Pessimistic analysts have long predicted the unraveling of Saudi Arabia, a colonial construct stitched together in the aftermath of the First World War. Oil was, and will remain, the principle reason for the support of its unlikely bedfellows internationally. However, these pessimistic analysts notwithstanding, that equation is not going to change. Saudi Arabia is not about to crumble in the near to medium term, but internal tensions are escalating. Despite being one of the most…
Posts published in “Day: July 7, 2016”
Three attacks in one day in Saudi Arabia have put the entire international Muslim community in a sombre mood just two days before Eid. Successive attacks starting with Jeddah, near a Shia mosque in Qatif and at Masjid-i-Nabvi (PBUH) at a time when the mosques are crowded to the maximum tell the same chilling story; that the attackers will keep trying to harm anyone and everyone. Humanism has lost the battle against warped Islamist ideologies.The…
PERHAPS there could be no greater sign of the dilemma confronting the Muslim world than the terrorist attack on one of the holiest sanctuaries of Islam. The militants’ message was clear as Saudi Arabia was rocked by three separate, but apparently coordinated, acts of terrorism on Monday, the most shocking being the suicide blast outside the Prophet’s (PBUH) mosque in Madina, in which four security personnel were killed as they tried to prevent the bomber…
Make Ramazan ‘a month of pain for infidels everywhere’, reportedly called a spokesman for the Islamic State at the advent of the holy month. And that has been done. After deadly attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka and Baghdad the volunteers of Al-Baghdadi’s caliphate, struck three cities across Saudi Arabia. Casualties in these apparently co-ordinated attacks were not many as compared to others -six people, including suicide bombers, were killed. But their criticality lies in the fact…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan renewed on Tuesday its security assurance to Saudi Arabia following a string of bomb blasts in the kingdom by extremists, including one outside Masjid-i-Nabwi in Madina, the second-holiest site in Islam. The government “reiterates its abiding commitment to the safety, security and territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on terrorist attacks in Madina, Qatif and Jeddah on Monday. The Jeddah attack was carried out by a Pakistani…
The Taliban and other terrorist groups rule nearly two million citizens in nine districts of Afghanistan. Opposition groups control over nine districts and more than 50 other districts are under serious security threats. The Afghan Defense and Interior Ministries confirm that the nine districts are out of government control. They say the armed opposition uses those districts as their bases. According to the ministry four districts in Helmand, two districts in Badakhshan provinces, Kohistanat district,…
Hailing the July 1 Gulshan terror attack, international terrorist group Islamic State has now released a video calling for jihad in Bangladesh and threatening more attacks on “crusaders” and “crusader nations.” The video message believed to be issued from Raqqa in Bangla was first found in an IS-affiliate website and then released on YouTube early Wednesday. It comes as a follow-up to the dreadful attack on a Gulshan eatery in Dhaka last Friday that killed…