Weapons, detonators, mobiles and material for making suicide jackets seized in operation In response to the persistent threat of terrorism, the Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has carried out a significant operation across multiple cities. The operation led to the arrest of four individuals suspected of being involved in terrorist activities. The CTD officials have confirmed that the apprehensions took place […]

Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested a terrorist belonging to proscribed organisation on Tuesday night. According to CTD spokesperson, one terrorist was arrested during the operation whereas the other fled the scene utilising the advantage of the darkness. The CTD claims to initiate a search operation and set-up checkpoints in the area to arrest the fleeing terrorist. The spokesperson said that […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s overtures to Beijing remain a double edged sword.The visit will give a huge moral and strategic win for Beijing, and further weakens Washington’s standing, being looked as weak and desperate. The first top level meeting in Alaska in 2021 has played well into Beijing’s end goals of humiliating Washington in its own house,where the […]

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called Xi Jinping a dictator, a day after top US diplomat Antony Blinken visited Beijing to stabilize bilateral relations that China says are at their lowest point since formal ties were established. Biden also said Xi was very embarrassed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was blown off course over US airspace early this […]

Moscow-led military alliance the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) expressed concern over the security situation in Afghanistan and called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to step up counter-terrorism measures. In a statement issued on Wednesday, after foreign ministers of the CSTO member states met in Belarus, the ministers said one of the important factors in maintaining and strengthening […]

Indian police said security forces killed five foreign militants early on Friday in a gunfight in Kashmir along the Line of Control (LOC), the defacto border with Pakistan in the Himalayan region. A joint team of Indian army and police prevented infiltration across the border by the militants, police said. “Five foreign militants were killed in the operation in Jumagund […]

A recent report by the UN has said the Taliban are once again allowing the terror group Al Qaeda on Afghan soil – one of the original justifications for the US-led invasion of the country, following the group’s September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington that killed 3,000 people. The UN as well as experts spoken to by […]

Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army has established a military presence in Murghab, Tajikistan, close to the Chinese border with Afghanistan. There is also no doubt that Russia’s embarrassing military imbroglio in Ukraine has helped China supersede Moscow as guarantor of Central Asian state sovereignty. [Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart] Tokayev has…. denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As the Kazakh leader is doubtless […]

Washington and New Delhi Share Interests, Not Values It has been a ritual for decades. Whenever American policymakers travel to India, they sing paeans to the beauty of Indian politics, to the country’s diversity, and to the shared values connecting—in the words of multiple U.S. presidents—“the world’s oldest democracy” and “the world’s largest democracy.” This rhetoric may be gauzy, and […]

Despite what seemed like a honeymoon period between Iran’s leadership and the Taliban, growing tensions have been brewing. Kourosh Ziabari explains why he believes this is a doomed political relationship. In August 2021, when the Taliban completed its takeover of Afghanistan after an impetuous US withdrawal, authorities in Iran mutely celebrated what they saw as an auspicious departure of a […]