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Current insurrection in Balochistan perhaps most complex, bloody,
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], November 18 (ANI): The current insurrection in Balochistan is perhaps the most complex and bloody of any in its history since its forced annexation by Pakistan and was born of the "brutal, repressive policies and strategies" of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, say
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Despite FATF pressure, terrorist organisations thrive in Pakistan
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Rome [Italy], October 22 (ANI): September has been a very active month for Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-u-Dawa, it seems. Despite their accounts being in theory frozen in fact, and despite the government frantically passing bills and amending laws to meet the FATF requirement and abide to int
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Jihadi, mafia and ghost vessels
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Rome [Italy], Aug 6 (ANI): More and more 'ghost vessels' are arriving in the South of Italy, all with the same modalities: coming from Turkey, all Pakistani, all men. On sailing ships driven by citizens of a former Soviet Union country. And the authorities are more and more alarmed.
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Experts, activists criticise Pakistan Army for human rights abuses
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Paris [France], May 25 (ANI): A Paris-based NGO, the Baloch Voice Association, recently organised a virtual conference titled "Prevent genocide in Balochistan and end eliminations with impunity" amid Covid-19 outbreak in the region and rest of the world.
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Imran's blind faith in COVID-19
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Rome [Italy], April 5 (ANI): In line with Imran Khan's way of thinking, "coronavirus is just a bit more than a flu and kills only old people", Pakistan is taking proper and adequate measures to fight the modern version of the plague.
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The siege of Pakistan's Lal Masjid
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Feb 10 (ANI): Maulana Abdul Aziz, better known as 'Maulana Burqa' for escaping arrest in 2007, being disguised as a woman, does it again.
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'Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan's escape from Pak jail has been a
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Feb 7 (ANI): The news has been circulating on social media: Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesperson and top leader of Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has 'fled' the jail, or, to be more precise, the safe house where he was living in Pakistani Army's custody.
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Ehsanullah Ehsan escapes from Pakistan jail
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Feb 6 (ANI): The news has been circulating on social media for a couple of hours: Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesperson and top leader of Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has 'fled' the jail, or, to be more precise, the safe house where he was living in Pakistani Army's custody
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Arman Loni: A political murder in disguise
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 2 (ANI): Arman Loni was a professor of Pashto literature, and a poet, who died last year on February 2. But the death of the poet is something you cannot ever forget. This author still remembers when, barely twelve, the Italian poet and intellectual Pierpaolo Pasoli
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Manzoor Pashteen's arrest
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 27 (ANI): Manzoor Pashteen, the charismatic, pacifist chief and founder of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was arrested last night in Peshawar along with other five members of the organisation.
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Abduction of Baloch women on rise
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Dec 14 (ANI): Few lines on Twitter or in Baloch websites as usual: Six persons have been abducted last night from the Hazarganji bus station: They were going to Quetta from Nasirbad district for medical reasons. Six people. Two old men, who were going to see an eye specialist,
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How human-rights activist Idris Khattak went 'missing' in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Nov 23 (ANI) : November 13, on the Islamabad-Peshawar motorway. It is around five o'clock in the afternoon, there's a long queue at the toll plaza. The man and his driver are stuck in the queue like many others.
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