Kashmir-born Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger is declared a terrorist under UAPA

Ahanger is one of the chief recruiters of the Jammu and Kashmir branch of the Islamic State, the home ministry said in a notification.

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· Jan 05, 2023 · 05:19 pm

Al-Qaida chief’s killing in Kabul reveals tensions among Taliban’s senior leadership

Did someone in the Afghan group’s hierarchy turn Ayman al-Zawahiri in to the US – and if so, who and why?

Michele Groppi, The Conversation

· Aug 05, 2022 · 09:30 pm

How will Ayman al-Zawahri’s killing affect al-Qaida?

Any ambiguity surrounding the organisation’s succession plan could see the new leader’s authority challenged, which could fracture the movement further.

Haroro J Ingram, The Conversation

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Daniel Milton, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Jammu and Kashmir: Two militants declared as terrorists under UAPA

One of them was part of the conspiracy to kill journalist Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar in 2018.

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· Apr 20, 2022 · 12:18 pm

Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, released during IC-814 hijacking, designated as terrorist

He been running an incessant campaign from Pakistan to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, the government said in a notification.

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· Apr 14, 2022 · 07:22 pm

India declares Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed’s son terrorist under UAPA

Saeed’s son has been ‘actively involved in recruitment, fund collection, planning and executing attacks by LeT in India’, said the government.

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· Apr 09, 2022 · 06:09 pm

US refuses to acknowledge a secret torture site in Poland despite confirmation in several reports

A prisoner of the American ‘war on terror’ is asking the US Supreme Court to allow his lawyers to depose the two men who oversaw his torture.

Raymond Bonner, ProPublica

· Oct 11, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Pakistan is indulging in a proxy war through terrorism, claims Rajnath Singh

The defence minister claimed that Islamabad knew it could not win a war via conventional means.

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· Nov 30, 2019 · 11:55 am

‘Pakistan is using Taliban as hedge against India,’ says incoming head of US troops in West Asia

This came just days after US President Donald Trump asked Pakistan PM Imran Khan for help to find a peaceful resolution to the 17-year-long Afghan war.

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· Dec 05, 2018 · 01:26 pm

Ghost towns and battle scars: A journey to Pakistan's terror hub of Waziristan

The Pakistan Army recently concluded anti-terror operations in what was once called one of the most dangerous places in the world.

Sanjay Kapoor

· Jun 13, 2018 · 01:30 pm

At least 352 civilians died in coalition strikes in Iraq and Syria since 2014: US military

Independent monitoring bodies, however, arrived at much higher tallies – some as high as more than 3,000.

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· May 01, 2017 · 08:41 am

At least 90 Islamic State fighters were killed in the US bomb strike, say Afghan officials

Governor of Achin district Esmail Shinwari has maintained that there were ‘no military and civilian casualties at all’.

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· Apr 15, 2017 · 12:16 pm