The Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, said that Pakistan has done enough in the war on terror and now it is time for the world to do more for combating terrorism. Addressing a ceremony at the General Headquarters to pay a tribute to the martyrs of the ...
Read More »Trump’s Afghanistan strategy bound to fail: Pakistan
US President Donald Trump’s strategy for Afghanistan will meet the same fate as the plans of his predecessors, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said. In an interview to Bloomberg, Abbasi said: “From day one we have been saying very clearly that the military strategy in Afghanistan has not worked ...
Read More »Pakistan’s Chairman Senate warns US like Vietnam, Cambodia situation
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani reacting over the statement of US warned Vietnam and Cambodia like situation over any misadventure. The chairman said, “Pakistan people have quality and custom like Vietnam and Cambodia, if President of US wants that Pakistan should be graveyard of American army, then we will welcome ...
Read More »France opens terrorism probe into knife-wielding man at Eiffel Tower: judicial source
PARIS: The incident at the world-famous tourist landmark was designated a terrorism case because of the suspect’s statements to police, in which he said he wanted to attack a soldier, and his apparent radicalisation, the source said. No one was injured in the incident that occurred around 11.30pm on Saturday ...
Read More »3 Musketeers guilty of planning UK terror plot
BIRMINGHAM: A gang who styled themselves as the “musketeers” has been found guilty of plotting a bomb and knife attack in the UK. Naweed Ali and Khobaib Hussain from Birmingham, and Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz from Stoke on Trent, stood trial at the Old Bailey after counter-terror police found ...
Read More »Home Secretary warns internet giants over extremist content
LONDON: Britain’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd will push US tech giants to step up efforts to tackle and remove extremist content online during a visit to Silicon Valley on Tuesday (1 August). At the newly created Global Forum to Counter Terrorism in San Francisco, Rudd will warn tech firms that ...
Read More »Nisar voices concern over use of British, SA soil for bloodshed in Karachi.
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Wednesday appreciated the performance of Sindh Rangers in establishing peace and curbing activities of anti-social elements in Karachi. Director General Sindh Rangers Major General Muhammad Saeed phoned the minister and briefed him on arrest of accused, having contacts with ...
Read More »16-year-old boy arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences
LONDON: A 16-year old boy has been arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences. The boy from Kent was due to fly out of the UK when officers from the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, working in collaboration with Counter Terrorism Policing South East, arrested him at around ...
Read More »British woman detained at airport for reading Syrian art book takes court action
LONDON: Faizah Shaheen, a Muslim woman, is taking her holiday company to court after she was detained and questioned at a UK airport for reading a Syrian art book on board her honeymoon flight. According to Independent, Shaheen was travelling back from Turkey on August 3, 2016, when she was ...
Read More »Terrorism reduced in Pakistan for second straight year: US
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday acknowledged that terrorism has reduced in Pakistan in 2016 for second straight year and the country has taken constructive measures on nuclear safety and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). However, in its annual ‘Country Report on Terrorism’ for 2016, the US State Department kept ...
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