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LAKKI MARWAT: The security forces have foiled three terror attacks in different areas of Lakki Marwat, killing seven terrorists including a militant commander, ISPR said.According to a statement of the ISPR, three personnel of the Pak army were also martyred during clashes with the terrorists. The ISPR said that on night 27/28 Apr 23, the security Forces, while fighting gallantly, repulsed three attacks by terrorists on different locations within a span of short time in Lakki Marwat District.A Motorcycle borne Suicide bomber exploded himself near security forces post in Lakki Marwat followed by a fierce fire exchange between own troops…

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Benjamin Mitchley Transformed Contemporary Art Original Art There’s a potential for AI to accelerate beyond what we might be comfortable with, so I do have some trepidation and am maybe not gung-ho about all aspects of it. You see it in its infancy now and it doesn’t take much to imagine its future potential. A lot of what we do is incredibly mundane and trivial, so why waste our time, our lives, on that? For example, after looking at thousands of pictures of a dumbbell, the program would understand a dumbbell to be a metallic cylinder with two large spheres…

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In this episode of Podcast Variety Ground Zero, We discuss the root causes of armed movements & history of militancy in Pakistan in general and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular with Salman Javed (a policy, militancy and Afghan Affairs expert). He also sheds light on the state’s failure to devise a comprehensive, consistent & inclusive policy to deal with the armed movements during different time periods. Salman Javed as a policy expert gives suggestions on how to tackle the ongoing militancy problem.

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According to the Islamic Emirate, the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, has been severely curbed in Afghanistan. The militants did not have a physical presence in Afghanistan, according to Suhail Shaheen, head of the IEA’s Political Office in Qatar. He mocked a Washington Post article that claimed that international terrorists were once again finding refuge in Afghanistan. “The report is not grounded on Afghanistan’s actual circumstances. Such reports are created based on the whims of the individual, Shaheen continued. Earlier, The Washington Post stated that Daesh, which planned assaults throughout Europe and Asia, had established Afghanistan as a crucial…

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Recognition of Afghanistan’s de facto regime is not on the agenda of the UN meeting on Afghanistan. The present Taliban led government of Afghanistan is not going to be recognized, according to Naseer Ahamd Faiq, the Chargé d’Affaires of Afghanistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN. According to Naseer Ahmad Faiq in an interview with the BBC, the gathering would discuss a shared international framework about the political, economic, and social difficulties in Afghanistan. “This meeting will focus on finding a solution for Afghanistan’s political, economic, and social problems; the meeting will not address the issue of recognizing the current regime,”…

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According to Mr. John Sopko, the head of the U.S. government’s watchdog for the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. may have given the Taliban and Afghan terrorist organizations billions of taxpayer funds after the withdrawal of American soldiers, but even he is unaware of the entire scope of the issue. It should be emphasized that since the disorderly withdrawal of American forces in August 2021, the U.S. has given more than $8 billion in aid to Afghanistan. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, stated at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, “Unfortunately, as I sit here…

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As of May 2023, the UN is considering leaving Afghanistan due to the Taliban’s restrictions on women workers. The Taliban, who have imposed a harsh regime since taking over in 2021, have promised a more moderate rule than during their previous stint in power in the 1990s. However, the UN’s 600-strong international staff, including 200 women, are not exempt from the Taliban’s edict. UN experts have recently stated that the situation of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan has reverted to that of the pre-2002 era when the Taliban last controlled the country, effectively erasing progress on women’s rights in…

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Pakistan’s Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir told members of the National Assembly in a briefing on Friday that a strategy to talk to terrorists let them regroup in the tribal areas. This was before the country’s political and military leaders agreed to revisit the anti-terrorism plan again. It is to be noted that the former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan still defends and supports his idea of resettling militants returning from Afghanistan. Gen Munir was apparently referring to the policy devised and followed by the military and political leadership under the PTI regime, following the Taliban takeover of…

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