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Reuters Formation of a Terror Alliance The LeJ by 2004 had became a powerful terrorist organization with increasing support from Al Qaeda. The new, never-before-known expertise of LeJ cadres proficient in bomb-making and suicide bombings came from the same source. With time, the LeJ had...

Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad’s new-found resolve for fighting the root causes of extremism has seen the Gulf state come in for criticism. The two countries, are bound together by financial aid from oil-rich Saudi and...

agreed.

Agreed. But lets recognize that it is the Saudis who promoted and funded Abdel Wahab's ideology whether by funding madrassas or groups like ISIS and Laskhar e Jhangvi across the region. Given the Al Saud's 200 year old alliance with the Wahhabis, it is not clear if the Saudis will voluntarily...

Saudi money hard at work!

AFP Cairo, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) The Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group Friday began distributing educational material for six subjects to schools in the areas under its control in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. SOHR noted that the main subject of the programme...

Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: At least 234 madrassas in Balochistan are being funded by ‘brotherly’ Muslim countries, home department officials tasked with investigating religious seminaries in the province said on Thursday. “We have collected enough evidence against 234 madrassas accused of...

NBC PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Hundreds of Taliban fighters have joined ISIS' new branch in Pakistan, according to three militant commanders in the country. The Pakistani government's 10-month onslaught in an area of the country once overrun by terror groups has pushed many fighters toward ISIS, one...

The Nation Islamabad- Saudi Embassy has informed Riyadh, of Pakistan’s concerns about funding to Madrassas from Saudi Arabia. Official sources in Saudi Embassy said that a letter summarizing the concerns about the funding to some of the Pakistani religious seminary was sent to the concerned...

Express Tribune NEW YORK: The only al Qaeda plotter convicted over the 9/11 attacks has told American lawyers that members of the Saudi royal family had donated millions to the terror group in the 1990s. French citizen Zacarias Moussaoui, dubbed the “20th hijacker,” made the revelations in...

Dear Ali Khan, I appreciate the sentiment. That said, it is time for you guys to walk the talk. There is no point in just targeting Fazlullah when the US is busy signing oil deals and defence contracts with Fazlullah's master, who happens to be also funding groups targeting US soldiers and...

DAWN Irfan Husain THIS last week witnessed the gathering of the great and the good in Riyadh to pay their respects to the recently departed King Abdullah, and to suck up to King Salman, the newly crowned monarch. Next month, many of these same worthies will meet in Washington to discuss...

DAWN Irfan Husain THIS last week witnessed the gathering of the great and the good in Riyadh to pay their respects to the recently departed King Abdullah, and to suck up to King Salman, the newly crowned monarch. Next month, many of these same worthies will meet in Washington to discuss...

DAWN Irfan Husain THIS last week witnessed the gathering of the great and the good in Riyadh to pay their respects to the recently departed King Abdullah, and to suck up to King Salman, the newly crowned monarch. Next month, many of these same worthies will meet in Washington to discuss...

This is a war being waged by Salafi jihadists supported by their Saudi benefactors against the rest of the muslim(sunni and shia) world, and the western world. The goal is to overthrow existing states and set up takfiri/salafi-led states around the world and expand geo-political, economic and...

EXPRESS TRIBUNE The government has, for the first time, admitted that close to 80 seminaries operating in Pakistan are receiving financial support to the tune of Rs300 million from several countries. The seminaries received the funds during 2013-14. “Financial assistance for religious or...

France 24 How Saudi petrodollars fuel rise of Salafism Since the 2011 Arab revolts, a loose network of underground zealots has evolved into a potent and highly vocal force. Behind the remarkable rise of Salafism lies the world’s leading producer of oil – and extremist Islam: Saudi Arabia. By...

Ed Husain Along with a billion Muslims across the globe, I turn to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every day to say my prayers. But when I visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, I am forced to leave overwhelmed with anguish at the power of extremism running...

DAWN It is not merely the faith or oil that flows out of Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich Arab state and its neighbours are busy financing Wahabi and Salafi militants across the globe. A recent report by the European Parliament reveals how Wahabi and Salafi groups based out of the Middle East are...

The King of Hearts Asad Rahim Khan The Australian musician Nick Cave, who often touches on love and death, once mused on a great man’s last rites (his own), “The motorcade will be ten miles long, the world’ll join for a farewell song … they’ll sound a flugelhorn, and the sea will rage, and the...