Tag: Jihad

DPC calls for jihad against US

Thousands of activists belonging to religious and banned outfits on Monday took to Islamabad’s streets under the banner of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) against US...

The villainous cover-ups

The decline is steep and remedies extinct The word governance in Pakistan has become synonymous with everything degenerate. While the hapless people are pounded with...

Afghan jihad said to attract fewer foreign fighters

The Afghan-Pakistan jihad is attracting fewer foreign fighters following the death of Osama bin Laden, the growing threat posed by US drones, and lack...

The Afghanistan factor

Last year was terrible for Pak-US relations which are in a state of free fall since a US contractor, Raymond Davis, gunned down two...

Israel targets Islamic Jihad as truce unravels

A days-old truce announced by Gaza militants appeared to be fast unravelling on Thursday after 24 hours of air strikes left six Gazans dead...

Coalition partners want review of jihad policy

Leaders of the coalition government are concerned and disturbed over the PNS Mehran base attack and the Abbottabad incident, but stand firm on their...

New Qaeda video urges individual jihad

Al Qaeda has released a two-part 100-minute video apparently produced after the death of Osama bin Laden that calls for individual acts of jihad...

Suicide attacks not part of Jihad: Hafiz Saeed

Condemning the suicide attacks, Jamaat ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed Tuesday said that such kind of attacks could not be associated with Jihad. In...

US man pleads guilty to ‘jihad’ charges

WASHINGTON - A US man accused in a plot "to advance violent jihad" in other countries pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to murder and other terrorism-related charges, officials said. The Justice Department said 40-year-old Daniel Patrick Boyd, known by the name "Saifullah," pleaded guilty in federal court in North Carolina to charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons in a foreign country.
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No need for jihad in IHK, says AJK student

LAHORE - A student from Azad Jammu and Kashmir joined the Indian Republic Day celebrations at Rajouri district in Indian-held Kashmir, and was all praise for democracy in the state, according to a report in The Hindu newspaper.
A university student of political science, Faisal Iqbal, now visiting relatives in Indian-held Kashmir, expressed a desire to witness the celebrations and the administration extended a formal invitation, said GA Khawaja, Deputy Commissioner of Rajouri.