Qari Saifuddin Sadat, chief of the High Peace Council (HPC) for northern Samangan province has been gunned down close to his residence in the provincial capital Aibak. The report has been confirmed by police and governor’s office. Police Chief General Mohammad Baqir said Sadat was returning home after offering prayers at mosque when unknown gunmen opened fire at him. Sadat received serious injuries in the attack and later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.…
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The writer is a freelance British journalist In his 24-minute end of year audio message Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers that the caliphate was doing well and that the Russian and US airstrikes had failed to weaken the group. But he also acknowledged the growing strength of the coalition opposing him: “If we are killed and the wounds are numerous and the problems amassed against us and the hardships are great, then it is…
The presence of another group of women working for militant Islamic State (IS) group in Karachi has been revealed by arrested terrorist Kamran Gujjar during an investigation. According to media reports on Monday, the suspected terrorist, who belongs to Punjab, told investigators that his wife and sister-in-law were working for Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS). Both the women were expert in brainwashing (of their targets) and they were collecting funds for the terrorist organisation…
SUKKUR: Daesh is growing in Punjab, but the silence of the Punjab government over the issue is puzzling. This was stated by the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, while talking to the media here. He said he wanted the Punjab government to explain “how Daesh is growing in Punjab”. Khursheed Shah said that a conspiracy was being hatched to fan religious conflicts in Pakistan. He asked…
Reuters in Dawn, November 27th, 2015 ISLAMABAD: Baloch separatists released a video on Thursday purporting to show that their leader Allah Nazar, who the government believed it had killed in a raid in August, was alive and leading the campaign. The date of the video released by the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) could not be independently verified, but BLF spokesman Miran Baloch said it was shot in Balochistan in November. “For quite some time…
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) should be planned and executed in a way to integrate and develop the backward and deprived areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Fata and Balochistan. The PTI chairman regretted that while the corridor planned to run from Gwadar to Kashgar was aimed at bringing the underdeveloped areas of China on a par with other parts of that country, in Pakistan the planners were ignoring…
By Naveed Miraj in The Express Tribune, Nov 27th, 2015. ISLAMABAD: China has assured that if India is allowed to get the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) it will go all out to ensure that Pakistan also joins the group. The assurance was given to Islamabad during the visit of a high-level delegation headed by President Mamnoon Hussain to Beijing recently. “The issue was discussed at length and Pakistan highlighted its point of…
by INAMULLAH KHATTAK in The Nation, Nov 26, 2015 ISLAMABAD – Chief of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Awami yesterday before leaving for Kabul, saying trust deficit between Afghanistan and Pakistan was the main hurdle in normalising bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries. Speaking at a news conference, Asfand said that Premier Sharif should not engage with Kabul through his powerless Advisor Sartaj Aziz. He said…
Report in The News, Nov 19, 2015 ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said no permission of any sort is required to Army Chief’s visits abroad and that his current trip to the US had been scheduled a couple of weeks in advance. Talking to media persons here, Khawaja Asif explained that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to US was focused on Pak-US bilateral ties and the overall situation of the region while Army…
By Noor Aftab in The News, November 19, 2015 ISLAMABAD: The top government functionary has directed the concerned authorities to ensure fast-track work on ongoing projects related to multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to match the pace of work being done by the Chinese government on its portion of the project, the sources told The News here on Wednesday. “At a time when various political groups have again started raising controversies about the CPEC project,…
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor may be a genuine, transformational moment in the country’s history, but, as with so much else under the present government, there is far too much secrecy and far too little transparency when it comes to the execution of colossal infrastructure and energy projects. The sense that the PML-N government appears to be treating the economic corridor projects as some kind of gift to the nation — from the Chinese via the…