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DAWN KARACHI: Investigators probing the first attack claimed in Pakistan by the Islamic State group believe a notorious local sectarian group may have carried out the massacre as it seeks to expand its ties to the Middle East.Gunmen stormed a bus in Karachi last month, killing 45 members of the...

Kunar and Nuristan has long been a hub for Salafi militants. Fazlullah is hiding there as well.

61 killed in twin suicide attacks AFP | DAWN.COM | REUTERS Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 61 people and wounding at least 117, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said Tuesday, in the deadliest attack on a security...

61 killed in twin suicide attacks as terrorists storm police training college in Quetta AFP | DAWN Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 61 people and wounding at least 117, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said Tuesday...

AP On Aug. 17, 2014 — eight months before she declared her candidacy for president — Clinton sent a detailed strategy for combating the Islamic State, which she referred to as ISIS in an email to John Podesta, then a White House counselor and now her campaign chairman. Along with a military...

Dawn Police claimed on Thursday to have made key arrests in connection with the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar and said they have captured a key facilitator of the attackers. The attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, claimed the lives of 133 students...

By KAMEL DAOUD NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi...

Death sentences of five terrorists ISLAMABAD: The military appellate court has upheld the death sentences of five convicts in the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on May 12 had announced the confirmation of the death sentences to...

Not anymore. Turkish military is already planning joint operations in Syria with the Russians. They are not too excited about the american effort to break up syria and create a Kurdish enclave on its border. Erdogan has already made a U turn on relations with Russia and Iran. At some point the...

The new great game is about challenging the existing world order. China Russia, Turkey and Iran have joined forces and will be creating a new Eurasian security alliance to protect their economic and security interests. China has already offered military assistance to the Syrian government...

Agreed.

Reuters German police have searched a mosque and eight apartments in Hildesheim that are believed to be a hotbed of a radical Salafist community, the interior minister of the northern state of Lower Saxony said on Thursday. Germany is on high alert after a spate of attacks since July 18 left...

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 Istanbul attack has shown the chaos unleashed in the Middle East has no borders. Perhaps western powers will now learn the important lesson:: Don't rely on pseudo-religious Salafi-inspired thugs to further geo-political agendas. Thankfully our establishment has learnt this lesson well. The...

DAWN The investigation of Safoora Goth The federal government in March this year transferred two cases to the military authorities to try them in military courts established under the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. According to the investigation, Tahir Minhas, the alleged mastermind of...

Financial Times APRIL 20, 2016 by: David Gardner In February 1945 President Franklin Roosevelt, on his way home from the Yalta summit with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, met King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, anchored in the Great Bitter Lake midway up the...

LAHORE: Punjab Police’s counter-terrorism department (CTD) raided a building in Lahore on Sunday and arrested three men affiliated with Islamic State who were planning to attack government buildings, authorities said on Monday. The raid came as police said that banned militant outfit...

— AFP/File LAHORE: Pakistani security forces have arrested a man they believe is the commander of the Islamic State group in the country as well as two accomplices involved in recruiting and sending fighters to Syria, intelligence sources said on Wednesday. Authorities in South Asia are...