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Hafiz Abdur Rauf, who is designated a global terrorist by the United States, contested elections in Pakistan last year, according to details reviewed by Newsweek. The fact that he was able to stand in the ballot adds more fuel to allegations from India that Pakistan is not serious enough about tackling terrorism at a time of high tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors,
Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's team.
Is it time to designate Pakistan a terror-supporting state? Abdul Rauf Azhar, whose death in Pakistan was announced today, is a case in point. Indians despise him for a 1999 civilian plane hijacking and other atrocities.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan will have to get rid of its "terrorist infrastructure" if it wants to be "saved", Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, his first comments on the military clashes with Pakistan since last week's deadly fighting between the two countries.
The International Atomic Energy Agency should take charge of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, days after the nuclear-armed neighbours ended their worst military conflict in nearly three decades.
India has accused Pakistan of continuing to support Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad. Pakistan has rejected those claims.
Decades-long tensions between India and Pakistan are once again threatening regional stability, as Islamabad warns New Delhi could launch an incursion following a recent terrorist attack in Kashmir.
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While Pakistan leaders’ posture on the global stage, proclaiming victimhood and demanding joint investigations to deflect allegations of complicity, they simultaneously shelter and embolden
Then, as now, Pakistan offered cooperation and even returned an Indian pilot within days—a gesture aimed at de-escalation. But the lesson Modi seemed to have drawn from that episode was not about the cost of conflict,
The ceasefire might be holding, but the war of misinformation and censorship continues.