ISLAMABAD: The stand-off in northwestern Pakistan involving police units that have gone on strike to demand the withdrawal of military and intelligence agencies from the restive region entered the fourth day Thursday with no sign of the crisis easing.On Sept 9, hundreds of policemen had blocked Indus Highway, which links Peshawar in the northwest with…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence establishment sees the hand of Pakistan‘s external intelligence agency, ISI and its Chinese patron in escalating the protests and subversion that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.Information reaching here point to the not-so-subtle hand of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is known for its…
NEW DELHI: Eleven years after Indian death-row convict Sarabjit Singh was killed in a Pakistan jail, his arrested murderer – ISI henchman and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed‘s close associate Amir Sarfaraz – was fatally shot on Sunday by motorbike-borne gunmen in Lahore’s Islampura locality. Pakistani authorities are investigating the killing as a “targeted attack”.Trigger-happy Sarfaraz,…
