Tag: attacks
ATC acquits Imran Khan in SSP Asmatullah Junejo torture case
News Analysis | The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has acquitted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khan in the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Asmatullah Junejo attack...
Bomb blast in Lahore: who benefits from it?
News Analysis | In a bomb blast in Lahore at least 7 people have been killed and more than a dozen got injured on Wednesday...
German far-right ‘terror’ group faces verdicts for attacks
AFP | Eight members of a German far-right group face verdicts Wednesday after a year-long terrorism trial over a series of explosives attacks targeting refugees...
Muslim singer forced to quit French show over terror posts
AFP | A French Muslim singer who became an overnight star after dazzling judges on a TV talent show quit the contest Friday after coming...
Five attacks in the last year that shook Kabul to its...
Ezzatullah Mehrdad | As deportations of Afghan assylum seekers from the West continue apace, the South Asian country's capital Kabul is fast turning into a death...
Kulbhushan pops up as India-Pakistan spar at the UN
News Analysis | At a high-level Security Council meeting, Pakistan has raised the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the RAW officer apprehended by Pakistan on its...
Divided UN Security Council meets on Iran unrest
AFP | The United States and Russia clashed over Iran at the UN Security Council on Friday as a third straight day of pro-regime rallies...
Mehmood Achakzai attacks Parliament as FATA reforms bill heats up
News Analysis | Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) leader and sub nationalist Mehmood Khan Achakzai has stated that the Pakistani Parliament has no right over...
PAF chief’s decision to take down American drones signals new resolve
News Analysis | Pakistan Air Force (PAF) chief Sohail Aman said on Thursday that he has ordered his force to shoot down any drones, including...
Bomb blast near Afghan border kills 9
Reuters | A bomb rigged to a motorcycle exploded in a militant-plagued part of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing nine people, officials said...
US analyst castes mystery on 2008 Mumbai attacks
News Analysis | An American academic, political commentator and scholar has asserted that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were a false flag by the Indian government....
The myth of ‘Greater Baluchistan’ debunked: Part II
Zara Ali | The advent of the 20th century marked the beginning of political awareness among the younger generation of the western educated Baluch elite. The...
Why will US military continue to fail in Afghanistan?
Saleem Akhtar Malik | On 7th October 2001, almost a month after the tumultuous bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, U.S. and British...
Pakistan trying to crack a fresh helicopter deal with the US!
News analysis| Pakistan is trying to crack a new deal to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters to carry out anti-narcotics operations in FATA and Balochistan....
US strikes at India-Russia defense ties
M K BhadraKumar | In the post-cold war era, the United States and Russia kept a decent distance vis-à-vis each other while plowing their respective relations...
Tillerson returned empty-handed from Pakistan
Adam Garrie | US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif and other cabinet...
US interventionism produced the 9/11 attacks
Jacob G. Hornberger | One thing is certain about the U.S. mainstream media’s memorialization of the 9/11 attacks. They are not about to mention, much less...
Yet another terrorist attack in London
The authorities in Britain said on Monday that they were treating an early morning attack near a mosque in London as a possible act...
Pope Francis’ visit to Egypt: an attempt to resolve differences between...
James M. Dorsey | Billed as a bid to stimulate inter-faith dialogue, Pope Francis, on a visit to Egypt, is tiptoeing through a religious and...
Afghan Defense minister and Army Chief Resign: What next?
News Analysis| The Afghan defense minister and the Afghan army chief resigned on Monday, a few days after one of the most terrifying Taliban attacks...
Afghan Army’s biggest set back: Has Trump’s ‘Mother of all Bombs’...
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | In a gruesome attack on the Afghan National Army headquarters, more than 100 people lost their lives. The military formation...
India’s first use Nuclear Policy: Should Pakistan be worried?
Maimuna Ashraf | "In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them." – Sun Tzu ‘Splendid first-strike’ and ‘strategic ambiguity’ are lately...
Real reason why Turkey is not calling for an Investigation into...
M. K. Bhadrakumar | In principle, one country, Turkey, is uniquely placed to ask for an independent investigation into the chemical attack in the northwestern...
Should General Raheel have regrets?
Jaweria Waheed In Pakistan’s history apparently no military chief was as non-controversial as Gen. Raheel Sharif. He successfully carried on the legacy of the family...
Is Erdoğan losing his grip on a dangerously divided Turkey
Alpaslan Ozerdem, and Bahar Baser| Turkey’s New Year was marred by a terrorist attack, claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS), that killed 39 people...
