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 …
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Tel Aviv, Jan 6 (IANS) Israel has carried out airstrikes on multiple Hezbollah and Hamas sites in Lebanon, including the country’s third-largest city, Israeli and Lebanese sources said.Video footage circulating on social media showed heavy destruction and a large cloud of smoke rising over the coastal city of Sidon following an Israeli strike at around 1 a.m. on Monday (local time). The strikes also continued till early Tuesday.Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike destroyed a…
Mumbai, Jan 5 (IANS) National Award-winning filmmaker Sudipto Sen, who is known for ‘The Kerala Story’, recently visited the Nova Massacre Site, the memorial for the October 7, 2023 attacks by terrorist outfit, Hamas. The film led an Indian delegation of filmmakers, producers, writers, critics, and festival directors, and also travelled to the country at the invitation of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, marking an important moment in cultural and creative exchange.What made the visit…
Quetta, Jan 2 (IANS) Leading Baloch human rights defender, Mir Yar Baloch, on Friday, wrote to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar drawing attention to Pakistan’s support for Hamas and its alliance with Iran’s revolutionary axis. He alleged that this alignment contributes to cycles of violence that extend far beyond the immediate theatre of conflict, undermining regional stability from the Middle East to South Asia and beyond. The human rights activist asserted that Israel’s security challenge…
Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) Pakistan’s potential participation in the US-initiated postwar Gaza ‘International Stabilisation Force’ (ISF) could undermine efforts aimed at dismantling Hamas’s military infrastructure, a report said on Thursday. It warned that a mission designed to stabilise Gaza and dismantle Hamas, entrusting security responsibilities to Pakistan, which openly legitimises the terror group– risks turning the stabilisation force into a disguised risk for Hamas’s survival.“Israeli…
Tel Aviv, Jan 1 (IANS) The Israeli military has reported carrying out about 20,900 attacks across the Middle East in 2025, primarily targeting Gaza, Iran, Syria and Lebanon.Israel continued multi-front fighting throughout the year, necessitating the mobilisation of additional troops. The military called up about 306,830 reservists, including 54,000 who had previously been exempt from service, according to figures it released at the end of the year.In Gaza, where a ceasefire took effect on Oct. 1…
New York, Dec 31 (IANS) The year began with expectations as President Donald Trump stepped up to lead the US. He, however, ended 2025 knotted in chaos and controversies. After four years of drift under his predecessor Joe Biden, 2025 started with Trump promising decisive action. But, as the year ends, the foreign policy and the voter’s personal finances are in disarray.The US underwent a centralisation of power, perhaps unprecedented in the post-World War II era, that Trump’s political, economic…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump warned Hamas to disarm within a “very short period of time,” cautioned Iran against rebuilding military capabilities, and reaffirmed an exceptionally close US–Israel partnership.“We talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament and they’re going to be given a very short period of time to disarm,” Trump told reporters during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago on Monday.He said Ham…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said Hamas had been given a “very short period of time” to disarm, warning that failure to do so would bring severe consequences, as he appeared alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.“Well, we talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament and they’re going to be given a very short period of time to disarm,” Trump said. “And we’ll see how that works out.”Trump said…
Gaza, Dec 29 (IANS) Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced on Monday that its military spokesperson Abu Obeida had been killed during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The announcement was made by a newly-appointed spokesperson, who assumed the same nom de guerre, Abu Obeida, during a televised press conference.The new spokesperson, wearing the uniform associated with the title, confirmed that Abu Obeida, whose real name was Hudhaifa Samir Al-Kahlout and also known as Abu Ib…