Dr Tehmina Aslam Ranjha

On September 22, Pakistan was lucky to have escaped a major terrorism crisis, when the police van escorting the convoy of foreign diplomats bore the brunt of a bomb blast on Malam Jabba Road in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). The van transporting diplomats from eleven countries escaped unhurt. Reportedly, foreign dignitaries from Indonesia, Portugal, Kazakhstan, […]

On the night spanning between August 25 and 26, terrorists of the notorious Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) withered Balochistan with a series of coordinated attacks. Highways and railways were disrupted. Vehicles were torched. Passengers from Punjab were singled out to lose their lives. Security posts of the Levies and Frontier Constabulary were also not spared. […]

On July 22, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) published the thirty-fourth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team pursuant to UNSC’s resolutions on the al-Qaeda, Levant (Daesh) and other terrorist groups active in Iraq and Afghanistan. Related to Afghanistan, findings are startling for both the United States (US), which led the war […]

On July 23, in Washington, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs of the United States (US) Donald Lu said that the US administration had sought a budget of $101 million from Congress for Pakistan to help strengthen its democracy, to assist it fight terrorism and to prod it into stabilizing […]

Though dimly reported, in the early morning of July 15, militants belonging to the Jaish-e Fursan-e Muhammad led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a militant commander from North Waziristan, attacked the Bannu cantonment. Though the attempt was foiled by the security forces, militants made their intention clear: they were at an undeclared war against Pakistan. The […]

After presenting the budget in the National Assembly for the Financial Year 2024-25 on June 12, the next task before the government was to address the Chinese concerns over the security of their engineers and whether Pakistan was still interested in the continuation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). With a high-powered delegation, at the […]

On January 27, a day after diplomatic ties were restored between Pakistan and Iran in the wake of a missile exchange, certain gunmen killed nine and injured three Pakistani citizens inside Iran’s southeastern region of Sistan-Balochistan near the border with Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Reportedly, the victims were labourers, who […]

On 12 December 2023, in Daraban, Dera Ismail Khan, Tehrek-e Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a group affiliated to the Tehrek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), launched a suicide truck attack on the army’s check post consuming the lives of 23 soldiers. In response, Pakistan delivered a scathing demarche to the Afghan charge d’affaires and asked for an investigation […]

On April 14, in Faisalabad, a Muslim woman named Sana Ullah allegedly claimed to be an Islamic prophet. The proclamation drew a stern reaction from people. The police intervened to arrest the woman and her two accomplices on charges of blasphemy under the country’s laws. In Pakistan, blasphemy is an issue, which is condemned with […]