at around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT, 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday) There was no immediate word on the cause.
Libyan security source said:
All of the passengers and crew …

A 26-year-old Tunisian woman was fined in northern Italy while wearing a Muslim veil in public. The woman was walking to a mosque, Friday with her husband when she was stopped by police and ticketed 500 euros, or about C$665, in Novara, about 38 kilometres west of Milan.
The city of 100,000 passed a bylaw in January outlawing clothes that prevent identification by police. The region is home to the Northern League, a coalition ally supporting Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, which seeks a nationwide ban on the traditional Islamic …

The tally of Pakistani MPs to the 650-member House of Commons doubled in one of the closest and tense elections in decades which delivered a hung parliament and a completely new political landscape.
After an inconclusive general election that threw up the Conservatives as the largest party in a hung parliament, the Tory and Labour leaders have both unveiled deals of a governing partnership to their Liberal Democrat counterpart. All parties were engaged in backdoor talks to iron out some workable formulas after the incumbent Labour got drubbing all across the …

Clinton: there would be very severe consequences if attack like this can be trace back to Pakistan.

For American-Pakistanis, the bomb plot instilled not so much fear but embarrassment. “Back in the 1960s, Pakistanis were always held in great esteem. They were seen as making very valuable contributions to America. That deteriorated after September 11,” commented Arshad Qureshi, a 70-year-old actuary after saying his evening prayers at a neatly manicured Maryland mosque. Qureshi refused to criticize Americans who voice suspicions about Pakistan. “If you go to the root causes, I would blame ourselves,” he said.
Ashraf Qazi, chairman of the Council on Pakistan Relations, an advocacy group for …

“He should be hanged by the neck until he is dead,” he said. “I don’t find any case for a lesser punishment than death in the case of waging war against India, murder and terrorist acts.”
Kasab, 22, dressed in a traditional white tunic, sat with his head in his hands staring at the floor of the dock as the judge issued the sentence, three days after the Pakistani’s conviction on Monday.
“Today’s sentencing sends the message that keeping Kasab alive would be a crime in itself,” the public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam …

“I need to know why all this happened,” Mr. Almrei said in an interview. “And I need somebody to be held accountable for what happened.” In December, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley struck down a security certificate against Mr. Almrei, arrested in October, 2001, on suspicion of terrorism.
Mr. Almrei, 36, came to Canada in January, 1999, on a false United Arab Emirates passport and attained refugee status the next year.
Judge Mosley said there were reasonable grounds to believe Mr. Almrei was a security danger when he was detained just …