Sydney, Jan 10 (IANS) That Pakistan is fast becoming the next fertile ground for Hamas to rejuvenate and converge with other deadly terrorist groups operating in South Asia and the Middle East has been proven once again with recent viral videos showing a senior Hamas representative sharing stage with operatives of banned Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) during a public event in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Reports suggest that the person in the video has been identified as senior H…
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Kathmandu, Jan 10 (IANS) The Nepali government has imposed a limit of NPR 500,000 on cash transactions for the purchase or sale of goods and services in a single transaction, effective from January 15. “Any individual, firm, company, or institution must carry out the purchase or sale of any service or goods, or any other transaction amounting to NPR 500,000 or more in a single transaction through a financial institution or banking instrument, given the capping of cash transactions,” the gove…
Athens, Dec 9 (IANS) Pakistani terrorist groups Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are exploiting the situation in Gaza to raise funds for reconstructing terror infrastructure and recruiting new cadres for their activities against India, a report said on Friday. It added that the Pakistani state agencies have identified gaps in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, following Islamabad’s last greylisting and have since …
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) The Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh (JMB), the two top terror groups in Bangladesh are increasingly going to use their proxies while carrying out activities in India, Intelligence agencies have said.These groups are also looking to create home-grown outfits in India, so that Bangladesh has the deniability factor.This is similar to what the Lashkar-e-Tayiba or Jaish-e-Mohammad have been doing in India. The Lashkar-e-Tayiba uses groups suc…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The alliance that the ISI stitched between the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and the Lashkar-e-Taiba could turn out to be a security headache for India, Intelligence agencies have warned. The primary aim of the ISI was to have these two groups fight together against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Balochistan Nationalist Army (BLA). The Pakistan army has been facing severe losses at the hands of these two outfits. The alliance with the ISKP was also for…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan has become chronically dependent on bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it has been plunging from one fiscal crisis into another over the years. It is, however, ironic that the country been getting these loans despite Islamabad’s failure to meet the IMF conditions to revive the economy.Pakistan is now headed for its 25th IMF loan with the latest $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), stretched over 37 months, and the accompanying $1.4 bill…