Terrorist attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on July 3, 2020Terrorism has been taking its toll on Pakistan. Terrorism is refusing to die. On the morning of June 29, four militants attempted to enter the main building of the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi loaded with guns and grenades. The security personnel deployed to protect the building from any expected onslaught of militancy stood up […]
The Taliban attacks continue unabated on June 21, 2020Today, Afghanistan is reasserting its identity as a land of perpetual conflict. Perhaps, the land where blood is cheaper than water. Compatriotism is contemptible in the face of one’s insular interests. The conflict refuses to relent. On June 17, in the north of Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban attacked checkpoints in Jowzjan and Kunduz provinces and […]
Prisoners’ release in Afghanistan on June 15, 2020The Afghanistan of today offers a semblance of “endless wars” owing to many reasons including the inexorable supply of Afghan insurgents ready to lay down their lives for their country or religion. The recruitment stream has not dried up, be it the war against the Communist regime from 1979 to 1989, a civil war from […]
Terrorism distressing Afghan journalists on June 8, 2020On May 30, a bomb explosion killed an Afghan journalist Mir Wahed Shah and a technician Shafiq Amiri who, as employees of Khurshid TV, a local television station in Kabul, were commuting in a white van. The Islamic State (Daesh) claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion. Last year, employees of the same TV channel were […]