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By Special Correspondent Washington: Mystery shrouds the nature of classified documents found at Mike Pence’s India home while a team has been constituted to review the documents, The Islamabad telegraph has learned reliably. A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI. Former US vice president Mike Pence revealed Tuesday he had uncovered documents marked as classified at his home, the latest twist in a mushrooming scandal over politicians’ handling of the nation’s most sensitive…

Although Pakistan has appointed a new team of investigators, much is still unclear about ARY News TV anchor Arshad Sharif’s execution-style murder in Kenya in October. After retracing his movements in his final months, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges them to pursue all leads and offers some recommendations. On 23 October, a shot fired at close range hit Arshad Sharif in the head as he was in a car near Nairobi, while another went through his chest. The autopsy report released on 4 November contradicted the account of his death provided by the Kenyan authorities and raised many questions about the real…

By ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. In the wake of January 6th, a global terrorism expert turned her attention to Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) and in her groundbreaking new book, she opens a rare, raw, and sometimes bizarre window into the lives of those who hate. What sets HOMEGROWN HATE: Inside the Minds of Domestic Violent Extremists apart is Dr. Speckhard’s gifted ability to get personal and go deep into troubled histories, failed plots, acts of domestic terrorism, and how most were able to exit hate. Among Speckhard’s most surprising findings: rarely was hate the motivation for joining a hate group. HOMEGROWN HATE introduces the reader to 15…

Amnesty International has signed declaration calling for international controls to combat trade in tools of torture. More than 30 international organizations have joined forces to call for an international treaty to control the trade in tools of torture used to suppress peaceful protests and abuse detainees around the world. In a declaration signed in London today, organizations including Amnesty International, called for a treaty to prohibit the manufacture and trade in inherently abusive equipment such as spiked batons and body-worn electric shock devices, as well as the introduction of human rights-based controls on the trade in more standard law enforcement equipment,…

Shubman Gill wrote himself into the record books on Wednesday, hitting a brilliant double hundred in the first One Day International against New Zealand in Hyderabad, according to ICC. Gill’s stunning knock saw him join the elite company as one of just eight players in the history of the game to have reached the milestone in a Men’s ODI, and the youngest of those eight players. The young opener fell in the final over to close out his knock on 208 from 149 balls, having hit 19 fours and nine maximums in his innings to lift India to a score…

Book Review: The Granddaughter Project by Shaheen Chishti The Granddaughter Project by Shaheen Chisti is an absolute masterpiece. Kamala, Helga, Lynette, and Maya are some of the strongest fictional women characters I read this year. It’s a story of 3 female survivors of history’s greatest tragedies. Each woman has their own unique story, but they are all linked by the different forms of abuse, prejudice, or oppression that they have suffered. The Granddaughter Project is a story of three women Helga, Kamala, and Lynette. Helga, a holocaust survivor, was separated from her family in her childhood and has experienced the…

Four more sons of the land of the pure laid lives while defending the homeland against terrorists who used Iranian soil to target Pakistan’s security forces. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed oon Wednesday that four security personnel were martyred during “terrorist activity” from across the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan’s Panjgur district. “Today, in a terrorist activity from across Pakistan-Iran border in Chukab sector, district Panjgur, Balochistan, four security forces personnel have embraced martyrdom,” the statement said. It further said that the militants used Iranian soil to “target a convoy of security forces patrolling along the border”. Iran has been…

The Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcomes Philippine Court of Tax Appeals verdict, which has acquitted on Wednesday 18 January Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler, the news organization she founded, of tax evasion in four of seven cases brought by the government. If they had failed to defend the charges, Maria Ressa could have gone to jail for up to 34 years and Rappler would have faced a substantial fine. Rappler and Ressa have maintained their innocence and will continue to hold the line in defense of press freedom in the Philippines as they fight a barrage of pending cases designed to silence their…

By Our Staff reporter Karachi – 18 January 2023: British International Investment (BII) celebrates 35 years of investing in Pakistan at a business reception at the British Deputy High Commission in Karachi on Tuesday. Pakistan is the first country that the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) is visiting to mark its 75th anniversary. BII’s first investment in Pakistan dates back to 1988 when it backed leading companies including Engro Chemicals, Fauji Fertilizer, and Hub Power. Today, the DFI has investments and commitments of over $350 million in more than 10 businesses in the country. Its investments span several high-impact…

By Syed Shaheen Chishti A moment of peace between India and Pakistan is arising once again just before the famous mango season starts. The two countries are arch rivals and many issues are to be discussed but the most important is trust. A lack of trust in any relationship is not a good start. Both sides should make a new start with complete faith in each other. The open admission by the current PM of Pakistan the other day of learning lessons from the past and for India to see a dream of United India should be a good…