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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: ISIS

Pakistan has a new divide-and-rule strategy for Taliban. It’s called ISIS-K

The Taliban leaders seem to be stuck between their hardliners and their moderates. Any decision will have to come at the cost of the other.

Taliban back, desperate Kerala families hope couples who fled to Afghanistan for ISIS can return

ThePrint travelled across Kerala to meet families of those who joined ISIS in Afghanistan, to find some harbouring hopes of reconciliation & others resigned to never seeing them again.  

ISIS’ ‘Voice of Hind’ designed in Pakistan, has ‘content creators’ in Maldives, Bangladesh: NIA

The investigators initially believed that the magazine was being published and circulated from Afghanistan, until a South Kashmir link was established.

Enemy of my enemy? ISIS-K violence could force West into an unlikely alliance with Taliban

ISIS-K’s bombing in Kabul was not just an attack on US forces. It was also a challenge to the Taliban, asking: ‘Where is your authority? Where is your security?’

US exit from Afghanistan could bring back ‘woefully inadequate’ cruise-missile diplomacy

Cruise-missile diplomacy displays a kind of toughness without the unpredictability of involving ground forces. But Biden should remember it doesn’t prevent terrorism from happening.

What is ISIS-K and why do they hate Taliban? Terrorism experts explain Kabul airport attack

ISIS-K sees the Afghan Taliban as its strategic rivals. It brands them as ‘filthy nationalists’.

US retaliates after Kabul airport bombing, targets IS-K ‘planner’ in drone strike

It wasn't immediately known if the ISIS-K planner was involved in Thursday's Kabul airport attack. Earlier in the day, US President Biden vowed to make terrorists 'pay' for the attack.

NIA conducts searches in Tamil Nadu over Facebook posts advocating ISIS ideology

In April, a complaint was received that a person named Abdullah had posted messages on Facebook, instigating people on religious grounds to wage war against India and establish Khilafat.

No US soldier was directly killed by ISIS drones. How they did it is a lesson for India

Jammu drone attack exposes a lacuna last seen in the Galwan clash – the lack of a joint assessment team.

Amid growing ISIS concern in Uzbekistan, Indian & Uzbek Army conduct counter-terrorism drill

India is keen to establish stronger ties with Central Asian countries where China has an increasing presence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Uzbekistan twice.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.