A man detonated on January 30, 2023, his suicide vest inside a mosque in the Police Lines area of Peshawar, a high-security zone where police headquarters are located, killing more than 100 worshippers, most of them police officers, and wounding scores of others.
In the coastal town of Gwadar, where China has built a strategic port, protests led by Maulana Hidayatur Rahman Baloch, the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami for Baluchistan province, have broken out again. The protesters demand jobs, the removal of the high number of Pakistani military checkpoints, the stopping of illegal Chinese commercial trawlers and the protection of
In a recent article, Pakistani writer Wajeeh Ahmed Siddiqui examined the current intricacies of relations between America, the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, India, China, and Pakistan. The article, titled "The Taliban In Modi's Lap," follows a series of attacks in Afghanistan that appear to have been against Chinese and Pakistani interests, especially the attacks on the Pakistani
In recent reports and editorials, Urdu-language Islamist newspapers in Pakistan have praised Qatar's promotion of Islam at the FIFA World Cup, especially its invitation to Islamic religious scholars from around the world to preach Islam during the tournament.