Recent cross-border attacks by Iran and Pakistan on each other’s territory and their subsequent kiss and make up tell the tale of jihadi sanctuaries in both lands. Contiguous regions of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are home to ethnic Balochs, which is at the root of separatism. All three nations its people straddle have been playing a dangerous jihadi game to …
When the teaser for The Kerala Story was released a few months ago, there was a bitter backlash from both overt and covert Islamist groups. As a result, cases were filed against the film’s producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, and its director, Sudipto Sen. Having studied Love Jihad and the trafficking of victim girls and boys to Jihadi battlefields in the …
Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Saturday arrived in Kabul to meet jihadi leaders and politicians for an inclusive government set-up. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of HIzb-e-Islami party, had earlier said that formal talks between the Afghan political leaders and the Taliban will start once the Taliban leaders arrive in Kabul. "He will be in Kabul to meet jihadi …
The decision of the Narendra Modi government to abrogate the special status to Jammu and Kashmir earlier this week came in the backdrop of a flurry of activities in Afghanistan. India had not recognised Taliban and did not have any communication channel with the jihadi group which controlled about 90 per cent area of the country in 1999 when five …
On Wednesday, General Bipin Rawat made it clear that terrorism is here to stay, but it will take myriad forms, mutate and even spawn into a hydra-headed monster. In answering the key questions of our times during a panel discussion on ‘Countering terrorism as it evolves’, army chief General Bipin Rawat made it clear that terrorism is here to stay, …