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Gruesome photographs appearing to show a British serviceman in a celebratory pose next to a dead Afghan have prompted an investigation by the Ministry of Defence. In one photograph, a British soldier with a cigarette in his mouth is kneeling by the body of a dead Taliban fighter and giving ...

Ayatollah Shubairi Zanjani, speaking to a group of Pakistani Shia, commended their patience and forbearance in the face of the problems they face created by groups associated with the Taliban. “The torment that you tolerate and the steadfastness and patience you show for the protection of your beliefs has an ...

On 20 January, heavily-armed gunmen killed a prominent Shiite leader, Allama Alim Al-Musvi, in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. “Two gunmen opened fire on the scholar and escaped when he came out of his house and walked towards the mosque,” media outlets quoted a local security official as saying. No ...

Allamah Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, secretary general of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), has announced that MWM would launch a movement to protest against the pro-Taliban and pro-takfiri policies of the PMLN-Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif) government. “Punjab’s government too has become the patron-in-chief of the Taliban [and the takfiri] terrorists, with the ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been informed by the committee dealing with negotiations with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that the TTP has specified certain demands for negotiation.   The Taliban have welcomed Prime Minister Sharif’s latest offer of peace talks, but demanded that the negotiations take a low profile; that ...