Tag: Osama bin Laden
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Osama Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ is going viral on TikTok
Almost 12 years after he was killed, Osama Bin Laden is back in the mainstream discourse after an essay he wrote in 2000, titled ‘Letter To America’, went viral on TikTok. Users began sharing a link from The Guardian on the social media platform, which the website has now removed. In the widely circulating letter,…
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‘Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives, and he is the PM of India’: Bilawal Bhutto tells Indian Minister
Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari slammed Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in response to his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s accusations about Pakistan perpetuating terrorism and sheltering Osama bin Laden. “I would like to remind Mr Jaishankar that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives, and he is the prime minister…
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‘Justice delivered’: Biden says Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan
United States (US) President Joe Biden has confirmed that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, over the weekend by a US drone strike. In a televised address, Biden said the strike in Kabul had been carried out on Saturday. “I gave the final approval to go get him,” he said, adding…
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Throwback: Sunny Leone reacts to Indian media’s claim of Osama Bin Laden being her huge fan
Former adult entertainer and Bollywood actor Sunny Leone enjoys transnational popularity, recently certain Indian media tabloids claimed that the late Osama Bin Laden was her huge fan. Throwback to the time when American commandos killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad and media reports stated that he had a large collection of Sunny Leone’s videos in his abode.…
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‘Anyone who understood Afghanistan’s history would never have done what Americans did’: PM Khan
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has spoken about the invasion in Afghanistan by the United States (US) for the “war on terror”, which continued for 20 years, terming it as a failure. In an interview with the Director of the Advisory Committee of China Institute of Fudan University Dr Eric Li, PM Khan said, “Anyone…
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Senior Afghan Taliban leader named among Time’s 100 most influential people of 2021
Taliban co-founder and now Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan, Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been named among the “100 Most Influential People” of 2021 by Time magazine, reports Dawn. Veteran journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote Baradar’s profile for Time’s list. Rashid mentions Baradar as having “a charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure”, who “is revered” among the Afghan Taliban…
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HRW releases report on 9/11 calling US to end global war on terror
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report on September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States titled, ‘9/11 Unleashed a Global Storm of Human Rights Abuses’. The report says, “The brutal rulers [US leaders] figured out that the best way to get away with mass abuse was to label it a fight against terrorism.”…
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Rahimullah Yusufzai: A giant in the profession
The death of Rahimullah Yusufzai is a terrible blow to journalism – not just in this region, but at a global level. He was one of the best-known and most well-respected journalists on the subject of the Afghan conflict and considered an authority on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. With his passing we have lost not…
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‘PM calling OBL a martyr was a slip of the tongue’: Fawad Chaudhry
Prime Minister Imran Khan referring to slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a “martyr” last year was a “slip of the tongue”, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry clarified in Geo News programme, ‘Jirga’. “Pakistan has voted in the UN on the war on terror [against militants], we are a voter on a [UN] list that…
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‘Osama Bin Laden is a thing of the past, my focus is on the present and future’: Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday appeared on Geo News programme “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath” and said that former Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden (OBL) “is a thing of the past and my focus is on the present and the future”. Qureshi was asked once more about why it is that he, along…