The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after terrorist attacks in both countries this week are part of a regional realignment – a square dance of power in which India is courting Pakistan’s former friends in Afghanistan, while Bangladesh sidles up to Islamabad.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that over a dozen civilians were killed during overnight clashes along the border with Pakistan.
China has been salivating over exploiting Afghanistan’s mineral wealth ever since the brutal Taliban regime seized power in 2021, and on Wednesday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made an effort to seal the deal by offering the Taliban membership in China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Pakistan police are investigating the lynching of a tourist whom a Muslim mob murdered for allegedly burning pages from the Quran.
November 1 is Pakistan’s deadline for all undocumented migrants to leave the country, or else authorities will forcibly deport them.
Pakistani media reported on Monday that the government has deported 59,561 Afghan migrants in less than a month, with seven days to go until Islamabad’s deadline for all illegal migrants to return to Afghanistan.
The Taliban blasted Pakistan Wednesday for ordering roughly 1.73 million Afghans living in the country illegally to leave by November 1.
Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban of building “unlawful structures” on the border and engaging in “indiscriminate firing” at Pakistanis.
The Pakistani military said on Wednesday that its border forces repelled an attack from a “large group of terrorists” from Afghanistan. The invaders attacked two Pakistani outposts in the Kalash valley using the “latest weapons,” which is how Pakistani officials often refer to the American equipment abandoned in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal.
A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.
Taliban defense minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob said on Sunday his regime would tolerate no further “invasions” like the airstrikes allegedly conducted by Pakistan two weeks ago, and might launch retaliatory attacks “next time” it happens.
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Islamabad’s Foreign Office (FO) submitted a dossier to the United Nations containing alleged proof that India is “financing terrorist elements in Pakistan,” declared a spokesman for the FO.
A suicide bomber detonated himself outside a Shiite mosque in Pakistan during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, injuring as many as 13 people.
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The Hakeemullah group, a branch of the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for killing a renowned activist in Pakistan’s Karachi region who was known for speaking out against jihadist groups, Reuters has learned.
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Senior Taliban commander Ehsanullah Ehsan, one of the world’s best-known terror leaders, has been located after listing “jihad” as a skill on his LinkedIn account.
