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Thursday, September 4, 2025
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Topic: TLP

How fact-checker Mohammed Zubair turned India’s Chief of Information War during Op Sindoor night

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Pakistani fundamentalists closer to controlling state. Now the battle is over baby milk bank

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 man accused of blasphemy burnt to death. People say it’s a lawless, crazy nation

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.

Pakistan is being run by its very own Ayatollahs. But this time, Jihadists aren’t to blame

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.

Pakistan is sinking into its own jihadi strategy – 2022 will be no different

Truth is, you can’t change your neighbours. But if Delhi reaches out its hand to help, Pakistan has to decide to take it.

Pakistan can’t be Saudi Arabia or Iran. So it’s inching towards Talibanisation

Tragically, the dark days of General Zia’s brutality in Pakistan seem lighter today.

Imran Khan’s secret agreement with TLP has brought the Barelvi jinni out of the bottle

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.

TLP is no Lashkar-e-Taiba, its agitation no civil war. Yet Pakistan is losing a battle

In Pakistan, those in power have historically presented brazen use of religion as pragmatism. Bhutto had lost to the religious Right in 1977.

Pakistani State sympathises all sorts of religious groups. Khadim Rizvi was just one of them

Since the establishment of Pakistan, each decade has seen different religious groups that have amplified religious-ideological sensitivities around various issues.

Pakistan said to be using radical Islamist party to leash 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed

Indian investigators say propping up the TLP, which represents the Barelvis’ to keep in check the Wahhabi-inspired Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

On Camera

Superman Modi to superpower meeting — Indian TV anchors script a Tianjin blockbuster

Tango, triad, trinity, troika — TV news pulled out every T-word from its dictionary and paired it with Tianjin to target Trump on tariffs and trade.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.