On Wednesday, the Pakistani Senate passed a joint resolution in the wake of the 'All Parties Meeting of Jammu Kashmir' leaders on June 24, 2021. Various opposition parties and the Pakistani government came together to pass the Resolution. The statement "reiterates its strongest condemnation of the Indian Government's grossly illegal actions" after August, 2019. The statement calls upon to enable the people of Kashmir to exercise their inalienable right of self-determination in accordance with the UNSC resolutions. Further, the statement demands reversion to the pre August 5 status and the release of all political prisoners. It also demanded "immediate cessation of attempts to change the demographic balance" in the region. The statement ended by saluting the Kashmiri people's re...

The New York Times in a report on Tuesday, stated that the four members of the Saudi hit squad that killed the US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the year 2018 had received paramilitary training in the US, and that the training had been approved by the State Department. Khashoggi who was a Saudi born US resident, was murdered on October 2, 2018 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of agents sent from Saudi Arabia. He wrote for the Washington Post and also was an outspoken critic of the Saudi leadership, with which he had once been close. The New York Times has claimed that four of those operatives received training from a private American Security Group, Toer 1 Group. And that the move was first authorized by the Obama administration back in 2014. The training furthered u...

On Wednesday a blast in Lahore's Johar Town has left 2 people dead while 14 injured. According to Dawn, the police has stated that the blast took place in a residential area near Allah Hu Boulevard. Earlier, the Lahore Deputy Commissioner, while talking to a News Channel, had said that 12 people have been injured, including women and children. A police official was said to be injured as well. The Deputy Commissioner Mudassir Riaz Malik said that while it was not immediately clear what had caused the blast, it had left behind a crater. "We will only be able to determine the cause after carrying out an investigation," he said. Also, adding that the area would be cordoned off. Although later on, the Lahore Police Chief Ghulam Mehmood Dogar confirmed to the Associated Press of Pakista...

On Monday, a senior official from the Qatari government claimed that an Indian delegation made a "quiet visit" to Qatar to meet with the Taliban. As per a report published on The Wire, Mutlaq bin Majed Al Qahtani, Qatar's special envoy for counter-terrorism and mediation of conflict resolution, revealed the information during a webinar, in the first official acknowledgment of links between India and the Afghan insurgent group, Taliban. So far, The Wire report says that Indian government has not responded to these remarks. On being questioned by The Hindu about India's role in the stalled Afghan peace process, Qahtani responded that it was a complicated question. "Afghanistan soil should not become a proxy for any countries. Yes, it is in the interest of Pakistan to have a more ...