On October 30, 2025, Anas Haqqani, one of the key influential Afghan Taliban leaders and brother of Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, told a journalist that there are no “Haqqani” or “Kandahari” factions within the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, nor are there any internal disputes between Taliban officials on this matter.[1] Anas Haqqani, who was brought from prison to Qatar to […]

Dawood Ibrahim – The endless chase On October 25, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested Danish Merchant aka Danish Chikna, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, along with his wife, Henna Shah, from a resort in Anjuna in the North Goa District of Goa. On October 19, NCB arrested Zohaib Shaikh, an operative of Danish Merchant and a close associate […]

Apart from self-evident economic and humanitarian motives, they’re also incentivized to help Afghanistan with this amidst its tensions with Pakistan as an indirect response to Pakistan helping the US return to South-Central Asia. Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs announced that their country will diversify trade from Pakistan due to continued tensions. He added that Pakistan has a history […]

Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him. The president has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong. […]

Pakistani authorities said Friday they had arrested four suspected militants allegedly involved in a deadly suicide bombing outside a district court in Islamabad earlier this week, a rare attack in the capital that killed 12 people and wounded 28 others. The suspects are believed to be members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. In a statement posted on social media, the […]

The rare explosions in the country’s capitals have not been directly linked, but there are fears the governments will blame each other after their previous military conflict alarmed the world. The bombings in the capital cities of India and Pakistan were just a day apart and nearly identical in damage and impact — about a dozen people killed in each […]