Tag: national security

CNN  —  Saifullah Paracha, a former detainee at the Guatanamo Bay detention facility, has been repatriated to Pakistan, according to a statement from the Department of Defense. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin previously notified Congress in September of his intent to repatriate Paracha, who had been held in US detention ...

Speaking about the situation in Kashmir, the governor stated that the country has shown no tolerance to violence in the region."In Jammu and Kashmir, they have killed thousands of people and then Yasin Malik, a JKLF man will come to Delhi and he will shake hands with the Prime ...

Congress lawmaker Anand Sharma on Monday said the President’s address to both Houses of Parliament made no mention of issues related to national security and did not specify the government’s blueprint for the future. Speaking during the discussion on the motion of thanks to the President’s address, Sharma said ...

Islamabad , November 11 (ANI): Pakistan will host senior diplomats from the United States, China and Russia in Islamabad to discuss the situation in Afghanistan on Thursday. The meeting will take place a day after India chairs the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue, which has seen the participation of seven ...

New Delhi , November 6 (ANI): As India is set to host the regional security dialogue on Afghanistan on November 10, two months after the Taliban took control of Kabul, defence expert Major General (retired) PK Sehgal has said that the meeting assumes utmost importance as India is concerned ...

The Supreme Court said something crucial when it announced that it would be investigating the Pegasus matter through its own committee.As someone who believes that Aryan Khan was wrongfully jailed, it made me happy that he got bail last week in time to spend Diwali with his family. He ...

Taking the security agencies by surprise, foreign militants outnumber local militants in north Kashmir — comprising three districts of Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara — in a changing trend, according to official figures.The sudden spike in numbers has forced the police to restrict the movement of mainstream leaders and elected ...

America’s retreat from Afghanistan is ending tragically—and that has sweeping strategic implications. One major misjudgment underlying the “ending endless wars” mantra was that withdrawing affected only Afghanistan. To the contrary, the departure constitutes a major, and deeply regrettable, U.S. strategic realignment. China and Russia, our main global adversaries, are ...

As President Joe Biden ended his news conference on Friday afternoon about the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, a reporter called out an especially bellicose question. “Why do you continue to trust the Taliban, Mr. President?” the reporter said. Notwithstanding the militant group’s poor human rights record and ultra-conservative ...

The new pension rules notified on May 31, prohibiting retired officials in intelligence or security-related organisations from writing books and articles without clearance from the competent authority, can be used to gag vocal critics of the government, many have said.Former Research and Analysis Wing chief AS Dulat told The ...