Islamabad, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan-incubated terrorism is no longer a distant or abstract threat but has evolved into a direct security challenge for Europe, risking the spillover of external unrest into a persistent internal instability, a report said on Wednesday.
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan's blocking of any mention of The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the UN-proscribed Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, in a UN Security Council release following the Pahalgam attack reflected not fight against terrorism but an effort to manage it, a report said on Wednesday.
London, April 22 (IANS) UK MP Bob Blackman on Wednesday paid tribute to Pahalgam terror attack victims, stating that terrorism that targets people for their faith is an attack on humanity.
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) With a US Congressional Research Service report recently identifying Pakistan as a persistent base for several long-active extremist groups, Sri Lanka must recognise that the "factory of terror" operating in its neighbourhood remains a big threat. The 2019 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka were aimed to affect island nation's growing tourism industry and communal harmony while the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam was designed to derail regional stability, a report in Sri Lanka-based Zira Daily mentioned on Wednesday.
London, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan continues to operate as a host and an operational hub for several terror networks with regional and global networks. These groups include Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and sectarian as well as domestic extremist factions, a report has detailed.
Berlin, April 22 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius in Berlin on Wednesday, discussing deepening defence cooperation and tackling emerging geopolitical challenges.
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s military establishment treated the sponsorship of terrorism as a low-cost instrument with repercussions largely limited to diplomatic censure, episodic pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) or restrained military retaliation while the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) continued to function as a "one-way flow of strategic goodwill", a report highlighted on Wednesday.
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, on Wednesday paid tribute to the victims of Pahalgam terror attack and expressed Washington's support for India in fight against terrorism.
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Raising serious doubts over Pakistan's offer to broker talks between the United States and Iran, former US National Security Advisor (NSA) H R McMaster on Wednesday accused Islamabad of pursuing a dual-track approach in security cooperation while asserting that the country should certainly be considered as a client of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Islamabad, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan has the world's highest number of Hepatitis C (HCV) patients due to negligence and unchecked medical culture which enables more than 600,000 quack doctors to practice all over the country. Combined with Hepatitis B (HBV), 13.8-15 million Pakistanis are believed to be living with either virus and only 25-30 per cent people actually know about it, a report has highlighted.
