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ISLAMABAD: American journalist Mark Siegel has become prosecution’s witness in the former prime minister and PPP leader Benazir Bhutto’s (BB) murder case, Geo News reported Saturday. Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court (ATC) is hearing Bhutto’s murder case today. Prosecutor of FIA Chaudhry Zulfiqar, who is a member of the joint investigation team in the case, recorded Siegel’s statement in the US that will be presented in the court today. Siegel in his statement told the investigating team that BB was distressed after receiving a phone call from former president Pervez Musharraf while he was present with her. According to Siegel, Musharraf warned Bhutto that she would be responsible for her own security if she returned before elections...

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has said that international powers were hatching conspiracy for the division of Pakistan, Geo News reported. Addressing an emergency meeting of Rabita Committee in London and Karachi, MQM Chief said that whatever being done in Karachi is a conspiracy against the integrity of Pakistan. Altaf said that he would accept martyrdom but never compromise on his ideology and mission. He asked the party activists to chalk out future plan under his teachings if former would have been killed. He told that they know everything about the game being played against them. Altaf further said that Urdu speaking people could not be made slaves forcibly, adding that they are peace loving people and...

WASHINGTON: The mission to kill Osama bin Laden was almost called off at the last minute due to a lack of certainty over whether the terrorist leader was living in a Pakistani compound, a new documentary has revealed. In his first detailed interview since the Al-Qaida leader was shot dead by Navy Seals, US president Barack Obama revealed that he took a “gamble” and was advised not to go through with the risky operation. Just days before the May 1 attack, the CIA had advised there was a 60-70 per cent certainty that bin Laden was holed up with his family in a fortified compound in a military suburb of Abbottabad, Pakistan. But on April 28 a special “red team” of security analysts advised the President they were only about 30-40 per cent...

FAISALABAD: A US security official’s attempt to enter a ‘sensitive’ area of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in Faisalabad was foiled by security agencies, who forced him to return after a heated scene at the institution’s gate. Reports claim that on Wednesday, Mr. Jaison Berger, Security Officer of the US Consulate Lahore, visited Faisalabad to check and inspect security arrangements for a US delegation’s scheduled visit to the city on September 13. While visiting different areas of the city, Berger reached the National Institute for Bio­technology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), a centre of nuclear research working under the direct command of the PAEC. Police staff and officials on duty stopped the US national at the gate...