ISLAMABAD: The military establishment is waiting for the outcome of inquiry against those involved in fabricated news published against the national security, sources told Daily Times on Sunday. They added that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured the military leadership a few days ago that action would be taken against those responsible, but no action has been taken against anyone so far. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had also met Nawaz Sharif twice in this…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to attend a key regional conference on Afghanistan in India in what appears to be a calculated diplomatic move at a time when the Narendra Modi administration is making desperate attempts to isolate Islamabad globally. The Heart of Asia-Istanbul ministerial meeting is scheduled to take place in the first week of December in the Indian city of Amritsar. Pakistan’s participation in the meeting was doubtful in the wake of ongoing tensions…
LAHORE: Parliament’s Kashmir Committee chairman Maulana Fazlur Rehman says the body has decided to convene an All-Party Conference of the organisation. It would be formally announced in the next week. He was speaking to reporters at the residence of JUP chief Pir Ijaz Hashmi here on Sunday. Responding to a query, he said the Kashmiris would continue to fight for their freedom.http://www.dawn.com/news/1291926/fazl-hints-at-apc-on-kashmir
The writer is a security analyst. THE operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the grip of the militant Islamic State group may take a few more weeks, or maybe even months. But the fear of foreign fighters affiliated with IS returning to their home countries is intensifying in the international community, mainly Europe. According to various estimates, since 2012, more than 30,000 men and women from over 100 countries — including Pakistan…
Gen. John W. Nicholson, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan in an interview with NBC news on Sunday said that Daesh militants are trying to establish a caliphate inside Afghanistan territory. “Right now we see them very focused on trying to establish their caliphate, the Khorasan caliphate, inside Afghanistan,” said Nicholson. According to Nicholson the U.S. has seen foreign fighters, mostly Uzbeks from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and many Pakistani Taliban who the joined Islamic…