Mangal Bagh flees to Afghanistan: Ansarul Islam

Banned organisation Ansarul Islam on Sunday claimed that the leader of their rival group Lashkar-e-Islam, Mangal Bagh, has fled to Afghanistan.

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Ansarul Islam spokesperson Qari Mehboob said that Mangal Bagh has fled the country with the aid of Amin Shah Shinwar.

I am not afraid of returning to Pakistan: Musharraf

LAHORE: Former President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday assured his supporters that he was not afraid of returning to Pakistan.

He vowed his return through a video address in Lahore.

Another earthquake jolts Japan

TOKYO:

A powerful aftershock rocked northeast Japan on Thursday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast devastated by last month’s massive quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant.

Bomb in Indian-held Kashmir kills prominent Muslim cleric

SRINAGAR: A bomb went off outside a mosque in Kashmir’s main city on Friday, killing a prominent Muslim cleric, police and witnesses said, the first such attack near a religious place in recent years.

Maulana Showkat Shah, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith which is involved in social work, was entering the mosque to lead Friday prayers when the bomb went off. One worshipper was wounded.

No radiation changes at Fukushima after quake: IAEA

VIENNA: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued statement on Friday saying that no radiation changes were detected at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant after Thursday’s earthquake and the injection of water remained uninterrupted into reactor pressure vessels.

Terrorism claims more than 3,000 lives in 2 years

ISLAMABAD: Terrorism incidents claimed more than 3,000 lives and injured 9,000 during the last two fiscal years in Pakistan.

Speaking in Senate on Friday, Interior Minister Rehman Malikrevealed that the figures did not include security personnel and those killed in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

'350 suicide bombers being trained in NW'

Fidai said his mission was to attack the shrine half an hour after the first wave of attacks so that people gathered at the site could be targeted. He claimed a man known as Sangeen Khan travels from Waziristan to Afghanistan and picks out targets for the bombers. He also claimed that a man known as Naeem indoctrinates the bombers.