Report in Dawn, October 30th, 2020PESHAWAR: The Islamic State, a militant outfit, is the prime suspect for the Peshawar seminary bomb blast in light of initial investigations, the provincial government was informed during a meeting on Thursday. The high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan was called over the Zubbariyah Madrassah bombing, which had killed eight students and around 120 others injured on Tuesday morning. A senior official told Dawn requesting anonymity that the…
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The terrorist attack inside a Peshawar madrassa shows that much needs to be done to improve the country’s security. The use of TNT with a sophisticated timing device has led some to conclude that the attack does not bear the typical signature of the TTP and its offshoots, and has been conducted by an erstwhile unknown group. While at least eight students have been killed, as many as 120 were injured, more deaths cannot be…
THE IED blast in Peshawar on Tuesday morning brings to an end a relatively long period without high casualty terrorist attacks in the country. And Pakistanis have once again been reminded that their children are not safe in their places of learning. At least eight young people died and more than 110 were injured when the device exploded at the Spin Jamaat or White Mosque while students from the nearby Zubbairyah madressah were attending a…
by Inam Ul Haque in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2020.The writer is a retired major general and has an interest in International Relations and Political Sociology.It is fashionable these days to lump every shortcoming that Pakistan faces at the doorstep of Afghanistan. Be it the inflation, the rising crime, the ever present terrorism, the congestion in our urban places like Peshawar, the proliferation of drugs or the ubiquity of Kalashnikov… Afghanistan and Afghan refugees…
Nobody expected the Afghan peace process to get off to a very fast start. And surely there would be stumbling blocks when two sides that have been mortal enemies for so long sit down to talk about not just living but also working together. Yet the pace of progress so far seems to have disappointed even those who expected it to take time. And the Americans, who were the principal force behind the sudden change…
report on The Frontier Post / October 29. 2020KABUL: Several parts of Nawa and Nad Ali district of the southern province of Helmand were cleared of the Taliban in an ongoing operation by Afghan forces, the Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. The operation was launched on Monday in Nad Ali and Nawa districts as well as in Lashkargah city, the center of Helmand, to retake the areas fallen to the Taliban two weeks ago,…
By Anisa Shaheed in ToloNews, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:41 PMStatistics by TOLOnews indicate that 60 civilians were killed and 143 more were wounded in explosions and armed attacks in four provinces from October 23-27. The civilians were killed attacks in Kabul, Ghazni, Khost and Zabul provinces, the findings indicate. One of the attacks happened near a tutoring center in the west of Kabul on Saturday evening in which more than 30 people, mostly students…
report on ToloNews, Oct 29, 2020Recent attacks in Kabul and Khost provinces that have gone unclaimed have raised questions among Afghans who say it will undermine the ongoing peace efforts in the country. The Interior Affairs Ministry has blamed Taliban for the attacks, but the group has not claimed responsibility for the incidents and has rejected involvement in some of them. On Tuesday, Kabul, Zabul and Khost witnessed deadly attacks for which no group claimed…
Report in TOLO News, 29 Oct, 2020 at 10:24 AMRecent attacks in Kabul and Khost provinces that have gone unclaimed have raised questions among Afghans who say it will undermine the ongoing peace efforts in the country. The Interior Affairs Ministry has blamed Taliban for the attacks, but the group has not claimed responsibility for the incidents and has rejected involvement in some of them. On Tuesday, Kabul, Zabul and Khost witnessed deadly attacks for…
After the regrouping of banned TTP in Afghanistan, the incidents of terrorism are on the rise in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Baluchistan. In the past three days, explosives devices have been exploded by terrorists, one in Quetta on Sunday and the other on Tuesday in Peshawar. The explosion of time device at a seminary in Peshawar city killed 8 students and wounded more than hundred, some of them are in critical condition. Ironically, the stereotype reaction…
The enlightened coup: op-ed by Shahrukh Nawaz Raja in The News, Oct 29, 2020
The writer works as a development practitioner for a local consultancy.This month marked 21 years since General Musharraf toppled the heavily-mandated Muslim League government led by an increasingly assertive and aspiring Ameer ul Momineen in Nawaz Sharif. In a script that we have become all too familiar with, Musharraf promised to rid the political system of ‘corrupt’ politicians and introduce ‘real’ democracy in the country. While the saviour complex was evident in the delight of…