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Ayman al-Zawahiri dead: Killing of Al Qaeda leader is long-sought 'justice', says Joe Biden
•The president said in an evening address from the White House that US intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family
Who is Nand Mulchandani, the Indian-origin man named CIA’s first tech officer?
Fp Explainers •A student of Delhi's Bluebells School, and the US' Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard universities, Mulchandani is the first-ever chief technology officer to be appointed at the CIA
Pride of Pakistan but a nuclear nightmare for the West, AQ Khan dies isolated and lonely
Rana Banerji •The Pakistani nuclear scientist died at the age at 85 lamenting why his destiny could never really be fulfilled or acknowledged by an ungrateful nation and its ‘spoilt brat’ military establishment
All the Taliban’s men: A who’s who of the Islamic Emirate’s new leadership
Praveen •Like the government of the first Islamist Emirate, which collapsed after 9/11, the cabinet is heavily dominated by leaders from southern Afghanistan
New China book provides valuable handbook for Indian negotiators, but with some missing context and nuance
Praveen •The rise of China is a challenge India cannot win, unless it restructures its own administrative capabilities, and revolutionises its society
President-elect Joe Biden picks William Burns as CIA chief; career diplomat set stage for Iran nuclear deal
•Burns has deep experience in security and intelligence matters after spending over three decades in the US foreign service, including a stint as ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008
Special Frontier Force: Formed after 1962 war with China, secretive outfit was trained by IB, CIA and R&AW
Fp Staff •It is important to note that the SFF is not part of the Indian Army but rather falls under under the Directorate General of Security (DGS), a covert organisation operating under the Cabinet Secretariat.
CIA spied on countries including India, Pakistan through secretly-owned Swiss encryption firm for decades, says Washington Post report
•The CIA read the encrypted messages of several countries, including India, for decades through its secretly-owned Switzerland-based company trusted by governments all over the world to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
Decade after Barack Obama outlawed CIA's torture programme, an illustrated guide to just what the ordeal entailed
•CIA torture techniques: Published here for the first time, they are gritty and highly personal depictions that put flesh, bones and emotion on what until now had sometimes been portrayed in popular culture in sanitised or inaccurate ways: the so-called enhanced interrogations techniques used by the United States in secret overseas prisons during a feverish pursuit of al-Qaida after the 11 September, 2001, attacks.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosts CIA chief day after US charges three people for spying on Twitter users critical to royal family
•Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted the Central Intelligence Agency's director Thursday, state media said, after three people were charged in the United States with spying on Twitter users critical of the royal family