Former British Prime Minister David Cameron in a report for Policy Exchange think tank has called on the British government to counter harmful narratives against United Kingdom's counter-extremism strategy. David Cameron has warned that UK’s counter-extremism strategy, which is called Prevent, “will not survive” just three years after…
December is often associated with happiness, festivities and bonding, but in Pakistan it works conversely, being a notoriously unpropitious time of the year for its political and social interests. From the renowned political defeat of Dec 16th (Fall of Decca) in the year 1971 to losing 160+ Pakistani…
Despite not being a direct threat to regional stability, the one-month ongoing Russian Ukraine conflict has the potential of secondary impact in the Middle Eastern area; consequential spillover effects that have exposed a certain degree of acting uncertainty among Middle Eastern countries in order to protect national interests,…
German intelligence says it has intercepted radio exchanges between Russian soldiers who discussed killing civilians outside Kyiv, potentially bolstering evidence that Kremlin forces carried out atrocities, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday. German officials say the intercepts indicate that the murder of civilians in the town of Bucha near the…
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan recently went on an anti-U.S. tirade after facing a No Confidence Motion by the Opposition and seeing his own party members defecting to the other camp. This was a political last resort for Imran Khan, who has formed a personality cult at…
On 29th April 2019, Islamic State’s (IS) chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi made his first video appearance in almost five years since first appearing in a 2014 video from Mosul, Iraq, vowing to continue the jihadist battle against the U.S. and Coalition countries in the propaganda footage titled “In…
Source Hawala system (also known as the ‘Hundi’ system in places like Pakistan, حِوالة in Arabic, as ‘xawala’ or ‘xawilaad’ in Somali, and as ‘underground banking’ in the banking sector) originated in South Asia during the 8th century and is used widely throughout the world today, particularly in the Muslim community, as an alternative means of…
A former leader of the Islamic State's Khorasan branch the ISKP surrendered to the Taliban in Nangarhar past week, where he was welcomed by Taliban officials. Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, who was the first known face in Afghanistan to announce support for the Islamic State and its then…