Jammu, Jan 9 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah has chaired a high level security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi in which counterterrorism measures and the priority given to crippling the entire terror ecosystem were discussed. After the meeting convened on Thursday, Union Minister Shah on X said, “Chaired a security review meeting for Jammu and Kashmir along with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Ji.””Appreciated the security agencies for crippling the terror ecosystem in Jamm…
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Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) The expanding operational reach of the terror group Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) within the South Asian security landscape – combined with its declared hostility toward US interests – poses a risk that Washington cannot ignore. The existence of safe havens within Pakistan provides the terrorist organisation with strategic depth, operational resilience, and access to wider recruitment networks, a report said on Thursday.“The arrest of Mehmet Goren, a senio…
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) The recent arrest of a senior official of an ISIS affiliate organisation, Mehmet Goren, has reignited accusations against Pakistan for providing safe havens to terrorist groups. Goren, also known by his code name ‘Yahya’, was captured by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation in a covert operation near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in December last year. He was accused of planning suicide attacks and facilitating the operations of Islamic State Khorasan Province…
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…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Two of Pakistan’s most favoured and powerful terror groups, the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad, will keep their focus not just on re-grouping but building stronger outfits in the coming year, intelligence agencies have learnt. The year 2026 would be majorly about re-grouping and also making the outfits doubly lethal, an officer said.Both these groups were hit the hardest during Operation Sindoor, launched by the Indian armed forces to avenge the Pahalgam atta…
Islamabad, Dec 28 (IANS) The rise and fall of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, Lt General Faiz Hameed (retd), encapsulate the structural tensions at the heart of Pakistan’s civil-military order, with his downfall showcasing a process of political recalibration after the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan, in which personal loyalties, institutional boundaries, and the need for military to reassert its authority played their part, as per a report. Hameed’s conviction and 14-year …
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Press Secretary of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday reiterated the interim government’s stance that the Awami League party will not be allowed to contest the upcoming election scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in February, next year. “Regarding Awami League, our position is clear,” Shafiqul Alam told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka. He added that the activities of Awami League and its registration as a political party remain suspended, the Unite…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Bangladesh’s former Member of Parliament (MP) A F M Bahauddin Nasim said on Wednesday that the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government is turning the South Asian country into a terrorist state and making attempts to hand over the country’s reigns to Pakistan. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Nasim, also the Awami League Joint General Secretary, said that the Yunus government has taken Bangladesh to the verge of destruction with riots, killings and overall collapse of the rule o…