On Sunday, a conference of religious scholars in Lahore termed jihadi groups, including the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Boko Haram, and their ideologies, flawed and built around ignorance. According to the ulemas, such groups are based on poor knowledge of Islam and benefit from the ignorance of the people they use […]
The Islamabad police has reportedly intercepted and foiled a terrorist plan targeting the Pakistan Day Parade due to be held on March 23, 2015. According to sources within the federal Police force, two suspects were apprehended in the course of raids carried out after the recent Qasar-e-Sakina Imambargah attack which shook the city last month. […]
Following the suspected suicide bombing attack on the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, senators criticized the country’s intelligence agencies for the recent security lapses in Balochistan. MQM member Tahir Mashhadi termed the attack an “intelligence failure” during a discussion in the house regarding the Quetta attack yesterday. In another unfortunate event, unidentified men had gunned […]
Dozens of people were killed Friday in an attack by Shiite militiamen on a Sunni mosque in the town of Bin Wais, in Diyala province in eastern Iraq. Sectarian attack represents a new blow to attempts by the Shiite Haider al Abadi to form a new government that integrates different faiths and ethnicity in the […]
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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj have said in a meeting in India on Friday August 1, 2014 to initiate collective measures to eradicate the safe heavens of terrorists groups such as al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both the leaders condemned terrorism in all its forms and vowed to eliminate […]
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The United States Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counter-terrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute said in a report released on Monday July 21, 2014. The report “Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses […]
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It was recently reported from Karachi that a bomb blast took place in the Gulshan E Iqbal area and luckily there were absolutely no casualties recorded. Karachi is currently going through a dark phase, considering that there are several operations being carried out in the city. It was being said that Karachi is full […]
At a meeting held on Monday at the Prime Minister House. PM Nawaz Sharif directed attendees to expedite the formulation of anti-terror laws in the country. The attendees including Ch. Nisar, Minister for Interior, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Chief of General Staff Lt. General Ashfaq Nadeem, Director General ISI and MI […]
Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Saturday directed the Intelligence Agencies to sharpen their intelligence-gathering techniques as timely intelligence can prevent many a disaster. “I would also request the masses to keep their eyes open and observe the movement of suspicious elements around them and inform the police accordingly,” the Prime Minister said in […]
A three-day international judicial Sunday issued Islamabad Declaration at the conclusion, calling for strengthening judiciary as an institution rather than placing a wholehearted reliance upon the strength of a few individuals. The declaration said that the judicial system needs to be reformed in such a way that majority of the cases are decided in […]
The people of Karachi were greeted Friday morning with yet another cell phone suspension over the so-called notion of security concerns after the failure of the law enforcement agencies to check terrorist attacks and activities of criminal gangs. Cell phones will remain silent until 3 p.m. in the port city of nearly 18 million […]
International media groups have condemned the killing of two Pakistani newsmen in a deadly twin attacks in Quetta late Thursday, the killing refreshed serious concerns over the safety of journalists. At least two journalists were killed and two others seriously injured when a bomb went off near a billiard hall in Quetta as the […]