The Thorny Question of Extraterritorial Actions: India’s Dilemma in the Nijjar Case

The Thorny Question of Extraterritorial Actions: India’s Dilemma in the Nijjar Case

In May 2011, when then-US President Barack Obama announced the successful elimination of Osama Bin Laden by Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan, it sent shockwaves around the world. It also raised a contentious question: Did the United States violate Pakistan’s sovereignty by staging the raid? The answer, many argued, was a resounding yes. However, the […]

American Woman, dreaded Jihadist on Trial

American Woman, dreaded Jihadist on Trial

A forty two rear old American, a former battalion commander has been arrested of the dreaded Islamic State in Syria. According to the FBI, Allison Fluke-Ekren trained women and children to use assault rifles and suicide belts. The New York Times reports that she was charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization. Sources […]

Sri Lanka mourns as investigation into deadly blast continues

Sri Lanka mourns as investigation into deadly blast continues

And again, Sri Lanka is numbed by explosions. This time it’s a shootout between Sri Lanka’s army troop and Islamic militants; a fierce gun battle erupted between them on Friday evening in Sainthamaruthu in Ampara, to the south of the town of Batticaloa, site of one of the Easter Sunday blasts at three churches and […]

Fight against the terrorism: Sri Lanka bomb blast

Fight against the terrorism: Sri Lanka bomb blast

Sir Easter Sunday bomb blasts at three churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka was a terrible bomb blast. It killed more than 310 people and wounded at least 500 innocents. This attack affected not only to Christians or Sri Lanka but to the entire world. The entire world is mourning with this grief. What […]

Mourning Easter

Mourning Easter

Amid the celebration of Easter, a series of bombing left Sri Lanka stunned. As it was a special day people came into large masses and also from villages afar. More than 320 were killed in this deadliest attack with at least 500 wounded. The blast targeted three churches and four hotels that are St. Anthony’s […]

Confessions of a 15 year old Jihadi

Confessions of a 15 year old Jihadi

Bangladesh, April 3, 2017: Taharem Kaderi is in his teens. Instead of going to school, doing his homework, playing with friends after school, he became a militant. Now he is in a correction facility for minors, on terrorism charges. Taharem knew about the attack in the Gulshan cafe by Islamic extremists that killed 22 innocent […]

Have two Indian Sufi Priests been kidnapped in Pakistan?

Have two Indian Sufi Priests been kidnapped in Pakistan?

Have two Indian Sufi priests been kidnapped by Islamist fundamentalists in Pakistan? After arrival at Karachi on Wednesday (March 8), they seem to have just vanished into thin air. They did not arrive at their destination, the Daata Darbar (another famous Sufi Shrine). The exchange of clerics between these two shrines is a tradition dating […]

Assam wary of ISIS recruitment of Youth

Assam wary of ISIS recruitment of Youth

Guwahati: The Northeastern border state of Assam is jittery about ISIS (so-called Islamic State or Daesh) related recruitment.  Assam government  said it has instructed all superintendents of police to remain alert and tighten security at all sensitive places in view of the possibility of ISIS recruiting youths from the state (March 6). Replying to a […]

Pakistan has enough ‘evidence’ against Saeed Hafiz says India

Pakistan has enough ‘evidence’ against Saeed Hafiz says India

New Delhi: India  dismissed Pakistan’s demand for “concrete evidence” against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed in the 26/11 case, saying the required proof is already available in that country as the entire conspiracy was hatched there and all it needs to find is “requisite” political will to take action. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup also […]

Biharis hired to derail trains by Pak Spy Agency ?

Biharis hired to derail trains by  Pak Spy Agency ?

Motihari (Bihar):  Is there a shadowy network of terror that lurks in the backwoods of Bihar? The local police say they have nabbed some Bihar fellows hired by a Nepali working for a Pakistan spy ring to derail trains! The role of ISI in the recent train disaster in Kanpur was being suspected after Bihar […]

What’s so new about female terrorists?

What’s so new about female terrorists?

Are we reading too much into the involvement of women in terrorist acts in Bangladesh? This by no means is a new spectacle. The so called weaker sex has always been a part of terror ever since the phenomenon was exploited to create psychological and physical havoc on the target, be it the state or […]

Balochistan Blast to terrorize Moderate Muslims

Balochistan Blast to terrorize Moderate Muslims

QUETTA, Pakistan  –  All liberal forms of Islam are being attacked by the Salafists. An explosion claimed by militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ripped through a Sufi Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday (Nov 12), killing at least 52 people and wounding scores, officials said. The blast at the Shah […]