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May 16, 2025 11:05 AM

Back to the Grey List? Renewed Scrutiny for Pakistan’s Consistent Failure to Meet Terror Finance Standards

Pakistan’s record with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reads like a trilogy of broken promises. From 2008 to 2022, the country slipped onto – and briefly wriggled off – the Grey List three times. The first listing, on 28 February 2008, lasted 848 days; the second, from 16 February 2012, ran for 1,106 days; and the third, beginning 28 June 2018, dragged on for 1,576 days. With each removal, Islamabad issued florid assurances, yet the underlying machinery of terror finance remained in...

May 14, 2025 10:47 PM

India’s Operation Sindoor draws global support as new front against cross-border terrorism

In the wake of the tragic terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 innocent civilians, India has mounted a decisive and strategic response aimed at dismantling cross-border terrorism. The attack, which drew widespread condemnation and grief across the country, prompted immediate and firm action by the Government of India, with the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approving a range of diplomatic and military measures targeting Pakistan’s continued support for t...

May 14, 2025 10:18 PM

Akash Missile, IACCS and Drones drive India’s defence success in Operation SINDOOR

Operation SINDOOR has emerged as a major milestone in India’s pursuit of self-reliance in national security, demonstrating the country’s growing technological and operational capabilities in countering asymmetric warfare. In the wake of the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam in April, the Indian Armed Forces responded with precision and strategic restraint, targeting terrorist infrastructure without crossing the Line of Control or international boundaries. On the night of 7–8 May...

May 16, 2025 11:07 AM

Blood Money: Pakistan’s Shadow Economy and the Trade that Fuels Terrorism

A Hidden Artery that Predates 9/11 Islamabad has long claimed that terrorist finance seeped in from Afghanistan only after the Twin Towers fell. Yet the sluice gates were prised open a decade earlier. In 1991, then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he received a “blueprint” from Army Chief General Aslam Beg and ISI Director-General Asad Durrani: fund covert wars by selling heroin overseas, according to NATO’s study Narco-Insecurity, Inc. Sharif maintains he rejected the proposal; the gener...

May 11, 2025 6:34 AM

“Adequate and appropriate response underway”: India reacts to ceasefire breach

Hours after India and Pakistan reached an understanding on a ceasefire along the Line of Control and international border, India has confirmed repeated violations of the agreement by Pakistan. In a late-night press briefing, Foreign Secretary of India Vikram Misri said that there have been "repeated violations" of the ceasefire understanding that was reached earlier in the evening between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of both countries. “This is a breach of the...

May 21, 2025 1:45 PM

Pakistan’s parallel terror economy: Narcotics, charities and counterfeit cash

According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), Pakistan is home to 83 proscribed terrorist organisations. Of these, 45 remain active, spreading violence not only in India but across Asia and far beyond. Many are indigenous creations; others are trans-national networks that Islamabad’s ruling establishment, and its all-powerful army, openly courts or covertly protects, whether governing the country directly or de facto. A Who’s Who of Pakistan-Backed Extremism The roll-call of jihadis...

May 9, 2025 4:34 PM

American-Jewish community thanks India for eliminating islamist terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar

Operation Sindoor, India’s recent counter-terror offensive targeting nine high-value terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), has also delivered long-awaited justice to the family and friends of American-Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. According to reports, Abdul Rauf Azhar — an Islamist terrorist, co-conspirator in the 2002 abduction and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and mastermind of the IC-814 hijacking — was among dozens of terrorists eli...

May 9, 2025 3:15 PM

India has sufficient food reserves: Shivraj Singh Chauhan amid escalation

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday assured the nation that India has ample food reserves and there is no shortage of essential agricultural commodities. He said that the country’s agricultural stockpiles are at full capacity. While soldiers are stationed at the border, Chouhan emphasized that farmers continue to work diligently in the fields. He also announced that the Centre is formulating a new scheme aimed at boosting crop production. “As the agriculture departme...

May 8, 2025 3:39 PM

UK MP Priti Patel backs India’s right to act against terror threats after Operation Sindoor

UK Conservative Party MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel has voiced strong support for India’s right to defend itself and dismantle terrorist infrastructure that threatens its national security. Patel’s remarks came in the wake of Operation Sindoor -- a precision strike carried out by Indian armed forces early Wednesday against nine high-value terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 civilian li...

May 8, 2025 8:16 AM

Centre calls all-party meeting today to brief leaders on ‘Operation Sindoor’

The central government has convened an all-party meeting on Thursday to brief political leaders on Operation Sindoor, the military strike carried out by Indian armed forces a day earlier against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Political parties will be apprised of key aspects of the operation, including its objectives, specific terror targets struck, strategic outcomes, and India’s state of readiness in case of any retaliatory action from Pakistan. D...