Year 2024 was Pakistan’s deadliest in a decade, with at least 685 civilian fatalities & roughly 444 terror attacks, according to an annual security report by a Pakistan-based think tank.
Seven Chinese nationals killed in Pakistan since beginning of 2024, and 21 since CPEC project began a decade ago. Baloch rebels have claimed responsibility for at least 2 attacks this year.
Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the Punjab-dominated state and the Pashtun people is widening.
The incident took place Sunday when a bomb exploded at JUIF's meeting in a restive tribal district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
In a video, Anju declared that she made an impulsive decision to reach Pakistan & added that she would return in 2-3 days. She took Wagah-Attari border to enter Pakistan, say police.
The militants Sunday seized a counter-terrorism centre in the Bannu district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and freed imprisoned wanted terrorists, said police.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a restive tribal district bordering Afghanistan. Despite a ceasefire committed by Tehreek-Taliban Pakistan, attacks on security forces in tribal districts is on the rise.
Local clerics, along with hundreds of students, lawyers and even journalists, stormed the park on Sunday demanding that women be stopped from enjoying the facility.
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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