In recent columns in Pakistan's Urdu-language newspapers, two Pakistani columnists discussed the issue of "Missing Persons," a term used to refer both to terrorists in Pakistan, especially in the border tribal region, as well as to civil rights activists and secessionists in Baluchistan province, who are believed to have been picked up by intelligence agencies over the past
Pakistani writer Abdul Tawab Shaikh wrote in a recent article in the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jasarat, that Afghanistan and Pakistan should not waste their energy on the Afghan-Pakistan border, but use their resources instead to fight Israel in Gaza.
Mushtaq Ahmad Kha, a former Pakistani senator, has urged the government of Pakistan to summon the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad and lodge a protest against "the American patronage of Israeli terrorism" in Gaza, according to a report in an Urdu daily.
Pakistan's Urdu daily, Roznama Jasarat, accused the United States in a recent editorial, of spreading war in the Middle East by firing "rockets from Yemen, or [from] some other direction to divert attention from Israeli atrocities" and by taking the issue to the UN Security Council.
In an article following the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas in Israel, Pakistan's Urdu-language daily Roznama Jasarat published an antisemitic article promoting the Quranic narrative of Jews as traitors, heretics, cruel and cunning people, and the killers of prophets. It listed in which years various European nations expelled Jews for their "evil deeds." "It should be