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US lawmakers seek ‘suspension’ of assistance to Pakistan

by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, November 19th, 2023WASHINGTON: Eleven members of the US Congress, in a letter to US Secr­e­tary of State Anthony Blinken, have urged the Biden administration to withhold future US assistance to Pakistan, until the country restores constitutional order and holds free and fair elections. The lawmakers requested a legal determination from the Department of State under the Leahy Laws and Section 502(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act to assess if US-origin…

Terror trends in 2022

By Dr Naazir Mahmood in The News, Jan 16, 2023The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UKThe annual security report that the Center for Research & Security Studies (CRSS) releases every year has some points to ponder for us in its report for 2022. Researcher Muhammad Nafees has been meticulously analyzing data that he has collected for over ten years now. The latest report reminds us that proxy terror returned to Pakistan…