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Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton looked at Russia’s effort to undermine the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam.

Pakistani police arrested more than a dozen people who sit on the board of a village council in Multan for allegedly ordering a 16-year-old girl’s rape as an act of revenge against her brother.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Senate healthcare debate, multiple immigration bills recently passed by the House, and the Debbie Wasserman Schultz controversy.

Russia appears to have provided their former enemy the Afghan Taliban with “improved weaponry” as U.S. and Afghan officials have suggested, video footage obtained by CNN purportedly shows.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Congress this week that Pakistan will not receive some $50 million in outstanding military reimbursements from the 2016 fiscal year because the Pakistani government has not done enough to fight the Taliban and its allies, such as the Haqqani network.

A Dallas, Texas, immigration attorney and his Pakistani national assistant were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly scheming to commit marriage fraud.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has established a presence in Kashmir, New Delhi claims, while Islamabad warns that people in the region are facing a serious “threat” from its rival India.

Police officers in Muslim-majority Pakistan have accused a Christian teenager of committing blasphemy, saying he used derogatory comments against Islam’s Muhammad.

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Three Pakistani Christian servants died after cleaning a sewer in Pakistan, as they were not given the correct protective equipment, the British Pakistani Christian news service has reported.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — A senior Facebook official met with Pakistan’s interior minister on Friday to discuss a demand the company prevent blasphemous content or be blocked.

Contents: Thousands flee homes in Kashmir as Pakistan-India shelling escalates; China threatens military intervention in Kashmir on the side of Pakistan

Damning German intelligence reports emerged in June and July revealing the Iranian regime’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile technology in defiance of international sanctions and UN resolutions.

As we contemplate the fallout from CNN’s effort to hunt down and intimidate the creator of a ten-second comedy video, let us note that people have been jailed around the world for social media posts. Here’s what happens when governments and cyber-vigilantes start deciding that certain “hateful” individuals no longer deserve the privilege of online anonymity.

A top government official of Pakistan recently emphasized Islamabad’s close links with China, telling reporters that the relationship between the two countries is “the cornerstone of our foreign policy.”

An Afghan army commander in eastern Paktia province, near the Pakistan border, has accused Islamabad of heavily arming the Taliban against the U.S.-backed Afghan security forces in areas along the Durand Line, the de facto international boundary separating the countries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will meet United States President Donald Trump on Monday. The two world leaders are expected to discuss fostering economic, business, and technological ties as well as increased cooperation on security.

On Monday, President Donald Trump welcomed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their first official, in-person meeting, in which both leaders agreed that their “top priority” is to “destroy radical Islamic terrorism” and ending terrorist “safe shelters, sanctuaries, and safe havens.”

Violent protests erupted in the India-held Kashmir region during the last week of Ramadan holiday, culminating in violent demonstrations after the Eid prayers marking the end of the Muslim holy month. At least ten injuries were reported by Indian media.

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Contents: India’s ‘Operation All-Out’ brings Kashmir closer to all-out war; Kashmir escalations building to all-out war; Multiple terrorist attacks across Pakistan kill nearly 50

Jihadi “sanctuary” Pakistan is “the most influential external actor affecting” stability in Afghanistan and the “outcome” of the U.S.-NATO military mission there, reports the Pentagon as President Donald Trump’s administration considers a tough approach towards Islamabad.

Taimoor Reza, a 30-year old Pakistani shiite, has been sentenced to death for “blasphemous” posts on social media.

Contents: Two Chinese citizens in Pakistan executed ten days after being abducted; Execution of Chinese citizens blamed on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ); Concerns grow about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

Beijing has expressed “grave concern” after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for killing two Chinese nationals kidnapped in the Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province last month.

Pakistani Christians in Sindh province are demanding justice after a 35-year-old sanitation worker died, having been exposed to toxic sewage and refused medical care by Muslim doctors who refused to touch his “unclean” body during Ramadan.

China will “most likely” try to expand its military footprint in countries that share Beijing’s strategic interests and have long been considered its ally, namely Pakistan, as the communist country increases its “power projection into the Indian Ocean,” reports the Pentagon in an annual report to the U.S. Congress.

As London Bridge terrorist Khuram Shazad Butt’s home in Pakistan is raided, authorities reveal the Islamist had access to tunnels under Parliament.

London’s Metropolitan Police have named Youssef Zaghba as the third attacker, just hours after they announced the release all 12 suspects arrested in connection to Saturday’s terror attack at London Bridge.

Contents: Five people killed in clashes with police in anti-government rally in Kabul, Afghanistan; Kabul bombing brings back memories of bloody 1990s Afghan civil war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly dismissed Indian fears over a growing relationship between Pakistan and the Kremlin as “ridiculous.”

Contents: Massive terror explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, the largest in years; Afghans blame Pakistan and the Taliban-linked Haqqani network; Afghanistan situation deteriorates, as US considers sending more troops

The chief of India’s army has been accused of endorsing the use of human shields after he defended one of his subordinates who tied a civilian to a vehicle to allegedly deter violent protests in the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.

A tribal court in Muslim-majority Pakistan has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to death for adultery after she accused her cousin of raping her at “gunpoint.”

Shiite-majority Iran has once again fired a mortar shell into the restive Balochistan province of its predominantly Sunni neighbor Pakistan, this time killing at least one individual.