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Vice News Saudi Arabia is the “foremost” foreign funder of Islamist extremism in the U.K., according to new report released by a British think tank on Wednesday. The Henry Jackson Society — a right-wing think tank — claims that overseas funding primarily from the governments and private...

Asad Rahim AS we all now know — despite the best efforts of the mainstream press — twin blasts tore through Parachinar recently, killing scores. Parachinar in turn proved to be part of a hideous week that saw attacks on police in Quetta and Karachi, and a massive oil tanker disaster in...

Fareed Zakaria Washington Post This week’s bombing in Manchester, England, was another gruesome reminder that the threat from radical Islamist terrorism is ongoing. And President Trump’s journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the country central to the spread of this terrorism...

Patrick Cockburn In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities is to provoke the communal punishment of all Muslims, thereby alienating a...

Express Tribune This is Trump’s first visit to a foreign country and surprisingly, he chose Saudi Arabia as his destination. Surprising is too mute a word to capture the reality check any reader would have felt when they first heard this; given the fact that Saudi Arabia was one of Trump’s...

Reuters Laskhar e Jhangvi has emerged as the bloodiest and most ruthless anti-Shia outfit in Pakistan, which has seen a rise in sectarian attacks in recent years, mostly targeting Shias, who make up 20 per cent of the population. “We are investigating the LJ connection behind the Ismaili attack...

Who has funded Lashkar e Jhangvi historically? Whoever has, is an enemy of the Pakistani state. Dawn LJ has emerged as the bloodiest and most ruthless anti-Shia outfit in Pakistan, which has seen a rise in sectarian attacks in recent years, mostly targeting Shias, who make up 20 per cent of...

DAWN AFTER a succession of army chiefs reluctant to hand over the baton of command, we saw Gen Raheel Sharif retire right on schedule last November — only to un-retire, as we now know, to lead the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT). The name brings to mind the scimitars of...

ISLAMABAD: A Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) splinter group on Wednesday confirmed a Pakistani militant accused of involvement in attacks on GHQ and Sri Lanka’s cricket team in 2009 was killed in a US drone strike. The unmanned US aircraft targeted a car carrying Qari Mohammad Yasin, also...

Nation The chief suspect behind Sehwan suicide bombing is reported to be involved in several other such attacks in Sindh. The blast in Sehwan killed at least 88 precious lives last week and has been on of the deadliest attacks of Pakistan. Other attacks in which suspect is involved, include a...

The chief suspect behind Sehwan suicide bombing is reported to be involved in several other such attacks in Sindh. The blast in Sehwan killed at least 88 precious lives last week and has been on of the deadliest attacks of Pakistan. Other attacks in which suspect is involved, include a suicide...

Just call it Zarb e Azb II

Finally- a much needed and overdue effort. That said I can't understand ISPR 's infatuation with Arabic names for security ops. Are we Arabs? Nope. Do we live in Al Bakistan? Nope. Is a Urdu name for the operation similar to Zarb e Azb asking too much? Nope. To the powers that be in ISPR, Can...

DAWN The Sindh Rangers and Police, during their separate encounters, gunned down 27 terrorists belonging to banned outfits, including ISIS, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Jamaat Ul Ahrar. Spokesman for the Sindh Rangers said that in the early hours of Friday, soldiers returning from Lal Shahbaz...

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan security forces pounded the camps of Jamaatul Ahrar terrorist group across the border in Afghanistan on Friday night and destroyed four camps and a training compound, military sources said. The strikes were conducted hours after Afghan Embassy officials were summoned...

DAWN THERE has, as yet, not been any denial of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s mumbled comments during a TV interview last week about retired Gen Raheel Sharif being appointed the chief of a Saudi-led military alliance. Considering that clear articulation has never been his strong point, one...

DAWN A flawed alliance Dec 2015 ARE we or are we not a part of the newly formed Saudi-led ‘Islamic military alliance’? The contradictory statements emanating from the foreign ministry have deepened the puzzle. First, there was an appearance of surprise when the Saudi deputy crown prince named...

DAWN Perhaps there could be no greater sign of the dilemma confronting the Muslim world than the terrorist attack on one of the holiest sanctuaries of Islam. The militants’ message was clear as Saudi Arabia was rocked by three separate, but apparently coordinated, acts of terrorism on Monday...

The alliance was in reality formed to counter Iran in Syria and Yemen. However that plan didn't pan out. It is ironic that the alliance supposedly fighting terrorists like ISIS is based in Saudi, which created and funded ISIS to begin with! The absence from the coalition of two countries...

Two 'militants' suspected of affiliation with the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) disclosed information regarding their motives and modus operandi, a senior Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) official told Dawn on Friday. The two 'LJ militants' Ishaq, alias Bobby, and Asim, alias Capri, from...