Two Ahmadiyya Muslims in the U.S., Amjad Mahmood Khan and Harris Zafar, are being threatened by the government of Pakistan with prison sentences of up to a decade if they fail to remove what the Pakistani government calls a “blasphemous”...
Biden’s handlers will not help Nadeem Samson because his case does not fit the establishment narrative, in which Christians are always the wrongdoers and Muslims always the victims. It is doubly certain that Biden’s handlers will not...
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Jessica Budlong
Security, Asia
Beijing’s new Export Control Law may help bring China up to international standards.
Since the 1980s, China has been accused of selling nuclear technology to multiple nations, including North Korea, Pakistan, and...
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Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has criticised “Hindutva extremists” in India as Islamabad co-sponsored a resolution on safeguarding religious sites at the 75th General Assembly. Islamabad alleged that Prime Minister...
Related topics: India, Religion, Islamabad, Narendra Modi
Pakistan said Thursday it will receive half-a-million free doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine by January 31. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement at a news conference, saying his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi,...
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Kyle Mizokami
Security,
Even without counting nuclear weapons, India has many formidable weapon systems at its beck and call.
Editor’s Note: Please see previous works from our “Weapons of War” series including Five Chinese Weapons of War...
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Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb has struck a paramilitary vehicle in southwestern Baluchistan province, wounding at least 11 troops
Christian ChristensenIf Democrats cannot critically engage with Obama policies that saw large numbers of innocent civilians in Yemen or Pakistan killed by drones, or an uncomfortably close relationship with Wall St., then the lessons of Trumpism are...
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Michael Kugelman
Security, Asia
Islamabad now has a strong incentive to quietly increase its relations with Jerusalem in ways that fall short of normalization. But just because Pakistan has compelling incentives to increase ties with Israel...
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A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years,...
A military helicopter search team in Pakistan has found the body of a Russian-American man, who disappeared Saturday, while attempting to climb a mountain in the country’s north.
Organizers Tuesday said Alex Goldfarb disappeared as he and his...
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Last week, a passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was held back by Malaysian authorities due to a British court case over the jet’s lease, worth $14 million. After the Boeing 777 aircraft was seized, other arrangements were put...
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Authorities in Pakistan said Monday they have arrested a university student in the southern port city of Karachi for allegedly collecting and sending funds to Islamic State militants fighting in Syria.
Separately, the Pakistani military said...
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Pakistan’s military says its forces launched an attack on insurgents in the northwestern region of the country, killing two of the militants and arresting a third.
The insurgents are suspected, authorities say, of being involved in an...
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Sindhudesh, the idea to create a separate homeland for the Sindhi community, independent of Pakistan, was mooted soon after Bangladesh was created in Pakistan’s Sindh region where people are now struggling to break free and have their own region.
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Walls are only racist when Trump wants to build them. “Pakistan military: Fence bordering Afghanistan nearly done,” by Munir Ahmed, Associated Press, January 11, 2021: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military said Monday it has nearly...
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In the leaked video chats that are part of Indian police’s investigation against anchor Arnab Goswami, he boasts about his contacts within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office. The Balakot airstrikes were supposed to be a top-secret mission...
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Authorities in northwestern Pakistan have removed 12 police officers from service and penalized 45 others for not preventing an Islamist mob from setting ablaze and destroying a minority Hindu temple.
On December 30, about 2,000 activists of...
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Recent visits by top Taliban leaders to Pakistan ahead of the second rounds of talks that began this month have caused concerns in India about the close ties between the insurgent group and Islamabad. Pakistan has already advised against India's...
Related topics: Afghanistan, Kabul, India, Taliban, Islamabad
Kyle Mizokami
Security, Asia
It is clear that an arms-control agreement for the subcontinent is desperately needed.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Pakistani nuclear doctrine appears to be to deter what it considers an economically, politically...