Members of the Sindh Caucus and the Sindhi American Political Action Committee (SAPAC) voiced concerns about human rights violations in Pakistan’s Sindh Province to U.S. officials during Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s three-day visit to the United States in July. In a bipartisan letter addressed to President Donald Trump, 10 members of Congress urged the […]
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Data Shows Declining Support for U.S. in Middle East
WASHINGTON—Preference for stronger U.S. relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has dropped in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon since 2016, according to new data from the Arab Barometer, a nonpartisan research network providing insight into social, political, and economic attitudes of citizens throughout the Arab world. The findings were presented at the […]
Report: Saudi Arabia Increases Aid, Influence in Pakistan
Saudi Arabia continues offering economic aid to Pakistan in hopes of spreading its Sunni Islam influence across the Arab world as it also pursues an anti-Iran agenda, according to a recent Brookings Institution report. Author Madiha Afzal, visiting fellow on foreign policy, global economy, and development at Brookings, noted that Saudi Arabia has been fostering […]
India and Pakistan in Military Standoff
From In Homeland Security Pakistan and India are once again locked in a military standoff. This standoff was triggered on February 14 when militants belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed launched a suicide attack against Indian paramilitary forces in Gundipora that killed 44 Indians. It was the deadliest attacked suffered by Indian forces in Kashmir in nearly 30 […]
Perspective: Family Terror Connections Foster Radicalization
Family terror networks—or alternatively, family-affiliated terrorism—involve two or more people from the same clan who support the threat or use of terrorism. Kin terrorism has appeared across diverse views from religiously motivated precepts to national liberation, and from hate-based ideologies to other viewpoints. Family structures enable higher instances of conversion to radical beliefs given the […]