Roots Of Rage: Why Is Pashtun Anger Justified?
"Why are you being hyper?" A dear friend from Lahore chided me one cold evening while we were chatting about ...
Friday, March 31, 2023
Tag: militancy
TTP’s Attack On Karachi Police HQ Is A Reminder Of Our Authorities’ Continued Negligence
Yesterday's brazen terrorist attack on the police chief’s office in Karachi—the commercial capital of Pakistan—and that too within the most ...
JUI-F MNA Defends Afghan Taliban, Says Pakistan Is ‘Ourselves Responsible’ For Terror Attacks
A key member of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) in the National Assembly forcefully defended the Taliban regime in Afghanistan on ...
January 2023 Deadliest Month For Pakistan In Almost Five Years
The first month of 2023 became the deadliest month since July 2018 as the militants carried out 44 attacks killing ...
Remembering The Children That Died Today
December 16 will forever haunt Pakistan. There is a strange irony in the fact that the green colour of the ...
Growing Terrorism Or War Business?
Post 9/11, the Afghan Pashtuns on both sides of border faced similar situations. According to an estimate, around 15,000 noteworthy ...
Analysis| Terror Attacks Continue: “Strategic depth” Policy Gone Awry
In August, a total of 27 terror attacks were reported and twenty-four of them were committed from August 1 - ...
What The People Of Swat Expect From Malala On Her Return
Malala Yousafzai, an international education activist and Nobel Prize winner, travelled to Pakistan even as a school bus was attacked ...
In Balochistan, Families Of Slain Journalists Await Justice
Journalist Shahid Zehri, reporter for Metro One News television in the industrial city of Hub in Lasbela district of Baluchistan, ...
As The Threat Of Terrorism Becomes Common Again, People In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Are Already Protesting
Since the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, the situation in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province is getting worse day by day. As in ...
‘Taliban Afghanistan Takeover Served TTP Entire Country On Platter To Operate From’
A climate of fear pervades Swat over rising Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) activity. TTP militants were first spotted in August along ...
Intelligence Agencies Should Focus On Militancy And Not Politicians: Hina Jilani
Human rights activist and lawyer Hina Jilani said on Wednesday that instead of eavesdropping and keeping tabs on civil politicians, ...
Terrorism 2.0: TTP Claims Responsibility For Swat Bomb Explosion That Killed Five
A bomb blast in Swat claimed the lives of the head of the local Aman Lashkar, two policemen and two ...
All Terrorism-Related Decisions Must Be Made By Parliament: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Foreign Minister and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for a meeting of allied parties on the issue of ...
Colonel Imam: From Kakul to Kabul
It was the January of 2011. Deep winter in Waziristan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, rode through ...
For Pakistan’s Security Establishment, Lal Masjid Is Not The Problem, Malauna Abdul Aziz Is
The Red Mosque never posed a military threat to the state of Pakistan, nor does it present any now. The ...
Islamic State Commander Killed In Security Operation In Mastung
A commander of the militant group Islamic State (IS) has been killed by security forces in a raid in Balochistan’s ...
Good And Bad Taliban: Pakistan Needs A Coherent Antiterrorism Strategy
Pakistan’s state policy towards the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has always been a bit bipolar. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the ...
China Sees Opportunity In Afghanistan But Can The Taliban Overcome Themselves?
With the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan underway, a regional response to Taliban’s military victories has started to take ...
Dealing With The Taliban In Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban shook the whole world. The swiftness with which the Taliban occupied the ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
FIA Ordered To Recover PTI Social Media Activist Azhar Mashwani
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the...
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh Civic Space ‘Repressed’ In 2022, Rights Monitor Says
Repression of civic space escalated in South Asia...