Srinagar, July 27 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday that the former CM and president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti, should have apologised for her remarks about the use of force in Jantar Mantar rather than blaming it on an AI-generated video.Speaking to reporters here, Omar Abdullah accused Mehbooba Mufti of attempting to appease certain sections outside Jammu and Kashmir and refusing to acknowledge what she had said despite widespread …
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New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Punjab is set to go to the polls in February 2027, but the political temperature in the state is already rising. While a range of issues is expected to dominate the election discourse, security is likely to remain a key concern in the run-up to the Assembly polls.Intelligence agencies have repeatedly intercepted cross-border communications pointing to plans for targeted killings, attempts to incite communal tensions, and stepped-up drone-based smuggling operations.An In…
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) Frontline health workers in Pakistan continue to operate in one of the world’s most violent security environments, complicating efforts to eradicate polio from the country. They have been frequently targetted during polio vaccination campaigns. In once such attack last month, one police personnel was killed and four others injured after their vehicle escorting polio vaccinators was attacked in Hangu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province. “The attack ca…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Intelligence agencies have issued a fresh alert regarding plans by the banned outfit Babbar Khalsa International to revive the Khalistan movement in Punjab, with a new strategy focused on rural radicalisation and low-intensity attacks in urban centres, officials familiar with the development have said.Security and intelligence agencies have foiled several such attempts in recent years, prompting the radical group to rethink its approach. While Babbar Khalsa Internation…
Stockholm, April 16 (IANS) The narrative that Pakistan was a central peace broker in the recently held Iran-US talks held in Islamabad is more of a public relations messaging than geopolitical reality, a report detailed on Thursday. Writing in the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Jagannath Panda, the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), asserted that Pakistan may have helped transmit messages or smooth contacts during the …
Srinagar, April 14 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town on Tuesday arrested 25 miscreants for trying to disturb law and order in the aftermath of the suspension of a teacher and subsequent registration of a case against him after a girl student alleged harassment by him.Police said that 25 miscreants were arrested, and others have been identified when they tried to disturb law and order in the town.Police said the teacher has been booked under the relevant sections of law, and an i…
Washington, April 11 (IANS) While global terrorism deaths dropped by 28 per cent and attacks by nearly 22 per cent, Pakistan has emerged as an outlier, topping the Global Terrorism Index 2026 with 1,139 terrorism-related deaths last year, a report highlighted on Saturday. Writing for online magazine ‘American Thinker’, Fatima El Hashimi, a Moroccan researcher and journalist, said that violence has become routine in Pakistan – a grim normalisation reflecting a deeper and more dangerous reality …
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) India has recorded a significant decline in two of its most persistent internal security challenges — Left Wing Extremism (LWE) and militancy in Jammu and Kashmir — over the past 12 years, with sustained security operations, better intelligence coordination and development-led interventions playing a decisive role, according to a report.On the Naxalism front, the report highlights a sharp contraction in both the geographical spread and operational capabilities of Maoi…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) The Islamic State Khorosan Province’s (ISKP) suicide bombing targetting a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Islamabad, which claimed 36 lives and injured over 160 others during February 6 Friday prayers should raise concerns within the state on several levels as it indicates the possible emergence of another militant front in the country. “The attack punctured what is routinely described as the country’s most fortified zone, signalling that the operational capacity of the te…
London, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan is not only suffering from militancy but also suffering from the consequences of a ruling elite that considered militancy as a strategic asset, governance as an inconvenience and accountability as a foreign concept, a report has stated. “Every collapsing regime needs an external villain. Pakistan’s establishment has turned this into a reflex. Kabul did it. New Delhi did it. Foreign agencies did it. Invisible hands did it. The only entity permanently exempt from s…