At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s security councils’ meeting, Russia’s Sergei Shoigu put hard numbers to what Pakistan has been saying for years: Afghanistan has once again become a dangerous sanctuary. His warning was blunt. Between 18,000 and 23,000 militants from more than 20 outfits are operating inside Afghanistan. Around 3,000 belong to Islamic State. Foreign […]
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Worship in the Shadow of Terror
The devastating blast at a Shia mosque in Islamabad during Friday prayers has once again plunged Pakistan into grief, shock, and painful self-reflection. More than thirty worshippers lost their lives, and over a hundred were injured in what officials have described as a suicide attack near the mosque gates in the Tarlai area. Families gathered […]