With continued violence in Kashmir and a heightened threat of terrorist activity by Pakistan-based militant groups, tensions and concerns over a serious military confrontation between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan remain high.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has exposed the sugar mafia involved in monetary fraud, speculative trade and money laundering as it got pieces of evidence of a persistent increase in sugar prices through creating artificial shortage of the commodity.

Investments were among the bevy of gifts showered on President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as he visited the UAE to deepen a personal relationship he has forged with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Pro-war and anti-peace rhetoric have been found in public clamor supplemented by bellicose comments made by the political leadership. However, nuclear restraint/taboo needs to be strengthened in South Asia by employing Arms Control Measures and Confidence Building Measures.

New Zealand who were handed another thrashing by Pakistan. The Pakistani juggernaut continued unabated. They were the first team to qualify for the semifinal of the world. Topping the group and looking like a million dollars.

The response of India to the plight of Kashmiris in the turmoil there was hardly anything. Parliament may be one odd speech, otherwise nothing. It was, for the first time perhaps, all these friendships and these grand alliances and all, they all stopped the other side of the Pir Panjal.

Thousands of angry protesters from the banned Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) group brought the Pakistan government to its knees yet again last week after scaling up demonstrations and blocking the country's busiest highway.

The government of Pakistan has signed yet another agreement with the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) after a two-week-long protest by the group, which killed scores of policemen and caused massive economic losses. This standoff has given important lessons for the future as well.

Despite constitutional guarantees, the people of the republic continue to squander their lives in the darkness of ignorance. No debate has ever taken place in the legislature. Anti-people amendments have been made to deny relief to the masses.

Calling India a “spoiler” in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf said he would not accept the Modi government’s invitation to the meeting of regional security chiefs being organized in Delhi next week.

This is the Islam that we grew up reading and learning about. A religion that strictly forbids us to intentionally hurt an ant, a spider, or a crow, how on earth can it allow us to butcher our fellow humans, that too in the name of religion? The time has come to stop using violence in the name of religion.

The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is an Islamist extremist group based in India. It was reportedly formed in the late 1970s, and a few years from its inception, the group evolved into an extremist group promoting its objectives through violent measures and terrorism.