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The Indus Herald, Islamabad (2025)

17/02/2024

The Foreign Office on Friday said Pakistan will participate in the upcoming meeting of special envoys on Afghanistan.

The meeting being held from Feb 18 to 19 in Qatar capital Doha has been convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for deliberating on the approaches to international engagement with Taliban administration.

Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan Amb Asif Durrani will lead the country’s delegation.

The FO said that Pakistan’s participation in the conference would show its commitment to actively engaging with the international community, including the United Nations, to support efforts towards achieving lasting peace and prosperity in Afghanistan.

17/02/2024

High-ranking security officials of neighbouring and regional countries have met in Beshkek on the current situation in Afghanistan.

TASS newsy agency reported officials from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan participated in the 6th Regional Dialogue of Security Council secretaries/national security advisers on Afghanistan on Friday.

Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev blamed the US and its allies for the current situation in Afghanistan.

He claimed during 20 years of US presence, about 20 international terrorist organisations were fielding over 23,000 militants in Afghanistan.

He said: “When the West and the United States left Afghanistan, they left huge weapons there, with which this country remained as an improvised mine.”

17/02/2024

General Irfan Ozsert, Deputy Chief of General Staff Turkish Armed Forces called on General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee at Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi.
During the meeting, matters related to bilateral military engagements and cooperation were discussed. Both sides reaffirmed the commitment to forge deeper strategic ties.
The dignitary lauded the professionalism of Pakistan Armed Forces and acknowledged their sacrifices in fight against terrorism.
Earlier, upon arrival at Joint Staff Headquarters, a smartly turned-out tri-services contingent presented ‘Guard of Honour’ to the visiting dignitary.

16/02/2024

India’s main opposition Congress party said on Friday that its bank accounts had been frozen by the tax department just weeks before the expected announcement of elections.

PM Modi’s government has been accused of using law enforcement agencies to target its political foes.

15/02/2024

One person was killed and children were among the 21 injured after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally on Wednesday triggered panic among huge crowds of fans.

05/02/2024

The Pakistani nation observes Youm-e-Yakjehti-e-Kashmir on 5th Feb every year in solidarity with Kashmiris, underscoring their right to self-determination.

This occasion sheds light on the severe human rights violations in Jammu and by Indian forces.
Atrocities perpetrated under ’s government have claimed numerous lives, exceeding 500,000 Kashmiris, including 250,000 in since 1947.

Over 3.5 million Kashmiris have been displaced, grappling with the aftermath of forced migration and an enduring quest for justice.
The stark figures reveal a grim reality;
96,262 killings, 7316 custodial/fake encounter deaths, 168,567 civilian arrests, and widespread destruction of homes.

On this day we honor the memory of the bereaved, the orphaned, and victims of appalling acts.

05/02/2024

President Joe Biden’s decision to strike 85 targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday in response to the death of three American soldiers last weekend amounted to a middle ground: short of a direct strike inside Iran, which would almost certainly spark a wider war, but still more expansive than any action the US has taken so far against the groups it accuses of destabilizing the region.
There is little belief inside the American government that Biden’s actions will completely shut down the constellation of Iranian proxy groups that have been responsible for escalating attacks on American bases and commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea. A longer-term solution remains elusive, as Biden enters a reelection year while also pursuing a broad diplomatic breakthrough he hopes could transform the larger region.

Whether the 125 precision-guided missiles fired over 30 minutes Friday night will have the effect of preventing further attacks on Americans is a question officials aren’t yet ready to answer.
But there is hope that by taking out intelligence centers, weapons facilities, command and control operations and bunkers used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and other affiliated militia groups, the US can diminish the militants’ capabilities and send a message that attacks won’t go unanswered.

05/02/2024

Bulldozers have knocked down a centuries-old mosque in India’s capital, a member of the mosque’s managing committee said on Thursday during a demolition drive to remove “illegal” structures from a forest reserve.

The demolition comes at a sensitive time in India with nationalist activists emboldened in their long campaign for the replacement of several prominent mosques with Hindu temples.

The Masjid Akhonji in New Delhi, which its caretakers say is around 600 years old, was home to 22 students enrolled in an Islamic boarding school.

It was torn down on Tuesday in a forest of Mehrauli, an affluent neighbourhood dotted with centuries-old ruins from settlements predating modern Delhi.
Mohammad Zaffar, a member of the mosque’s managing committee, told AFP that it had not received any prior notice before a demolition carried out “in the dark of the night”.

He said many graves in the mosque compound were also desecrated, and no one was allowed to take out copies of the Holy Quran or other materials from inside the mosque before it was razed.

“Many of our revered figures and my own ancestors were buried there. There is no trace of the graves now,” Zaffar told AFP.

“The rubble from the mosque and the graves has been removed and dumped somewhere else.”

04/02/2024

🇵🇸🇮🇱 **BREAKING NEWS**:
Hamas is expected to make a crucial announcement tonight regarding a ceasefire. Reports suggest that the terms may include a 40-day cessation of hostilities.

The proposed terms involve releasing a minimum of 30 hostages from Gaza.

04/02/2024

Deadly strikes were reported earlier today in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah - dubbed a
“pressure cooker of despair” by the UN — as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative truce deal between Israel and Hamas, AFP reports.
An AFP journalist in the city heard powerful explosions shortly after midnight on Saturday, with the Gaza health ministry later reporting 14 people killed in two strikes there.
The ministry said more than 100 people in total were killed across the territory overnight.

04/02/2024

Police in Turkey have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency related to tracking and monitoring local targets.

The suspects were taken into custody in a joint operation of police and Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) following raids in Istanbul and the Aegean province of Izmir, state news agency Anadolu reported on Friday.
They are believed to have attempted to monitor and photograph the targets, place tracking devices on them and gain other information for Mossad, state broadcaster TRT reported quoting unnamed security sources.

Ankara has previously warned Israel of “serious consequences” if it tries to hunt down members of the Palestinian group Hamas living outside Palestinian territories, including in Turkey.

The head of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency said in December that his organisation was prepared to target Hamas anywhere, including in Lebanon, Turkey and Qatar.

MIT had determined that Mossad was using private detectives to follow its targets, according to TRT. Mossad is alleged to have recruited Palestinian and Syrian nationals in Turkey as part of an operation against foreigners living in the country.

04/02/2024

A court in Pakistan has now jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for seven years, ruling their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic law.

The civil court, set up inside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi city where Khan is imprisoned, delivered the sentence on Saturday in the presence of the couple. It also slapped a fine of a million rupees ($3,560) on them.
The case against the couple was filed last year by Bibi’s former husband Khawar Maneka, who alleged that his divorced wife did not observe the necessary three-month break required under Islamic law before remarrying Khan.

Maneka claims he divorced his wife in November 2017. Khan announced his third marriage with Bibi in February 2018, months before he became the prime minister.

It is Khan’s third conviction this week – and a second for his wife – in advance of general elections on Thursday.

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