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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Pakistan Plays Dual Role in Combating Terrorism
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Pakistan Plays Dual Role in Combating Terrorism

Saturday 15 August 2015
Punjabi Taliban, Uzbek Taliban, etc., have also become active. For sure, foreign powers, particularly Britain and the United States have had an essential role in the rise of terrorist and extremists groups such as al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram, etc. It is true that foreign forces accuse the se ...
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Pakistan Arrests Over 40 ISIS Terrorists in Punjab
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Pakistan Arrests Over 40 ISIS Terrorists in Punjab

Tuesday 5 January 2016 ،
Punjab. Alwaght- Pakistani security forces have apprehended over 40 ISIS people affiliated with the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s eastern province of Punjab. According to Punjab provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah ,the regions government is fully active, for eliminating the ...
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What Really Caused Recent Pakistan Terror Attacks
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What Really Caused Recent Pakistan Terror Attacks

Monday 4 April 2016 ،
Punjab province, has come under terror attacks after the country’s President Mamnoon Hussein and PM Nawaz Sharif had sent a message to the country’s Christian community, congratulating the Easter on March 27, 2016, and after the Pakistani parliament had adopted a new rule, deciding to ad ...
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What are Drives behind Visit of Pakistani PM’s Brother to Saudi Arabia?
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What are Drives behind Visit of Pakistani PM’s Brother to Saudi Arabia?

Saturday 6 January 2018 ،
Punjab’s Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia on December 28 at the invitation of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Saudis were in such a hurry to meet the Pakistani politicians that they sent a private jet to carry the invitees to Riyadh. Two days later, the ousted ...
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US Eyes Shared Power between Kabul, Taliban: Expert
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US Eyes Shared Power between Kabul, Taliban: Expert

Monday 5 November 2018 ،
Punjab. The incident, according to Mr Molazehi, can speed up the success of the peace talks. “We can hardly link between Sami-ul-Haq assassination and the peace talks but the fact is that Sami-ul-Haq was the founder and head of the Haqqani Madrasa from which many radical figures graduated. Tw ...
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US-Trained Afghan Soldiers, Spies Joining ISIS to ‘Resist’ Taliban: Paper
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US-Trained Afghan Soldiers, Spies Joining ISIS to ‘Resist’ Taliban: Paper

Monday 1 November 2021 ،
Punjabi nationalist organization with no stated goals beyond Afghanistan’s borders, and a tolerance for the country’s other Muslim sects. ISIS-K, by contrast, view Shiites and other Muslim sects as apostates and aim to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate, as ISIS attempted to do seve ...
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Peshawar Blast: Has ISIS Established Itself in Pakistan?
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Peshawar Blast: Has ISIS Established Itself in Pakistan?

Monday 7 March 2022 ،
Punjab province.  Even Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), which ranks first in Pakistan and 74th globally, earlier in a report focused on ISIS attacks in Pakistan since 2016, suggesting that ISIS would pose a serious security challenge to both Islamabad and any new Afghanistan governm ...
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Pakistan in Political Tumult, No Way Back for Imran Khan even after Election Win: Expert
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Pakistan in Political Tumult, No Way Back for Imran Khan even after Election Win: Expert

Thursday 15 February 2024 ،
Punjab state that were strongholds of the Muslim league, a serious challenge emerged between Muslim League and Tahreek-e-Insaf  Mr Mollazehi added that people were aware that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif struck a deal with the army. For this reason, an important part of Punjab moved to s ...
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Shedding Light on Roots of Crisis in Kheybar Pakhtunkhwa and the Effective Actors
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Shedding Light on Roots of Crisis in Kheybar Pakhtunkhwa and the Effective Actors

Wednesday 25 December 2024 ،
Punjabi and Sindhi Islamist movements are practically dangerous and the Pakistani government is therefore not willing to negotiate with them. The pessimistic scenario is that terrorist attacks and incidents will increase, but the Pakistani government will be more attentive of Balochistan in order to ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.