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Up to 30,000 foreign fighters have gone to Syria and Iraq since 2011 –...

Up to 30,000 foreign fighters from as many as 100 countries have travelled to Syria and Iraq since 2011, according to an independent analysis. Half...

Anti-West Media Backlash Ripples Through ME After Paris Attacks

The recent Paris attacks were largely condemned by media in Muslim and Arabic countries, but some pundits writing in local languanges saw it differently,...

ISIS funded by 40 countries, including G20 members, says Vladimir Putin

Turkey: President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed...

How to Fight ISIS

The mass murder of civilians in Paris has inevitably reignited the debate over using military force in the Middle East to attack the Islamic...

Abe’s Central Asian diplomacy

ISLAMABAD — In a rare move, Japan has been consolidating ties with Central Asia. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the five Central Asian Republics...

The China-Pakistan corridor: A fate-changer?

Over the decades during which I have worked in and written about Pakistan, there have been so many supposed national "turning points" at which...

In-house meeting with A ten-member media delegation from China

IN-HOUSE MEETING with A ten-member media delegation from China on November 24, 2015 at 1000 hrs (By invitation only) 

Army chief, CIA director discuss regional security challenges

Army chief General Raheel Sharif met CIA chief John Brennan on Monday and discussed security challenges facing the region and the way forward to...

Pentagon ‘grateful’ for army chief’s visit

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence said on Monday they were grateful that the Pakistan army chief was visiting the United States for consultations...

Senate body condemns Indian aggression on LoC

ISLAMABAD: The Senate body on Monday condemned the Indian aggression and violation of ceasefire at Line of Control (LoC) and working boundaries saying that...