'It is practically impossible to permanently eliminate religious terrorist organizations...without also ending Pakistan Army’s illegitimate rule,' wrote a Pakistani journalist.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif called TLP protest 'insult to religion’. Clashes occurred even as Pakistan PM Sharif is in Egypt to attend signing of Trump-brokered Gaza peace plan.
Islamic clerics push back against human milk banks as Shari’a proscribes marriages between so-called milk siblings. But several Islamic countries, including Iran, operate them.
Pakistani activists and journalists condemned the incident and accused the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik of such cases of violence in the country's Swat Valley.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Generals can’t risk opening a fourth front. Their surrender to the Tehreek-e-Labbaik last week demonstrates just how fragile the foundations of the State itself have become.
Imran Khan govt had said it won't tolerate TLP goons breaking the law. Then Army Chief Bajwa got top businessmen and religious leaders to help draw an agreement with the group.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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