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On Sunday afternoon, protesters in Islamabad pressed shoulder to shoulder, most of them dressed in black, and chanted slogans that rippled through the crowd. “Death to America, death to Israel,” they shouted in unison. Among them was also Kazim Hussain, who clutched a portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei. The student, also an activist affiliated with Shia group Imamia Students Organisation (ISO), believes that the crisis unfolding in Iran was not a distant geopolitical conflict playing out beyond Pakistan’s western border. For him, it is deeply personal and emotionally moving.“This is not just an attack on Iran. It concerns all Shia Muslims,”...

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s interim government on Tuesday angrily reacted to remarks by Pakistan’s special representative Asif Khan Durrani, in which he claimed that another 9/11 could “originate from Afghanistan.” Ambassador Durrani, speaking at the ‘Ambassadors’ Lounge’ this week spoke about the presence of different armed groups, including the Islamic State Khorasan Province (Daesh), and described these groups as a major challenge for the region and the world. When Ambassador Durrani was asked what the implications would be for the international community if it ends up Afghanistan as a forgotten crisis and if the international community failed to live up to the...

Several Muslim suspects have been arrested in France, Germany and Austria for allegedly planning Christmas terror attacks, according to reports, which say there’s a “very high level of terrorist threat” from Islamic terrorists in France. Spain is also on alert.In France, five men, aged 20 to 23, were apprehended in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Le Parisien reported, saying French intelligence services had been surveilling the men for links to criminal terrorist associations and they were found scouting Strasbourg Christmas market.A video filmed at the market featuring one suspect saying, “And there, we shoot,” was found during a raid. These men are believed to...