Praveen Swami

T hey called him Dr Baloch, the man in the white coat who stood waiting for his patient at the pulpit of the mosque.

“L ook, Shi'a,” man in the grainy video declaims smugly, “this is how you will end up, you dogs.” Eleven years ago, jihadists from the ranks of

An intel officer says, big danger is that Tahrir al-Sham's rise will revive ideas of violent jihad, which seemed to have been extinguished by fall of Islamic State, other groups after 2018.

G unfire erupted from the back window of a car driving past the fairground in Karachi's Liaquatabad: The blood of the dead was soaked up by posters and buntings calling for support of the jihad in Kashmir.

JeM message comes days after terrorist commander Masood Azhar gave 1st public speech in over two decades, hailing jihadists in Syria & threatening to escalate violence in Kashmir.

Elected on a program of Right-wing populism, Yoon stoked militarism to consolidate power. His opponent was repeatedly prosecuted. South Korea’s past, it seems, wasn’t quite past.

Sanctions had first been imposed on the NDC in 1998 by Bill Clinton. And they were waived after 9/11 to enable counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan.

US is concerned that spread of cyber-espionage tools can undermine decisive edge its intel services currently enjoy, an expert says. Threat extends from personal data to govt secrets.

Despite changing global equations, there is little clarity on the impact the sanctions, which have proved largely ineffective in the past, will have on the China-Pakistan relationship.

W e have come to you, the banner read: Twenty-three thousand tonnes of steel powered by two nuclear engines, the Arktika had cut its way through