Founder of banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam was fatally injured when IED exploded while he was holding afternoon prayers in neighbourhood in outskirts of Peshawar.
While Barelvis never stressed on labelling local customs as 'Hinduwana', Deobandis focused on a puritanical version of Islam. Both aim to dominate a new 'Islamic' polity.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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