by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reports claiming that Shiranti Rajapaksa, the wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left Sri Lanka despite having been summoned by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) have
Afghanistan remains trapped in a deep and layered crisis, marked by persistent armed resistance, extremist violence, political fragility, the collapse of law and order, and systematic institutional repression. Nearly four years after
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Maldives recorded no terrorism-linked fatality in 2025. The abduction and killing of blogger Yameen Rasheed by a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda on April 23, 2017, was the last terrorism related incident in
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On January 14, 2026, the Karkardooma Court in Delhi convicted Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) ‘chief’ Asiya Andrabi, Sofi Fehmeeda ‘press secretary’ of DeM, and Nahida Nasreen ‘general secretary’, for their involvement in a terrorist
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Since the ouster of elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on August 5, 2024, Bangladesh has been experiencing political volatility, social turmoil, and an endless spate of violence. With around a month remaining
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On December 26, 2025, a 15-year-old Hindu girl, Premi Bhil was abducted from Tando Jan Muhammad town in the Mirpur Khas District of Sindh Province. She was forcibly converted to Islam, renamed
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On December 27, local authorities in the Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province in Pakistan issued official notices ordering Afghan refugees residing in the Barakai Afghan and Gandaf Afghan camps to
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On December 21, 2025, a Taliban fighter, identified as Amanullah was killed in the Jurm District of Badakhshan Province in an intra-Taliban skirmish, when a confrontation broke out between individuals affiliated with
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On December 7, 2025, Police recovered the bodies of Hindu freedom fighter Yogesh Chandra Roy (75) and his wife Subarna Roy (60) from their home in North Rahimapur in Taraganj Upazila (Sub-District) of Rangpur
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On December 2, Taliban’s Supreme Court announced that, on the orders of Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a man, identified as Mangal, was publicly executed at a stadium in Khost city, the provincial
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In its first judgment with respect to the July uprising of 2024, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on November 17, 2025, sentenced deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina to death, in absentia. She was
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On October 25, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Danish Merchant aka Danish Chikna, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, along with his wife, Henna Shah, from a resort in Anjuna in the North
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On October 20, National Mobilization Front (NMF) fighters carried out a targeted operation in Kabul city in the vicinity of the First District. The target of this operation was a prominent ‘commander’
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Since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster on August 5, 2024, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) has not only unleashed itself as a formidable domestic force in Bangladesh, but also very much on the international level. As the
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In the third quarter-Q3 of 2025, spanning July to September, Pakistan witnessed a dramatic escalation in insurgent and terrorist violence, marking a significant deterioration in its security landscape. According to a report
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Since August 2024, a shift has occurred in the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, with the emergence of a closer China-Pakistan nexus in Bangladesh. This development is largely attributed to the change
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