Many jihadists organizations who plan attacks in Pakistan to target U.S. military troops and their allies in neighboring Afghanistan are still enjoying sanctuary in the country despite Islamabad’s claims that it has eradicated all “organized” terror havens within its borders, Breitbart News has learned.
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A top Pakistani military spokesman accused India of fueling terrorism “using Afghan soil” in an interview published Sunday, citing alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav currently in Islamabad’s custody as an example.
There is only a “scanty residual presence” of jihadists left in Pakistan, claimed a top general who declared last week that Islamabad has extinguished all “organized” terrorist “sanctuaries” in the nation.
NORTH WAZIRISTAN, PAKISTAN — Pakistan is building a border wall with Afghanistan, after decades of unsuccessfully controlling the flow of terrorists and criminals who quietly slip back and forth along the porous 1,500-mile border, evading capture.
In the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, participants were regaled with stories of egregious human rights abuses in Pakistan including systematic persecution of Christians by the Islamic majority.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed bilateral relations and security cooperation with officials in neighboring Pakistan this week.
The provincial government of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), located along the country’s border with Afghanistan, reportedly provides millions of dollars to the “university of jihad,” led by the self-described “father of the Taliban.”
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A top court in Pakistan recently issued a verdict that deems citizens who refuse to identify their religious faith guilty of “betraying the State” and “exploiting the Constitution,” which has established Islam as the country’s religion and the Quran as a collection of guiding principles behind all laws in the nation.
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Pakistan appears to be growing closer to its former Cold War adversary and fellow Taliban ally Russia amid Islamabad’s strained relationship with the United States over its reluctance to take action against terrorist groups planning attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.
The chief of the Army staff in India reportedly urged his country to prepare for military conflict, indicating that it is within the realm of possibilities for New Delhi to fight a “two front” war with its fellow nuclear-armed neighbors China and its ally Pakistan.
Some young members of Pakistan’s Christian minority have suffered “torture and sexual abuse” at the hands of law enforcement officials looking into blasphemy claims against the victims, reportedly allege human rights groups.
U.S.-led efforts to once again add Pakistan to a global watchdog list of countries that fuel terrorism financing recently succeeded despite opposition from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and its Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies.
Chinese state media accused India of potentially triggering another showdown with Beijing along their mutual border, citing recent provocative comments by New Delhi officials and visits to the disputed border regions.
China is “upgrading” its military theater command that covers operations at or near its border with India as it prepares to confront and repel “any threat” from the south, a Chinese armed forces specialist told the communist nation’s propaganda newspaper the Global Times.
A mob of an estimated 3,000 Islamic extremists in Pakistan reportedly called for the beheading of a 17-year-old Christian whose phone, after reappearing days after he lost it, contained blasphemous content that authorities could use to sentence him to life in prison or death.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly trying to add Pakistan to a global terrorist-financing watchlist maintained by a counter-money laundering monitoring group.
Pakistan is deploying an undetermined number of additional forces to join up to 800 of their counterparts in allied nation Saudi Arabia, one of the top financial contributors to Islamabad’s growing nuclear program.
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The Pakistani army and terrorists from the Islamabad-allied Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) have intensified attacks on the portion of Kashmir controlled by New Delhi, killing ten Indian soldiers and injuring ten civilians, including women and children, in two separate incidents over a week period.
Taliban and Chinese Uighur jihadists are reportedly increasing their presence in a province in northern Afghanistan that borders Tajikistan, Pakistan, and China.
The United States and United Kingdom, backed by France and Germany, have introduced a motion to add Pakistan to the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of terrorist-financing countries.
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American taxpayers should help Islamabad foot the bill for the fence it is constructing along Afghanistan-Pakistan border, declared the Pakistani foreign minister this week.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress recently launched an unprecedented 24 strikes on Taliban jihadists operating in a northern Afghanistan province that borders China, “setting a record” of the most bombs “ever dropped from a B-52,” the American military-NATO mission announced.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave an interview to the Associated Press on Wednesday in which he pronounced Afghanistan to be in “terrible shape” and criticized the U.S. government for not doing enough to rebuild the country.
China could potentially assist the United States in fighting jihadists in Afghanistan, home to Uighur jihadi training camps linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, a top Pentagon official told a Senate panel.
WASHINGTON, DC — Islamabad has refused to take “decisive action” against Pakistan-based jihadist groups planning and carrying out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to suspend security assistance to Pakistan.
A lawmaker in Pakistan has been accused of “inappropriate touching of a minor girl,” reported the Dawn newspaper amid a series of child rape incidents across the Muslim-majority country.
Afghan officials told reporters this week that Beijing is reportedly holding discussions with Kabul over establishing a military base near China’s border with Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.
Pakistan once again denied accusations that it harbors jihadists, this time shifting the blame towards Hollywood, saying America’s movie maker is “the biggest hub of pornography and terrorism,” reports Dawn.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has officially deemed as terrorists six jihadists accused of lending support to the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, two deadly groups allegedly harbored by Pakistan.
Iran is currently controlling 82,000 fighters in Syria,” Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the UN Security Council on Thursday.
The editor-in-chief of Newsweek Pakistan has issued a series of tweets minimising child sexual abuse and making lewd comments to female critics.
Islamabad has closed down the U.S. government-funded Pashto-language bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Pakistan, describing it as a “hostile intelligence” operation that violates the “the interests of Pakistan.”
Pakistan has urged the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network allies to go back to Afghanistan and join the “political mainstream” there in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s request that Islamabad take “decisive action” with the jihadist groups, Breitbart News has learned.
