Barbed wire, security check-posts, questioning by the security personnel asking for proof of identities – one might be forgiven for thinking it is an entry point to the beseiged Gaza strip in Palestine. But this is Mariabad—the Hazara locality in Quetta, Pakistan. The sectarian violence, bomb blasts, targeted killings caused fear in the city have […]
Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Central Chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has come out in support of Saudi Arabia’s stance on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Speaking to a gathering of more than 1,000 religious clerics in Lahore earlier this Sunday, Ashrafi endorsed […]
17SharesIn a time where relations between countries are in flux and major realignments are the new normal, Pakistan made a foreign policy move that still surprises the observer. Some form of close relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was taken as a given – until this past week. What began as Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood […]
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