KOLKATA - Is Delhi in Pakistan? Or does Kolkata float on the Bay of Bengal? Yes, if one goes by an advertisement splashed by the Eastern Railway in major dailies Saturday.

The faux pas occurred in the advertisement in the newspapers publicising the scheduled flagging off of a luxury tourist train Maharajas' Express by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday night.

The route of the train was shown by tracing a blurred outline of a map of India within a small box in the advertisment. The outline gave the wrong locations of the national capital and the eastern metropolis.

The recent arrests of senior Taliban leaders in Pakistan may have disrupted secret talks between members of the group and UN representatives, the former head of the UN mission in Afghanistan has said.

Kai Eide, who stepped down from the post earlier this month, confirmed on Friday in an interview with the BBC World Service that the UN had been holding talks with Taliban leaders since the spring of 2009.

The former top United Nations official in Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of deliberately arresting senior members of the Taliban who were involved in preliminary peace discussions.

Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, said the arrest by Pakistan in recent weeks of about a dozen leading members of the insurgent group fighting government and NATO forces in Afghanistan has completely stopped a secret channel of communication between the Taliban and the United Nations.

KABUL, Afghanistan - The former top United Nations official in Afghanistan said that recent arrests of high-ranking Taliban figures by Pakistan have severed important secret communications between the Taliban and the West, possibly delaying peace negotiations and making them more difficult.

Kai Eide, the former special representative for the United Nations secretary general, told the BBC in an interview broadcast Friday that, for the past year, the United Nations had been quietly involved in early discussions with Taliban figures in Dubai. He said those talks were upended by the arrests of senior Taliban figures, including the group's second in command.

The pair arrived to a home full of friends and relatives shortly before 8pm on Thursday after flying into Britain from Pakistan, where Sahil was abducted on March 4.

Mr Saeed said he was "really happy" to be reunited with his son but admitted that recent speculation relating to the investigation into the kidnap had been tough for him.

On his flight to Britain, the father told ITV News: "When I saw him he started saying daddy, daddy, daddy and he came downstairs.

sahil saeed and his father raja naqqash saeed have landed back in manchester on a flight from islamabad. the five-year-old was released on tuesday after being snatched at gunpoint in pakistan two weeks ago. he was reunited with members of his family

a five-year-old british boy, who was held by kidnappers in pakistan for two weeks, has flown back to the uk. sahil saeed, from oldham, greater manchester, was released unharmed on tuesday after a £110,000 ransom was paid by his family

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US intelligence officials said that an Al Qaeda member involved in the attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December was killed in an airstrike last week.

The announcement was made after CIA Director Leon Panetta told a newspaper Wednesday that US and Pakistani attacks against Al Qaeda in Pakistan have crippled the group and its leadership.

Agence France-Presse reports that the militant killed by a US unmanned aerial drone attack March 8 was Hussein Al-Yemeni, who specialized in bombs and directing suicide operations.

washington - al qaeda leaders are dodging so many missiles in pakistan's tribal areas they can no longer plot spectacular attacks on u.s. soil, cia director leon panetta said wednesday. "those operations are seriously disrupting al qaeda," panetta

the uk boy kidnapped in pakistan two weeks ago has been reunited with his father at the british high commissioner's home in islamabad. sahil saeed's father raja is now due to fly back to britain with his son. a ransom of £110,000 was paid to free

, leon panetta, the cia's director, said yesterday. so profound is al qaeda disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently intercepted message, pleaded to bin laden to come to the group's rescue and provide some leadership, panetta said. panetta

ISLAMABAD-A Pakistani judge officially charged five Americans from the Washington area with plotting terrorism in the country, after they were arrested in December on allegations of trying to link up with an al Qaeda operative.

The men, all students in their teens or 20s, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment after the judge in an antiterrorism court in the town of Sargodha charged them on five counts, including directing a person to commit a terrorist attack. All five pleaded not guilty to the charges, said a lawyer for the men.

. the men, who lived and grew up in the alexandria area, were arrested in pakistan in december. they were each charged with five counts in a special anti-terror court, three of which carry a possible life prison term. prosecutors say

A key al-Qaeda figure wanted for a deadly attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan has been killed in a US drone strike, US officials believe.

Hussein al-Yemeni, a top al-Qaeda planner, died in the strike in the city of Miranshah in Pakistan.

He was believed to have helped plan an attack on a base in Khost in December in which a suicide bomber killed seven CIA agents and a Jordanian officer.

The CIA's director has said al-Qaeda is now in disarray in Pakistan.

three people were arrested in spain, two in paris and a further three in pakistan, spanish police confirmed. the arrests followed a closely-coordinated surveillance operation involving police in britain, france, spain and pakistan, which involved

WASHINGTON-A drone strike last week in Pakistan apparently killed a top al Qaeda trainer who helped supervise December's suicide bombing at a Central Intelligence Agency post in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.

The strike on a suspected bomb-making facility in Miram Shah killed as many as 15 people, including Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, also known as Ghazwan Al-Yemeni, according to people familiar with the strike. The Obama administration does not comment on ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A Pakistani court Wednesday indicted five young Americans from the Washington, D.C., area on charges of plotting terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

The men have been held in the eastern city of Sargodha since their arrests in December. If convicted, they could be sentenced to life in prison.

The five men, ages 18 to 24, are U.S. citizens of Pakistani, African and Egyptian descent. They lived within blocks of each other in Alexandria, Va.

ISLAMABAD-A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.

The men -- all Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area -- pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, the most severe of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir told The Associated Press.

Islamabad - Two suspected US drone strikes killed at least 10 people Wednesday in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said. The aerial strikes took place in the North Waziristan tribal district, a known base for Taliban and al-Qaeda militants launching cross-border attacks on international forces in Afghanistan.

An intelligence official said a drone - or remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft - fired five missiles at a vehicle and a house near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, killing six people and injuring three more.

The family of a five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped while in Pakistan say they are "ecstatic" after he was found safe and well.

Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, had been snatched from his grandmother's house in Jhelum by armed robbers on 3 March.

He was abandoned on Tuesday morning 20 miles from Jhelum, near a village school in the town of Dinga, in the nearby Gujrat district, local police said.