For 17-year-old Zara Shah, an encounter that began while playing a computer game developed into a frightening experience of online sexual exploitation. A stranger initially approached her as a friend before asking
Nearly 80 years after the dissolution of British India produced the independent states of India and Pakistan, public opinion in both countries continues to be shaped by deep mutual distrust. A new
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On August 7, 2026, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit
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For 27 years, Ahmad Khan’s life was in Pakistan. Originally from Afghanistan, he ran a small shoe shop in Sialkot in the north, sent his children to a local school and watched
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The much-debated “Islamic NATO” dream in the Middle East may have seen some light, at least on paper. Still, a closer examination suggests that this pact is largely symbolic, aimed at readjusting
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Two ports, three thousand kilometres apart, are quietly telling the same story about where the Indian Ocean is headed. One is Gwadar, on Pakistan’s Balochistan coast, built and operated with heavy Chinese
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Over the past month, two modules of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were neutralised in West Bengal-Jharkhand, and Gujarat-Madhya Pradesh, with 11 JeM operatives were arrested. In West Bengal-Jharkhand: On August 3, 2026, Special Task
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The already volatile strategic triangle linking China, India and Pakistan has acquired another layer of complexity after Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed a new defensive alliance in Mecca. The agreement, which
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A statement by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia’s official media arm on August 07 outlines some details of the “Makkah Joint Defence Agreement,” [MJDA] signed by the three leaders of Saudi
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are expected to sign a trilateral defence pact at a summit in Jeddah on Friday, according to information obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) from Saudi military and
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When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, Saeedullah Wafa knew that remaining in his homeland was no longer an option. Music was swiftly outlawed under the movement’s austere interpretation
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Each year on 5 August, Pakistan observes Youm-e-Istehsal, a day of solidarity marking the anniversary of India’s 2019 decision to revoke Article 370 of its constitution, the clause that had granted Indian-administered
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More than 40 people were reportedly been killed and over 70 injured, internet and mobile services remained suspended across large parts of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) for up to 54 days,
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by Our Special Correspondent Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan is set to mark three years in solitary confinement at Adiala jail outside Rawalpindi this week, as reports emerge that behind-the-scenes discussions
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On August 5, 2019, India revoked Article 370 and 35A of its constitution—clauses that had guaranteed Jammu and Kashmir a special autonomous status since 1949. Framed by New Delhi as a “transformative
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Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) laid out what it described as one of the most extensive counterterrorism campaigns in the country’s recent history at a press conference held in Rawalpindi on July
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