New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Militant violence in Pakistan surged by 27 per cent in May, according to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The country is caught in a vicious cycle of armed attacks, and there is no let-up in them.The consistency and increasing intensity of the attacks and the failure of the Pakistani security agencies to contain them raise serious questions about the capability of the Pakistan Army.The security situation has worsened at a time when the se…
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New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Pakistan is a democracy, but only technically. After Asim Munir took over as the chief of the Pakistan Army, he has managed to get almost all institutions under his control. While major agencies such as the ISI are under the control of the Pakistan Army, Field Marshal Asim Munir now proposes to get all the police forces under him.An official said that the proposal is to have a single command and every major institution relating to security would under the control of the …
Quetta, May 21 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation on Thursday strongly condemned the demolition of civilian homes by the Pakistan Army in Balochistan’s Awaran district. Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that during the military operation on May 13 in the Peer Mashkai, Kallar area of Awaran, the houses of Niaz Baloch and Huzoor Bakhsh Baloch were bulldozed.“This incident reflects the ongoing policy of collective punishment being carried out across …
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Field Marshal Asim Munir is in complete control of Pakistan. The country may be ruled by a democratic government, but the fact is that the Pakistan Army under Munir is in complete control. However, even as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Asim Munir put up a united front, in reality there are tensions brewing over massive military spending.For the outside world, it appears as though everything is hunky-dory between the government and the Pakistan Army.While to a certain…
Islamabad, May 17 (IANS) After Islamabad hosted the US-Iran peace talks, the Field Marshal Asim Munir-led Pakistan Army has received tremendous international media attention, despite being “incapable” of addressing the relentless wave of terror attacks in their homeland, a media report said.According to the Global Terrorism Index 2026, Pakistan has, for the first time, topped the list of countries most affected by terrorism, editor Nitin J. Ticku wrote in the EurAsian Times.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa an…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Lashkar-e-Tayiba has been infected by the Jaish-e-Mohammad bug. Both outfits have been witnessing internal discord and while the Jaish-e-Mohammad has been attempting to rebuild its infrastructure, that is not the case with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.Both these terror groups had faced immense losses when the Indian armed forces carried out ‘Operation Sindoor’ to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed in Kashmir.Officials say that the Lashkar-e-Tayi…
Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) India exercised significant restraint during Operation Sindoor last year, targetting high-value terror infrastructures and terrorists across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) and Pakistan, despite being aware of military assets concealed within civilian areas. Indian forces chose not to target those locations to avoid civilian casualties, underscoring New Delhi’s emphasis on adhering to the laws of armed conflict — a standard Pakistan’s military has repeatedly failed…
Srinagar, May 12 (IANS) The J&K Police said on Tuesday that they have arrested two persons with arms, ammunition and posters of the proscribed terror outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), during checking in Srinagar district.Officials said a police team intercepted two persons on a bike near the Baba Dem area of Srinagar during routine checking. They said the duo was stopped and during the search, police recovered one pistol, three magazines, 21 live rounds, two mobile phones and 10 LeT posters fro…
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has honoured Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir rather than holding the country accountable for its protection of Osama Bin Laden, its sponsorship of the Taliban and the humiliation its double-dealing delivered to the United States, Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in The Sunday Guardian.”In doing so, President Trump has systematically shredded a quarter century effort to build a US-India partnership,” he no…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The origins of the Pakistani Armed Forces are rooted in the colonial history of British India. When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into two sovereign states, India and Pakistan, based on the Muslim League’s ‘Two-Nation Theory’, the division extended beyond territory. Resources and personnel, including the military, were also split. The nascent Pakistani state inherited the Muslim segment of the British Indian Army. While India opted to remain a secular democratic…