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Islamabad Calls on Kabul to Take Action Against ‘Terrorist Entities’:

Report in TOLOnews, March 26, 2023 at 7:17 PMPakistan Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch called on the Afghan interim government to take steps against “terrorist entities and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to Pakistani people and Pakistani security forces.” Speaking at a press conference, Baloch said they are in “contact with the Afghan interim authorities on security and counter-terrorism matters including our concerns regarding terrorist entities which have hideouts in…

Terrorism in Pakistan: US perspective

Editorial in Business Recorder, Mar 5, 2023The US State Department’s perspective on terrorism in Pakistan remains bereft of the whole truth, yet it is welcomed as it shares with Islamabad its concern to get rid of this menace. The department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2021 goes into some detail about the resurgence of terrorism in the country and warns that Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) wants to push government out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to establish Sharia. It…

Militant attacks surged in February, says report

by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Mar 2, 2023ISLAMABAD: Militant attacks witnessed a surge in the month of February this year, but the resultant deaths were down as compared to January. An attack by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Karachi Police Headquarters was the most high-profile attack in the month of February. According to the statistics released by Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), militants carried out 58 attacks during the past month…

PTI chief cleared of terrorism charges in 2014 sit-in case

by Malik Asad in Dawn, February 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) cleared former prime minister Imran Khan of terrorism charges on Monday, removing sections of the terror law from two first information reports (FIRs) against him and other leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) related to the 2014 sit-in. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan remanded the case to the sessions court. The Secretariat police station had registered FIRs over the violence during the sit-in.…

Protecting Women: Editorial in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023

The rape of a young woman at gunpoint at the Fatima Jinnah Park in F-9, Islamabad, shook the nation. Public backlash forced the government to re-evaluate its approach towards security and has brought the police force under fire for failing to protect citizens—partic­ularly women. Fortunately, the case has made its way to the National As­sembly which has stressed the need for justice and demanded a compre­hensive review of the security situation of Islamabad but what…

Savage bombing of a mosque

EDITORIAL in Business Recorder, February 1st, 2023Ever since November 1995 when al-Qaeda terrorists carried out a deadly attack on Egyptian embassy in Islamabad Pakistan has been a playing field of terrorists of various genres, but with alternating variation of timeframe. So, after a relative calm of a couple of years Pakistan appears to have fallen prey to terrorists of local brand; they’re known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). What does this entity really want? There is…

Afghanistan a hurdle in CARs trade deals

by Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, Jan 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-Tajikistan transit trade agreement remains stalled, along with Pakistan’s dream to include Afghanistan in the agreement. During the Ashraf Ghani government, Pakistan and Tajikistan struggled to include Afghanistan in a transit trade agreement. Afghanistan had refused to become part of the agreement as it insisted that India should also be included. Pakistan, however, had conveyed that this would not be possible due to diplomatic…

Suicide bomber identified; hunt on for two facilitators

by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, January 4th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Investigators in the terrorism case in Islamabad have identified the suicide bomber and are searching for two suspects who facilitated him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rawalpindi to reach the capital and detonate an explosive device on December 23. Sources close to the investigators told Dawn that there were two facilitators of the suicide bomber: one brought him to Islamabad on December 23 and the other, who was…

Pakistan Imposes New Restrictions on Afghan Commodities

By Bibi Amina Hakimi in ToloNews, Jan 2,2023 at 10:19 PMThe Joint Chamber of Afghanistan-Pakistan Commerce on Monday said that Islamabad has imposed new restrictions on the transit of Afghan commodities, creating hurdles in the way of traders to transfer their products via Karachi port. “The problem is in invoice. The Pakistani government has increased the invoice of commodities such as tires, electric devices, medicines, oil and sugar,” said Najibullah Safi, head of the Joint…

Afghan Embassy in Islamabad Maintains Ties with Other Diplomatic Offices

report in TOLOnews, Jan 1, 2023 at 9:01 PMThe chargés d’affaires of Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad, Sardar Ahmad Shakib, on Sunday said his office has maintained relations with diplomatic offices of at least 27 countries in Pakistan. Shakib said he has held at least 70 meetings with representatives of various countries in Islamabad. “There were 65 to 70 face-to-face meetings. They come here and we also went there and discussed Afghanistan’s reconstruction with them. We…

‘Enemies of Pakistan’ will get full force response: NSC

Report in The Nation, Dec 31, 2022ISLAMABAD – The National Security Committee (NSC) Fri­day expressed an un­equivocal opinion that Pakistan’s national in­terests will not be com­promised and nobody will be allowed to harm the key concept of na­tional security. The NSC, which met in Islamabad on Fri­day with Prime Minis­ter Shehbaz Sharif in the chair, expressed the commitment that the fundamental interests of Pakistan’s survival, security and develop­ment will be safeguard­ed with utmost cour­age, consistency…