In November 2014, a mob of over 100 Muslims in Pakistan beat and burned alive a pregnant Christian woman and her young husband following accusations that the couple had desecrated the Quran.
Contents: Taliban attack on German consulate in Afghanistan kills six; Afghan Taliban attack on Bagram base kills four Americans; 14-year-old suicide bomber kills dozens in Sufi shrine in Pakistan
At least 52 people died and more than 100 others were injured Saturday in a bomb blast at a remote Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, with the Islamic State group claiming the attack.
Two Pakistani men have been accused of cutting their 40-year-old sister’s eyes out “with a sharp knife” and chopping off her feet, marking the latest high-profile “honor” killing in the Muslim-majority country where such murders are on the rise and many go unreported.
The Indian military, as part of efforts aimed at increasing its presence and capabilities along its border with China, has successfully landed a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, which has the capacity of carrying nearly 150 soldiers.
The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi issued a security message this week, urging Americans to “maintain a high level of vigilance” following media reports highlighting the Islamic State’s “desire to attack targets in India,” namely places that are visited regularly by Westerners.
Police in Muslim-majority Pakistan tortured a 9-year-old Christian boy accused of burning the Quran while he and his mother were detained for four days, reveals the London-based charity British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA).
An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch and a faction of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), collaborated in carrying out an attack this week on a police academy in Pakistan that left 63 people dead and another estimated 120 wounded, according to an LeJ spokesman.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, known as the Khorasan province (IS-K/ISIL-KP), is making an effort to establish “their caliphate” on Afghan soil, according to the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in the country.
Contents: Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan; Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader
The U.S.backed government of Afghanistan and aid agencies are reportedly ill-prepared to receive the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees who have returned home from neighboring Pakistan and Iran as winter closes in and deteriorating security conditions uproot more Afghans across the country.
Gunmen stormed a police training center late Monday in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province and detonated explosive vests, killing at least 48 police trainees, authorities said.
Some house churches are being ordered to be shut down in Pakistan while mobs are calling for the lynching of two blasphemy law victims, including a 16-year-old, as tensions against the Christian minority in the predominantly Muslim country has intensified in recent weeks.
Pakistan has decided to block all television and radio channels that broadcast content from its regional nemesis and neighbor India, a testament to the ongoing tension between the nuclear armed countries that has prompted media tit-for-tat bans, reports Reuters.
China may no longer be able to remain in the shadows of the ongoing clashes between regional rivals and nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
The Obama administration’s Guantánamo parole board has released an al-Qaeda-linked jihadi recruiter from Mauritania and approved for release an Afghan man affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda who “still presents some level of threat.”
India has asked domestic arms manufacturers and other military industrial companies to be ready to boost production of weapons, ammunition, and spare parts for warplanes at a moment’s notice, reports The India Times.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has labeled its regional rival Pakistan the “mothership of terrorism” and a country that “radiates the darkness of terrorism” as violent and sometimes deadly clashes between the two nuclear-armed nations continue in the disputed region of Kashmir despite a 2003 ceasefire.
Contents: Pakistan and India in farcical dispute over ‘surgical strikes’ in Kashmir; Farce continues, as Pakistan involves the German embassy
The new chief of the Afghan Taliban Haibatullah Akhundzada “openly taught and preached” at the at the Al Haaj mosque in Pakistan for 15 years and left two days after he was named the jihadist group’s new leader in May, Reuters exclusively reports, citing the leader’s associates and students.
A leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a right-wing Hindu nationalist party that is linked to the Indian Prime Minister and has been accused of forcing Muslims and Christians in India to become Hindu, was apprehended dressed in a burqa and molesting a female Islam adherent during a religious event in India’s most populous state.
Islamabad’s Foreign Office (FO) submitted a dossier to the United Nations containing alleged proof that India is “financing terrorist elements in Pakistan,” declared a spokesman for the FO.
Pakistan and the Philippines have threatened to break ties with the United States and forge a closer relationship with Russia and China, accusing America of ignoring their concerns.
The Muslim Student Association at Fresno State hosted a “Hijab Challenge” on Wednesday and Thursday in order to help non-Muslim students experience what it is like to wear a head scarf and be viewed as a Muslim.
The legislature of Pakistan has passed a law that prevents the families of victims of “honor” killings from forgiving the killers, previously undoing a legal loophole that has allowed many murderers to go free. The law also makes it illegal to rape minors or disabled individuals, and makes DNA testing in rape cases mandatory.
Troops from neighbors India and China are expected to participate in a joint military exercise in late October.
The Russian president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has decided to ignore the intensifying tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in the Muslim-majority and disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Tensions between regional rivals India and Pakistan have escalated in recent weeks as the two nuclear-armed countries continue to clash along the disputed border that divides the parts of the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir controlled by each country.
A Pakistani man who executed his sister with a bullet to the head because she married a Christian man said he had “no choice” but to kill her because of her shameful act that brought dishonor on her family.
Clashes between the nuclear-armed militaries of India and Pakistan continue in the disputed and Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, less than two weeks after New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing militants who killed at least 18 Indian soldiers last month.
Contents: Relations between India and Pakistan continue to deteriorate; India boycotts regional SAARC meeting in order to isolate Pakistan; Terrorists attack another Indian army base in Kashmir; India and Pakistan threaten war over Indus River water rights
Contents: Pakistan expected to retaliate after India invades Pakistani soil in Kashmir; China threatens Japan, South Korea and U.S. all in one day
Facebook has restored the official page of Pakistan’s extremists-linked Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), nearly a day after it was removed allegedly for featuring a picture of a rebel commander in Kashmir killed by the Indian military.
The government of Pakistan has failed to take “adequate” action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani Network, which poses the “primary threat” to the American military and its allies fighting in Afghanistan, declared a top U.S. commander.
India has urged the United Nations to “isolate” its regional rival and nuclear-armed counterpart Pakistan if it continues to refuse to join the global fight against terrorism, noting that it was long past time to identify nations who sponsor and export terror.
The Times of India reports on a curious border incursion from mid-September, in which a group of about forty Chinese troops crossed the border (or “Line of Actual Control”), built shelters on Indian soil, and resisted orders from Indian forces to depart, claiming the territory belonged to them.
Over 250,000 Afghans who crossed into neighboring Pakistan illegally have been pressured into returning to their war and corruption-ravaged country along with their compatriots who were admitted into the country legally as refugees.
The Guardian, citing a Pakistani security source, has confirmed that New York and New Jersey bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami spent time receiving “Islamic education” at a Taliban-linked seminary in Pakistan during his extended stay there.
The father of Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect linked to the bombings in New York and New Jersey last weekend, claims the FBI ignored his appeal to “keep an eye” on his “terrorist” son who was interested in jihadi groups like al-Qaeda, the New York Times (NYT) learned during a series of interviews with the elder Rahami this week.
Two top Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill to designate Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism” as the country is suspected of being linked to the radicalization of the naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent behind last weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey.
