Just days after Pakistan's government banned the radical Islamist outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) under its "anti-terrorism law", authorities have opened negotiations with the hardline group, as per the Interior Ministry. The TLP on Monday...
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Caleb Larson
Submarines, Middle East
They excel at coastal defense.
Here's What You Need to Know: Pakistan’s navy may not be particularly large, but it doesn’t have a terribly large coast to defend.
Though small and non-nuclear, Pakistan’s...
To stop protests by far-right party that wants France’s ambassador expelled Pakistan shut down several social networks within its borders last Friday but lifted the ban after around four hours.…
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Clashes between a recently banned Islamist party and police in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, reportedly left at least two people dead and scores of others wounded Sunday.Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) was demanding that Pakistan expel...
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Note that we have never seen peaceful demonstrations against the alleged hijacking of Islam by jihad terrorists anywhere in the Islamic world. But protests against the freedom of speech always draw a crowd, sometimes a violent one. “Pakistan...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is urging Western governments to criminalize any insulting remarks against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and treat offenders the same way they do those who deny the Holocaust.Khan spoke Saturday after violent...
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Pakistan temporarily blocked access to all social media platforms Friday amid a crackdown on a radical Islamist party leading recent nationwide violent demonstrations against France over the publication of anti-Islam cartoons in a French...
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Earlier this week, several cities in Pakistan witnessed violent protests by members of a religious group called Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan after the arrest of their chief, Saad Hussain Rizvi. Following the violence, the Pakistani government slapped...
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France advised its citizens and companies Thursday to temporarily leave Pakistan, citing “serious threats to French interests” in the South Asian nation.The move follows violent protests this week across large parts of Pakistan by activists of...
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Pakistan announced Wednesday that it would ban radical Islamist party Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan after its supporters clashed with law enforcement for a third day, leaving seven dead and injuring more than 300 police.Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh...
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On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls, ages 13 and 15. They carjacked Anwar, Tasered him, and then, as he held on to the car...
Activists who are members of an Islamist party in Pakistan clashed with police and refused to unblock highways across many parts of the country for a second day Tuesday to protest the arrest of their leader.
Pakistani officials and witnesses...
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A leading Pakistani Christian outfit has claimed that two nurses have been falsely accused of blasphemy by a Muslim co-worker who holds a grudge against them. Blasphemy is punishable by death under Pakistan's laws.
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The 'Daily Mail': Two Christian women face the death penalty in Pakistan for removing a sticker of a Koran verse from a colleague's locker.
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The Taliban denied that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. and questioned whether he was killed by U.S. soldiers in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011.
The post Taliban pushes Osama bin Laden truther conspiracy...
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According to data provided by Jammu and Kashmir police, a total of 221 terrorists, including more than 40 top commanders heading Pakistan-based terror outfits, were killed in more than 100 encounters with India's joint teams of security forces in...
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Rangina HamidiBy External SourceApr 12 2021 (IPS-Partners) H.E. Rangina Hamidi is the first female Minister of Education of Afghanistan in the last 30 years. Minister Hamidi was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, fled with her family to Pakistan in 1981...
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Peter Suciu
Russian Army, Eurasia
These soldiers practiced using ropes to quickly land from a helicopter.
Key point: Don't try this at home. Highly trained paratroopers are able to use ropes to hit the ground and attack with suprising speed.
Last...
Police in eastern Pakistan have registered blasphemy accusations against two female Christian nurses and launched an investigation into a crime that carries the death penalty in the majority-Muslim nation.The accusation against members of the...
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Peter Suciu
India,
This year marks the 50th anniversary of India’s victory in its 1971 war with Pakistan, and the fact that the small “brown water” Indian Navy proved instrumental in that conflict has not been lost on the Indian...
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