Diplomatic and security officials from the UN and Europe have raised the alarm over the growing risk that Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-KP) could exploit the mass deportation of Afghan migrants from Pakistan and Iran, viewing the influx as a ripe opportunity for recruitment. According to a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP), approximately 2.6 million […]
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In a swift and coordinated counter-terrorism operation, Bannu police and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) neutralised two Khawarij in the Pirdal Khel area of Cantonment Police Station limits. The joint action was launched following intelligence reports about terrorist activity in the area. According to initial information, the suspects were in the process of planting an improvised
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In a decisive move that has rattled anti-state elements and their foreign backers, Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have delivered a severe blow to the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) by eliminating its key commander, Zubair Baloch, in a high-stakes operation in Dalbandin, a strike no one across the border saw coming. Sitting confidently in a hidden safehouse,
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The United States is reassessing its policy on Afghanistan, aiming to tighten controls to ensure that no aid ends up in the hands of the Taliban, two senior State Department officials revealed in an interview with an Afghan media outlet. Describing the current situation in Afghanistan as “catastrophic,” the officials acknowledged that the U.S. withdrawal
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Security forces successfully repelled multiple terror attacks across different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including two infiltration attempts from Afghanistan and coordinated strikes on police check posts in Mohmand, officials confirmed. In Bajaur, four Khawarij attempting to infiltrate from Afghanistan were killed after Pakistani security forces responded swiftly to the threat. In a separate incident in
In yet another disturbing incident underscoring the growing threat emanating from across the western border, a group of Khawarij launched an attack late last night on a Pakistani security post near the Pak-Afghan border in the Tirah Valley of Khyber District. Swift retaliation by Pakistan’s security forces resulted in the killing of an afghan khariji;
Militancy has long outgrown the boundaries of a single nation’s fight. What was once seen as an internal security issue is now a transnational threat, nourished by proxy wars, cross-border networks, and a sophisticated propaganda machine that thrives in the digital age. For Pakistan, a country already grappling with economic fragility and overstretched resources, the
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Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta has reported that China has extended an unexpected invitation to Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the Taliban’s acting defence minister, in what analysts describe as a move to evaluate the group’s military preparedness and political will to resist a potential U.S. comeback in Afghanistan. The Moscow-based paper linked the development to recent remarks
For decades, Pakistan’s Army has been accused of being a “force for hire,” dispatched to faraway deserts for the right price, subcontracting security in exchange for aid and favors. But such labels miss the deeper truth. When the Muslim world has faced existential crises from the burning streets of Amman in 1970, to the missile-scarred
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday invoked the plight of Afghanistan in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, declaring that the Taliban had “plunged the entire country into darkness” and cautioning that peace cannot be secured without the strength of weapons. Speaking on the second day of the UN’s annual gathering, Zelensky warned
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