Indian-administered Kashmir is facing widespread unrest involving violent clashes between student protesters and Indian police, the beheading of a man by Pakistan-linked terrorists, and deadly gunfights pitting security forces against militants, all of which ultimately prompted authorities to impose travel restrictions.
Islamabad’s deportation sweep targeting Afghan refugees is reportedly resulting in the removal of individuals who are born and raised in Pakistan, a move that ignores so-called birthright citizenship conferred by the country’s immigration laws.
The prime minister of Pakistan this week reportedly declared his country the victor in its war against terrorism.
A Pakistani lawmaker proposed banning the word “divorce” from all television dramas this week because of its alleged negative impact on society.
A Christian family of four in southwestern Pakistan were murdered by Islamic State militants on Monday in the latest attack on the persecuted religious minority.
The government of the largest city in Pakistan failed to disburse the monthly salaries of more than 7,000 predominantly low-wage Christian employees in time for the Easter Sunday celebration on April 1.
Contents: Massive new anti-India violence in Kashmir leads to 20 deaths; Uprising in Kashmir continues to grow into war between India and Pakistan
GWADAR, PAKISTAN — While the United States enters a low period in its relationship with Pakistan, China is quietly but steadily building goodwill in the country — symbolized by a gleaming new port it helped build in the southern city of Gwadar.
Authorities in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, where Christians often face mistreatment at the hands of Islamic extremists, have reportedly vowed to provide “foolproof security” for churches on the Good Friday and Easter holidays.
Tensions between Pakistan and the United States over Islamabad’s reluctance to take decisive action against terrorist groups have deepened the relationship between traditional allies China and Pakistan, officials claimed this week.
Doctors and security personnel at a hospital in Pakistan reportedly killed and tortured a Christian man with medical scissors and scalpels and seriously injured two other Christians who survived the ordeal, triggered when they demanded care for their pregnant family member.
Parents in Pakistan reportedly consented to their daughter being sexually assaulted to atone for their son’s alleged rape of another woman, prompting police to arrest members of the two families who signed an agreement approving the heinous act described as “revenge rape.”
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani court has acquitted twenty people suspected of involvement in the lynching and burning alive of a Christian couple accused of blasphemy in 2014.
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.
Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul
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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.”
Contents: General warns of US security danger if China acquires Djibouti seaport; China continues influence through ‘debt trap’ policies
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.
Contents: Portions of Indian-governed Kashmir shut down after deadly clashes; Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) becomes leading jihadist group in Kashmir
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.
Contents: Iran gives operational control of its Chabahar seaport to India; Comparing Iran’s Chabahar seaport vs Pakistan’s Gwadar seaport
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.
