The loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan have claimed to have shot down a drone aircraft in eastern Nangarhar province. According to the photographs posted by the loyalists of the terror group in social media, the drone seems to be of surveillance type. However, the authenticity of the photographs could not be independently verified as the terror group claims the drone belongs to US forces in Afghanistan.…
Posts published in April 2016
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the United States imposed joint sanctions targeting the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the two countries announced on Thursday. The sanctions targeted four individuals and two affiliated organisations, including James Alexander McLintock and the Pakistan-based Al-Rahmah Welfare Organization, which the US Treasury Department said was a front for al Qaeda. Also listed were Abdul Aziz Nuristani, the Jamia Asariya Madrassa, Naveed Qamar and Saudi Arabia-based Muhammad Ijaz Safarash, who was accused of…
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/APP WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry has praised India for what he called the “responsible stewardship” of its nuclear weapons and materials, while indicating that Washington and New Delhi have begun conversations about Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, including its development and deployment of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons, in the backdrop of the Nuclear Security Summit which got underway on Thursday. “India has a long record of being a leader, of…
China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security, offers a snapshot of the political intrigue taking place within the regime of President Xi Jinping. The MSS has replaced two vice ministers within the past four years, after reports of political infighting and scandal. The current minister is said to be a figurehead, with the real power held by a hard-line Xi loyalist who was drafted last year from the party’s discipline commission. This shake-up within…
Politics in Bangladesh never fails to amuse us. No vaudeville play writer could have scripted the saga of Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as well as we have seen the events played out in his life in the last six or so years since he was made the ‘acting secretary general’ of the BNP. It must have come as a great relief to the gentleman to have been anointed as the substantive party secretary general of the…
The writer is a veteran journalist and founding member as well as executive editor of The Nation The visit to Pakistan by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani coincided with the arrest of Indian RAW operative Kulbhushan Yadav in Balochistan. The visit was not just drowned out by the fact of the arrest, but by the role of Iran, which had allowed Yadav entry in its port of Chahbahar, after which he had illegally entered Pakistan through…
LAHORE – Two of the five terrorists killed in Lahore police shooting were identified yesterday as fighters of the self-styled and so-called Islamic State, The Nation has learnt. Thirty-year-old Junaid Zahoor and 26-year-old Saqib Kamran were the residents of Abbottabad district, where the US Navy SEALs had killed Osama Bin Laden in a special operation in 2011. The identification of two of the dead was ascertained as relatives of the suspected militants reached Lahore to…