Pak forces enter Taliban stronghold in Waziristan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani military on Friday claimed its forces have entered the important Taliban stronghold of Makeen in South Waziristan even as gunmen injured an Army brigadier and his driver in an audacious attack in Islamabad. “Today security forces have moved into the town of Makeen, which is considered as the base headquarters of terrorists,” the military said in a statement. The military’s claim came hours after two motorcycle-borne gunmen shot and wounded Brig Suhail and his driver shortly after he left his home in Islamabad. Sources said the brigadier worked for the ISI agency though there was no word on the incident from the Army. Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences said the brigadier and his driver were “stable”.

3 held for plot to attack US embassy in Dhaka

DHAKA: Three suspected operatives of Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT and HuJI, planning to attack the US embassy and other American targets here have been arrested in south eastern Bangladesh, police said. The suspects — two Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives and a HuJI activist — were arrested from the port city of Chittagong on intelligence inputs given on information provided by two suspected militants arrested in the United States , a spokesman for detective branch of police said.

Four Indians charged in largest hedge fund scam

NEW YORK: The FBI has charged 14 people, including two Indians and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $53 million insider trading scam, the largest ever such case in the United States. The latest action brings the number of people who have been charged in the case to 20, including four Indians. Deep Shah, a former analyst at the Moody’s Investor Service, and Gautham Shankar, a former proprietary trader at Schottenfeld Group in New York, were charged on Thursday.