Pakistan's apex court recommends Parliament to redefine 'terrorism'
World | October 30, 2019 23:24 ISTPakistan in the past has been accused by the US of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its borders.
Pakistan in the past has been accused by the US of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its borders.
Alleging that "affluent and powerful" sections have crushed the dreams of the youths in Kashmir and destroyed their lives, he appealed to the people to understand the truth and join the Centre's efforts to usher peace and progress in the state.
An encounter has broken out between security forces and terrorists in Awantipora of Pulwama District in Jammu and Kashmir. Security forces launched cordon and search operation in the area after inputs on the presence of two terrorists.
Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global terror financing and money laundering watchog, has retained Pakistan on the Grey List with an ultimatum of four months. The FATF Plenary in Paris today noted that Pakistan addressed only five out of the 27 tasks given to it in controlling funding to terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Ahead of next week's Paris meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Netherlands-based think-tank has said that despite the scathing indictment by the Asia Pacific Group (APG), Pakistan is likely to remain on FATF's grey list.
Check full video of PM Modi's UNGA speech in New York. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. He touched issues such as development, security, counter terrorism and climate change. Ahead of his UNGA address, PM Modi held a number of bilateral meetings with top world leaders like US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of his UN address.
Hitting out at Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India cannot talk to a very challenging neighbour that conducts terrorism as a "legitimate tool of statecraft" to put pressure on New Delhi to come to the negotiating table.
During his address at the Leaders' Dialogue on Strategic Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives, held on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly session on Monday, Modi called for institutionalisation of counterterrorism cooperation at the multilateral level and asserted that India will work towards enhancing ongoing cooperation and capacity building of friendly countries in this area.
As Pakistan scales up its efforts to push terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC) into Jammu and Kashmir, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international watchdog on terror activities, is watching.
Indian intelligence agencies recently cracked some code words being used by the Pakistan Army and various terrorist groups based there to communicate with militants in Jammu and Kashmir in order to create violence in the region, sources said.
Recalling the horrific 9/11 twin tower terror attack in the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said terrorism has become a "global threat" and this ideology is deeply rooted and flourishing in Pakistan.
It allows the US government to better target terror group leaders and provides new tools to pursue individuals who participate in terrorist training, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Terror masterminds Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman-Lakhvi and Dawood Ibrahim have been declared terrorists under new anti-terror law, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Wednesday.
Imran Khan also accused the Modi government of imposing curfew in the Valley and cutting all communication lines to the area to suppress the protests against the abrogation of Article 370.
With fake videos on Kashmir coming in droves from Pakistan amid Internet shutdown in the Valley, communication channels are open among separatists as well as local terrorists via several offline chat apps and highly-encrypted anonymous chat platform Tor, giving a hard time to security agencies and authorities in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian Army foiled an attack by Pakistan's Border Action Team (BAT) on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Gurez sector. The Indian Army killed 2 SSG (Special Services Group) Commandos while two others were seriously injured, according to Army sources.
Gandhi was forced to give a clarification after Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari quoted him on "people dying" in Jammu and Kashmir.
The top operative of terror outfit Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in India, who was arrested from Bihar, used to be in touch with other leaders of the outfit using code language on messaging sites, sources in the Kolkata Police Special Task Force (STF) said on Tuesday. Ejaz Ahmad, a resident of Birbhum district of West Bengal who was remanded to 14 days' police custody, was responsible for collecting funds for the organisation.
Trump's comments came a day after he indicated that the US forces will not completely withdraw from the warn-torn Afghanistan and America will have "somebody there" to make sure that Taliban does not regain control.
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