By Mohammad Amin Pacha n ToloNews, Aug 21, 2023 at 8:51 PMThe acting Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, said that the recent incidents in Pakistan are due to its internal problems, which Islamabad itself should address. He warned that if Pakistan seeks to solve its issues by force through Afghanistan, the interests of citizens of both countries will be harmed. “If they want to solve this issue through force, certainly– the nations of Afghanistan and Pakistan,…
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By Christina Goldbaum and Safiullah Padshah in The NY Times, June 18, 2023Kabul: Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out. As the zero hour approached, the men fiddled with their automatic rifles while their leader, Habib Rahman Inqayad, scrambled to get the exact location of their target. He grabbed his colleagues’ phones and…
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 24, 2023It’s been nearly two weeks since the Kathmandu Metropolitan City stopped collecting garbage from Singha Durbar and other VIP addresses such as the Office of the President at Sheetal Niwas and prime minister’s residence at Baluwatar. On April 9, Mayor Balendra Shah had announced his decision on social media, saying the move was made “not on a whim” but was rather a result of the “neglect,…
by Touqir Hussain in Dawn, March 15th, 2023The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor Georgetown University and Visiting Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore.REGARDLESS of whoever ruled Afghanistan, the country has always been a problem for Pakistan. The latter’s strategic planners may have hoped that with the Afghan Taliban’s return to power the problem would be resolved. Instead, it has worsened. The Taliban’s rise has reflected the larger failure of Afghanistan that has…
by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, Feb 17, 2023A major focus of US State Department Counsellor Derek Chollet’s recent visit to Dhaka was the Rohingya crisis, and the US believes that addressing the problem involves restoration of Myanmar’s democracy. US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack visited the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar before joining Chollet in Dhaka in meetings with the country’s top leadership and international organisations. Chollet said part of…
Report inDawn, January 19th, 2023KARACHI: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has accused the previous government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) of adopting an appeasement policy towards the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP), saying that it has created problems for the people of Pakistan. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Mr Bhutto-Zardari stated that the current coalition government has ended the ‘wrong’ approach, which was initiated by the previous [PTI) government. Earlier this month, the top military and political leadership…
by Dr Sadia Sulaiman in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2023.The TTP has made a comeback in Pakistan’s western border areas which saw an unprecedented surge in terrorist activities in 2022. In view of the evolving threat, the National Security Committee (NSC) met on January 2, 2023 and reiterated their policy of ‘zero tolerance’ for terrorism. Pakistan’s war on terrorism thus seems heading for a long haul. While the government’s sincerity to curb the terror…