Dr Siddiqui points out the resurgent militant threat towards the end of his account but concludes his assessment of the effectiveness of the Pakistan Army’s counterinsurgency strategy on an optimistic note Ian Talbot Launched in 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been regarded by Beijing as a “flagship project” of the Belt and Road […]
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Acoording to BBC reports: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has told members of her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party that she was “angry and saddened” after an investigative outlet published two reports showing members of the party’s youth wing making fascist salutes and using racist and antisemitic language. “There is no room [in FdI] for […]
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PARIS (AFP): France on Wednesday expelled an Iranian suspected of influence peddling on behalf of the Islamic republic and having links to the Revolutionary Guards ideological army, his lawyer and a source close to the issue told AFP. Bashir Biazar had been held in administrative detention since the start of June and was subject to […]
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Pakistan minority rights campaigners protested Tuesday after a Christian man was sentenced to death for sharing an allegedly blasphemous TikTok post. The image included the accusation that the holy book was damaged by two Christian brothers and it was widely shared in August, after which a mob razed a Christian enclave. On Tuesday around 60 […]
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Paris, France – Fatimata, a 22-year-old French Muslim woman, suddenly feels as though many of her compatriots are against her very being. On Sunday, the far right led the first round of parliamentary elections and while it’s not yet clear if Marine Le Pen’s National Rally movement will form a majority after the July 7 […]
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Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Tuesday rebuffed the recommendations of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding PTI founder Imran Khan’s release and said the former premier’s detention was an “internal matter”. In an opinion made public a day ago, the working group held that Imran’s prosecution and detention in the cipher […]
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The deadline for declarations in the French elections ended Tuesday, with large numbers of left and centre candidates standing aside in order to try to block the far-right National Rally (RN). Parties had till 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT) to register contenders for Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections. With no official list yet released, […]
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LONDON: Britons look set to elect a new government by landslide as the country prepares to head to the polls on Thursday July 4. The vote comes amid weak economic growth and struggling public services, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the war in Gaza among the major foreign policy challenges lying ahead for the […]
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SRINAGAR: A jailed Kashmiri leader has been granted a two-hour custody parole so that he could take oath as a member of Indian parliament on July 5, Indian media outlets reported on Tuesday. A day earlier, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) had given its nod for Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, to […]
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WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday he expected European allies to keep up strong support for NATO despite a far-right victory in the first round of French elections. Blinken steered clear of commenting directly when asked about the triumph of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party but pointed more broadly to NATO’s […]
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