Militance by separatist insurgents in Jammu, part of India’s Jammu and Kashmir territory, is resurfacing after a gap of 14 years, a former top military officer told VOA June 20. There have been at least six deadly attacks, resulting in the loss of 33 lives, including 10 civilians, since 2021. The first wave of militancy emerged in 1990. Deependra Singh […]

Gunmen shot and killed a member of the Sikh community in an overnight attack in the city of Peshawar, police said Sunday. Gauher Khan, a local officer, said the attack on Manmohan Singh, 35, appeared to be a targeted killing. A police investigation continues, Khan said, into the motive. Khan said the assailants opened fire at Singh while he was […]

The Counter Terrorist Department (CTD) has arrested nine terrorists during Intelligence-Based Operations (IBO) in several cities of Punjab. According to the CTD spokesman, the arrests were made from Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Bahawalpur, DG Khan and Multan. The arrested terrorists are linked with the banned militant outfits Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda. Explosives, detonators, fuses and Rs152,800 have been recovered from the […]

India has refused to accept the Taliban’s appointed chief envoy to its embassy in Delhi, Farid Mamundzay, who is still the ambassador from the previous government. This has led to a power struggle at the embassy, with Mamundzay refusing to step down and the Taliban government sending its own nominee, Qadir Shah, to replace him. The Indian government’s decision not […]

It is often said that demographics are destiny, but at a macroeconomic level, ageing societies do not need to turn into the economic graveyards that pessimists assert they will. There are important, if limited, coping mechanisms to deal with the predicted stagnation or fall in the working-age population that most countries will face sooner or later. Public policymakers could aim […]

The ethnic clashes in Manipur, a northeastern state in India, stem from a deeply embedded historical conflict between the Meitei community, who primarily inhabit the Imphal Valley, and the hill tribes, mainly the Kukis and Nagas. The violence was sparked by a tribal solidarity march against the Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status, a move that could radically […]

In 2015, China launched the Digital Silk Road (DSR) as part of President Xi Jinping’s flagship transnational infrastructural project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While the first two components of the BRI—the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21stcentury Maritime Silk Road, included infrastructure and housing projects, economic corridors, energy exploration programmes, and renewable energy generation projects, DSR delineated […]

The escalating incidence of terrorism in Pakistan has surfaced as a matter of paramount significance. The following composition aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the crisis, exploring its underlying causes and examining its various complexities. The geopolitical entity known as Pakistan, situated in the southern region of the Asian landmass, has been contending with the formidable challenge of terrorism […]

On June 21, 2023, a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Kaka Arjun (52), was killed by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres at Ilmidi village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur District. Arjun served as the Sarpanch (head of the Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution) of Ilmidi village Panchayat from 2016 to 2020. His body was found lying on the Kongupalli-Ilmidi […]

On June 18, 2023, (8.27pm local time), the Canada-based Khalistani leader and ‘chief’ of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot dead by two unidentified youth outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, in the British Columbia Province of Canada. On June 15, 2023, (12.45am IST), Avtar Singh Khanda, ‘chief’ of the banned Khalistan Liberation […]