Sameer Lalwani and Emily Tallo With voting underway in India’s general election, February’s Kashmir conflict is likely to weigh on the minds of voters, especially given last week’s social media uproar over the reported downing of a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet during the crisis. The controversy flared up when a Foreign Policy
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60 Nigerian Army personnel receives anti-terrorism training in Pakistan
The Nigerian Army says 60 of its personnel have so far been trained on anti-terrorism special course in Pakistan. Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Ogunkale, the Director General of Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, DICN, disclosed this at a two-day Second Round of Nigeria-Pakistan Staff Talk on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that
Counter-terrorism as a collective war
Emmanuel Onwubiko Nigeria has assumed the notorious position of the third most impacted terrorism afflicted sovereign nation globally just after Afghanistan and Pakistan. In its report: “Changing patterns in terrorism and the threat to business” Control Risks, the specialist global risk consultancy, finds that the number of incidents rose from 317 in
Boko Haram, ‘Fulani Extremists’ carnage keeps Nigeria in top-three global terror list
•2017 terror deaths on the decline globally •Al-Shabaab overtakes Boko Haram as deadliest terrorists group in Africa •Far-right terrorism on the rise in the West •Download the full GTI 2018 report and interactive map here: Global-Terrorism-Index-2018-1 Senator Iroegbu Nigeria has once again emerged the third most terrorised country in the world for the fourth consecutive
Bomb hidden in vegetables kills 20 in Pakistan
At least 20 people were killed and 50 wounded when a bomb hidden in a carton of vegetables ripped through a crowded marketplace in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region Friday, officials said. The attack took place during the regular Friday bazaar in Kalaya, a town in a Shiite-dominated area of Orakzai
41 killed in IS terror attack on poll day in Pakistan
At least 41 people, including six police officials, were killed and nearly 50 injured in terror attacks and separate election-related violence across Pakistan on Wednesday. Around 11 am, just three hours after the country-wide polling began, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a polling station in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive
Pakistan mourns 149 in country’s deadliest twin blast by ISIS
Pakistan is mourning the deaths of 149 people, including nine children, in one of the country's deadliest militant attack since its independence. Ahead of the General Elections in Pakistan on 25 July, over 100 people were killed and more than were 125 injured in a powerful suicide blast on two separate
Political rally bomb blast kills party candidate, 19 others
A suicide bomb blast at a political rally by an anti-Taliban political party in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people including a candidate in July 25 elections. Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Haroon Bilour was killed in the late Tuesday blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar. His father, senior
America’s Longest War—and the Ally That Fuels It
How Pakistan has perpetuated the Afghan conflict. Two months after the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Vice President–elect Joe Biden sat with Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, in the Arg Palace, an 83-acre compound in Kabul that had become a gilded cage for the mercurial and isolated leader. The discussion was already tense as Karzai
Saudis Launch Counterterror Coalition
By Ayaz Gul November 26, 2017 A Saudi-led Muslim military coalition, commanded by a former Pakistan army chief, was officially launched Sunday in Riyadh where defense ministers of the participating nations met for the inaugural meeting. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, opened the