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New Delhi, March 27 – India sharply criticised Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir's recent comments made during a meeting with senior Shia clerics, in which he reportedly stated that those sympathetic to Iran should relocate there.Speaking at a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of...

New Delhi, March 25 – For Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, countering the pro-Iran Shia mobilization within the country is increasingly becoming a challenge. For Pakistan, countering this mobilization is important because it poses a significant threat. However, the dilemma the...

New Delhi, March 23 – Intelligence agencies are closely monitoring certain individuals from Jammu and Kashmir who are attempting to form human rights groups in an effort to spread a false narrative against the Indian establishment. Several journalists, alleged to be on the payroll of the ISI...

New Delhi, March 21 – Pakistan is in need of multiple diversions as it faces setbacks on multiple fronts. The war in Afghanistan and the conflict with the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has left Pakistan's security apparatus badly weakened. The pressure on...

New Delhi, March 19 – Things are not well within the Pakistani establishment, and a major reshuffle is likely in the ISI. This comes in the wake of multiple intelligence failures that have led to significant casualties among the Pakistani army. This has led to harsh words directed at the ISI by...

London, March 16. Pakistani military courts are being used to deal with perceived threats to the security establishment. However, this action undermines fair trial guarantees and civilian judicial authority. The use of court martial against civilians after the May 9, 2023 protests, and the...

Islamabad, March 14 – Pakistan is using its counter-terrorism department to tighten its grip on the local Shia community, arresting dozens of Shia student protesters and charging them with terrorism. The Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), where Shias form the majority population, has...

Lahore, March 7 Protesting the continuation of the curfew in Skardu of PoK following the violent protests last weekend, a prominent opposition leader of Pakistan on Saturday criticized the government for not taking any meaningful action against those who opened fire on unarmed civilians.At...

Peshawar, March 6 A person was killed and seven others were injured after Afghan forces allegedly carried out mortar shelling on civilian areas near the Afghanistan border in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the past 24 hours, security officials said on Friday.According to...

Islamabad, March 2 – The US Embassy in Islamabad announced on Monday that visa appointments, as well as American Citizens Services, have been cancelled for the day following the violent protests that took place the previous day.In a post on X, the US Embassy said, "All appointments for US...

Islamabad/Karachi/Lahore, March 1 At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after violent clashes and arson took place in different cities of Pakistan protesting the killing of Shia supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.All 10 people were killed in firing in Karachi when protesters tried to...

New Delhi, February 28 – When the American media posed a direct question to US President Donald Trump about his likely intervention in the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict, he seemed more focused on the upcoming strikes in Iran than on broader implications.However, he did say that he might...

On Friday, Pakistan stated that it was in an "open war" with Afghanistan after its forces killed more than 270 Taliban fighters and injured over 400 others in airstrikes in response to what Islamabad described as the cross-border attacks by the Afghan Taliban.The spokesman for Afghanistan's...

Peshawar/Islamabad, February 26 At least 20 security personnel were killed in various terrorist attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during the first week of the holy month of Ramadan. In addition, security forces killed 18 rebels in two days in Balochistan, the army said on Thursday...

Pathankot (Punjab), February 26 Western Army Commander Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar on Thursday said he has observed a sustained decline in militancy indicators in Jammu and Kashmir, and the situation has become very normal.Maintaining that the Army is closely monitoring the...

Washington, February 22 – The recent attacks by Baloch armed groups against Pakistan's security forces highlight the shortcomings of Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir's coercive state policy amid the near-total suppression of dissent in Balochistan, according to a report released on Sunday...

New Delhi, February 22 – Pakistan has long been accused of using transnational repression to silence dissidents living abroad, with the frequency of such incidents rising since General Asim Munir took command of the army in November 2022, according to a media report.Several analysts and global...

Islamabad, February 18 – The Pakistani Army suffered heavy casualties during counter-insurgency operations along the volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the post-9/11 period, fighting against Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents. A recent report stated that during the height of these operations...

Peshawar, February 17 Militants from the banned TTP rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into a checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 11 security personnel and a child, the military said on Tuesday.The TTP claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack...

New Delhi, February 17 – Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has expressed his displeasure to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif regarding the state of affairs within the country’s cricket board.The Army Chief raised this issue following Pakistan’s humiliating defeat against India in...