The Prime Minister is going to have her ‘embarrassing conversations’ with Britain’s Muslims, who have no power to switch off the evil ideology which Wahhabism represents. She does have that power – but she won’t use it Robert Fisk @indyvoices Was that really the best Theresa May could do? It was the same old tosh about “values” and […]
Reuters International MAR 31, 2017 – By Javid Hussain and Jibran Ahmad PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion apparently targeting a mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Parachinar, in a remote area bordering Afghanistan, killed at least 11 people and wounded dozens, officials said. There was no immediate claim of […]
Much of the time, news about Dubai and Abu Dhabi reports on human rights abuses, arcane laws and so on. But there’s another, progressive side to the UAE – and it feels like it’s going forwards at a time when my own country is going backwards Mohammed Fairouz The sun […]
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine of Sufi […]
Reuters International FEB 9, 2017 – U.S. Army General John Nicholson, Commander of Resolute Support forces and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart and Idrees […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – An Afghan policeman keeps watch in front of shipping containers that blocked streets leading to Kabul’s government and diplomatic area in Kabul, Afghanistan May 16 , 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent […]
Reuters International DEC 12, 2016 – A policeman stands guard at a market in Mingora, in Swat Valley, Pakistan December 7, 2016. Picture taken December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Hazrat Ali Bacha (reuters_tickers) By Asad Hashim MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim’s phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked […]
Reuters International www.swissinfo.ch NOV 12, 2016 An injured boy is wheeled from the ambulance after an explosion in at the Shah Noorani Shrine in Baluchistan, at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, November 12, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (reuters_tickers) By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion claimed by militant […]
October 7, 2016 View photos Afghans gather around an unexploded missile near the Aghna city of Jalalabad on October 14, 2001 (AFP Photo/) More Washington (AFP) – Fifteen years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama and the American military have dug in for a long campaign that […]
UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER Janis Shinwari, an Afghan interpreter for the US military, sought refuge in America after the Taliban put him on a hit list. His story turns the debate on Muslim refugees on its head. By Anna Mulrine Grobe, Staff writer OCTOBER 5, 2016 Courtesy of Matt Zeller View […]
In the 20 years between 1996 and 2016, the CIA and British security and foreign policy agencies have consistently given priority to maintaining their partnership with powerful Sunni states over the elimination of terrorist organisations such as al-Qaeda and Isis Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Friday 17 June 2016 In 1996 the CIA […]
SALEEM SHAHID QUETTA: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Balochistan on Saturday, was a frequent traveller and over the past nine years used at least two Pakistani airports for his visits abroad. Mansour was coming to Quetta from Taftan […]
Source: BBC Pakistan’s PM has urged better co-ordination between security agencies against terror, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 70 in Lahore. At a meeting of security officials, Nawaz Sharif said the nation’s resolve to deal with militants was growing. A number of arrests were made […]
Voices I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power Robert Fisk @indyvoices 5 comments An Afghan militia man stands guard in the Achin district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. AP […]
From the sectionAsia Media captionThe BBC’s Shahzeb Jillani: “The gun battle was intense. Blasts were heard” A gun attack on a university in north-west Pakistan, has killed at least 19 people and injured 50, officials say. Nearly three hours after the attack began, an army official said firing had stopped […]
By IANS | 1 Jan, 2016, NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims have little fascination for Islamic radical groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, say scholars and Muslim leaders agreeing with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s assertion that Indian Muslims were not attracted to their ideologies. The minister, while speaking at a conference at […]
Voices You won’t hear it, but news from Afghanistan is bad Isis men are now fighting in their thousands in the country we arrived to “liberate” 14 years ago, quite apart from tens of thousands of Taliban “pushing” in to their “heartland” around Sangin Robert Fisk @indyvoices Member of Afghan […]
ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM Published — Thursday 17 December 2015 ARABNEWS.COM According to subsequent reports, the Soviets were complying with a treaty signed between the two nations in 1978. Regardless of the reasons behind the invasion, had there been no American interference, it would have ended with much less casualties and less […]
Interview Conducted by Susanne Koelbl in Kabul, Afghanistan Erin Trieb/ DER SPIEGEL Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stands in front of the Presidential Palace in Kabul: “If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is calling for greater support for Afghanistan, […]
Islamic State Goes Official in South Asia Although its prospects in the region are likely limited, IS could bring further death and destruction to South Asia. By Arif Rafiq February 04, 2015 The group that describes itself as the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL) has […]