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Faisal Shahzad (Urdu: فیصل شہزاد; born June 30, 1979) is a Pakistani-American citizen who was arrested for the attempted May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt. Throughout his court appearance, Shahzad was unrepentant.
Faisal Shahzad's mugshot. Faisal Shahzad was born in Pakistan in 1979 to a wealthy, well-educated family. [58] [59] [60] His father, a former Pakistan Air Force Vice Marshal, is deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan. [61] Shahzad attended primary school in Saudi Arabia, and then studied in Pakistan. [62]
Bledsoe drove away from the scene, hoping to reach Memphis, Tennessee, where he intended to switch cars.With police in pursuit, Bledsoe got confused in a construction zone and was captured, eight miles from the recruiting center, near the intersection of Interstate 30 and Interstate 630 in Little Rock.
The PNS Mehran attack [3] [4] [5] was an attack/shooting by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda which took place on 22 May 2011, at PNS Mehran, the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy's Naval Air Arm and the most populous Pakistani military installation, located near the PAF's Faisal Air Force Base of Karachi, Sindh.
[6] [dead link ] Faisal Shahzad is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan and received bomb training from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan; his plot to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square was discovered only after the bomb failed.
His family includes his father Shahzad (Javed Sheikh), his mother Zehra (Saba Faisal), and his two sisters Fari (Nida Hussain) and Annie (Zoha Rahman). He wants to be with his childhood sweetheart Ashi (Momal Sheikh), but her father Jameel (Shabbir Jan) disapproves of Momin and fixes Ashi's engagement to Fakhar (Saad Azhar).
The straphanger who was burned to death on a Brooklyn F train in a horrific attack has been identified as a 57-year-old New Jersey woman, police announced Tuesday.
Shahzad (Persian: شَهزاد) or Shehzad is a given name and surname. The name is made from شاه ( Shah , "king"), and زاد ( Zad , "son of"), so the name means "son of the king". Notable persons with the name include: