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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...

Saudis have spent millions of dollars funding deobandi madrassas in Pakistan over the last 30 years. Not surprisingly, a lot of these madrassas and their clerics have grown closer to the saudi salafi ideology over the years. As they say, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Huffington Post...

DAWN 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 concerned...

Huffington Post Alastair Crooke BEIRUT -- The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed -- and horrified -- by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia's ambivalence in...

DAWN ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada has accused the Saudi government of creating instability across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, through distribution of money for promoting its ideology. Addressing a two-day 'Ideas Conclave'...

NATION Jan 2015 ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Wednesday met Acting Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Jassem Al-Khaledi to discuss a host of issues, including stopping of funding to proscribed militant organisations in Pakistan by Saudi philanthropists. The government, as part...

September 14 KARACHI, Pakistan — With Pakistan experiencing the worst period in its political history as well as fighting the Taliban within its borders, the Islamic State could not have chosen a better time to make inroads into Pakistan — if it wanted to. The political squabble has refused to...

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 link them under the umbrella of a...

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...

DAWN KARACHI: A US official in a cable sent to the State Department stated that “financial support estimated at nearly 100 million USD annually was making its way to Deobandi and Salafi/Wahabi clerics in south Punjab from organisations in Saudi Arabia ostensibly with the direct support of that...

Peshawar School Attack : Saudi Embassy in Pakistan & Saudi Government Behavior surprised whole world - Pakistan TV.TV DAWN ISLAMABAD: Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid has blamed two persons for whipping up the furore over his remark that the massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar was a...

Express Tribune A report dated October 13 marked “Secret” has been revealed. It calls on the heads of law-enforcement agencies in Balochistan to be especially vigilant as the Islamic State (IS) is claiming to have recruited 10,000 to 12,000 followers from the Hangu and Kurram Agencies in the...

PESHAWAR: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may become stronger in Pakistan after six top commanders of the Pakistani Taliban announced their allegiance to it. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, in an audio message sent to the media, on Tuesday formally...

CTC Westpoint (Excerpts) More important perhaps are the sophisticated videos and telecommunications used by militants to target fundraising markets abroad. The Taliban and al-Qa`ida are both active fundraisers among the Gulf Arab populations particularly in Saudi Arabia; almost all of their...

Huffington Post Alastair Crooke BEIRUT -- The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed -- and horrified -- by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia's ambivalence in...

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Fouad Ibrahim (Excerpts) It is necessary to note that ISIS’ ideology is not different from the ideology of any Jihadi Salafi or Awakening organization. A quick return to the doctrinal teachings on ISIS’ websites will reveal the ideological identity of the group. Needless to say, the writings of...

Fouad Ibrahim May 2014 The recent announcement by Saudi Arabia concerning its fighters in Syria is no mere detail to gloss over. It is a decidedly serious indicator of the extent of pressure exerted by the United States, including the threat to cancel the expected visit by President Barack...

Amir Mir ISLAMABAD: Preliminary investigations into the September 6 Karachi Naval Dockyard attack suggest that the Taliban militants had succeeded in carrying out the defence day raid not only due to a security breach but also because of a colossal intelligence failure. The most worrying...

This is a war being waged by Salafi jihadists supported by their Saudi benefactors against the rest of the muslim world, and the western world. The goal is to overthrow existing states and set up takfiri states around the world and link them under the umbrella of a salafi caliphate by using...