Tag: Hardline

The Kashmir Law College in Srinagar on Monday sacked Dr Sheikh Showkat as the principal saying that he is “a hard-line ideologue of Pakistani-backed separatist organisations”, The Hindu reported.His participation in the 2016 convention titled, Azadi – The Only Way, at the Press Club in Delhi was cited as ...

#Pakistan News The government had agreed to free over 2,000 detained members of the TLP movement under a deal to end weeks of protests that killed at least seven policemen. TLP entered politics in 2017 and surprised the political elite by securing more than 2 million votes in the ...

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan government on Thursday released hardline Islamist leader and head of Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) Saad Rizvi as part of a deal to end weeks of deadly protests by his followers. Saad Hussain Rizvi, the chief of the Sunni militant group, was released from a jail in ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced several senior appointments on Tuesday, naming two veteran battlefield commanders from the movement's southern heartlands as deputies in important ministries.Main Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir will be deputy defense minister, while Sadr Ibrahim was named deputy minister for the interior. Both ...

Once the ban comes into effect, the security agencies will be allowed to arrest any office bearer for being associated with the Hurriyat, and block flow of funds. (Express Photo)The Centre is considering a ban on both the factions of the All Party Hurriyat Conference under the Unlawful Activities Prevention ...

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s hardline judiciary chief, has won a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position and saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Raisi won 61.95 percent of the vote in Friday’s ...

#Pakistan News Over a dozen Pakistan police officers and special rangers were taken hostage by supporters of a radical hardline group, after days of violent anti-France protests. Paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road during a protest by supporters of the banned Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) in ...

level 2Same reason Trump would rather deflect his failures on to others rather than be the main story himself. Source link

Pakistani police registered at least 40 blasphemy cases in August, according to the country's human rights groups. The South Asian country's independent Human Rights Commission said most of these cases were filed against Shiite Muslims in relation to speeches made at religious processions. On Friday, hardline Sunni groups organized ...

Source link www.rferl.org Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai spent years lying low in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban leadership has been based since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the extremist group from power in neighboring Afghanistan.A hard-line cleric, Ishaqzai until recently ran an Islamic madrasah, or ...