Senior officials associated with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party set off tensions with India’s key trading partners following a series of derogatory comments about Islam. The comments reinforce perceptions that Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is inherently anti-Muslim and serves to increase already heightened tensions between religious communities. Reactions from many Muslim-majority states to the comments will set […]

The ministry of interior has confirmed that the attack on Sikh Gurudwara in Kart-e-Parwan area of capital Kabul ended and two people were killed in the incident. “The security forces (Mujahideen) were able to immediately mobilize to control the attack and eliminate the attacker in a short time to prevent further casualties,” said Khalid Zadran, Kabul Police Spokesman. According to […]

Several explosions shook Kabul city early Saturday morning in what appears to be an attack on a Hindu and Sikh temple. The first explosion happened at about 6.30am. The Ministry of Interior confirmed the blasts and said a group of armed insurgents, whose identity is not yet known, entered a Hindu and Sikh Gurdwara in Kart-e-Parwan area. “Before entering, the […]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says 250,000 Afghans have fled to Pakistan since August last year. UNHCR Deputy Chief Kelly Clements, traveled to Kabul last week to review the situation of refugees and then to Islamabad. In Islamabad, Clements spoke with the foreign minister and a number of Pakistani officials about the situation of Afghan refugees in […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Saturday condemned the attack earlier in the day on a Sikh temple in Kabul city that resulted in the death of two people. Zabihullah Mujahid, the IEA’s spokesman, said in a tweet the authorities condemn “in the strongest terms the attack of the enemies of the homeland against the Hindu shrine in Kabul.” […]

“Chinese thinkers have clearly stated that the core operational concept of intelligentized warfare is to directly control the enemy’s will. The idea is to use AI to directly control the will of the highest decision-makers, including the president, members of Congress, and combatant commanders, as well as citizens.” — Colonel Koichiro Takagi, senior fellow of Training Evaluation Research and Development […]