Quetta

Contents: India kills 3 Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir in revenge attack; Christians celebrate Christmas in Pakistan under tight security

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

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)

Contents: Pakistan blames Afghanistan after a week of multiple terror attacks; Pakistan army pounds militant hideouts in Afghanistan

At least 52 people died and more than 100 others were injured Saturday in a bomb blast at a remote Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, with the Islamic State group claiming the attack.

Police in Muslim-majority Pakistan tortured a 9-year-old Christian boy accused of burning the Quran while he and his mother were detained for four days, reveals the London-based charity British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA).

Contents: Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan; Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader

The new chief of the Afghan Taliban Haibatullah Akhundzada “openly taught and preached” at the at the Al Haaj mosque in Pakistan for 15 years and left two days after he was named the jihadist group’s new leader in May, Reuters exclusively reports, citing the leader’s associates and students.

The father of Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect linked to the bombings in New York and New Jersey last weekend, claims the FBI ignored his appeal to “keep an eye” on his “terrorist” son who was interested in jihadi groups like al-Qaeda, the New York Times (NYT) learned during a series of interviews with the elder Rahami this week.

Contents: Pakistan again in shock after bloody terrorist attack in Quetta; The debate in Pakistan: Good terrorists vs Bad terrorists; Violence and unrest increase in India’s Kashmir

A jihadist of the Taliban Islamic terror group blew himself up Monday morning in a hospital in Quetta, the capital of the volatile Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 70 and wounding 120 more.

Contents: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq killed in gunfight in Pakistan; Bizarre Mullah Omar death announcement seals fate of Afghan peace talks; Mullah Omar’s impossible conditions for Afghan peace talks