Bin Laden's Son Escaped the U.S. Raid, Pakistan Says

  



During the chaos of the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound,  Bin Laden's Son                   escaped and is presently at large, a Pakistani security official tells ABC News. According to U.S. officials, bin Laden's son named Khalid was killed but it's unclear if another son, 18-year-old c, was present at the time of the raid.. Now Pakistani investigators say "it appeared someone was missing from the sprawling compound," reports ABC.

It will be interesting to see if bin Laden's wives confirm the report. One of the wives is Hamza's mother and is currently in Pakistan's custody. According to CNN and Al Jazeera, Pakistan agreed to grant the U.S. access to the wife, though a current timeline isn't in place for when that will happen.                      

Koko has been jailed for six year

Arafat Rahman Koko, youngest son of BNP chief minister Begum Khaleda Zia, has been jailed for six year. Because he siphoned off to Singapore more than TK. 20crore. He has received as bribe. He was also fined TK. 38.83crore. His business partner named Ismail Hossain Saimon has also been jailed for this case. Ismail Hossain Saimon, son of Akbar Hossain, who was shipping minister of the former BNP led four-party alliance government. While publishing the verdict, Judge Mohammas Mozammel Hossain asked the authorities to take steps to recover the money. The money of which has siphoned off to Singapore. Koko and Saimon has ordered to cite the court. Their penalty will be effective when they will be arrest or surrender to the court, the judgment said.

Taliban outreach key to Afghan solution,says Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton has said that Washington's "preliminary outreach" to the Taliban was part of a necessary but displeased attempt to achieve a political solution in Afghanistan.





Mrs Clinton told the Senate that the US is backing a diplomatic surge complementing the military surge that President Barack Obama has begun to wind down with the planned withdrawal of 10,000 troops this year.

"It is diplomatic efforts in support of an Afghan-led political process that aims to shatter the alliance between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and the insurgency, and help to produce more stability," she said.

She repeated that the Taliban insurgents must meet the US "red lines" of renouncing violence, abandoning support for al Qaeda, and supporting the Afghan constitution, which includes protections for women.

Rumana has lost her eyes

Rumana Monzur was tortured by her husband. He attacked on his wife’s eyes. Rumana minzur, who is a teacher of Dhaka University, said that the faults made by her husband are not true. What he told is a lie. He took away my light. So, I want justice. But her husband named Hassan said that his wife, Rumana had been deceiving with him. Rumana also said that her husband started torturing her soon after their marriage. She said that she was working on your computer in your room. Suddenly Hassan entered the room and shut the door. Then he drew me by the hair to the bed and pushed his fingers into my eyes and bit my nose off.     

DARJEELING PROBLEM DECIDED, SAYS MAMATA

Mamata banerjee, the chief minister of the west Bengal said that the problem of the Darjeeling has been decided. She also said that the central government gives the time. So, we will sign the tripartite agreement. The agreement could be finalized at Darjeeling. The inner part of the agreement is the structure of a new autonomous elected Hill Council. The council to be formed through establishment by a law.

Taleban bomber targets Afghan governor, kills 2

KABUL, JUNE 21: A Taleban suicide bomber targeted a provincial governor in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two civilians and wounding another two, the interior ministry said. The attack struck the usually peaceful province of Parwan, when the bomber tried to enter the compound of governor Basir Salangi.
“At around 10:45am (0615 GMT) Tuesday, a suicide bomber detonated himself in front of the gate of the Parwan governor’s compound. As a result, two civilians including a women were martyred and two others injured,” the ministry said.
Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said it was not immediately clear why the attacker hit the entrance but that he may have been targeting a car coming out of the compound which he mistakenly thought was the governor’s.
The attack came one day before US President Barack Obama is to announce the size of a drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan, mapping out an endgame for a 10-year war that has exacted a fearsome human and financial toll.
The Taliban, leading a nearly 10-year insurgency against the Kabul government and the 130,000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing. The militia is traditionally active in southern and eastern parts of the country but attacks are increasing in the north and west. In May, the region’s police commander, General Mohammad Daud Daud, was killed along with two German soldiers.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, three policemen were killed by a landmine blast while out on patrol Monday in the southern province of Uruzgan, said Amanullah Hotaki, the chief of the local provincial council.
Also Monday, two men — one a shopkeeper and another a foreign forces contractor — were shot dead in the southern city of Kandahar, police said.

Tunisian ex-president, wife jailed for 35 years

TUNIS, June 21: A Tunisian court sentenced ousted strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife to 35 years in prison each for misappropriating public funds and fined the exiled couple tens of millions of euros (dollars). “The court has ruled the facts against Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Leila Trabelsi have been established,” Judge Touhami Hafi said as he read out the verdict after only six hours of deliberation on the first day of the landmark trial.The couple were charged with embezzlement after the discovery of money and jewellery in their palace in the outskirts of Tunis.
Ben Ali was fined 50 million dinars (25 million euros/$36 million) and his wife Leila Trabelsi 41 million dinars (20.5 million euro/$30 million) in the verdict.
The judge said the sentences, which exceeded the 20 years that had been widely predicted, would take immediate effect, despite the couple being in Saudi Arabia.
A second case targetting Ben Ali only, involving weapons and drugs allegedly found in a presidential residence in Carthage, was postponed to June 30 to allow his lawyers more time to prepare their defence.
Ben Ali’s lawyer in Beirut denounced the verdict as farcical.“This is a joke,” attorney Akram Azoury told AFP. “You don’t retaliate to a joke. 

Obama warns of fresh tactical spats with Israel

WASHINGTON, June 21:: President Barack Obama warned that new “tactical” disagreements loomed between Israel and Washington, but vowed to leverage his administration’s “creative powers” in the cause of peace. Obama, who has had a testy relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke at length on the stalled peace process at a fundraiser for his 2012 reelection campaign grouping Democratic friends of Israel.
He said on Monday that as a difficult, challenging time loomed in the Middle East over the next few years, one inviolable principle was that the bond between the United States and Israel “isn’t breakable.”
“What is also going to be true is that both the United States and Israel are going to have to look at this new landscape with fresh eyes,” Obama said, arguing the Arab Spring had changed the context of regional diplomacy.
“It’s not going to be sufficient for us just to keep on doing the same things we’ve been doing and expect somehow that things are going to work themselves out.
“We’re going to have to be creative and we’re going to have to be engaged.  We’re going to have to look for opportunities where the best impulses in the Middle East come to the fore and the worst impulses are weakened.”
“There are going to be moments over the course of the next six months or the next 12 months or the next 24 months in which there may be tactical disagreements in terms of how we approach these difficult problems,” Obama said, vowing to bring to bear his administration’s “creative powers” for peace.
The president said that Israel and the United States were united on a broader vision for a secure Jewish state able to live in peace with its neighbours “where kids can get on the bus or go to bed at night and not have to worry about missiles landing on them.”

Darjeeling problem solved, says Mamata

NEW DELHI, JUNE 21: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the long-drawn Gorkhaland statehood problem in north Bengal has been "redused".
Whenever the cental government gives the time, we will sign the tripartite agreement," Banerjee told .Less than a month after coming to power, Banerjee's government took a major step towards restoring peace in the Darjeeling Hills by finalising a pact with the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha to creat a new hill council with wider powers.
She also said that she had asked the state's chief secretary Samar Ghosh to talk to the Centre so that the agreement could be finalised at Darjeeling.
"I will personally be there in Darjeeling during the tripartite talks," said Mamata.
Banerjee further said that plans to visit Darjeeling were being pushed back because of heavy rains in the region.
At the core of the agreement is the formation of a new autonomous elected Hill Council, which is armed with more powers compared to the earlier Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC).
The new council to be formed through enactment of a law would have administrative and financial powers and can frame rules related to the hills.
The council members will later be chosen through election but the body cannot enact any law.

Prince William'sbirthday

Prince William turns 29 on duty as RAF pilot

 LONDON (AFP) – Prince William is spending his 29th birthday at work as a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot on Tuesday, in a far cry from the pomp and ceremony that surrounded his marriage to Kate Middleton just weeks ago.

 The new Duke of Cambridge will be on duty at a RAF search and rescue base in Anglesey, north Wales, waiting for possible emergency call-outs, said Clarence House, his official residence.

"Today is part of a normal working week for him at RAF Valley in Anglesey," a spokesman for Clarence House told AFP, confirming that there are no plans for any formal celebrations in coming days.

"He's quite busy with the trip to Canada and California coming up."

On June 30 William and Kate -- now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge since they tied the knot at Westminster Abbey on April 29 -- will embark on their first first foreign tour together.

He went back to work directly after the wedding for a week, before whisking Kate off to the Seychelles on a delayed honeymoon in an apparent attempt to avoid media attention.

The prince has taken part in around a dozen rescue missions since joining the squadron in September. They included rescuing someone who fell off a cliff and someone who suffered a suspected heart attack.

William's low-key birthday follows the example of his grandfather Prince Philip, who spent his 90th birthday earlier this month doing charity work.

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha are hosting a birthday lunch for Philip and the Queen later on Tuesday, in what will be a rare visit by the monarch to 10 Downing Street.