Tag: Terrorism

United Nations: The global organisation’s failure to agree on a pact against terrorism is letting terrorists go free in third countries, warned India on Thursday. Even though it is an “alarming concern that impacts us all and requires effective international collaboration” global law-making against “terrorism continues to falter in view of narrow geopolitical interests,” said […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday accused the Narendra Modi government of putting internal security in peril due to “inaction and lack of direction” and said it should come out with a road map to deal with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. In a statement, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said there had been a spike in violence […]

New Delhi: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday expressed the hope that the United Nations would take a “categorical stand” against terrorism and “isolate” countries that fund and harbour terrorists, in an apparent reference to Pakistan. “I am happy that the issue of terrorism is at the forefront of the governments’ foreign policy world […]

Beijing: A Chinese daily has slammed India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj for her strong criticism of Pakistan for harbouring terrorists, saying it is “politically imbecilic and unsophisticated” to think that Islamabad exports terrorism. The editorial in state-run Global Times defending Pakistan against its failure to flush out terrorists is not surprising as China has always lavished […]

United Nations: India hit out at Pakistan saying it has callously exploited the picture of an injured Palestinian girl to spread falsehoods about India and to divert attention from Islamabad’s role as the hub of world terrorism. Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission, on Monday held up both the fake picture used […]

Florence: People who stage acts of terrorism cannot claim to be religious, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday, underlining that members of different faiths can live in peace. “Often we see the term terrorism used alongside the name of a faith, for example Muslim terrorist, Buddhist terrorist,” he said in an address […]

New Delhi: Sending a strong message to Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Monday pledged their commitment to jointly fight to end terrorism as the visiting Afghan Foreign Minister minced no words in equating Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad terror groups with Taliban, Al Qaeda and Islamic State in Afghanistan. The two countries called for an end to […]

Islamabad: Pakistan is effectively pursuing Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case in the International Court of Justice as it is proof of Indias intentions to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through “terrorism”, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday. Speaking to the media, Iqbal said the CPEC was the result of unprecedented friendship between China and Pakistan. […]

San Francisco: As the people have started questioning social media sites about their role in countering terrorism, Facebook said that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to remove the terror-related content. The social media giant is currently focusing their techniques to combat terrorist content about Islamic State (IS), Al-Qaeda and their affiliates. “Although our use of […]

London: A British student, who left a homemade bomb on a London tube train, was given a 15-year prison sentence at a court here. Sentenced on Friday, 20-year-old Damon Joseph Smith was found guilty earlier this week of unlawfully and maliciously making or having in his possession or under his control an explosive substance with […]

Taormina: Leaders of the world’s richest nations on Friday at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, inked a declaration on the fight against terrorism and extremism. Video footage released by the Italian presidency of the G7 showed leaders signing a text, and Italy’s Premier Paolo Gentiloni told journalists the statement was “a response to the […]

Berlin: Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar has proposed creation of G20 working group on terrorism and called for a people-centric approach by the grouping for Africa. Akbar, who was on a three-day visit to Germany starting Feb 15 to attend G20 foreign ministers’ informal meeting, discussed issues relating to rule-based international order. […]

Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday that Pakistan will do everything within its power to further the peace process in Afghanistan as talks sponsored by the country between the US and the Taliban were being held in the UAE to end the 17-year bloody conflict. The US and the Taliban have previously met on […]

Beijing: China said today that the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting being held here next week will involve a candid exchange of views to forge consensus on counter terrorism while claiming that it opposes any “double standards” on the issue. “On counter terrorism, we have a clear-cut position that terrorism is the common enemy of mankind,” […]

Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Asserting that not religion but people are responsible for violence and terrorism, President Barack has declined to call the war against Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria as a war against a religion. “We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted […]