`Obama’s pick for CIA may affect US drone program`

Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 17:58

US President Barack Obama began his second term with an unexpected opening for CIA director.

CIA chief David Petraeus resigns over love affair

Last Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 08:31

CIA director David Petraeus has stepped down from his post over his extramarital affair.

`MI5 plotted to develop radio-controlled bomber pigeons`

Last Updated: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 00:41

British intelligence agency MI5 considered developing remote-controlled homing pigeons - perhaps to carry explosives, according to newly released post-war diaries.

You are in queue, Airtel tells RAW on phone tapping

Last Updated: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 14:16

A barrage of requests by security agencies to a leading telecom company for telephone tapping led it to say a polite no even to the country`s premier external intelligence agency RAW.

CIA operative killed in Afghanistan: US official

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 18:43

A senior US defence official says an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency was among those killed in a suicide bombing at an Afghan intelligence office the latest so-called "insider attack" in the war.

US Senate defeats bill to cut American aid to Pak

Last Updated: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 16:00

The U.S. Senate has defeated a bill that would have denied American aid to Pakistan till the release of imprisoned Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi.

US: 9/11 trial ‘may not begin for four years’

Last Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:23

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators are due to be tried at the Guantanamo Bay facility for murders of 2,976 people in the US.

US mulling ways of stopping drone strikes in Pak

Last Updated: Saturday, August 4, 2012, 11:41

A senior Pakistani official said the Pakistani delegation urged the Americans to stop the drone strikes at every opportunity they got.

Pak, US intelligence chiefs hold `productive` talks

Last Updated: Friday, August 3, 2012, 13:39

Intelligence chiefs of the US and Pakistan have held productive talks on ways to work together to fight extremists, a US official has said.

US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat

Last Updated: Saturday, July 28, 2012, 21:01

The CIA believes that US national secrets are safer from other Middle Eastern governments than from Israel.

Alleged Pak spy remanded in judicial custody

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 22:41

Zubair Khan was arrested on July 17 and found in possession of secret documents relating to Indian Army which he claimed were to be supplied to an "agent" of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.