Islamabad, May 3 (IANS) Using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has imposed high costs on Pakistan, which continues to struggle with a deep economic crisis and is currently on its 23rd bailout package from the International Monetary Fund, according to a recent report.More than a decade after the Abbottabad raid, in which Osama bin Laden was killed, the legacy of the operation continues to shape global perceptions of counter-terrorism efforts and raises lingering questions about how the …
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New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) In recent months, the agencies have busted several modules linked to the ISI, Pakistan. One thing in common that the police found was the mention of Ghazwa-e-Hind or the destruction of India as the main theme of all these modules. ISI-backed modules have been busted in recent months in Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Bihar. In each of these modules, the police found Ghazwa-e-Hind literature.An Intelligence Bureau official said that this looks like a pattern. Al…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) On April 29 the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) launched a voter registration for a Khalistan Referendum targeting the Sikhs living in India. The venue where the announcement was made was the Karachi Press Club. The SFJ and its chief, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun are both proscribed by the Indian government.Officials say that this shows the open support that the Pakistan establishment offers the SFJ despite the outfit calling for violent attacks in India and also the assassination of …
Tel Aviv, April 27 (IANS) Iranian concerns over Pakistan hosted United States-Iran talks extend beyond optics, with Tehran increasingly perceiving that Islamabad is not acting as a “neutral intermediary”, a report said on Monday.It stated that suspicions that sensitive exchanges are being passed to Washington undermine the very basis of mediation.Writing for ‘The Times of Israel’, Italian political advisor and geopolitical expert Sergio Restelli said that if one party sees the mediator as both p…
Athens, April 27 (IANS) With the second round of US-Iran talks to be held in Pakistan faltering, frustration is growing in Islamabad, which has remained under a virtual lockdown for nearly a week amid heightened security and preparations for the foreign delegations. Residents and local commentators have voiced bitter resentment over the disruption, highlighting the irony of a city brought to a standstill for guests, where “one side doesn’t trust us, and the other treats us merely as a conveni…
Tehran, April 26 (IANS) Iran’s main military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, vowed to react if the United States continues its “blockade, banditry and piracy” in the West Asia region.It made the announcement in a statement carried by Iranian media while pointing to the US naval blockade imposed on the Strait of Hormuz, which prevents vessels traveling to and from Iranian ports from transiting the waterway, and actions against Iran-bound ships over the past few days, Xinhua news a…
New York, April 25 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Saturday night cancelled his negotiators’ trip to Pakistan because of the confusion over who is in charge of Iran and the “tremendous infighting” among their leadership. After Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Friday, Trump’s Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt had announced that the negotiators, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Special Representative Steve Witkoff, would go there.She said Vice Preside…
Islamabad, April 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s “drama diplomacy”, led by Army Chief Asim Munir, is being viewed as a desperate attempt at “face-saving” outreach, following the collapse of the first round of talks between the United States and Iran. According to a report in India Narrative, amid the shifting dynamics in the Gulf, Pakistan appears to be engaging in theatrics by pushing for a second round of talks, which is already on shaky ground and carries negligible diplomatic weight to deliver meanin…
Tel Aviv, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan for decades has projected itself as a partner in counterterrorism while simultaneously tolerating or enabling terror networks linked to regional instability, a report stated on Wednesday highlighting that dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden had lived undetected within reach of the Pakistani military establishment before being killed in 2011. Writing for the ‘Times of Israel’, Sergio Restelli, an Italian political advisor, author and geopolitical expert, said that…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) In its attempt at being relevant while seeking economic support, Pakistan looks intent on playing a complicated game of diplomatic checkers where its apparent “peace mediation” efforts appear to contradict its own stand. The diplomatic push is a pivot for Pakistan, which has spent more time as a combatant over the past year in its own conflicts than as a peace broker, pointed out a report in The New York Times. Islamabad has a chequered history in Afghan involvemen…