Right now, tensions are rising between Pakistan and India over their disputed territory, Kashmir. This is because back in February, there was an attack made against Indian security personnel in Pulwama, a town in Kashmir. This attack was claimed by a Pakistani-based terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed. The man that executed the attack was a Pulwama local, but that didn’t stop India… Read more »
On September 18, 2019 the United States ordered a drone strike, with the purpose of hitting an Islamic State hideout. On the very same day, it was reported that a truck bomb supplied by the Taliban killed over 30 people in close proximity to a hospital in Qalati Ghilji. The drone strike was intended to hit IS terrorists in Nangarhar…. Read more »
On 11 September 2001, attacks in America killed nearly 3,000 people. Osama Bin Laden, the head of Islamist terror group al-Qaeda, was quickly identified as the man responsible. The Taliban, radical Islamists who ran Afghanistan and protected Bin Laden, refused to hand him over. So, a month after 9/11, the US launched air strikes against Afghanistan. As other countries joined… Read more »
On September 7th, President Trump sent out a tweet saying that he had cancelled peace talks with the Taliban that were to be held two days later at Camp David. This came as a shock to the American people, many were unsettled by the fact that there could have been a meeting between these two parties on continental United States… Read more »
Residents of a district in the border province of Paktika are being issued with Pakistani ID cards, an IWPR investigation has found. Local leaders have urged central government authorities to intervene, suggesting the practice amounted to an act of aggression by the neighbouring country. “Many people in Barmal district now have Pakistani IDs,” said Baryali Jabarkhail, a member of Paktika’s… Read more »
SOPORE, India (Reuters) – It’s harvest time, but the market in the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore – usually packed with people, trucks and produce at this time of year – is empty, while in orchards across India’s Jammu and Kashmir state unpicked apples rot on the branch. FILE PHOTO: Rotten apples are seen on a tree at an apple… Read more »
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous Wazir… Read more »
Imran Khan will head to New York next week to argue the case of India-held Kashmir before world leaders at the annual UN General Assembly. It will be his first interaction with the most powerful international forum that will provide him an opportunity to highlight the plight of a subjugated people. Most important, however, is how effectively the prime minister… Read more »
Six people have died of dengue and over 5,096 people have been diagnosed positive across Nepal since the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in May, a report by the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) has said, revealed ANI. According to the report, the mosquito-borne disease, which was first reported in the city of Dharan, has spread to over 56… Read more »
President Donald Trump says the United States is “locked and loaded” to retaliate against whoever struck Saudi Arabia’s oil refineries on Saturday. But before American forces rain “fire and fury” on Iran, some urgent questions must be answered. Are we quite sure that Iran is the culprit? Iranian culpability certainly seems the most plausible explanation for the refinery attack. But… Read more »