Only two of the nine men convicted following the Rochdale child grooming scandal remain in prison, and four are using taxpayers’ money to fight deportation to Pakistan. The Manchester Evening News reports that only Shabir Ahmed, 64, and Mohammed Sajid,
Facebook’s CEO boasts about his commitment to free speech. But the company regularly caves in to the demands of authoritarian regimes.
BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Pakistani man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba group to fight against Indian forces in the Kashmir region. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that
Beijing is planning to use its investment plan to revive China’s Silk Road through Pakistan, officially known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), to suppress Islamic terrorism, diversity, and democracy in the Muslim-majority country, a leaked documented obtained by DAWN purportedly reveals.
The Line of Control (LoC), which refers to the 450-mile disputed border that separates the Kashmir region into territory respectively controlled by nuclear-armed foes Pakistan and India, is no stranger to acts of brutality, such as the recent beheadings and mutilations, considered “particularly humiliating,” reports the New York Times (NYT).
A new report from the London Borough of Redbridge has revealed almost one in five of all child deaths in the area since 2008 were down to their parents being close relatives.
A Pakistani law that would fine and incarcerate people who eat, drink, or smoke in public during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has drawn the ire of the daughter of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Contents: China forum launches the decades-long ‘One Belt One Road’ project; Laborers on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) shot dead on Saturday
Pakistan’s state-run telecommunication authority has warned users against committing blasphemy while using their mobile service.
Pakistan has summoned the Iranian ambassador over threats from Iran to make military strikes inside the country if cross-border attacks do not stop, Aljazeera is reporting.
Muslim-majority Pakistan has sentenced a Christian pastor to life behind bars for allegedly sending out blasphemous texts in another instance of legal abuse of its notorious blasphemy laws.
Contents: Kashmir violence surges as India launches massive house-to-house sweep; Narendra Modi’s ‘demonetization’ program results in more Kashmir bank robberies
On Thursday, a Defense Department official told the Senate that the Pentagon has nearly completed its review of U.S. war plans in Afghanistan and will offer a set of recommendations to President Donald Trump next week.
India has rejected news reports accusing New Delhi of bombing bunkers and killing “several enemy” soldiers in the disputed region of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad as retaliation for Pakistan allegedly decapitated two Indian soldiers.
India has accused its regional rival Pakistan of killing and mutilating two of its soldiers along their border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Contents: In Pakistan, you may murder anyone with impunity by accusing him of blasphemy first; Even Pakistan is shocked by three blasphemy murders in 11 days
Despite being present in the country long before its independence, the Christians in Pakistan are among the nation’s most persecuted victims of social discrimination, mob violence, and the near-constant threat of terrorist attacks.
Contents: Kashmiri students at two Indian colleges harassed and beaten; Indians seek solutions and blame intervention from China
The initiative formally known as the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism, but often referred to in shorthand as “Muslim NATO” or “Arab NATO,” is a proposed 41-nation project to combat the Islamic State and other extremist groups. It has been under construction since late 2015.
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is likely involved in the lucrative trade of opium and its deadly heroin derivative despite its claims to the contrary, experts tell Breitbart News.
The government of the Indian-administered territory of Kashmir, amid frequent internet blackouts, is reportedly considering banning social media sites for 6 months, allegedly to stop the dissemination of videos and pictures purportedly showing acts of brutalities by its military forces.
An estimated 300 U.S. Marines are heading to a Taliban stronghold in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, one of the deadliest regions of the ongoing war for coalition forces located along the Pakistan border, reports Marine Corps Times.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster urged Russia, Pakistan, and other countries in the region over the weekend not to lend support to the Afghan Taliban in their efforts to “perpetuate” the already very long war in Afghanistan.
Contents: Video of Kashmir man tied to jeep further inflames anti-India violence; Signs grow in media that Indians are beginning worry about Kashmir
Pakistani authorities have detained at least 22 individuals in connection to the lynching of a university student accused of committing an act of blasphemy against Islam.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, in a message warning against travel to Pakistan, cites Islamabad’s enforcement of the nation’s strict blasphemy laws, which have primarily targeted Christians and other minorities in the Sunni Muslim-majority country.
The Kabul-based ministry of interior (MoI) has refuted claims by the police chief of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province that Russian military officers are training Afghan Taliban jihadists “in tactical maneuvers and planting of mines,” reports TOLO News.
The United States, as the “biggest stakeholder” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, must be involved in the Russia-initiated discussions to negotiate peace between Kabul and the Afghan Taliban, according to Pakistan.
Russia has provided assistance to two rivals in Libya — the prime minister of the United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli and the leader of a military faction that opposes him — in an effort to deepen military operations inside the North African country.
A Muslim faith healer has been arrested for the brutal drugging and stabbing of 20 of his disciples at a Sufi shrine in Punjab, Pakistan.
Contents: Violence in India-controlled Kashmir takes a new turn after winter lull; Indian police arrest top separatist militant commander in Kashmir; Uprising in Kashmir growing into major regional war between India and Pakistan
Pakistan has reportedly accused an Islamic extremist imam of “hate speech” for accusing activists of committing blasphemy and has ordered the radical to apologize in an apparent effort to portray the Muslim-majority country as tolerant towards minorities.
Pakistan has allowed one of its 180 million citizens to publicly register as a Jew for the first time since the 1980s
Pakistan, where many religious minority groups face persecution at the hands of the Muslim majority, has allowed a 29-year-old dubbed the “last Jew” in the country to convert from Islam to Judaism.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has launched a crackdown against anti-Islamic “blasphemy” on social media, and Facebook and Twitter are doing little to stop it.
Pakistan’s announcement that it is already constructing a fence along its mutual border with Afghanistan has provoked the ire of Kabul.
The province of Punjab in Muslim-majority Pakistan has reserved five percent of all government positions for minority groups, including Christians, but the only type of employment allocated for them are generally low-skill janitorial “sweeper” jobs.
Contents: Massive China-Pakistan CPEC energy project said to end energy crisis ‘soon’; Skeptics claim that CPEC will only benefit China, not Pakistan; Pakistan will use dark financing to cover the cost of protecting Chinese workers
Federal prosecutors led by a Department of Justice (DOJ) official appointed by President Donald Trump have filed a civil lawsuit to strip illegally-procured American citizenship from a man who pleaded guilty to an al-Qaeda-linked plot to attack New York nearly 14 years ago.
Beijing plans to expand its influence across the Middle East and other Muslim-majority regions in response to a propaganda video purportedly showing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadists threatening to attack China, Voice of America (VOA) has learned from some analysts.
